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PROJECT STARTUP
SHINE ON, LUZ VÉLIZ!
Heather Alexander Hallie and Jaye are both sixth graders but they couldn't be more different. Jaye is one of the popular kids who'll do almost anything to maintain her status. Hallie's only friend has moved away, and she couldn't care less what anyone thinks of her. So when the two girls are paired up as partners for a pitch competition, it's not exactly a perfect match.
Rebecca Balcarcel Eleven-year-old injured soccer player Luz has a hard enough time reframing her identity as a computer programmer, but when her Guatemalan half-sister moves in, she learns what it truly means to start over.
J BRAD, K RUBY FINLEY VS. THE INTERSTELLAR INVASION K. Tempest Bradford Ruby, a Black girl who loves studying insects, accidentally captures an alien bug, but when the creature escapes and starts wreaking havoc around the neighborhood, it is up to Ruby and her rag-tag group of friends to find this new invasive species before the feds do.
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FIGURE IT OUT, HENRI WELDON Tanita Davis Henri's dyscalculia, a learning disability that makes math challenging to process and understand, is what she expects to give her problems. What she doesn't expect is a family feud with her sister over her new friends, joining the girls' soccer team, and discovering poetry.