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School has now been in session for six weeks. If it hasn't happened yet, it will happen soon. You know what I'm talking about. The dreaded H word . . . homework. Don't let it get you down! Help is out there, and it's free! Have you heard of Homework Alabama?
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This empowering (and funny!) middle grade memoir takes readers on a journey to 1980s Japan, where Waka was sent as a child to improve her Japanese and reconnect to her family’s roots.
The musical and natural worlds help a tween understand her family and her personal dynamics in the wake of her brother's disappearance in this stand-out novel-in-verse.
Brian's social anxiety makes him practically disappear at school. It only gets worse when his world is turned upside down and shaken vigorously on his 13th birthday. Can Ezra, a basketball teammate, step up and be the friend Brian needs?...
Westin's ADHD, which he calls his Vacation Brain, makes him do impulsive things. And now it has access to a magic pouch that makes 6-inch alive versions of what is passing through that brain. Which is why his bedroom is now trapping a ti...
In the near future, the ubiquitous alternative reality goggles invented by one Edmund R. Pribble have rendered children’s literature obsolete—except to 10-year-old Oliver Nelson, who copes with poverty and grief by hiding in a nigh-aband...
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