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1. +BELL - Nick of Time by Ted Bell
   Twelve-year-old Nick Mciver tries to help his father and sister send vital information to England about imminent Nazi invasion, until he finds himself transported through time to help his ancestor stop a mutinous captain who is aiding the French fleet and



2. +BROWN - The Train Jumper by Don Brown
   Collie is looking for his older brother who has run away. He meets another drifter and they jump a freight train. Together they battle hunger, the elements, and the hostility they meet on their journey.



3. +CHOLD - If a Tree Falls at Lunch Period by Gennifer Choldenko
   Choldenko, the author of Al Capone Does My Shirts, tells the story of Kirsten and Walker, two young people who discover a secret that shakes them both to the core.



4. +DELAN - Night of the Soul Stealer by Joseph Delaney
   Tom is dismayed when his master the Spook decrees that they will be spending the winter on gloomy and forbidding Anglezarke Moor but soon discovers the reason for his master's decision, as they tangle with two dangerous witches and struggle to keep a dark



5. +DOWD - The London Eye Mystery by Siobhan Dowd
   Ted and Kat watched their cousin Salim board the London Eye. But after half an hour it landed and everyone trooped off-except Salim. Where could he have gone? How on earth could he have disappeared into thin air? Ted and his older sister, Kat, become sleu



6. +FAIRB - The Weird Club :--The Search for the Jersey Devil by Randy Fairbanks
   A young boy and the members of his Weird Club investigate legends of paranormal activity, mysterious creatures, and strange phenomena found in the United States, such as gravity roads, ghosts, the Jersey devil, and more.



7. +FELDM - The Gollywhopper Games by Jody Feldman
   Twelve-year-old Gil Goodson competes against thousands of other children at extraordinary puzzles, stunts, and more in hopes of a fresh start for his family, which has been ostracized since his father was falsely accused of embezzling moneyfrom Golly Toy



8. +GORDO - Tunnels by Roderick Gordon
   When Will Burrows and his friend Chester embark on a quest to find Will's archaeologist father, who has inexplicably disappeared, they are led to a labyrinthine world underneath London, full of sinister inhabitants with evil intentions toward "Topsoilers"



9. +HELDR - Toby Wheeler :--Eighth-Grade Benchwarmer by Thatcher Heldring
   When Toby finally decides to join the middle school basketball team, he does not anticipate the changes that will occur in his relationship with his best friend Jj, who is the team's star player, as well as in other areas of his life.



10. +KARBO - Minerva Clark Gives Up the Ghost by Karen Karbo
    Thirteen-year-old amateur sleuth Minerva Clark is contacted by a boy whose parents' Portland, Oregon grocery store burned down, but when she agrees to investigate the fire, she does not expect to become an arson suspect herself.



11. +KIBUI - Amulet.--Book One,--The Stonekeeper by Kazu Kibuishi
    After moving to their ancestral home, Emily and Navin's mother is kidnapped by a tentacled creature in the basement that leads the children on a deadly chase into the magical world below their home.



12. +MAHY - Maddigan's Fantasia by Margaret Mahy
    Solis, the only city left, is home to Maddigan's Fantasia, a traveling circus that leaves Solis every year to go on the road. This year they must find a converter for the city's failing power source, but they are attacked along the way.



13. +MICHA - City of Dogs by Livi Michael
    Jenny, a mysterious dog, shows up on Sam's birthday and pulls many of the other dogs in the neighborhood into her quest to prevent the destruction of the world.



14. +OPPEL - Darkwing by Kenneth Oppel
    Dusk, the world's first bat, must lead his colony to safety in a time of changing species.



15. +PRINE - The Magic Thief by Sarah Prineas
    Conn's life is forever changed when he tries to pick the pocket of the wizard Nevery and instead gets a strong jolt of magic, but, instead of punishing the boy, Nevery takes Conn under his wing, teaches him magic, and enlists his help in finding the perso



16. +REISM - Simon Bloom, the Gravity Keeper by Michael Reisman
    Nerdy sixth-grader Simon Bloom finds a book that enables him to control the laws of physics, but when two thugs come after him, he needs the formulas in the book to save himself.



17. +ROBIN - Slam Dunk! by Sharon Robinson
    At Harlem's Langston Hughes Middle School, eleven-year-old Elijah "Jumper" Breeze and his friends compete against Nia and her girlfriends on the basketball court, in a video dance tournament, and for a Student Council seat, and, meanwhile, several of the



18. +SANDE - Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians by Brandon Sanderson
    On his 13th birthday, foster child Alcatraz Smedley recieves a bag of sand, which is immediately stolen by evil librarians who are trying to take over the world.



19. +STEWA - The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey by Trenton Stewart
    Reynie, Kate, Sticky, and Constance, all graduates of the Learning Institute for the Very Enlightened and members of the Benedict Society, embark on a scavenger hunt that turns into a desperate search for the missing Mr. Benedict.



20. +WILES - The Aurora County All-Stars by Deborah Wiles
    From the author of Each Little Bird That Sings comes the story of House, the team captain of the Aurora County All-Stars baseball team. Sidelined for a year because of an injury, and he must now face new challenges with the team.