NYT - Children’s Middle Grade Hardcover | Park County Library System

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#1 on the Children’s Middle Grade Hardcover list for 2024-06-23. Last week it was ranked 1. It has been on the list for 446 week(s).

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Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan, which entails enduring the taunting and fear of his classmates as he struggles to be seen as just another student.

2) Refugee

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Gratz, Alan

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#2 on the Children’s Middle Grade Hardcover list for 2024-06-23. Last week it was ranked 2. It has been on the list for 260 week(s).

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Josef is a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany. With the threat of concentration camps looming, he and his family board a ship bound for the other side of the world. Isabel is a Cuban girl in 1994. With riots and unrest plaguing her country, she and her family set out on a raft, hoping to find safety in America. Mahmoud is a Syrian boy in 2015. With his homeland torn apart by violence and destruction, he and his family begin a long trek toward...

3) A royal conundrum

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Yee, Lisa

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#3 on the Children’s Middle Grade Hardcover list for 2024-06-23. Last week it was ranked 3. It has been on the list for 9 week(s).

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An elite group of underdogs trained to fight crime must save their unique school from shutting down.

4) Roswell Johnson saves the world!

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Colfer, Chris

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#4 on the Children’s Middle Grade Hardcover list for 2024-06-23. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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"A boy must team up with a group of quirky aliens to save Earth"--

5) Heroes: a novel of Pearl Harbor

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Gratz, Alan

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#5 on the Children’s Middle Grade Hardcover list for 2024-06-23. Last week it was ranked 5. It has been on the list for 18 week(s).

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"December 6, 1941: Best friends Frank and Stanley have it good. Their dads are Navy pilots stationed at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, and the boys get a front-row view of the huge battleships and the sparkling water. Yes, World War II is raging in Europe and in Asia, but the US isn't involved in the war, and the boys are free to dream about becoming comic book creators. They've even invented a superhero of their own, in the style of Batman, Superman, Captain...

6) Odder

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Applegate, Katherine

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#6 on the Children’s Middle Grade Hardcover list for 2024-06-23. Last week it was ranked 4. It has been on the list for 77 week(s).

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"Odder spends her days off the coast of central California, practicing her underwater acrobatics and spinning the quirky stories for which she's known. She's a fearless daredevil, curious to a fault. But when Odder comes face-to-face with a hungry great white shark, her life takes a dramatic turn, one that will challenge everything she believes about herself--and about the humans who hope to save her"--

7) The complete cookbook for young chefs

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#7 on the Children’s Middle Grade Hardcover list for 2024-06-23. Last week it was ranked 8. It has been on the list for 202 week(s).

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"For the first time ever, America's Test Kitchen is bringing their scientific know-how, rigorous testing, and hands-on learning to KIDS in the kitchen! Using kid-tested and approved recipes, America's Test Kitchen has created THE cookbook every kid chef needs on their shelf. Whether you're cooking for yourself, your friends, or your family, The Complete Cookbook for Young Chefs has delicious recipes that will wow!"--Publisher's description.

8) The sun and the star

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Riordan, Rick

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#8 on the Children’s Middle Grade Hardcover list for 2024-06-23. Last week it was ranked 7. It has been on the list for 58 week(s).

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Nico, the son of Hades, and his boyfriend Will, the son of Apollo, travel to Tartarus, the deepest, darkest part of the Underworld as they attempt to rescue an old friend.

9) The city beyond the sea

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Thomson, Pari

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#9 on the Children’s Middle Grade Hardcover list for 2024-06-23. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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"In a land ruled by water, treachery runs deep, and Daisy Thistledown's journey is just beginning... Desperate to join the expedition searching for her mother and the other missing Botanists, Daisy and her friends abandon the safety of magical Mallowmarsh. Facing danger on the high seas, they find themselves pursued across the waves by ruthless Grim Reapers. But they will need help to defeat these dangerous enemies. Their greatest hope: to find the...

10) They call me No Sam!

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Daywalt, Drew

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#10 on the Children’s Middle Grade Hardcover list for 2024-06-23. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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"Meet Sam: an insolent pug--and incidental hero--who will stop at nothing to protect his family! When scientists Elaine and Gary Peterson adopt Sam to keep their son, Justin, company in the midst of a top-secret research project, they never imagine the precocious pup will cause more harm than good. But from chewing up Elaine's hair dryer (the "brain-melting heat cannon") to his inability to be house-trained (who could resist the 'pooping rug'?), the...