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Sierra is tired of being known as "the sweetest girl in the ice cream shop," but she still wants everybody to like her! Can she spice up her personality (and learn to say no occasionally), and still keep all her friends? Sierra decides to pour her feelings into an original song--and through music, she's able to find her voice. --from Amazon.
803) Paper chains
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Ana attempts to hold her family together after her father's departure while her best friend, Katie, begins wondering about her birth parents, and the two must work through the tangles of their secrets before it tears them apart.
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Roberto, Ruby, and Agnes are back for a summer of mis-adventuring in Shadyside! This time, they've got their sights set on becoming the natural history scientists of the future -- but their plans are about to be rudely interrupted by the nefarious Steve and his band of ruffians. Steve's got his beady eyes on New York City, and he's using every scheme in his collection to finally achieve criminal glory! With the fate of the Big Apple in their hands,...
805) The short seller
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While seventh-grader Lindy Sachs is recovering from mononucleosis, her father gives her access to his etrading account as a way to pass the time and she discovers that she has a knack for buying and selling stocks.
807) Found things
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Eleven-year-old River Rose, bullied at school and missing her older brother, Theron, makes friends with a strange new classmate, Meadow Lark, and the two search for a miracle by floating wishes down the river.
809) Best friend Emma
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When a new girl joins her third-grade class just before Thanksgiving, Emma thinks only about gaining her friendship before the popular Cynthia can, and hurts her best friend Annie Pat's feelings in the process.
811) Run
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Bo Dickinson is a seventeen-year-old girl from a bad family, but she is also over-protected, legally blind, Agnes Atwood's best friend-- so when Bo calls in the middle of the night, desperate to get out of town, Agnes helps her to steal the Atwoods' car and the two girls go on the run, even though Agnes is not sure exactly what they are running from.
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Willa and her best friends love ninjas. They have matching ninja backpacks and ninja t-shirts, and at school they even form a ninja club. But Willa has a secret: she's a werewolf! Worried that no one will understand, she hides the truth from her friends. Until Val has a sleepover for her birthday...and it's on the night of the full moon. Willa is overcome with nerves. When an accident reveals that her friends were hiding secrets too, she realizes...
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Best friends Eddie and MJ can't wait for their big costume party. But when they are transported to Mexico during the Día de los Muertos celebrations, they find themselves in the middle of a new mystery involving a missing secret molé recipe. It's up to Eddie and MJ to use their word skills to save the day.
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Avalon James and Atticus Brightwell are ten years old, and ever pair of best friends know that during their tenth year on the planet, they are granted one special, magical power. This is called the Infinity Year, and you might have a power to use over and over again, or one special one to use once in a lifetime. However, Avalon is closing in on age eleven, and her power hasn't yet appeared. With bullying at school and a family disintegrating, Avalon...
815) Wish girl
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Peter Stone is an introvert among a loud, extroverted family, but when they all move to the Texas Hill Country, Peter discovers a peaceful, natural valley where he can finally hear himself think. He also discovers Annie, a girl his age who is in the Make-A-Wish program for her cancer. When her treatments threaten to permanently harm her brain, Annie and Peter plan to escape into their valley, which they come to believe is magical.
816) Wish
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This combination of four previously published works, edited to form a single narrative, follows best friends Lucy and Soledad's adventures in Faerieground where they discover the dark secret of the Queen, and confront their own identities.
817) Full Moon and star
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When Kyle writes a play about a full moon, his best friend Katie decides she will write one about a star, but they realize it is always more fun to do things together, and combine both plays to make a new one.