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The Westing Game
Ellen Raskin - Dutton Juvenile
Format: Hardcover
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The mysterious death of an eccentric millionaire brings together an unlikely assortment of heirs who must uncover the circumstances of his death before they can claim their inheritance. |
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Hatchet
Gary Paulsen - Atheneum/Richard Jackson Books
Format: Hardcover
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Haunted by his parents' divorce, Brian Robeson, sole survivor of a plane crash, must draw on his untested skills to survive in the wilderness. |
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The House on Mango Street
Sandra Cisneros - Vintage
Format: Paperback
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Acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages, taught everywhere from inner-city grade schools to universities across the country, and translated all over the world, The House on Mango Street is the remarkable story of Esperanza Cordero. Told in a series of vignettes - sometimes... |
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Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution
Ji-li Jiang - HarperCollins
Format: Print book
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This accessible autobiography is the true story of one girl's determination to hold her family together during one of the most terrifying eras of the twentieth century.It's 1966, and twelve-year-old Ji-li Jiang has everything a girl could want: brains, friends, and a bright future in Communist... |
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They Cage the Animals at Night (Signet)
Jennings Michael Burch - Berkley
Format: Mass Market Paperback
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The heartbreaking, iconic true story of an abandoned little boy's horrific journey through the American foster care system.On a misty evening in Brooklyn, Jennings Michael Burch's mother, too sick to care for him, left her eight-year-old son at an orphanage with the words, "I'll be right... |
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Caught by the Sea: My Life on Boats
Gary Paulsen - Delacorte Press
Format: Book
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Another such wave could easily be the end of us. I had to do something, fix something, save the boat, save myself.But what?Gary Paulsen takes readers along on his maiden voyage, proving that ignorance can be bliss. Also really stupid and incredibly dangerous. He tells of boats that... |
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How Angel Peterson Got His Name
Gary Paulsen - Wendy Lamb Books
Format: Hardcover
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WHEN YOU GROW up in a small town in the north woods, you have to make your own excitement. High spirits, idiocy, and showing off for the girls inspire Gary Paulsen and his friends to attempt:* Shooting waterfalls in a barrel* The first skateboarding* Breaking the world record for speed... |
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Shredderman: Meet the Gecko
John Feinstein - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Steven Thomas is one of two lucky winners of the U.S. Basketball Writer's Association's contest for aspiring journalists. His prize? A trip to New Orleans and a coveted press pass for the Final Four. It's a basketball junkie's dream come true!But the games going on behind the scenes between... |
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Ranger's Apprentice
John Flanagan - Philomel Books
Format: Hardcover
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The fantasy adventure that launched the international bestselling series, with over 5 million copies sold in the U.S. alone! They have always scared him in the past - the Rangers, with their dark cloaks and shadowy ways. The villagers believe the Rangers practice magic that makes... |
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The Lightning Thief
Rick Riordan - Disney Hyperion
Format: eBook
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Percy Jackson is a good kid, but he can't seem to focus on his schoolwork or control his temper. And lately, being away at boarding school is only getting worse-Percy could have sworn his pre-algebra teacher turned into a monster and tried to kill him. |
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Heat
Mike Lupica - Philomel Books
Format: Hardcover
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The #1 New York Times bestseller inspired by the true-life story of a former little leaguer Twelve-year-old Michael Arroyo lives in the shadows of Yankee Stadium, home of his heroes, but a place that might as well be on a different continent since he can't afford to see the inside.... |
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Friday Night Lights
H G Bissinger - Da Capo Press
Format: Paperback
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Return once again to the enduring account of life in the Mojo lane, to the Permian Panthers of Odessa -- the winningest high school football team in Texas history. Odessa is not known to be a town big on dreams, but the Panthers help keep the hopes and dreams of this small, dusty town going.... |
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Chew On This: Everything You Don't Want to Know About Fast Food
Charles Wilson - Houghton Mifflin Co.
Format: Hardcover
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Kids love fast food. And the fast food industry definitely loves kids. It couldn't survive without them. Did you know that the biggest toy company in the world is McDonald's? It's true. In fact, one out of every three toys given to a child in the United States each year is from a fast food... |
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The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank - Bantam; Reissue edition
Format: Audiobook
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Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Franks remarkable diary has since become a world classic - a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit. In 1942, with Nazis occupying Holland, a thirteen-year-old... |
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The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover
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Could you survive on your own, in the wild, with everyone out to make sure you don't live to see the morning?In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps... |
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The Maze Runner
James Dashner - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover
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Book one in the blockbuster Maze Runner series that spawned a movie franchise and ushered in a worldwide phenomenon! And don't miss The Fever Code, the highly-anticipated series conclusion that finally reveals the story of how the maze was built! When Thomas wakes up in the lift,... |
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Does My Head Look Big In This?
