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Candace Fleming’s Enigma Girls is fascinating story of Bletchley Park
THE ENIGMA GIRLS: HOW TEN TEENAGERS BROKE CIPHERS, KEPT SECRETS, AND HELPED WIN WORLD WAR II, by Candace Fleming, Scholastic Focus, March 5, 2024, Hardcover, $19.99 (ages 8 and up) Learn about some of...
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Look at poetry in a new way in Grant Snider’s Poetry Comics
POETRY COMICS, by Grant Snider, Chronicle Books; First Edition, March 26, 2024, Hardcover, $18.99 (ages 8 and up) Poetry Comics, a new offering by Grant Snider, is a book that combines poetry and...
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Lindsay Currie’s The Mystery of Locked Rooms has broad appeal
THE MYSTERY OF LOCKED ROOMS, by Lindsay Currie, Sourcebooks Young Readers, April 2, 2024, Hard cover, $16.99 (ages 8-12) Three friends team up to find a hidden treasure in an abandoned 1950s funhouse...
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Gillian McDunn’s Trouble at the Tangerine is fast-paced MG mystery
TROUBLE AT THE TANGERINE, by Gillian McDunn, Bloomsbury Children’s Books, April 2, 2024, Hardcover, $17.99 (ages 8-12) A boy whose family is always on the go dreams of putting down roots in Trouble at...
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Jonathan Todd explores finding your own voice in Timid, a graphic novel
TIMID, by Jonathan Todd, Graphix, April 2, 2024, Paperback, $12.99 (ages 8-12) A boy struggles to fit in after a move across the country in Timid, a semiautobiographical middle-grade graphic novel by...
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Kathy MacLeod’s Continental Drifter is thoughtful look at cultural identity
CONTINENTAL DRIFTER, by Kathy MacLeod, First Second, April 2, 2024, Hardcover, $22.99, Paperback $14.99 (ages 8-12) A biracial girl struggles to find where she fits in in Continental Drifter, a...
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Booki Vivat’s Meet Me on Mercer Street explores change
MEET ME ON MERCER STREET, by Booki Vivat, Scholastic Press, April 2, 2024, Paperback, $12.99 (ages 8-12) A girl tries to make sense of her changing neighborhood through observation and sketching in...
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Sleeping Spells and Dragon Scales explores invisible illnesses
SLEEPING SPELLS AND DRAGON SCALES, by Wendy S. Swore, Shadow Mountain, April 2, 2024, Hardcover, $18.99 (ages 8-12) Two friends utilize fairy tale knowledge as they search for the cause of a...
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Lynne Kelly’s Secret Language of Birds is hopeful MG novel
THE SECRET LANGUAGE OF BIRDS, by Lynne Kelly, Delacorte Press, April 9, 2024, Hardcover, $17.99 (ages 8-12) A girl sets out to help a pair of endangered birds about to lay eggs in The Secret Language...
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Patricia MacLachlan’s Painting the Game is warm, heartfelt MG
PAINTING THE GAME, by Patricia MacLachlan, Margaret K. McElderry Books, April 16, 2024, Hardcover, $16.99 (ages 8-12) A girl tries to untangle her love of baseball from her complicated relationship...
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