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1) hidden figures the untold true story of four afric

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#2 on the Children’s Middle Grade Paperback list for 2017-01-29. Last week it was ranked 2. It has been on the list for 75 week(s).

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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.

3) The one and only Ivan

Author

Applegate, Katherine

Series

One and only Ivan stories volume 1

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#3 on the Children’s Middle Grade Paperback list for 2017-01-29. Last week it was ranked 3. It has been on the list for 75 week(s).

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Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Large Print, Playaway, Playaway Wonderbook

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Ivan is an easygoing gorilla. Living at the Exit 8 Big Top Mall and Video Arcade, he has grown accustomed to humans watching him through the glass walls of his domain. He rarely misses his life in the jungle. In fact, he hardly ever thinks about it at all. Instead, Ivan thinks about TV shows he's seen and about his friends Stella, an elderly elephant, and Bob, a stray dog. But mostly Ivan thinks about art and how to capture the taste of a mango or...

4) Percy Jackson's Greek gods

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Riordan, Rick

Series

Percy Jackson and the Olympians

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#5 on the Children’s Middle Grade Paperback list for 2017-01-29. Last week it was ranked 6. It has been on the list for 26 week(s).

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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...

5) Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's library

Author

Grabenstein, Chris

Series

Mr. Lemoncello's library volume 1

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#7 on the Children’s Middle Grade Paperback list for 2017-01-29. Last week it was ranked 7. It has been on the list for 71 week(s).

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Kyle Keeley is the class clown, popular with most kids (if not the teachers), and an ardent fan of all games: board games, word games, and particularly video games. His hero, Luigi Lemoncello, the most notorious and creative gamemaker in the world, just so happens to be the genius behind the building of the new town library. Lucky Kyle wins a coveted spot to be one of the first 12 kids in the library for an overnight of fun, food, and lots and lots...

6) The war that saved my life

Author

Bradley, Kimberly Brubaker

Series

War that saved my life volume 01

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#8 on the Children’s Middle Grade Paperback list for 2017-01-29. Last week it was ranked 9. It has been on the list for 22 week(s).

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A young disabled girl and her brother are evacuated from London to the English countryside during World War II, where they find life to be much sweeter away from their abusive mother. "Nine-year-old Ada has never left her one-room apartment. Her mother is too humiliated by Ada's twisted foot to let her outside. So when her little brother Jamie is shipped out of London to escape the war, Ada doesn't waste a minute--she sneaks out to join him. So begins...

7) Brown girl dreaming

Author

Woodson, Jacqueline

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#9 on the Children’s Middle Grade Paperback list for 2017-01-29. Last week it was ranked 10. It has been on the list for 10 week(s).

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"The author shares her childhood memories and reveals the first sparks that ignited her writing career in free-verse poems about growing up in the North and South"-- "Jacqueline Woodson, one of today's finest writers, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse. Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the...

8) Out of my mind

Author

Draper, Sharon M

Series

Out of my mind volume 1

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#10 on the Children’s Middle Grade Paperback list for 2017-01-29. Last week it was ranked 4. It has been on the list for 72 week(s).

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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.