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Insignificant events in the life of a cactus ; #1

Bowling, Dusti.


School Library Journal starred. Booklist starred. Publisher's Weekly. School Library Journal starred, May 2017. Booklist starred, August 2017. Publisher's Weekly, June 2017. Kirkus Review, July 2017. Aven Green was born without arms, but, at age 13, that hasn't stopped her from doing almost anything. Then her parents take a job running Stagecoach Pass, a rundown Western theme park in Arizona, and Aven has to leave everything she knows behind. Aven struggles to make friends at her new school, where the kids can't seem to see past her missing arms. But he life takes another unexpected turn when she meets Connor, a classmate who also feels isolated because of his own disability. Together, they discover an old storage shed at the park that holds bigger secrets than Aven ever could have imagined.
Date Published:2017

School Library Journal starred. Booklist starred. Publisher's Weekly. School Library Journal starred, May 2017. Booklist starred, August 2017. Publisher's Weekly, June 2017. Kirkus Review, July 2017. Aven Green was born without arms, but, at age 13, that hasn't stopped her from doing almost anything. Then her parents take a job running Stagecoach Pass, a rundown Western theme park in Arizona, and Aven has to leave everything she knows behind. Aven struggles to make friends at her new school, where the kids can't seem to see past her missing arms. But he life takes another unexpected turn when she meets Connor, a classmate who also feels isolated because of his own disability. Together, they discover an old storage shed at the park that holds bigger secrets than Aven ever could have imagined.

Date Published:2017

The night gardener

Auxier, Jonathan.


Irish orphans Molly, fourteen, and Kip, ten, travel to England to work as servants in a crumbling manor house where nothing is quite what it seems to be, and soon the siblings are confronted by a mysterious stranger and secrets of the cursed house.
Date Published:2014

Good different

Kuyatt, Meg Eden,


Booklist starred, March 2023. Pub Weekly, February 2023. Seventh-grader Selah Godfrey knows that to be 'normal' she has to keep her feelings tightly controlled when people are around, but after hitting a fellow student, she needs to figure out just what makes her different--and why that is ok.
Date Published:2023

Haven : a small cat's big adventure

Lloyd, Megan Wagner,


Booklist, July 2022. Kirkus Review, May 2022. Publishers Weekly Annex, August 2022. Booklist. Kirkus Review. Publishers Weekly Annex. "When her cherished Ma Millie falls ill, a timid housecat ventures into the wild to seek help in this adventure about love, loss, and finding the truest version of ourselves"--Provided by publisher.
Date Published:2022

Last laugh

Alexander, K. R., 1986-


What's scarier than a collection of clown dolls in a secret locked room? How about ... those clown dolls coming to life. And hunting you down.
Date Published:2024

The Academy

Layton, T. Z.,


Born and raised in a small town, Leo K. Doyle has never seen the ocean or stepped foot on a plane. But Leo is a star soccer player with big dreams in life. Rock-star, Olympic gold, dragon-slaying dreams. While Leo has a pet lizard named Messi and longs to make the pros one day, he has no idea how to achieve his goal—until a professional scout pays a chance visit to one of Leo’s games and extends an invitation to try out for the London Dragons youth squad, known as The Academy. Leo is stunned. The London Dragons isn’t just any old soccer team. It’s a world-famous English Premier League team. Soon Leo is off to a whole new country, embarking on the greatest adventure of his life. The downside? Only eleven players can make the team. Eleven out of two hundred of the very best youth players on the planet. Along with the grueling competition, Leo must also face a bully intent on torpedoing his summer, a roomie who doesn’t know how to have fun, a terrifying camp director, and, most of all, Leo’s own lack of formal training and the fear he’ll never succeed. By the end of the summer, Leo will become a much better player and forever changed by his experience. But will he be good enough to make the Academy?
Date Published:2025

Born and raised in a small town, Leo K. Doyle has never seen the ocean or stepped foot on a plane. But Leo is a star soccer player with big dreams in life. Rock-star, Olympic gold, dragon-slaying dreams. While Leo has a pet lizard named Messi and longs to make the pros one day, he has no idea how to achieve his goal—until a professional scout pays a chance visit to one of Leo’s games and extends an invitation to try out for the London Dragons youth squad, known as The Academy. Leo is stunned. The London Dragons isn’t just any old soccer team. It’s a world-famous English Premier League team. Soon Leo is off to a whole new country, embarking on the greatest adventure of his life. The downside? Only eleven players can make the team. Eleven out of two hundred of the very best youth players on the planet. Along with the grueling competition, Leo must also face a bully intent on torpedoing his summer, a roomie who doesn’t know how to have fun, a terrifying camp director, and, most of all, Leo’s own lack of formal training and the fear he’ll never succeed. By the end of the summer, Leo will become a much better player and forever changed by his experience. But will he be good enough to make the Academy?

