NYT - Middle Grade Paperback | Spanish Fork Public Library

1) A Rover's Story

Author

Warga, Jasmine

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#1 on the Middle Grade Paperback list for 2024-04-14.

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Built to explore Mars, Resilience begins to develop human-like feelings as he learns from the NASA scientists who assembled him, and as he blasts off and explores Mars, Resilience must overcome different obstacles as he explores the red planet.

2) Wish

Author

O'Connor, Barbara

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#2 on the Middle Grade Paperback list for 2024-04-14.

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"A story about a girl who, with the help of the dog of her dreams, discovers that family doesn't always have to be related--they are simply people who love you for who you are"--

3) A long walk to water: based on a true story

Author

Park, Linda Sue

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#3 on the Middle Grade Paperback list for 2024-04-14.

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When the Sudanese civil war reaches his village in 1985, eleven-year-old Salva becomes separated from his family and must walk with other Dinka tribe members through southern Sudan, Ethiopia, and Kenya in search of safe haven. Based on the life of Salva Dut, who, after emigrating to America in 1996, began a project to dig water wells in Sudan.

4) A wolf called Wander

Author

Parry, Rosanne

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#4 on the Middle Grade Paperback list for 2024-04-14.

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"A young wolf cub, separated from his pack, journeys 1000 miles across the Pacific Northwest, dealing with forest fires, hunters, highways, and hunger before finding a new home. Based on the true story of a wolf called OR-7"--

5) A Whale of the Wild

Author

Parry, Rosanne

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#6 on the Middle Grade Paperback list for 2024-04-14.

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"For Vega and her family, salmon is life. And Vega is learning to be a salmon finder, preparing for the day when she will be her family's matriarch. But then she and her brother Deneb are separated from their pod when a devastating earthquake and tsunami render the seascape unrecognizable. Vega must use every skill she has to lead her brother back to their family. The young orcas face a shark attack, hunger, the deep ocean, and polluted waters on...

6) A Dictionary of Scoundrels

Author

Lincoln, Beth

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#7 on the Middle Grade Paperback list for 2024-04-14.

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"On the day they are born, every Swift child is brought before the sacred Family Dictionary. They are given a name, and a definition. A definition it is assumed they will grow up to match. Meet Shenanigan Swift: Little sister. Risk-taker. Mischief-maker. Shenanigan is getting ready for the big Swift Family Reunion and plotting her next great scheme: hunting for Grand-Uncle Vile's long-lost treasure. She's excited to finally meet her arriving relatives...

7) Percy Jackson's Greek Gods

Author

Riordan, Rick

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#8 on the Middle Grade Paperback list for 2024-04-14.

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"A publisher in New York asked me to write down what I know about the Greek gods, and I was like, Can we do this anonymously? Because I don't need the Olympians mad at me again. But if it helps you to know your Greek gods, and survive an encounter with them if they ever show up in your face, then I guess writing all this down will be my good deed for the week. So begins Percy Jackson's Greek Gods, in which the son of Poseidon adds his own magic--and...

8) Restart

Author

Korman, Gordon

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#9 on the Middle Grade Paperback list for 2024-04-14.

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Chase does not remember falling off the roof, in fact he does not remember anything about himself, and when he gets back to middle school he begins to learn who he was through the reactions of the other kids--trouble is, he really is not sure he likes the Chase that is being revealed, but can he take the opportunity amnesia has provided and restart his life?

9) Out of My Mind

Author

Draper, Sharon M

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#10 on the Middle Grade Paperback list for 2024-04-14.

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Considered by many to be mentally retarded, a brilliant, impatient fifth-grader with cerebral palsy discovers a technological device that will allow her to speak for the first time.