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JUMP TO CHILDREN’S<\/span><\/a> -|||- <\/span>JUMP TO YOUNG ADULT<\/span><\/a> <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n RETURN TO WELCOME<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n New books added daily through July 30th, 2021!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n ===========================<\/p>\n FICTION \/ HISTORICAL \/ POST-WWII \/ TEXAS MERCI TRAIN<\/p>\n By Anne Bustard<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n 212 pages; hardcover and paperback<\/a>; also available in eBook<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Visit the Lone Star Lit Tour Page<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ten-year-old Glory Bea Bennett believes in miracles. And she wants one of her own\u2014her daddy\u2019s return from WWII. So, when reports that the Texas boxcar from the Merci Train (the \u201cthank you\u201d train)\u2014a train filled with gifts of gratitude from the people of France\u2014will be stopping in Gladiola, Glory Bea just knows daddy will be its surprise cargo.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n ===========================<\/p>\n FICTION \/ ADVENTURE \/ AGES 9-12<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n By S.J. Dahlstrom<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Paul Dry Books<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n 176 pages; paperback<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Thirteen-year-old Wilder has spent his boyhood watching men like his grandpa Papa Milam . . . and wanting to be like them. Now he is leaving on a two day cattle drive through river and canyon country with his aging Papa and another older man, Red Guffey. In big ranch country full of livestock and wild animals, Wilder is forced to recognize that his own instincts and abilities may have become greater than those of his heroes. \u200b<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n ===========================<\/p>\n FICTION \/ ACTION \/ ADVENTURE<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n By Michael Scott Clifton<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Book Liftoff<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n 282 pages; paperback and eBook<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Visit the Lone Star Lit Tour Page<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Genius, Inventor\u2026and Lonely Twelve-Year-Old Boy<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Edison Jones is a prodigy with a passion for technology. Although a car accident at age five left him orphaned and paralyzed from the waist down, Edison hasn\u2019t let his disability slow him down. In his underground lab, he happily busies himself with his latest inventions. Then one day his world changes overnight. His grandfather, a billionaire tech company owner, fears Edison\u2019s isolation from kids his own age is dangerous and unhealthy. Instead of private tutors, he decides to enroll Edison in a public school. <\/span><\/span><\/span>Thrust into the chaotic world of seventh-grade boys and girls, Edison struggles to adjust. Algorithms, quantum physics, and digital engineering are easy, but despite his genius, what Edison really wants is to fit in and find his place\u2026and be just like everyone else.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n ===========================<\/p>\n FICTION \/ FANTASY \/ ADVENTURE \/ COMING-OF-AGE<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n By Carolyn Cohagan<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Girls With Pens Press<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n 316 pages; paperback, audio book, and eBook<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n In this long-awaited sequel to fan-favorite The Lost Children,<\/em> con-artist Ida journeys to the Unfinished City to find a cure for her inability to age. Stuck in the body of a 12-year-old, Ida longs to look and feel her true age of 16. The Unfinished City is the weirdest place Ida has ever visited\u2014every 365 days a flood destroys the whole town, and odder still, the citizens look forward to it! To Ida\u2019s dismay, no one there wants to explain the mysterious Treatment that could be Ida\u2019s remedy. Ida begs, borrows, and steals to get what she wants. Will she be able to set her age right and return to her friends Fargus and Josephine before her scheming and lies catch up with her?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n ===========================<\/p>\n FICTION \/ PICTURE BOOK \/ HUMOR \/ FANTASY \/ ACTIVITY<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n By Carolyn Cohagan; Illustrated by Lynn Cohagan<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Girls With Pens Press <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n 41 pages; paperback and eBook<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n A companion book to the fantasy adventure Ida and the Unfinished City<\/em>, this hilarious book is an illustrated collection of Ida’s best ridiculous slurs like “Squid Nibbler” and “Conniving Pile of Cowplop!” GUARANTEED TO CAUSE FITS OF GIGGLES. Activities included in the back.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n ===========================<\/p>\n FICTION \/ MYSTERY \/ FANTASY \/ AGES 10-14<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n By James R. Hannibal<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Simon & Schuster<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n 416 pages; paperback<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Jack Buckles is great at finding things. Not just a missing glove or the other sock, but things normal people have long given up on ever seeing again. If only he could find his father, who has disappeared in London without a trace. But Jack\u2019s father was not who he claimed to be. He was a member of a secret society of detectives that has served the British crown for centuries\u2014and membership into the Ministry of Trackers is Jack\u2019s inheritance. Now the only way Jack will ever see his father again is if he finds what the nefarious Clockmaker is after: the Ember, which holds a secret that has been kept since the Great Fire of London. Will Jack be able to find the Ember and save his father, or will his talent for finding things fall short?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n ===========================<\/p>\n SCIENCE FICTION \/ HUMOR \/ ADVENTURE<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n By S.G. Wilson<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Random House Books for Young Readers<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n 272 pages; hardcover, paperback, audio book, and eBook<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n It all starts with a note folded into the shape of an origami octopus: “Hi, Me. Yes, you. You’re me, and I’m you.” If you believe this and the other origami notes that follow–which middle schooler Meade Macon absolutely, positively does NOT–the concept of parallel dimensions is true, and there is a convention full of alternate versions of Meade waiting for his RSVP. It’s got to be a joke.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n By S.G. Wilson<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n*MIDDLE GRADE* <\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n
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<\/a>Blue Skies <\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.lonestarliterary.com\/sites\/lonestarliterary.etypegoogle10.com\/files\/article_body_images\/cow_boyhood_1.jpg\")
<\/a>Cow Boyhood<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.lonestarliterary.com\/sites\/lonestarliterary.etypegoogle10.com\/files\/article_body_images\/edisonjoneselevator_cvr_xsml_1_0.jpg\")
<\/a>Edison Jones and the Anti-Grav Elevator<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.lonestarliterary.com\/sites\/lonestarliterary.etypegoogle10.com\/files\/article_body_images\/ida_and_the_unfinished_city_1.jpg\")
<\/a>Ida and the Unfinished City<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.lonestarliterary.com\/sites\/lonestarliterary.etypegoogle10.com\/files\/article_body_images\/idas_book_of_scathing_insults_and_furious_outrage_1.jpg\")
<\/a>Ida’s Book of Scathing Insults and Furious Outrage<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.lonestarliterary.com\/sites\/lonestarliterary.etypegoogle10.com\/files\/article_body_images\/lost_property_office_the_1.jpg\")
<\/a>The Lost Property Office <\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.lonestarliterary.com\/sites\/lonestarliterary.etypegoogle10.com\/files\/article_body_images\/me_vs_the_multiverse_pleased_to_meet_me_1.jpg\")
<\/a>ME VS. THE MULTIVERSE BOOK 1: PLEASED TO MEET ME<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.lonestarliterary.com\/sites\/lonestarliterary.etypegoogle10.com\/files\/article_body_images\/me_vs_the_multiverse_enough_about_me_3.jpg\")
<\/a>ME VS. THE MULTIVERSE BOOK 2: ENOUGH ABOUT ME<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n
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<\/a>Sisters of the Neversea<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n