Circle of Secrets by Kimberley Griffiths Little

"Soon as my birthday presents are unwrapped and the chocolate raspberry cake gulped down, Daddy packs my stuff in the Chevy and slams the trunk."

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A year after her mother has deserted the family, eleven-year-old Shelby goes to stay with her, deep in the Louisiana bayou, where they both confront old hurts and regrets.

Scholastic Press; 326 pages

Pie by Sarah Weeks

"Thank you very much."

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After the death of Polly Portman, whose award-winning pies put the town of Ipswitch, Pennsylvania, on the map in the 1950s, her devoted niece Alice and Alice's friend Charlie investigate who is going to extremes to find Aunt Polly's secret pie crust recipe. Includes fourteen pie recipes.

Scholastic Press; 183 pages

The Danger Box by Blue Balliett

"Twelve words were painted in gold ink on the wall of an office in Dearborn, Michigan:

SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST IS A DEADLY GAME. WHO CAN WIN FOREVER?"

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Summary: In small-town Michigan, twelve-year-old Zoomy and his new friend Lorrol investigate the journal found inside a mysterious box and find family secrets and a more valuable treasure, while a dangerous stranger watches and waits.

Scholastic Press; 306 pages

After Ever After by Jordan Sonnenblick

"I'm in fourth grade."

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Summary: Although Jeff and Tad, encouraged by a new friend, Lindsey, make a deal to help one another overcome aftereffects of their cancer treatments in preparation for eighth-grade graduation, Jeff still craves advice from his older brother Stephen, who is studying drums in Africa.

Scholastic Press; 260 pages

The Dreamer by Pam Munoz Ryan

"On a continent of many songs, in a country shaped like the arm of a tall guitarrista, the rain drummed down on the town of Temuco."

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Summary: A fictionalized biography of the Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, who grew up a painfully shy child, ridiculed by his overbearing father, but who became one of the most widely-read poets in the world.

Drawings by Peter Sis.

Scholastic Press; 372 pages