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  Twelfth

  Janet Key

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  People aren't always what they play. 
   
  Twelve-year-old Maren is sure theater camp isn’t for her. Theater camp is for loud, confident, artsy people: people like her older sister, Hadley—the last person Maren wants to think about—and her cinema-obsessed, nonbinary bunkmate,  
  Theo. But when a prank goes wrong, Maren gets drawn into the hunt for a diamond ring that, legend has it, is linked to the camp’s namesake, Charlotte “Charlie” Goodman, a promising director in blacklist-era Hollywood. 
   
  When Maren connects the clues to Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, she and her new friends are off searching through lighting booths, orchestra pits, and costume storages, discovering the trail and dodging camp counselors. But they’re not the  
  only ones searching for the ring, and with the growing threat of camp closing forever, they're almost out of time. 
   
  In her compelling debut, Janet Key crafts a heartwarming mystery about finding your people and accepting others as they are.

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  The First Spaceman - The Glory...

  Gene L. Henderson

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  The world is given twenty-four hours to surrender. A vast alien armada waits beyond the atmosphere, silent and confident that humanity will yield. 
  Instead, Earth launches a single rocket. 
  At the controls sits Rogers, a young pilot chosen to meet the invaders alone. The mission is simple to describe and nearly impossible to survive. One ship, one atomic warhead, and an enemy fleet numbering in the hundreds. If Rogers fails, the planet dies with him. 
  Out in the silent black of space, the battle unfolds in ways no strategist on Earth could have predicted. Rogers finds himself improvising with shattered equipment, failing systems, and only minutes to solve problems no human has ever faced before. Each decision pushes him closer to either a spectacular victory or an empty grave drifting through orbit. 
  But sometimes surviving the impossible is only the beginning of trouble. 
  Back on Earth, celebrations erupt, monuments rise, and the story of the heroic spaceman spreads across the planet. There is only one complication. 
  Rogers is still alive. 
  And the people who launched him are suddenly forced to deal with a hero who wasn’t supposed to come back. 
  Gene L. Henderson’s The First Spaceman delivers a sharp, fast-moving science fiction tale filled with absurd heroics, strange technical improvisations, and a wicked sense of humor about bureaucracy, glory, and the strange ways history treats its heroes. 
  Gene L. Henderson wrote science fiction during the early 1950s and published stories in magazines including Startling Stories. The First Spaceman appeared in Startling Stories in 1953, a pulp-era magazine known for adventurous space tales and tongue-in-cheek speculation about the future.

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  Ruby and the Royal Baby

  Julie Sykes

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  WELCOME TO STARLIGHT PALACE! 
   
   
   
  There's great excitement in the palace. The Queen is having a baby! Princess Katie and her best friend Becky are busy helping to prepare for the new arrival. Ruby, the silver and white kitten, is desperate to help too, but her efforts keep landing her in trouble! When Princess Katie and Becky go to find her, she's nowhere to be found. Where could the mischievous little kitten have got to?

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  My Name is Samim

  Fidan Meikle

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  "I must make it. I will make it. And I will tell their stories." 
   
  Thirteen-year-old Samim is a loyal friend, a gifted chess player -- and a refugee. After his family is killed in a bombing, Samim makes a long, dangerous journey from Afghanistan to the UK. But even then his safety isn't guaranteed: Samim must tell his story to convince the authorities to let him stay for good. 
   
  Samim relives the perils he faced and remembers the many friends he made and lost -- the intrepid girl who dressed as a boy for safety, the courageous grandmother seeking a new home for her nine grandchildren, and especially his funny, spirited best friend Zayn. 
   
  With his past never forgotten, Samim begins to build a new life in the UK: starting school and making new friends. But he also faces bigoted bullies and an uncertain future. Will Samim be granted asylum and allowed to stay in his new home? 
   
  My Name is Samim is a heartbreaking yet hopeful story of courage, resilience and friendship. Highlighting the experiences of young refugees and asylum-seekers, readers will empathise with Samim as he strives for a safe home and a better future. Fidan Meikle is a stunning new voice in middle-grade fiction. Her wry, heartfelt and immersive writing will draw readers into Samim's world.

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  Frederick Douglass - The Right...

  Janet Benge, Geoff Benge

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  Born into slavery in Maryland, Frederick Douglass was separated from his mother during infancy, then taken from his grandparents at the age of six to serve at the “Great House” on the Wye Plantation in Maryland. He never imagined the cruelties he would witness or the indignities of his family being treated like cattle to be sold, divided, and scattered far and wide. Escaping from slavery, Frederick Douglass became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in America, the greatest orator of his day, an influential newspaper publisher, writer, and statesman, and the most important African American of the nineteenth century (1818–1895).

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  Rainbows and Ribbons (Spellbound...

  Stacy Gregg

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  Enchanting stories, taking the reader on magical pony adventures… 
  Can they rescue ALL the ponies… 
  The ponies of Pemberley Stables have been bound by magic and each of them are trapped in time. Can two brave girls help get them back? 
  Gus the riding school pony isn't having a very good day. But can Olivia and Eliza break the spell that is making him so grumpy and bring him back to the stables. 
  This humorous, action-packed children's fantasy is a top pick for juvenile readers. The story, filled with horses and other animals, is a shining example of the best in short fiction for kids. 
  For fans of Jessica Burkhart (Home for Christmas), Elaine Heney (The Christmas Connemara Pony), Hannah George (Christmas on Hinch Farm), Katrina Kahler (GIRL GANG), and Robin Stevens (A Spoonful of Murder).

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