Saloma Hammond is not your typical 12 year old.\nSal counts her steps between classes, wears a school uniform that isn't required, and prefers to stay locked inside her tightly controlled OCD world. But when the lure of the perfect snowflake entices her to join the Weather Club, her anti-social shell begins to crack. At the same time, dozens of phones have gone missing, and her classmates are getting suspicious.\nIf Sal can unlock her pattern-driven mind to identify the workings of the real thief and then set an irresistible trap at the Science Fair, she may just learn how powerful friendship can be.

Perfect

Children's Books

Jorgensen, Kiri

Mysteries & Detectives

Chicken Scratch Books

An important life is measured by one thing: Netopedia. When Sophie Murphy discovers that her father's life wasn't remarkable enough to warrant a listing, she makes a decision. Her life would be remarkable. But if you're not an Olympian, a singer, or a football star, becoming important is hard. It's even more difficult when you also have to heal your family and remind the world of your amazing Netopedia-less father. But a quest for fame may lead to another discovery: being admired by millions isn't as precious as being loved by one.

Sophie Murphy Does Not Exist

Blanchard, Tiffany

Humor

Thunderation and Toad's Toes! How does one nearly thirteen-year-old Montana cowgirl get herself in so much trouble? Maddie McDowell can't take it anymore. Running away from boarding school seems like her only choice after feeling betrayed by her family and left out and left alone by everyone else. When the Monte Decker Rodeo Show pulls out of town on the morning train, Maddie intends to be on it, leaving all her hurt behind. All, however, does not go as planned. Mistaken for the rodeo's newest star, who appears to be missing, Maddie must prove she's got the talent, skills, and guts to make it. But it's not that simple. There's the rodeo queen who hates her on sight, the handsome cowboy who seems strangely familiar, a mysterious man in a bowler hat, and a sack full of stolen cash. Is someone trying to hurt her, or the missing cowgirl she's impersonating? Yep. Maddie is in deeper than a yearling calf in a sinkhole. With all this trouble, Maddie must decide if the rodeo life is what she truly wants, or if there's something else missing, something even bigger pulling her along-not counting that dog, of course. This rollicking Pinkerton-style middle grade mystery set in a 1919 rodeo show keeps the pages turning and the heartstrings pulling.

Maddie McDowell and the Rodeo Robbery

Rod, Luann M

Literature & Fiction

A secret fear.An antique pocket watch with a tragic past.When 8th grader Caleb Meyer stumbles upon the old watch at an abandoned railroad museum, he's sure that if he has it, all his fears will vanish. But the watch is more than just spindles and gears. A twisted ghost lives within, a Dreadmonger, feeding off the fears of his victims.And Caleb, seeking to finally be rid of his secret, is walking right into the Dreadmonger's trap.

Dread Watch

Agard, Jared

Science Fiction & Fantasy

What do touchdowns and tea parties have in common?Absolutely nothing.Eleven-year-old football superfan, Hannah Taylor, has watched her friends leave the homeschool group one by one. It was okay, at first, because she always had Beth, her best best friend. They were a team for science experiments, for co-op classes, and on the football field.But just as they're starting sixth grade, Beth's parents put her in private school. Now Hannah is the only middle schooler left in the homeschool group.She'd better come up with a new play fast. The only kids even remotely close to her age don't like football, and they don't play sports.They play princess.And they want Hannah to join their team.

Best Friends Playbook

Downer, A W

Sports & Outdoors

Can you actually kill someone with kindness?\nCharity's acts of kindness always end in disaster, but when one clown costume too many lands her in the Vice Principal's office, she receives a mysterious note from "The Cassandra Coalition" offering to help get rid of her curse.\nThe coalition members all have the same curse-which just happens to attach itself to kind 13-year-olds-and it seems to be coming from the greyscale mirror world of Delphos-which just happens to be portal-connected to their hometown. As the curse expands, and people start turning into zombies, they suspect a full Delphos invasion is looming.\nBut when Charity's best friend goes missing, the coalition realizes they must track her down, close the portal, and find a way to end the curse-before it ends all of them.

The Cassandra Curse

Bolinger, Hope

Climbing the tree to rescue the orphaned baby raccoons was just the beginning. 
From eye dropper to bottle feedings, from wiggling worms to pinching crayfish, from cage building to camping trips to final release-Lance's summer has never been so busy, or so bodaciously awesome. He could almost call it a perfect summer. 
Except for the situation with his mom. 
His mom who is thinking of adopting a human baby-a baby with Down syndrome.

Raccoon Summer

Vanderwielen, Betty

Animals

Courage. Imagination. Unbeatable Determination.\nThe Kentucky frontier was a beautiful place, but it was also a dangerous one. Jemima Boone and John Gass often heard wolves howling, bears growling, and snakes slithering through the tall grasses. There was no store, no school, no doctor at Fort Boonesborough. The settlers were on their own to deal with whatever threats arose. On a sunny summer day in July 1776, the crisis they faced was a kidnapping. . . .\nBased on a true event.

A Kidnapping In Kentucky 1776

Raum, Elizabeth

When Blythe hits 7th Grade, it hits back. She's always excelled in school, but now she's struggling, and she can't join clubs unless her grades are high enough. Her dad expects her to join Math Club, even though her secret passion is photography. The way things are going, she won't get to do either one. But her parents can't know that. When Bly teams up with her nemesis Cherie to cheat her way to good grades, she doesn't expect to keep failing anyway. And the more she cheats, the worse she feels. She's trapped. Confessing the truth about her grades and cheating might cost her the love of her family, her friends, and her chance at the photography contest she's dreaming of winning. But the cost of continuing her lies could be even worse. How can she get her life to come into clear focus like one of her developing pictures?

Miss Classified

Teen & Young Adult

Phelan, Susan

Why don't parents come with an instruction manual? 
Enjoy childhood, they say. 
I will. I do. Or, at least, I did. 
I'm over here living my best life with my best friends and science club. And in three weeks, we're going to GamerCon. 
Suddenly, my parents want to talk about my choices. It's so unfair. Why am I grounded for enjoying my childhood? I'm doing exactly what they said to do. 
I know I'm not a parent. But I'm pretty sure 'doing what you say you'll do' is in the top five rules of parenting. It's right up there with 'feed the kid'. Just my opinion. 
Now I've lost everything good because the grown people in my life don't make any sense. 
If I can't spend time with my best friends, how do I keep them? And how do I get out of trouble when I'm not sure how I got there in the first place?

Jeff Pennant's Field Guide To Raising Happy Parents

McKinney, Kelli

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