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  Lauren in the Limelight

  Miriam Landis

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  For fans of the classic novel Ballet Shoes, a coming-of-age dance story reimagined for a new generation. 
  As she begins 6th grade, Lauren Lightfoot wants nothing more than to get her first pair of pointe shoes, enjoy her love for ballet, and spend time with her friends. Lauren and her friends Bryan and Serena are challenged to define themselves both on stage and in the world when they audition for the Pacific Northwest Ballet School and compete for roles in the spring recital. 
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  "The prose is beautiful, and the novel's themes of personal discovery, empathy, friendship, grief, and family dynamics are explored with subtlety and depth. Impossible to put down—even if ballet isn't your thing.  
  —Kirkus Reviews 
  "This is the ballet book I wish I could have read as a young ballet student." 
  —Megan Fairchild, principal dancer with New York City Ballet and author of The Ballerina Mindset 
  “I so wish that Lauren in the Limelight had been in my local library when I was a tween-ager... I would have loved loved loved to imagine myself Lauren then and I know that tweens—ballet fans or not—are going to love it now.” 
  —Nancy Pearl, author of the Book Lust series and George & Lizzie: A Novel 
  "Lauren in the Limelight promotes empathy and understanding, and deals with the crucial moments in life when we gain maturity, break from our parents’ version of us, and become ourselves.” 
  —Peter Boal, Artistic Director of Pacific Northwest Ballet and author of Illusions of Camelot

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  Aliens and Nothing But Aliens 4...

  Isaac Asimov, H.P. Lovecraft, A....

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  Aliens and Nothing But Aliens 4 - Eighteen Lost Sci-Fi Short Stories from the 1930s, 40s, 50s and 60sThe Weapon by Isaac Asimov The Monsters by Robert SheckleyThe Portable Star by Isaac AsimovThe Mystery of Deneb IV by Robert SilverbergFarewell Message by David MasonThe Time of Cold by Mary CarlsonDerelict by Alan E. NourseSecond Census by John Victor PetersonThe Ultimate Vice by A. Bertram ChandlerMembership Drive by Murray F. YacoSpawning Ground by Lester Del ReyArena by Fredric BrownCome Home From Earth by Edmond HamiltonS as in Zebatinsky by Isaac AsimovIn The Walls of Eryx by H. P. Lovecraft and Kenneth SterlingThe One Who Waits by Ray BradburyGunnison’s Bonanza by Dick Purcell Quarantined Species by J. F. Bone

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  Only This Beautiful Moment

  Abdi Nazemian

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  2019 – Moud is an out gay teen living in Los Angeles with his distant father, Saeed. When Moud gets the news that his grandfather in Iran is dying, he accompanies his dad to Tehran, where the revelation of family secrets will force Moud into a new understanding of his history, his culture, and himself.
  1978 – Saeed is an engineering student with a promising future ahead of him in Tehran. But when his parents discover his involvement in the country's burgeoning revolution, they send him to safety in America, a country Saeed despises. And even worse – he's forced to live with the American grandmother he never knew existed.
  1939 – Bobby, the son of a calculating Hollywood stage mother, lands a coveted MGM studio contract. But the fairy-tale world of glamour he's thrust into has a dark side…
  Set against the backdrop of Tehran and Los Angeles, this tale of intergenerational trauma and love is an ode to the fragile bonds of family, the hidden secrets of history and all the beautiful moments that make us who we are today.

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  The Carrefour Curse

  Dianne K. Salerni

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  Twelve-year-old Garnet doesn’t know her family. Her mother has done her best to keep it that way, living far from the rest of the magical Carrefour clan and their legendary mansion known as Crossroad House. 
   
  But when Garnet finally gets summoned to the estate, it isn’t quite what she hoped for. Her relatives are strange and quarrelsome, each room in Crossroad House is more dilapidated than the last, and she can’t keep straight which dusty hallways and cobwebbed corners are forbidden.  
   
  And then she learns a terrifying secret: the dying Carrefour patriarch fights to retain his life by stealing power from the others. Every household accident that isn’t an accident, every unexpected illness and unexplained disappearance grants him a little more time.  
   
  While the Carrefours squabble over who will inherit his role when (if) he dies, Garnet encounters evidence of an even deeper curse. Was she brought to Crossroad House as part of the curse … or is she meant to break it?

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  Mystery of the Stolen Snacks The...

  Laurie Friedman

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  The students in Ms. Bixby's class aren't happy. Someone stole their afternoon snacks! Leave it to Detective Daisy to find out who did it and why!

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  Bo and the Spooky House

  Elliott Smith

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  What happens when Bo's friends dare him to ring the doorbell of the spooky house in their neighborhood? Follow along as Bo learns about treating members of the community with kindness and friendship.
  Bo’s life is always buzzing. And not just because he lives upstairs from The Buzz, a barbershop. Young readers will love following Bo’s daily life and adventures in these early chapter books.
  
  Read Woke™ Books are created in partnership with Cicely Lewis, the Read Woke librarian, to reflect the diversity of our world.

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