NYT - Middle Grade Paperback | Uintah County Library

1) Out of my mind: [a novel]

Author

Draper, Sharon M

Series

Out of my mind volume 1

Notes

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

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

2) A Rover's Story

Author

Warga, Jasmine

Notes

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

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Book, Compact Disc, eAudiobook, Playaway Pre-Loaded Audiobook Player

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Meet Resilience, a Mars rover determined to live up to his name. Res was built to explore Mars. He was not built to have human emotions. But as he learns new things from the NASA scientists who assemble him, he begins to develop human-like feelings. Maybe there's a problem with his programming... Human emotions or not, launch day comes, and Res blasts off to Mars, accompanied by a friendly drone helicopter named Fly. But Res quickly discovers...

3) Wish

Author

O'Connor, Barbara

Notes

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

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Book, eAudiobook

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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"--

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

Author

Park, Linda Sue

Notes

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

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Book, eAudiobook

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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.

5) A wolf called Wander

Author

Parry, Rosanne

Series

Voice of the Wilderness

Notes

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

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Book, eAudiobook, Sound Disc

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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"--

6) The Swifts: a dictionary of scoundrels

Author

Lincoln, Beth/ Powell, Claire (ILT)

Notes

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

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When someone gives Arch-Aunt Schadenfreude a deadly push down the stairs during the Swift Family Reunion, Shenanigan Swift, who has a penchant for mischief, decides to become a detective and solve this mysterious case.

7) Percy Jackson's Greek Gods

Author

Riordan, Rick

Series

Percy Jackson and the Olympians

Notes

#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

Notes

#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 theChase that is being revealed, but can he take the opportunity amnesia has provided and restart his life?