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Girl as main character

Gwendolyn Gray lives in The City devoid of imagination and color. Her school is designed to prepare children for adult life, and children learn by staring into marble-like machines called Lambents, which control their brains, stripping them of all individual ideas, creativity, and free-thinking. 

It’s all fun and games until your own father burns your house down for insurance money, and then takes off and hides.

 

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Magic Tree House meets Whatever After in this fast-paced adventure set in the ancient land of the Mayans! Bubba and Squirt are siblings who seem perfectly normal, but they’re anything but. In truth, they have a magical shovel that transports them to places from the past. This time, they’re brought to an excavation site in the ancient city of Altun Ha that unearths rare artifacts. But there’s something odd going on in the sweat-slick jungles of Belize.

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One day Bubba received a magic shovel as a gift. His older sister, Squirt, teased him about about it, so he said he would dig a hole right to China. And he did. Bubba and Squirt fell down this hole, and when they got back home, they covered it with sticks and leaves. Bubba and Squirt speak with their grandfather who tells them about aluxes and their magic great-great-grandfather. Then they fall to Belize.They meet Ezperanza and are enlisted to help her father excavate a pyramid and stop the thieves who have been stealing artifacts.

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Four girls. Three scandals. Two murders. One city. And millions of secrets…

Delilah Rollins is the newest influencer to hit Los Angeles. Despite her overprotective parents and humble origins, she’s managed to edge her way into the competitive realm of online fame. And there are two girls qualified to teach her the tricks of the trade: Fiona Jacobs and Jasmine Walters-Diaz, long-standing influencers with millions of followers.

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What do you do when your entire life changes in an instant? Soon-to-be adult Claudine Henry has her entire life planned out. First: go on a wild summer road trip with her best friend Saz. Second: attend Columbia in the fall. Third: make a splash in California as a popular novelist. But all that is thrown out the window when her parents drop a bomb. They are getting a divorce.

 

Have you heard of the Switch Witch?  Neither had I before reading this book.  The switch witch is a holiday tradition that seems like a lot of fun.  Children who do not want all of the sweet treats they collect on Halloween can call on the Switch Witch and trade their yummy sweets for some healthier treats or other fun items.

In the book Eudora Space Kid: The Great Engine Room Takeover, a third-grade girl named Eudora Jenkins lives on a spaceship named Athena. Athena is a part of a group called Astrofleet, which is made up of many different spaceships. All her life, Eudora has dreamed of becoming an Astrofleet engineer. These engineers make sure everything is running correctly and make improvements to the spaceship. But, because she's too young, no one pays any attention to her. So Eudora makes a plan. She is going to do something no one has ever done before, something that nobody can ignore.

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A fairy dentist called Pixie Pink lives deep in the cozy Diffle Woods. She helps all the animals with their toothaches, plaque, and teeth problems! This book spins a fun tale on an experience a lot of kids dread: visiting the dentist. The creatures of Diffle Wood may be scared of going to the dentist, but Dr. Pink takes care of them quickly and fixes them right up! This picture book is perfect for kids who are scared of the dentist or looking for a charming story about woodland creatures!

Edge Anomaly: The Spirit of Crescent Island is a book following Edge, a 12-year-old Forax, and her friends on a harrowing adventure across the land of Marrow. All her life, Edge believed that she and her mother, Mana, were the only creatures capable of speech. She studied the Insects with her mother for her whole life, never knowing or caring about the world outside of their tiny bubble.

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