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When eleven-year-old Vanessa discovers an abandoned museum, she starts filling it with her own projects and art and memories, thinking maybe, if she can put them all together in just the right way, she can finally understand why she and her relationships are the way they are.
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After being put back to sleep and abandoned in an old museum, Slappy is brought to life by a curious girl on a school trip. Out for revenge, Slappy uses his powers to raise an army of creatures from the exhibits. But when the museum closes, Slappy and his new friends are locked inside with Arragatis, an ancient mummy with his own plan for revenge. It's dummy versus mummy as Slappy faces his most dangerous and frightening opponent yet! Can Slappy defeat...
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Pandava volume 1
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AANHPI Authors: Youth Chapter Books & Graphic Novels (SCPL-YS)
Fantasy & Imagination (WPL-Youth)
Fantasy Reads for Middle Grade (SCPL-YS)
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Fantasy & Imagination (WPL-Youth)
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"Twelve-year-old Aru Shah has a tendency to stretch the truth in order to fit in at school. While her classmates are jetting off to family vacations in exotic locales, she'll be spending her autumn break at home, in the Museum of Ancient Indian Art and Culture, waiting for her mom to return from her latest archeological trip. Is it any wonder that Aru makes up stories about being royalty, traveling to Paris, and having a chauffeur? One day, three...
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Best of Mystery for JR High
Books with Studio Ghibli Vibes
Cozy Middle Grade Reads (SCPL-YS)
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"Claudia knew that she could never pull off the old-fashioned kind of running away...so she decided to run not from somewhere but to somewhere. That was how Claudia and her brother, Jamie, ended up living in the Metropolitan Museum of Art-and right in the middle of a mystery that made headlines."-- Page [4] of cover.
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Cold Weather, Warm Hearts: Winter Romance (teens)
GPLD Winter Favorites Young Adult 22-23
Jewish American Heritage Month - Teens
Winter Romances
GPLD Winter Favorites Young Adult 22-23
Jewish American Heritage Month - Teens
Winter Romances
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"It all starts when Shani runs into May. Like, literally. With her mom’s Subaru. Attempted vehicular manslaughter was not part of Shani’s plan. She was supposed to be focusing on her monthlong paleoichthyology internship. She was going to spend all her time thinking about dead fish and not at all about how she was unceremoniously dumped days before winter break. It could be going better. But when a dog-walking gig puts her back in May’s path,...
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Having lost his mother and his hearing in a short time, twelve-year-old Ben leaves his Minnesota home in 1977 to seek the father he never knew in New York City, and meets there Rose, who is also longing for something missing from her life. Ben's story is told in words; Rose's in pictures.
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"Nothing about Kess Pedrock's life is normal. Not her home (she lives in her family's Unnatural History Museum), not her interests (hunting for megafauna fossils and skeletons), and not her best friend (a talking demon's head in a jar named Shrunken Jim). But things get even stranger than usual when Kess meets Lilou Starling, the new girl in town. Lilou comes to Kess for help breaking a mysterious curse--and the only clue she has leads straight into...
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Ladybug Girl volume 9
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Lulu, who likes to dress in a ladybug costume, wants to learn everything when she visits the natural history museum with Grandpa, but as she moves from exhibit to exhibit, she discovers that sometimes you have to slow down to appreciate the wonder of what is around you.
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"Aru Shah va a pasar las vacaciones encerrada en el Museo de Arte y Cultura de la Antigua India en el que trabaja su madre, mientras el resto de sus compañeros de clase se van de viaje a lugares increíbles. Un día, tres compañeros de clase se presentan en casa de Aru para retarla. No se creen que la Lámpara de Bharata del muse estémaldita y quieren que Aru lo demuesre. Pero, al encender la lámpara, Aru libera al Durmiente, un antiguo ser que...
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Heloise lives with her strict and forbidding godmother in an isolated cottage where the emphasis is on doing one's duty and avoiding all things which could be considered a waste of time. Next door is a sinister museum dedicated to the memory of Mary Child. Visitors enter the museum with a smile, but depart with fear in their eyes. Heloise has never been in the museum.
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