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17岁的洛拉·埃斯皮诺萨, the main character in Ella Cerón’s first novel 洛拉·埃斯皮诺萨万岁!, life is predictable and planned: sacrifice a social life and focus on earning good grades in order to get into a good college. Those expectations leave Lola feeling like she’s in “an academic purgatory with no salvation in sight. . . . There is no time for mall hangs or homecoming dances or parties or, God forbid, a relationship” (6). 虽然安静, 深思熟虑的, 内向的洛拉喜欢聪明, she also feels like there has to be more to life than what her parents want for her; she dares阅读更多→

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这是七年级的第一天, and Maggie Diaz is eager for the new freedoms that West Memorial Middle School in Miami will hold. 然而, this messy and forgetful gal with strict Cuban parents discovers that life at this age and stage is complicated. 麦琪没有电话, 和她奶奶共用一间卧室, and endures chaos at home with a teenage sister, 一个刚出生的小弟弟, a mother who is trying to complete her accounting degree, 还有一个在外地工作的父亲. Furthermore, she feels left behind by her friends who are moving forward with their own interests. 喜欢的乐队阅读更多→

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Readers of Sarah Dessen and Kasie West will likely enjoy 卡拉·麦克道尔的《这可能会很尴尬. 设置页面, 亚利桑那州, McDowell’s novel tells the story of Gemma Wells, who finds social situations awkward and awful and who—of her own admission—doesn’t know how to have fun. Despite her challenges to conquer her social anxiety disorder (SAD), Gemma can’t just “suck it up.” So, when her favorite beach is overtaken by a teen party at the end of the school year, 她的幻想开始高速运转. Beau Booker, captain of the swim team and the most popular person at Page High, is in attendance. 只是阅读更多→

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辛西娅·利蒂奇·史密斯编辑, Ancestor Approved is a collection of intertribal stories with a target audience of middle grade youth.  It not only features rising Indigenous voices but the voices of well-established authors like Tim Tingle, Eric Gansworth, 和约瑟夫·布鲁恰. The core of the book revolves around an intertribal powwow— an important gathering among native people that Rebecca Roanhorse describes through the eyes of Ozzie, 保留区的狗, as “a riot of color and noise and happy people” (83). Adding a unifying as well as a humorous thread, Ozzie turns up in several of the later stories wearing either an Ancestor Approved or阅读更多→

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在虚无的王国里, every time peace between the volken and the human races seems imminent, something happens to fuel the conflict with fear or lies and then prevent the two factions from achieving peaceful coexistence. 是什么或者是谁在幕后操纵着这场无休止的战争? 针对中级读者, the graphic novel Fantastic Tales of Nothing by Alejandra Green and Fanny Rodriguez is an adventure featuring an unlikely quartet: Nathan Cadwell, 新浪, Bardou, ,还, 谁会形成意想不到的联系. Nathan is a human boy who simply wants a quiet and peaceful life, with maybe a little money to gamble now and then. 西娜·克劳是一只volken，阅读更多→

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Believing that humor is often more honest than being serious and that laughter contributes to resilience, author John Cusick writes books laden with laughter and bordering on the absurd. When Lola Ray and Phineas Fogg find themselves in a precarious situation where the fate of the universe is at stake, Phin must keep Lola from falling into the hands of the evil Goro Bolus and the Temporal Transit Authority who will turn her over to the Phan. 年轻的二人组必须离开新泽西, 离开地球, and as far away from Earth’s solar system as they can. 在他们试图阅读更多→

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Featuring illustrations by Robin Boyden, 放我出去! by Andy McNab and Phil Earle is a humorous novel written for middle grade readers.  The plot revolves around eleven-year-old Danny Mack’s desire to attend what he believes will be an epic, adventure-filled school field trip with mountaineering, 皮划艇, 和滑行.  然而, the trip costs more than his mother can afford. 所以，为了筹集150美元.00 participation fee, Danny undertakes a series of “get rich quick” schemes. His best friend Thomas Jefferson Raffles (aka Giraffles), who is always willing to stick his neck out for a pal, 帮助丹尼意识到他不是阅读更多→

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在Mac B中. 少年间谍:麦克卧底, a humorous children’s book illustrated by Mike Lowery, Mac Barnett tells the story of Mac Barnett who is a kid one minute and the next, 英国女王的密探. 一旦他到达伦敦, the Queen equips Mac with a secret identity kit and an alias so that he can go undercover to recover the queen’s spoon.  休·安东尼·克雷格三世, 来自卡尔马祖的钢琴调音师, 密歇根, Mac travels from London to France and then to Russia on the trail of a thief. In France, he meets the President, who also plays Spy阅读更多→

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Readers of Grandpa’s Great Escape will likely enjoy David Walliams’  recent release, 午夜帮, 也由托尼·罗斯绘制.  以片头字幕呈现, 一套插图, 一群人物, 还有一个预告片, the book begins like a feature film with twelve-year-old Tom Charper taking the spotlight as the story’s protagonist.  Walliams welcomes readers to the children’s ward on the 44th floor of Lord Funt’s Hospital, where the children’s parents don’t visit because they are either too poor, 也生病了, 或者住得太远，无法旅行.  Essentially abandoned and living under the control of a cruel hospital matron, 孩子们自己冒险阅读更多→