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Book cover The Disaster Days by Rebecca Behrens

Hannah Steele isn’t quite used to babysitting yet, but she’s taken a class and the house is just down the road from her own, so she is prepared and will be just fine… unless there’s a major natural disaster. As an earthquake hits the Pacific Northwest, Hannah and her young charges are on their tiny island community near Seattle, cut off from any help….

Book cover of The Flower Garden by Renée Kurilla

In the bold and colorful illustrations of this short graphic novel, Anna and Tess take a dream adventure through a verdant and lively giant flower garden and meet new friends–while learning how to appreciate old friends. Grades K-3….

Book cover of Zia Erases the World by Bree Barton

Zia is a master of words and loves putting them together in funny and inventive ways. One thing she’s not good at, though, is finding the real words for the dark, empty, sinking, scary feeling she’s been experiencing lately. She’s labeled it the Shadoom, but she doesn’t tell anyone about it apart from her new friend Alice….

Book cover of Thirteens by Kate Alice Marshall

Eleanor is new to Eden Eld, but she’s used to weird things happening—which is good, because she’s started to see strange things in her home and in town, like a clock that shouldn’t be there and a scary black dog with red eyes. When Eleanor makes two new friends and finds out they can see the “wrong things” too, they start to uncover much older and darker secrets about Eden Eld than they could have ever imagined….

Book cover for The Way I Say It. Two young people riding bikes together.

Rory is having more than one problem in sixth grade. His old best friend Brent is now an enemy, and even Rory’s own name is giving him troubles—he’s been seeing speech therapists for a while, but still can’t overcome the “R” sound. What’s worse is there are some big public speaking projects coming up for his class—and his teacher has paired him up with none other than Brent,…