NYT - Children’s Middle Grade Hardcover | Lake Agassiz Regional Library

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#1 on the Children’s Middle Grade Hardcover list. Last week it was ranked 1. It has been on the list for 554 week(s).

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August Pullman was born with a facial deformity that, up until now, prevented him from going to a mainstream school. Starting 5th grade at Beecher Prep, he wants nothing more than to be treated as an ordinary kid -- but his classmates can't get past Auggie's extraordinary face. Wonder begins from Auggie's point of view, but soon switches to include his classmates, his sister, her boyfriend, and others. These perspectives converge in a portrait of...

2) Wombat waiting

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Applegate, Katherine

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#2 on the Children’s Middle Grade Hardcover list. Last week it was ranked 2. It has been on the list for 13 week(s).

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Wombat isn't actually a wombat--but when the homeless dog is discovered, singed and ash-covered after a terrible fire destroys a community, someone tags her with the nickname and it sticks. Wombat is a "destiny dog." Something inside of her (she nicknames it "Voice') keeps telling her there's a special someone out there who is meant to be her person. Surrounded by a devastated town, Wombat takes up residence on bench near the makeshift community center,...

3) Refugee

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Gratz, Alan, 1972-

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#3 on the Children’s Middle Grade Hardcover list. Last week it was ranked 5. It has been on the list for 325 week(s).

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Although separated by continents and decades, Josef, a Jewish boy livng in 1930s Nazi Germany; Isabel, a Cuban girl trying to escape the riots and unrest plaguing her country in 1994; and Mahmoud, a Syrian boy in 2015 whose homeland is torn apart by violence and destruction, embark on harrowing journeys in search of refuge, discovering shocking connections that tie their stories together.

4) The court of the dead

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Riordan, Rick

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#5 on the Children’s Middle Grade Hardcover list. Last week it was ranked 6. It has been on the list for 45 week(s).

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Nico and Will travel to Camp Jupiter to assist Nico's half-sister Hazel with an influx of reformed monsters arriving at camp and find themselves facing a dark force imposing retribution of its own.

5) Pocket bear

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Applegate, Katherine

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#6 on the Children’s Middle Grade Hardcover list. Last week it was ranked 4. It has been on the list for 46 week(s).

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Thimble-born from tip to toe, Pocket Bear remembers every moment of his becoming: the glimmering needle, the silken thread, the tender hands as each careful stitch brought him closer to himself. Born during the throes of WWI, he was designed to be a mere 3 1/2 inches tall, perfectly sized to fit into the pocket of a soldier's jacket, eyes sewn a bit higher than normal so that he always gazed upward. That way, glancing at his pocket, a soldier would...

6) Ground Zero

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Gratz, Alan, 1972-

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#9 on the Children’s Middle Grade Hardcover list. It has been on the list for 66 week(s).

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Brandon is visiting his dad on the 107th floor of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 when the attack comes; Reshmina is a girl in Afghanistan who has grown up in the aftermath of that attack but dreams of peace, becoming a teacher and escaping her village and the narrow role that the Taliban believes is appropriate for women--both are struggling to survive, both changed forever by the events of 9/11.

7) War games

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Gratz, Alan, 1972-

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#10 on the Children’s Middle Grade Hardcover list. Last week it was ranked 3. It has been on the list for 32 week(s).

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Twelve-year-old Evie travels to Berlin for the 1936 Olympics where she witnesses Hitler's terror on the German people and plans to steal from a Nazi bank with two fellow Olympic athletes.

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