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Thirteen-year-old Felix Yz chronicles the final month before an experimental procedure meant to separate him from the fourth-dimensional creature, Zyx, with whom he was accidentally fused as a young child.

Clementine's life is ordinary in every way except that she is very tiny--a fact that Santa Claus does not seem to understand.

Sammy loves Halloween: the candy, the pumpkins, the scares. So when he gets the chance to be in charge of the familys next haunted house, he gets right to workeven though its only November. Suddenly Sammys inventions are scare-ifying his family day and night, even on Christmas and Easter! Sammy knows hes on his way to making a spooktacular haunted house, but his family isnt so sure they can take a full year of his tricks

Marlowe hopes that meeting the family of her heart donor will help her move on from being "The Dying Girl," but family, neighborhood, and other complications hold her back.

When Nate meets Cam during his junior year in high school, the relationship makes Nate question his faith and the family rules he has always obeyed and finally leads to physical violence between the two boys.

India and her family travel to London, England for an international spelling bee, where she reconnects with friends, meets the queen, and investigates mysterious goings-on.

Celie is facing major changes in her life, including adjusting to a new school, making new friends, helping her sister, and getting used to having Granny's nurse in her house, and turns to her diary to record her troubles.

In September 1944 eleven-year-old Billie lives with her great aunt, Doff, eagerly waiting for her older brother Leo to return from boot camp, and desperate to find the father that left when she was little; but Leo brings a friend with him, a Navajo named Denny, and the injured dog they have rescued and named Bear--and when the two young men go off to war Bear becomes the thread that ties them all together, and helps Billie to find a true friend.

This joyful picture book celebrates middle children and sibling love.When youre in the middle . . . youre not the oldest, and youre not the youngest. You are right in between. Theres someone bigger who helps you and someone smaller who needs you. From the middle, you can see both sides.But being in the middle isnt always easysometimes its hard to know what makes you special, or how to follow a path thats just your own. This classic picture book highlights...

During the school day, fifth-grader Allie West is an outsider. Everyone knows the principal's kid might tattle to her mom! But after school, Allie is an insider. She's friendly with the janitor, knows the shortest routes around the building, and hangs out with the Afters, a group of misfits whose parents are teachers at their school. Although Allie secretly loves her insider life, she's sick of being an outsider--so she vows to join the Pentagon,...