Randa Abdel-Fattah - Orchard Books
Format: Book
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When sixteen-year-old Amal decides to wear the hijab full-time, her entire world changes, all because of a piece of cloth...Sixteen-year-old Amal makes the decision to start wearing the hijab full- time and everyone has a reaction. Her parents, her teachers, her friends, people on the street.... |
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The Red Pyramid
Rick Riordan - Disney-Hyperion
Format: Hardcover
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Since their mother's death, Carter and Sadie have become near strangers. While Sadie has lived with her grandparents in London, her brother has traveled the world with their father, the brilliant Egyptologist, Dr. Julius Kane. One night, Dr. Kane brings the siblings together for a "research... |
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The Scorch Trials
James Dashner - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover
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Book two in the blockbuster Maze Runner series that spawned a movie franchise and ushered in a worldwide phenomenon! And don't miss The Fever Code, the highly-anticipated series conclusion that finally reveals the story of how the maze was built! Thomas was sure that escape... |
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Bystander
James Preller - Square Fish
Format: Paperback
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Eric is the new kid in seventh grade. Griffin wants to be his friend. When you're new in town, it's hard to know who to hang out with -- and who to avoid. Griffin seems cool, confident, and popular. But something isn't right about Griffin. He always seems to be in the middle of bad things.... |
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Divergent
Veronica Roth - Katherine Tegen Books
Format: Hardcover
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This first book in Veronica Roth's #1 New York Times bestselling Divergent trilogy is the novel the inspired the major motion picture starring Shailene Woodley, Theo James, and Kate Winslet. This dystopian series set in a futuristic Chicago has captured the hearts of millions of teen and adult... |
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Shatter Me (Shatter Me, 1)
Tahereh Mafi - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover
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The gripping first installment in New York Times bestselling author Tahereh Mafis Shatter Me series.One touch is all it takes. One touch, and Juliette Ferrars can leave a fully grown man gasping for air. One touch, and she can kill.No one knows why Juliette has such incredible power. It feels... |
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Hoop Genius: How a Desperate Teacher and a Rowdy Gym Class Invented Basketball
Joe Morse - Carolrhoda Books
Format: Library Binding
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Taking over a rowdy gym class right before winter vacation is not something James Naismith wants to do at all. The last two teachers of this class quit in frustration. The students--a bunch of energetic young men--are bored with all the regular games and activities. Naismith needs something... |
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The Strange Case of Origami Yoda
Tom Angleberger - Amulet Books
Format: Hardcover
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In this funny, uncannily wise portrait of the dynamics of a sixth-grade class and of the greatness that sometimes comes in unlikely packages, Dwight, a loser, talks to his classmates via an origami finger puppet of Yoda. If that weren't strange enough, the puppet is uncannily wise and prescient.... |
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The Warrior's Heart: Becoming a Man of Compassion and Courage
Eric Greitens - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Book
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In this adaptation of his best-selling book, The Heart and the Fist, Eric speaks directly to teen readers, interweaving memoir and intimate second-person narratives that ask the reader to put themselves in the shoes of himself and others. Readers will share in Eric's evolution from... |
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Between Boardslides and Burnout: My Notes from the Road
Tony Hawk - It Books
Format: Paperback
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With this all-access pass, Tony Hawk shares the joy, the exhaustion, the adrenaline, and the pain of life on the road. Between Boardslides and Burnout puts you right on the edge of the ramp and on the road with him -- from competitions to demos, to store openings, to autograph signings,... |
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Lockdown: Escape from Furnace 1
Alexander Gordon Smith
Format: Hardcover
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Furnace Penitentiary: the worlds most secure prison for young offenders, buried a mile beneath the earths surface. Convicted of a murder he didnt commit, sentenced to life without parole, "new fish" Alex Sawyer knows he has two choices: find a way out, or resign himself... |
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Code Orange
Caroline B Cooney - Ember
Format: Paperback
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Mitty Blake loves New York City, and even after 9/11 he's always felt safe. He's a carefree guy, which is why he's late getting started on his advanced bio report. He'd much rather watch the game or hang out than do research on infectious diseases just to get a good grade. So he considers... |
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The Ghost of Graylock
Dan Poblocki - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover
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Does an abandoned asylum hold the key to a frightful haunting?Everyone's heard the stories about Graylock Hall.It was meant to be a place of healing - a hospital where children and teenagers with mental disorders would be cared for and perhaps even cured. But something went wrong. Several... |
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Drums, Girls, And Dangerous Pie
Jordan Sonnenblick - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover
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Thirteen-year-old Steven has a totally normal life: he plays drums in the All-Star Jazz band, has a crush on the hottest girl in the school, and is constantly annoyed by his five-year-old brother, Jeffrey. But when Jeffrey is diagnosed with leukemia, Steven's world is turned upside down.... |
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Game Changers: Book 1
Mike Lupica - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover
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Mike Lupica delivers a New York Times bestselling middle grade series!Ben McBain is every football team's dream player. He's a jack-of-all-trades guy that can handle almost any position. When the game is on the line, Ben's number is the one being called for the final play. But Ben wants... |
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Half-Human Monsters and Other Fiends
Ruth Owen - Bearport Publishing
Format: Book
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Could half-human, half-ape creatures really roam the Himalayan Mountains and the forests of North America? If tales of Bigfoot, Yeti, and Sasquatch are just stories, why do so many people report seeing these monsters in remote areas around the world? What would it be like to come upon a footprint... |
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Where Are the Children?
