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Zara’s Rules for Record-Breaking Fun
by Hena Khan (Author) and Wastana Haikal (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: Zara Saleem is the queen of the neighborhood. Zara’s in charge of it all: she organizes the games, picks the teams, and makes sure everyone has a good time–and they always do.

When a new family moves in across the street, suddenly Zara’s reign is threatened by Naomi, who has big ideas of her own about how the neighborhood kids can have fun. To get everyone to notice her again, Zara decides she’s going to break a Guinness World Record—if her little brother Zayd doesn’t mess things up.

But when she finds herself increasingly alone in her record-breaking quest, Zara starts to wonder if sharing the crown and making a new friend might end up being the best rule of all.

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Dragon City (Dragon Realm 3)
by Katie and Kevin Tsang (Authors)
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Booktalk: In book 3 of the Dragon Realm trilogy, Billy Chan and his friends have been transported 5,000 years into the future where the evil Dragon of Death has become ruler of Dragon City. Humans now live to serve the dragon population, and it’s no different for Billy, Charlotte, Dylan, and Ling-Fei. After losing contact with their own dragons, they’re determined to track them down in this new city, even if it means putting their own lives at risk. But one dragon has turned to the dark side and has no plans to return. With the help of a new clan of dragons, can the four friends undo the Dragon of Death’s villainous work–or will she triumph eternally?

Snippet: Billy couldn’t imagine how powerful and strong the Dragon of Death must be now. She had devoured an entire world’s worth of energy, and all that was left in both realms was Dragon City. Billy knew that they would never be able to defeat her outright, and even if they did, this world wasn’t fit for humans. The only way they could truly win would be to defeat her and then find a way to go back to a time before Dragon City ever existed.