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3) Showing off
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The Dunwiddle Magic School (fifth to eighth grade) is intended for children whose magic is "upside-down" like Dory (who turns into a combination of a kitten and dragon) and Pepper (whose uncontrollable "fiercing" terrifies everyone around her)--so the Show Off, where fifth grade students are supposed to showcase their skills, does not really seem like a good idea.
5) Solitaire
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"Tori Spring feels completely disconnected from her life--until she meets the relentlessly cheerful Michael Holden, and a series of schoolwide pranks starts to draw her out of her shell"--
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"Nolan Grant is sixteen, gay, and very, very single. He's never had a boyfriend, or even been kissed. It's not like Penn Valley is exactly brimming with prospects. Nolan plans to ride out the rest of his junior year drawing narwhals, working at the greenhouse, and avoiding anything that involves an ounce of school spirit. Unfortunately for him, his adoptive big sister has other ideas. Ideas that involve too-tight pants, a baggie full of purple glitter,...
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Whisper, Frannie, Sophie, and Gemma, the four members of the Grim Sleepers, get together monthly to tell scary stories at sleepovers. When the four receive an anonymous text message asking them to meet in their town's graveyard at the tomb of a notorious killer named Silas, they try to uncover who sent it and why, while trying to deal with personal problems in their lives.
12) The fight
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After seeing Dominic bullied because someone thought he was gay, then learning that Dominic wound up dead, Bella decides that is time for her to stand up for a cause.
13) The dot
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Vashti believes that she cannot draw, but her art teacher's encouragement leads her to change her mind.
14) The way I say it
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"Rory Mitchell has always had an issue saying his Rs correctly (which is a real problem given his name); now in sixth grade his former best friend, Brent, suddenly sides with bullies against Rory; but then Brent is hit by a car and suffers a serious brain injury, which requires Rory to reevaluate everything"--Provided by publisher.
15) Full impact
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Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! Norval and Arnie are two of the stars on the Southside High football team. They're best friends off the field, too, and they're both hoping to play college ball some day. When Coach Green asks Norval to watch Arnie for signs of a concussion, it sounds like spying. But is betraying Arnie the best way for Norval to help his friend?...
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Hope Roberts is a confident eleven-year-old girl who plans to be an astrophysicist, and who loves swimming, Galaxy Girl comic books, her best friend Sam, and her two rescue dogs (not necessarily in that order); but then she starts middle school, and suddenly she cannot seem to do anything right--even science club is a problem because she and another girl, Camilla, get stuck with the boring part of the science project that they suggested, but Hope...
17) Best wishes
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After her best friend ditches her, fifth-grader Becca, feeling devastated and alone, yearns for people to like her, so when a magical bracelet grants her wish to have loads of friends, she soon discovers having a dream come true is not as simple as it seems.
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High-schooler Willa has just moved to California with her mother and film director stepfather, and she will be attending a private school--but her real problem is that she keeps seeing things that are not really there, like a dead body in the swimming pool, and her visions may be connected to a serial killer that is stalking young girls in Hollywood.
19) The Mighty Odds
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A bus crash gives four very different middle schoolers odd super powers, and although they wouldn't normally be caught dead together, they must pool their powers to find out what happened to them.
20) Now you see me
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High school sophomore Tony would prefer to remain ordinary and overlooked at his school, but one day he wakes up to discover that he can literally become invisible, attracting the interest of a bully but also new friends Tony is willing to step into the spotlight to defend.