Mary Higgins Clark - Pocket Books
Format: Paperback
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New York Times bestselling author Mary Higgins Clark, America's Queen of Suspense, launched her career with the publication of Where Are the Children?, her debut suspense thriller about a woman whose past holds a terrible secret.Nancy Harmon had been found guilty in a California... |
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The Rivalry: Mystery at the Army-Navy Game
John Feinstein - Yearling
Format: Paperback
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New York Times bestselling sportswriter John Feinstein investigates a covert op at the Army-Navy football game in this exciting sports mystery. The Black Knights of Army and the Midshipmen of Navy have met on the football field since 1890, and it's a rivalry like no other, filled... |
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Everything, everything
Nicola Yoon - Delacorte Press
Format: Print book
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The Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller--soon to be a major motion picture starring Amandla Stenberg and Nick Robinson!If you love Eleanor and Park, Hazel and Augustus, and Mia and Adam, you'll love the story of Maddy, a girl who's literally allergic to the outside world, and Olly,... |
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The 5th Wave Movie Tie-In
Rick Yancey - G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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The blockbuster bestseller comes to the big screen! "Remarkable, not-to-be-missed-under-any-circumstances." - Entertainment Weekly "A modern sci-fi masterpiece . . ." - USAToday.com The Passage meets Ender's Game in the first book in an epic series... |
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Case Closed?: Nine Mysteries Unlocked by Modern Science
Susan Hughes - Kids Can Press
Format: Paperback
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Egypt's first female pharaoh disappears around 1457 BCE --- was she murdered? Find out how DNA closes the case. The ancient Arabian Peninsula city of Ubar vanishes, seemingly without trace. Find out how old maps and modern space shuttles help solve the mystery. Sir John Franklin's 1845... |
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Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two
Joseph Bruchac - Dial Books
Format: Hardcover
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Throughout World War II, in the conflict fought against Japan, Navajo code talkers were a crucial part of the U.S. effort, sending messages back and forth in an unbreakable code that used their native language. They braved some of the heaviest fighting of the war, and with their code, they... |
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Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Wartime Sarajevo, Revised Edition
Zlata FilipovicÌ - Penguin Books
Format: Book
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When Zlata's Diary was first published at the height of the Bosnian conflict, it became an international bestseller and was compared to The Diary of Anne Frank, both for the freshness of its voice and the grimness of the world it describes. It begins as the day-today record of the life... |
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Tangerine
Edward Bloor - Sandpiper; 1st Harcourt Ed edition
Format: Paperback
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Edward Bloor’s award-winning novel Tangerine grabs readers by the collar on the first page and never lets go. Tangerine, Florida—once known for its citrus groves—is now an uninhabitable quagmire of muck fires and school-swallowing sinkholes. Still, twelve-year-old Paul... |
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Wintergirls
Laurie Halse Anderson - Speak
Format: eBook
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The New York Times bestselling story of a friendship frozen between life and death Lia and Cassie are best friends, wintergirls frozen in fragile bodies, competitors in a deadly contest to see who can be the thinnest. But then Cassie suffers the ultimate loss - her life - and Lia is left... |
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The Batboy
Mike Lupica - Philomel Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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From the #1 New York Times bestseller Mike Lupica comes the story of baseball's unsung hero: The BatboyIt is every baseball kid's dream summer job: batboy for your hometown Major League team. Yet for fourteen year- old Brian, the job means more than just the chance to hang around... |
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