Y/FICTION/BAKER,E
 Princess Emeralda a.ka. Emma isn't exactly an ideal princess. Her laugh is more like a donkey's bray than tinkling bells, she trips over her own feet and she does "not like Prince Jorge, whom her mother hopes she will marry. But if Emma ever thought to escape her troubles, she never expected it to happen by turning into a frog! When convinced to kiss a frog so he might return to being a prince, somehow the spell is reversed and Emma turns into a frog herself! Thus begins their adventure--a quest to return to human form.

Y/FIC/CANNON,A
Ordinary, boring Ed works a loser summer job at Reel Life Movies, where he doesn't even have his own name tag. He's stuck with "Sergio." Ed's only consolations are his two best friends. Shelving DVDs isn't so mind-numbingly dull with Scout cracking jokes, and after hours Ed hangs out with the superbrain, Quark. Life starts to look up when the girl of his dreams saunters into Reel Life. Ed knows he doesn't stand a chance . . . but maybe, just maybe "Sergio" does. All he has to do is pretend to be a smoldering Brazilian stud for the rest of his life. Simple, right? But . . . Ed's new dream girl has her own secrets, Scout wants to be "more" than Ed's best friend, and his buddy Quark wants Scout for himself.

Y/FIC/HORVATH,P
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Whether it's waking up to find toads in their shoes, becoming trapped on the roof, or searching for cheese when their cow makes only lemonade, the Pepin family always seem to get into the most bizarre scrapes. Illustrations.

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2008 Buckeye Children's Book Award- Winner 3-5
2009 Colorado Children's Book Award Junior Novel Winner
2008-2009 Maine Student Book Award Winner

Y/FICTION/KINNEY,J
Greg Heffley is thrust into middle school, where undersized weaklings share the hallways with kids who are taller, meaner, and already shaving. The hazards of growing up are uniquely revealed through words and drawings as Greg records them in his diary.

Y/pb/KORMAN,G
Best friends Jeff and Wiley are nickname addicts. It's only when a spunky red-haired environmentalist named Cassandra enters their lives that they begin to doubt their nicknaming prowess. No name seems to say it all. On top of everything, some of the nicknames that Jeff and Wiley have invented are backfiring on them. Will the nicknamers be able to get it together before it's too late?

Y/FIC/NESBO,J
When 11-year-old Nilly moves to his new neighborhood in Oslo, Norway, he meets his neighbor, Doctor Proctor, an eccentric professor who invents wacky potions and powders--including an industrial strength fart powder that can send people to outer space. Illustrations.

2010 Children's Sequoyah Book Award Winner

Y/FIC/PAULSEN,G
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When a 12-year-old boy revs up his grandparents old riding lawnmower, he quickly learns about the beauty of capitalism, in this latest novel by the acclaimed author of The Legend of Bass Reeves and The Time Hackers.

Y/FIC/PECK,R
CCBC Choices - 2001
Winner - 2001 Newbery Award
During the recession of 1937, fifteen-year-old Mary Alice is sent to live with her fiesty, larger-than-life grandmother in rural Illinois for a year and comes to a better understanding her.

Y/FIC/PINKWATER,D
Young Neddie goes on a life-changing and epic journey in this original and hilarious story in which Neddie, three good friends, a shaman, a ghost, and a little maneuver known as the French substitution determine the fate of the world.

Y/FIC/RALLISON,J
High school sophomore Savannah wants to find the perfect prom date after her boyfriend breaks up with her to date her older sister, but when a godmother who is only fair becomes involved, Savannah finds herself in trouble in the Middle Ages, along with a boy who would like to be her charming prince.

Y/FIC/SNICKET,L
After the sudden death of their parents, the three Baudelaire children must depend on each other and their wits when it turns out that the distant relative who is appointed their guardian is determined to use any means necessary to get their fortune.

Y/FIC/SPRINGER,K
Tori is having major drama with her BFF Sienna. Sienna is full of stories about her dreamy new boyfriend. Tori knows she's making the guy up, so she invents her own fake boyfriend. Things go great--until everyone insists Tori and Sienna bring their boyfriends to the school dance.

Y/FIC/VAN DRAANEN,W
The first time she saw him, she flipped. The first time he saw her, he ran. That was the second grade, but not much has changed by the seventh. She says: "My Bryce. Still walking around with my first kiss." He says: "It's been six years of strategic avoidance and social discomfort." But in the eighth grade everything gets turned upside down. And just as he's thinking there's more to her than meets the eye, she's thinking that he's not quite all he seemed.

Y/FIC/YOUNG,S
It's not that Casey Little is always late. It's just that everything starts a little too early. But when Casey discovers a weird little time machine, he figures he'll never be late again. Unfortunately, it's not a very good time machine. It can only go back 15 minutes. And it seems to have a mind of its own. Still -- what could possibly go wrong?