NYT - Children’s Middle Grade | Santa Fe Public Library

1) The care & keeping of you: the body book for girls

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#7 on the Children’s Middle Grade list for 2015-08-23. It has been on the list for 106 week(s).

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A preteen girl's guide to basic health and hygiene--from braces to bras, pimples to periods, hair care to healthy eating.

2) Goodbye stranger

Author

Stead, Rebecca

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#15 on the Children’s Middle Grade list for 2015-08-23.

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Bridge is an accident survivor who's wondering why she's still alive. Emily has new curves and an almost-boyfriend who wants a certain kind of picture. Tabitha sees through everybody's games -- or so she tells the world. The three girls are best friends with one rule: No fighting. Can it get them through seventh grade?... This year everything is different for Sherm Russo as he gets to know Bridge Barsamian. What does it mean to fall for a girl --...

3) The Isle of the Lost: a Descendants novel

Author

De la Cruz, Melissa

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#1 on the Children’s Middle Grade list for 2015-08-23. It has been on the list for 14 week(s).

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Book, Audio CD, eBook

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Twenty years ago, all the evil villains were banished from the kingdom of Auradon and made to live in virtual imprisonment on the Isle of the Lost. The island is surrounded by a magical force field that keeps the villains and their descendants safely locked up and away from the mainland. Life on the island is dark and dreary. It is a dirty, decrepit place that's been left to rot and forgotten by the world. But hidden in the mysterious Forbidden Fortress...

4) A Long Walk to Water

Author

Park, Linda Sue

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#5 on the Children’s Middle Grade list for 2015-08-23. It has been on the list for 61 week(s).

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In 1985 southern Sudan is ravaged by war. Rebels and government forces battle for control, with ordinary people . . . people like the boy, Salva Dut . . . caught in the middle. When Salva's village is attacked, he must embark on a harrowing journey that will propel him through horror and heartbreak, across a harsh desert, and into a strange new life. Years later, in contemporary South Sudan, a girl named Nya must walk eight hours a day to fetch water....

5) Out of my mind

Author

Draper, Sharon M

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#14 on the Children’s Middle Grade list for 2015-08-23.

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Book, Audio CD

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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.

6) The princess in Black

Author

Hale, Shannon

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#8 on the Children’s Middle Grade list for 2015-08-23. It has been on the list for 11 week(s).

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"Who says princesses don't wear black? When trouble raises its blue monster head, Princess Magnolia ditches her flouncy dresses and becomes the Princess in Black!" --

7) Serafina and the black cloak

Author

Beatty, Robert

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#12 on the Children’s Middle Grade list for 2015-08-23.

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Book, eBook

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In 1899, a twelve-year-old rat catcher on North Carolina's Biltmore estate teams up with the estate owner's young nephew to battle a great evil and, in the process, unlocks the puzzle of her past.

8) Wonder

Author

Palacio, R. J

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#2 on the Children’s Middle Grade list for 2015-08-23. It has been on the list for 141 week(s).

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Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan, which entails enduring the taunting and fear of his classmates as he struggles to be seen as just another student.