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Dark life

by Kat Falls
Ages 10 and up
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When fifteen-year-old Ty, who has always lived on the ocean floor, joins Topside girl Gemma in the frontier's underworld to seek and stop outlaws who threaten his home, they learn that the government may pose an even greater threat.

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Griff Carver, hallway patrol

by Jim Krieg
Ages 10 and up
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Legendary Griff Carver joins the Rampart Middle School Hallway Patrol and with the help of his new friends, Griff solves the case of counterfeit hall passes.

more like this: [good books for boys] [middle school] [mysteries] [tween reads]

Dolphin song

by Lauren St John
Ages 10 and up
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Martine, an orphaned South African girl who has mystical powers over animals, embarks on a school trip to study marine life off the coast of Mozambique. Sequel to The White Giraffe

more like this: [animals] [africa] [tween reads]

My life as a book

by Janet and Jake Tashjian
Ages 10 and up
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Dubbed a "reluctant reader" by his teacher, twelve-year-old Derek spends summer vacation learning important lessons even though he does not complete his summer reading list.

more like this: [if you like diary of a wimpy kid] [reading] [summer] [tween reads]

Belly up

by Stuart Gibbs
Ages 10 and up
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Twelve-year-old Teddy investigates when a popular Texas zoo's star attraction--Henry the hippopotamus--is murdered.

more like this: [good books for boys] [mysteries] [zoos] [tween reads]

Chasing Orion

by Kathryn Lasky
Ages 10 and up
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In 1952, when Georgie is eleven years old, her family moves to a new Indiana neighborhood where her teenaged neighbor has polio and is in an iron lung.

more like this: [historical fiction] [polio] [tween reads]

The tweenage guide to not being unpopular

by Jimmy Gownley
Ages 9 - 12
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Amelia McBride and her friends at Joe McCarthy Elementary School try to figure out how to be popular, or at least not to be unpopular.

more like this: [amelia rules] [graphic novels] [tween reads]

Middleworld

by J & P Voelkel
Ages 10 and up
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When his archaeologist parents go missing in Central America, fourteen-year-old Max embarks on a wild adventure through the Mayan underworld in search of the legendary Jaguar Stones, which enabled ancient Mayan kings to wield the powers of living gods.

more like this: [adventures] [if you like percy jackson] [maya] [tween reads]

The reinvention of Moxie Roosevelt

by Elizabeth Cody Kimmel
Ages 9 - 12
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On her first day of boarding school, a thirteen-year-old girl who feels boring and invisible decides to change her personality to match her unusual name.

more like this: [boarding school] [real life] [school] [tween reads]

Cracker! : the best dog in Vietnam

by Cynthia Kadohata
Ages 10 and up
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A young soldier in Vietnam bonds with his bomb-sniffing dog.

more like this: [dogs] [tween reads] [vietnam]