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The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Mitch Albom - Hyperion; Reprint edition
Format: Print book
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A specially produced paperback edition--with flaps--of the phenomenal #1 New York Times bestseller, that has sold more than six million copies in hardcover Eddie is a grizzled war veteran who feels trapped in a meaningless life of fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. His days are a dull... |
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The Boy Who Dared
Susan Campbell Bartoletti - Scholastic Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A Newbery Honor Book author has written a powerful and gripping novel about a youth in Nazi Germany who tells the truth about HitlerBartoletti has taken one episode from her Newbery Honor Book, HITLER YOUTH, and fleshed it out into thought-provoking novel. When 16-year-old Helmut Hubner... |
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Mockingbird
Kathryn Erskine - Puffin; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER and ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT NOVELS OF OUR TIME FOR YOUNG READERS Caitlin has Asperger's. The world according to her is black and white; anything in between is confusing. Before, when things got confusing, Caitlin went to her older brother, Devon, for help.... |
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The House of the Scorpion
Nancy Farmer - Atheneum Books for Young Readers; Reprint edition
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Series: National Book Award Winner for Young People's Literature, Newbery Honor Book, Printz Honor BookMatteo Alacrn was not born; he was harvested.His DNA came from El Patrn, lord of a country called Opium--a strip of poppy fields lying between the United States and what was once... |
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If I Should Die Before I Wake
Han Nolan - HMH Books for Young Readers; Reissue edition
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Hilary hates Jews. As part of a neo-Nazi gang in her town, she's finally found a sense of belonging. But when she's critically injured in an accident, everything changes.Somehow, in her mind, she has become Chana, a Jewish girl fighting for her own life in the ghettos and concentration... |
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The Chosen
Chaim Potok - Fawcett
Format: Paperback
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"Anyone who finds it is finding a jewel. Its themes are profound and universal."THE WALL STREET JOURNALIt is the now-classic story of two fathers and two sons and the pressures on all of them to pursue the religion they share in the way that is best suited to each. And as the boys... |
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Leaving Glorytown: One Boy's Struggle Under Castro
Eduardo F. Calcines - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Eduardo F. Calcines was a child of Fidel Castro’s Cuba; he was just three years old when Castro came to power in January 1959. After that, everything changed for his family and his country. When he was ten, his family applied for an exit visa to emigrate to America and he was ridiculed... |
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Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Pantheon Graphic Library)
Marjane Satrapi - Pantheon
Format: Paperback
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BEST SELLER * A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK * "A memoir of growing up as a girl in revolutionary Iran.... That Satrapi chose to tell her remarkable story as a gorgeous comic book makes it totally unique and indispensable." - TimeWise, funny, and heartbreaking, Persepolis is Marjane... |
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Collector's Library)
Jules Verne - Collector's Library
Format: Hardcover
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Science and adventure are electrifying accomplices in Jules Verne's classic 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. This epic and enduring tale anticipates not just wonders such as electric light and submarine navigation, but the obsession with technology and travel that today so shapes our lives.... |
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Little Women
Louisa May Alcott - Gabrielle Zevin
Format: Paperback
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Follow the adventures of four sisters, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy, in this lively retelling of a much-loved classic tale. The sisters fall into one scrape after another, as tempers flare, illness strikes and their lives are filled with new experiences and loves. |
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Elsewhere
Gabrielle Zevin - Farrar, Straus and Giroux; First Edition
Format: Hardcover
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Is it possible to grow up while getting younger?Welcome to Elsewhere. It is warm, with a breeze, and the beaches are marvelous. Its quiet and peaceful. You cant get sick or any older. Curious to see new paintings by Picasso? Swing by one of Elsewheres museums. Need to talk to someone... |
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Edna in the Desert
Maddy Lederman - ELectio Publishing, 2013.
Format: eBook
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Edna is a precocious trouble-maker wreaking havoc at her Beverly Hills school. Her therapist advocates medication, but her parents come up with an alternative cure: Edna will spend the summer in the desert with her grandparents. Their remote cabin is cut off from cell phone service, Internet... |
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