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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.
4) Amina's song
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Arab American Heritage Month (WPLD)
Muslim American Heritage Month (kids)
Muslim Faith & Culture - picture books and more for kids
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Muslim American Heritage Month (kids)
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Feeling pulled between two cultures after a month with family in Pakistan, Amina shares her experiences with Wisconsin classmates through a class assignment and a songwriting project with new student Nico.-- Provided by Publisher.
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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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"Nikki is in the spotlight. A reality TV crew will follow her and her friends for the whole month of March as they record their hit song together. But will the excitement also cause unexpected problems, now that cameras are everywhere Nikki and her friends go?"-- Provided by publisher.
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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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Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month (WPLD)
Celebrate Women's History Month - YOUTH
Hispanic Heritage Month (WPLD)
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Celebrate Women's History Month - YOUTH
Hispanic Heritage Month (WPLD)
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Follows a girl in the 1920s as she strives to become a drummer, despite being continually reminded that only boys play the drums, and that there has never been a female drummer in Cuba. Includes note about Millo Castro Zaldarriaga, who inspired the story, and Anacaona, the all-girl dance band she formed with her sisters.
11) Barakah Beats
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If You Liked...KPop Demon Hunters
2024 Caudill List Read-a-Likes (SCPL-YS)
2024 Rebecca Caudill Award
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2024 Caudill List Read-a-Likes (SCPL-YS)
2024 Rebecca Caudill Award
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"It's Nimra Sharif's first time going to public school. Nimra's nervous, but as long as she has her best friend, Jenna, by her side, she figures she can take on just about anything. Unfortunately, middle school is hard. The teachers are mean, the schedule is confusing, and Jenna starts giving hijab-wearing Nimra the cold shoulder around the other kids. Desperate to fit in and save her friendship with Jenna, Nimra accepts an unlikely invitation to...
12) Ear worm!
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Little Worm finds a song stuck in his head--and learns that his friends all have songs of their own to listen to.
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"Nikki and her bandmates are looking forward to an AWESOME summer on tour as the opening act for the world famous Bad Boyz! Nikki is a little worried when her frenemy, MacKenzie Hollister, weasels her way into a social media intern position with the tour. But she has a total MELTDOWN when she learns that MacKenzie is her new roommate! Will Nikki survive her dream tour as it quickly goes from AWESOME to AWFUL?!" -- Amazon.com
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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.
15) All summer long
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Great Graphic Novels
2024 Caudill List Read-a-Likes (SCPL-YS)
APL Kids: Read and Read S'more
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APL Kids: Read and Read S'more
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"Thirteen-year-old Bina has a long summer ahead of her. She and her best friend, Austin, usually do everything together, but he's off to soccer camp for a month, and he's been acting kind of weird lately anyway. So it's up to Bina to see how much fun she can have on her own. At first it's a lot of guitar playing, boredom, and bad TV, but things look up when she finds an unlikely companion in Austin's older sister, who enjoys music just as much as...
16) Dream
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Determined to buy a new guitar to win a songwriting contest, eleven-year-old Idalee searches for a hidden family treasure to help her achieve her dreams only to discover the music was in her all along.
17) Jesse's girl
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On Career Shadow Day, Maya gets paired with pop star Jesse Scott who rose to fame at a young age and has no real friends, and although the last thing Maya wants is to be reminded of how music broke her heart, she and Jesse might be just what the other needs, but can they open up enough to become real friends--or even something more?
18) All my friends
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Eagle Rock series volume 3
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When Fancy Pink is offered a record deal their parents say no, so they decide to make an album on their own, if they can raise enough money without raising their parents' suspicions.
19) Where she went
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Adam, now a rising rock star, and Mia, a successful cellist, reunite in New York and reconnect after the horrific events that tore them apart when Mia almost died in a car accident three years earlier.
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"It's summer 1977 and closeted lesbian Tammy Larson can't be herself anywhere. Not at her strict Christian high school, not at her conservative Orange County church and certainly not at home, where her ultrareligious aunt relentlessly organizes antigay political campaigns. Tammy's only outlet is writing secret letters in her diary to gay civil rights activist Harvey Milk--until she's matched with a real-life pen pal who changes everything. Sharon...



