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The field guide

2023
The Grace children discover a field guide to fairies in their Great Aunt Lucinda's old Victorian house that sends them on a fantastic journey into a world of elves, dwarves, and trolls.

The seeing stone

2023
Mallory and Jared attempt to rescue Simon from goblins using a magical stone which enables them to see things that are normally invisible.

Hearts & Crafts: Squad goals

2022
"Mackenzie Miler has big goals. For instance, conquering seventh grade--with projects. There's the Mom Project (finding her mom a boyfriend--even if she says she's not interested), the Friend project (win back the BFFs who dumped her and make a new friend), and the Band project (so what if she's never planned a fundraiser? How hard can it be?) . . . She can do it all, can't she? Or do her big goals require something more--like a little help from her friends?"--Provided by publisher.
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Roll for initiative

From taking her to school to making her food to doing her laundry, Riley Henderson's brother Devin has always been there for her, but now he's in California attending a prestigious college gaming program, and Riley is stuck alone in Florida with her single mom. Fortunately, things start to look up when she befriends her new neighbor Lucy, and the girls learn they both love Dungeons & Dragons. When Lucy asks her to run a campaign, Riley isn't sure since her brother had always been the Dungeon Master, but she decides to give it a shot. The girls invite their neighbors, Hannah and Jen, to join them, and Riley starts to get the hang of things from being Dungeon Master to making her own snacks and dinner. But when Devin runs into trouble with his program and returns home, Riley realizes that she has flourished without her brother and that they both need to be more independent.
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Chester Keene cracks the code

Eleven-year-old Chester and his classmate Skye, tasked with a complex puzzle-solving mission, discover the key to their spy assignment is to stop a heist, but cracking the code could put them in serious danger.

All the right reasons

2022
As cast members of a reality dating show for single parent families Cara Hawn and her mother go to Key West where Cara meets Connor and now she must juggle her growing feelings while helping her mom pick a bachelor they both love.

Shine!

2021
When seventh-grader Piper's father is hired by Chumley Prep, a school where every student seems to be the best at everything, she gets the chance to compete for the prestigious Excelsior Award.

The many half-lived lives of Sam Sylvester

2022
An autistic nonbinary eighteen-year-old moves to a new town and school with the support of their loving father and finds friends in an LGBTQ-plus club, but they all must come together to solve the decades-old murder of a teenage boy and confront the demons lurking in Sam's past.

Unseen magic

2022
"Eleven-year-old Fin has never felt safe until she and her mother move to the magic-infused town of Aldermere in the Pacific Northwest, but when the town is suddenly overrun with disturbances Fin is the only one who knows why--and she's the only one who can stop the havoc"--Provided by publisher.

Mindy Kim and the trip to Korea

2021
Mindy takes a trip to South Korea to visit her grandparents.

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