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  • You only die twice
    Author:
    Gutman, Dan
    Summary:

    Just when they think they are safe, twins Coke and Pepsi are chased by an evil Elvis impersonator, trapped in a pool of flesh-eating soda, nearly pulverized in a giant shredder, and crushed in a turbo-charged carnival ride--but no one...
  • Yellow star
    Author:
    Roy, Jennifer Rozines
    Summary:

    From 1939, when Syvia is four and a half years old, to 1945 when she has just turned ten, a Jewish girl and her family struggle to survive in Poland's Lodz ghetto during the Nazi occupation.
  • Wild things
    Author:
    Carmichael, Clay
    Summary:

    Stubborn, self-reliant, eleven-year-old Zoe, recently orphaned, moves to the country to live with her prickly half-uncle, a famous doctor and sculptor, and together they learn about trust and the strength of family.
  • Wild : the Heights
    Author:
    Hanson, Ed, Doman, Mary Kate
    Summary:

    These traditional reads are brimming with spirited characters and positive values—but with a little extra excitement and bite, so hold on to your hats! Written expressly for the middle grade struggling reader, the series does not...
  • White sands, red menace
    Author:
    Klages, Ellen
    Summary:

    Living with the Gordons in their quiet desert town in New Mexico in 1946, Dewey is learning a lot from her science-obsessed adoptive family, but just as she begins to settle in and get comfortable, Dewey's long-lost mother reemerges to...
  • White horses
    Author:
    Hoffman, Alice
    Summary:

    When Teresa was a little girl, she dreamed of dark-eyed, fearless heroes on white horses who would sweep her away. But now, as the grown-up Teresa negotiates life and love, she begins to understand that fairy tales don't always come...
  • When the Circus came to Town
    Author:
    HORVATH, Polly
    Summary:

    Although Ivy and her family welcome the Halibuts, not all the townspeople are pleased to have circus people as neighbours, especially when more circus families move in.
  • When life gives you lemons, make peach pie
    Author:
    Downing, Erin Soderberg
    Summary:

    Mix together a used food truck, a road trip that doesn't exactly go as planned, and a lot of pie, and you have the recipe for this sweet middle grade series starter brimming with humor, heart, and a family you'll fall in love...
  • What we lost in the dark
    Author:
    Mitchard, Jacquelyn
    Summary:

    Allie Kim's deathly allergy to sunlight confines her to the night, and without her best friend Juliet, the night feels even darker. Allie knows Juliet killed herself to escape Garrett Tabor, whom they saw commit a horrible crime,...
  • What Katy did
    Author:
    Coolidge, Susan
    Summary:

    Twelve-year-old Katy always planned to do a great many wonderful things but in the end did something she never planned at all.
  • Ways to live forever
    Author:
    Nicholls, Sally
    Summary:

    Eleven-year-old Sam McQueen, who has leukemia, writes a book during the last three months of his life, in which he tells about what he would like to accomplish, how he feels, and things that have happened to him.
  • Watcher in the woods
    Author:
    Liparulo, Robert
    Summary:

    The Kings are focused on rescuing a lost family member, until a stranger comes to take their bizarre house. What secret is he hiding, as he hides the scars on his body? Can the Kings harness the house's secrets and discover who is...
  • Useless Bay
    Author:
    Beaufrand, M. J.
    Summary:

    On Whidbey Island, the Gray quintuplets are the stuff of legend. Pixie and her brothers have always been bigger and blonder than their neighbors, as if they were birthed from the island itself. Together, they serve as an unofficial...
  • Unsettled ground
    Author:
    Fuller, Claire
    Summary:

    From bestselling author Claire Fuller comes a portrait of life on the fringes of society, a heart-stopping novel of betrayal and resilience, love and survival. What if the life you have always known is taken from you in an instant? What...
  • Underworld
    Author:
    Cabot, Meg.
    Summary:

    John Hayden, a death deity, takes seventeen-year-old Pierce Oliviera back to the Underworld against her will to keep her safe from the Furies, but her family is still at risk and she, herself, may never escape his captivity.
  • Twister : the Heights
    Author:
    Hanson, Ed, Doman, Mary Kate
    Summary:

    These traditional reads are brimming with spirited characters and positive values—but with a little extra excitement and bite, so hold on to your hats! Written expressly for the middle grade struggling reader, the series does not...
  • Twelve kinds of ice
    Author:
    Obed, Ellen Bryan
    Summary:

    From the first ice, a thin skin on a bucket of water, through thickly-iced fields, streams, and gardens, a girl, her family, and friends anticipate and enjoy a winter of skating, ending with an ice show complete with costumes,...
  • Too much : my great big native family
    Author:
    Goodluck, Laurel
    Summary:

    A little boy wants a chance to shine on his own but discovers that being apart from his large and lively Native family isn't necessarily better in this heartwarming and humorous picture book. When Russell gets a part in the school play...
  • Time pieces : the book of times
    Author:
    Hamilton, Virginia
    Summary:

    Eleven-year-old Valena lives both in the present and the past as she struggles with racism in her daily life and listens to her mother's tales of her family's proud history.
  • Timberwolf prey
    Author:
    Brouwer, Sigmund, Ross, Graham
    Summary:

    The Howling Timberwolves need to win the best two out of three hockey games to make it to the championship finals. But first Johnny Maverick has to survive a visit from his six-year-old cousin, Sarah. And not even Johnny's dog Marvin is...

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