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Warren the 13th and The All-Seeing Eye: A Novel
by Tania del Rio (Author) and Will Staehle (Illustrator)

Booktalk: Meet Warren the 13th. He’s the lone bellhop, valet, groundskeeper, and errand boy of his family’s ancient hotel. It’s a strange, shadowy mansion full of crooked corridors and mysterious riddles–and it just might be home to a magical treasure known as the All-Seeing Eye. But if Warren is going to find the hidden treasure, he’ll need to solve several other mysteries first: What is the strange creature lurking in the hotel boiler room? Who is the ghostly girl creeping around the garden’s hedge maze? And why is the hotel’s only guest covered in bandages?

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Aim
by Joyce Moyer Hostetter (Author)

Booktalk: As World War II threatens the United States in 1941, fourteen-year-old Junior Bledsoe fights his own battles at home. Junior struggles with school and with anger–at his father, his insufferable granddaddy, his neighbors, and himself–as he desperately tries to understand himself and find his own aim in life.

Snippet: On the school bus I stared out the window so Ann Fay would know to leave me alone. What was wrong with the old man anyway? Sometimes it felt like war wasn’t across the ocean. It was right there in my own house. And inside me too. I didn’t know which way to think or feel, and I didn’t know who to be angry with. Pop for leaving or Granddaddy for staying. Or Momma for being bighearted and taking him in.