Date Published:2025

Team Park

Ahn, Angela,


"First published in hardcover, 2024"--Colophon. Eleven-year-old Evan Park's dad believes boys should play team sports, but as much as Evan has tried to like soccer and other team sports, he just doesn't. And when an accident causes Evan to break his wrist, he is determined that once he heals, he'll work on finding his thing. Alone. Inspired by his athletic physiotherapist, Evan decides to compete in an upcoming Dominator Ninja Junior Edition competition. It will be part rehab, part fun. If he trains hard enough, he'll finally have something to put on his empty shelf in the family trophy cabinet. Maybe that would make his dad proud of him for once. But klutzy Evan strikes again! With a newly injured wrist, he can forget about competing in Dominator Ninja -- he can't even hold chopsticks. When his sister encourages him to look beyond a solo competition, they discover a local family race which is more about the experience than the results. Can Evan shift his perspective to rally the whole family to do this event ... together?
Date Published:2025

"First published in hardcover, 2024"--Colophon. Eleven-year-old Evan Park's dad believes boys should play team sports, but as much as Evan has tried to like soccer and other team sports, he just doesn't. And when an accident causes Evan to break his wrist, he is determined that once he heals, he'll work on finding his thing. Alone. Inspired by his athletic physiotherapist, Evan decides to compete in an upcoming Dominator Ninja Junior Edition competition. It will be part rehab, part fun. If he trains hard enough, he'll finally have something to put on his empty shelf in the family trophy cabinet. Maybe that would make his dad proud of him for once. But klutzy Evan strikes again! With a newly injured wrist, he can forget about competing in Dominator Ninja -- he can't even hold chopsticks. When his sister encourages him to look beyond a solo competition, they discover a local family race which is more about the experience than the results. Can Evan shift his perspective to rally the whole family to do this event ... together?

Date Published:2025

Kaboom! Blast off /

Odjick, Jay,


Meet Kaboom: Zack Commonda, agent of F.U.S.I.O.N (First Universal Secret Indigenous Operatives Network), and the newest superkid on the block! Well ... sort of. He's still figuring it all out. When we meet Zack, he's being looked after by his super-cool Auntie Jess and dreaming of one day being like his hero, slick business tycoon Konstantin Pierce. Zack's parents are away ... yet again ... for their important careers in 'refrigerator sales.' Little does Zack know their true identities: Greywolf and Shadowbird are F.U.S.I.O.N agents on a mission to protect Indigenous artifacts from a nefarious tomb-robber! No sooner are they back from the mission, than the Commonda family home is attacked by a force of drones and the evil King Viper. Zack discovers that his parents are no mere fridge experts ... and there's a super suit hidden in the basement that's just his size. With the help of Tana, a tech-savvy F.U.S.I.O.N agent and a robot dog, Zack begins a wild adventure to discover his powers, rescue his parents and save the world!
Date Published:2026

Meet Kaboom: Zack Commonda, agent of F.U.S.I.O.N (First Universal Secret Indigenous Operatives Network), and the newest superkid on the block! Well ... sort of. He's still figuring it all out. When we meet Zack, he's being looked after by his super-cool Auntie Jess and dreaming of one day being like his hero, slick business tycoon Konstantin Pierce. Zack's parents are away ... yet again ... for their important careers in 'refrigerator sales.' Little does Zack know their true identities: Greywolf and Shadowbird are F.U.S.I.O.N agents on a mission to protect Indigenous artifacts from a nefarious tomb-robber! No sooner are they back from the mission, than the Commonda family home is attacked by a force of drones and the evil King Viper. Zack discovers that his parents are no mere fridge experts ... and there's a super suit hidden in the basement that's just his size. With the help of Tana, a tech-savvy F.U.S.I.O.N agent and a robot dog, Zack begins a wild adventure to discover his powers, rescue his parents and save the world!

Date Published:2026

The last hope school for magical delinquents

Pau Preto, Nicki


Unable to control her powers, twelve-year-old Lavinia finds herself at a last-resort magical school where she teams up with her misfit classmates to save the school from danger.
Date Published:2024

Creaky Acres

Brill, Calista,


Ten-year-old African American Nora learns to love to her new home in rural Greenville when she starts an eventing team with the horseback riders at Creaky Acres.
Date Published:2025

A kid like me

Feuti, Norman,


Ethan doesn't want to stand out, he just wants to fit in. But fitting in is tough when your peers call out your ancient cell phone, busted backpack, and discount clothing. To make matters worse, his best friend, Ricky, insists on hanging out with a group of guys who just don't get him ... they're more interested in playing pranks than playing his favorite card game Bio Battle. Things start looking up,though, when Ethan befriends Aiden, a new kid in school, but it's only matter of time before even that goes sideways. Can Ethan figure out where he belongs without forgetting who he is and who he wants to be?
Date Published:2026

Ethan doesn't want to stand out, he just wants to fit in. But fitting in is tough when your peers call out your ancient cell phone, busted backpack, and discount clothing. To make matters worse, his best friend, Ricky, insists on hanging out with a group of guys who just don't get him ... they're more interested in playing pranks than playing his favorite card game Bio Battle. Things start looking up,though, when Ethan befriends Aiden, a new kid in school, but it's only matter of time before even that goes sideways. Can Ethan figure out where he belongs without forgetting who he is and who he wants to be?

Date Published:2026

The wrong way home

O'Shaughnessy, Kate,


"What if everything she's been told is a lie"--Cover. Includes excerpt of : The lonely heart of Maybelle Lane. When twelve-year-old Fern and her mother abruptly leave their isolated, off-the-grid community, Fern wants nothing more than to return, but things get murky as she slowly adjusts to her new life and discovers unsettling truths about her old one.
Date Published:2025