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"Words burn bright in this joyful celebration of rap, creativity, and self-expression. "Welcome to the cypher! Now huddle up nice and snug. You feel that circle around you? Well, that's a hip hop hug!" Starting with beatboxes and fingersnaps, an exuberant narrator introduces kids in his community to the powerful possibilities of rap, from turning "a simple phrase/into imagery that soars" to proclaiming, "this is a voice that represents me!" As Khodi...
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Mystwick school novel volume 1
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Twelve-year-old Amelia gets the opportunity to attend a boarding school and learn how to use music to create magic, hoping to become a Maestro like her deceased mother.
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Fall In Love With These Books - YA Fiction September 2025
February 26, 2026: New High School Books
First Love
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February 26, 2026: New High School Books
First Love
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"While spacing out in Chemistry class, Lily scribbles some of her favorite song lyrics onto her desk. The next day, she discovers that someone has continued the song and added a message to her. Intrigued, Lily and her anonymous pen pal begin exchanging full-on letters--sharing secrets, recommending bands, and opening up to each other. Before long, Lily realizes she's kind of... falling for this letter writer. Only, who is he? As Lily attempts to unravel...
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2024 Caudill List Read-a-Likes (SCPL-YS)
2024-2025 Battle of the Books 5th-6th Grade
Back to School (kids)
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2024-2025 Battle of the Books 5th-6th Grade
Back to School (kids)
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"There are no shortcuts to surviving your first day at a new school--you can't fix it with duct tape like you would your Chuck Taylors. On Day One, twelve-year-old Malú (María Luisa, if you want to annoy her) inadvertently upsets Posada Middle School's queen bee, violates the school's dress code with her punk rock look, and disappoints her college-professor mom in the process. Her dad, who now lives a thousand miles away, says things will get better...
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My weirder-est school volume 6
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A.J. and his friends are forming a band! At least, they are taking band classes. Their new teacher, Mrs. Bacon, can teach any instrument, from the kazoo to the tuba. But can she get A.J.'s class to play well enough during their recital to impress crabby Dr. Carbles? Or will their concert turn into a musical mess?
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Tales from Deckawoo Drive volume 4
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When an unexpected package containing an accordion arrives, Eugenia Lincoln tries to get rid of the instrument by selling it, destroying it, and giving it away, but nothing works.
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Adela loves everything about her family's mariachi band, and wants to be in it--but when she tries the different instruments nothing seems right, so she has to find a different way to become part of the band. Includes notes on mariachi music and bands.
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Magnolia is a little girl with a big idea, determination, and one very heavy upright piano that she insists on taking with her to the beach, but in a series of mishaps, Magnolia quickly learns that a piano does not mix well with sand, sun, and seagulls.
15) Candidly Cline
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Cline Alden's grandmother says that music is in the family's blood, but Cline's mother is dead-set against her daughter's dreams of becoming a country music singer; Cline is determined to find the money to attend a Young Singer-Songwriter Workshop in Lexington (not too far from her Paris, Kentucky home), so now she has a lot on her mind--she is hiding things from her mother, she is losing her beloved grandmother to Alzheimer's, and she has begun to...
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"A bear finds a piano in the woods, learns to play it, and travels to the big city to become rich and famous, but ultimately discovers that his old friends in the forest back home are still the best audience of all"-- Provided by publisher.
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"La Música exists in many places--in the twang of a guitar, in the beat of a drum, even in the whistling wind and the morning bird's son. She brings color and life wherever she goes, connecting people to a grand harmony. And in the town of Santa Cecilia, she is everywhere. When La Música discovers a boy with longing in his heart and no music in his home, she vows to help him find his passion."--Dust jacket.
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When thirteen-year-old Lani Li's elite performance band is chosen to perform in London, she finds inspiration from her brother and the Eight Invincible Brothers from Chinese fables, and creates a list of challenges to help her overcome her fears and find her own inner strength.
19) Footloose
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In this version of the pop rock song "Footloose, " zookeeper Jack joins the zoo animals in an all-night dance party.
20) Boomi's boombox
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Twelve-year-old Boomi accidentally travels back in time to 1986 Thumpton-on-Soar, England, where she meets her late father as a child, changing her life forever.










