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Prisoner of Night and Fog
Anne Blankman - Balzer + Bray
Format: Hardcover
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A gripping historical thriller set in 1930s Munich, Prisoner of Night and Fog is the evocative story of an ordinary girl faced with an extraordinary choice in Hitler's Germany. Fans of Code Name Verity will love this novel full of romance, danger, and intrigue!Gretchen Mller grew up in the National... |
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Sekret
Lindsay Smith - Roaring Brook Press
Format: Hardcover
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An empty mind is a safe mind. Yulia's father always taught her to hide her thoughts and control her emotions to survive the harsh realities of Soviet Russia. But when she's captured by the KGB and forced to work as a psychic spy with a mission to undermine the U.S. space program,... |
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The Book Thief
Markus Zusak - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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The extraordinary #1 New York Times bestseller that is now a major motion picture, Markus Zusak's unforgettable story is about the ability of books to feed the soul.It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still.Liesel... |
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The Extra
Kathryn Lasky - Candlewick; 1ST edition
Format: Hardcover
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Is the chance to serve as an extra for Hitlers favorite filmmaker a chance at life or a detour on the path to inevitable exterminationOne ordinary afternoon, fifeen-year-old Lilo and her family are suddenly picked up by Hitlers police and imprisoned as part of the Gypsy plague. Just when... |
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Mister Death's Blue-Eyed Girls
Mary Downing Hahn - Clarion Books; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Based on an actual crime in 1955, this YA novel is at once a mystery and a coming-of-age story. The brutal murder of two teenage girls on the last day of Nora Cunningham's junior year in high school throws Nora into turmoil. Her certainties - friendships, religion, her prudence, her resolve... |
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The Complete Persepolis
Marjane Satrapi - Pantheon
Format: Paperback
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Here, in one volume: Marjane Satrapi's best-selling, internationally acclaimed graphic memoir.Persepolis is the story of Satrapi's unforgettable childhood and coming of age within a large and loving family in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution; of the contradictions between private... |
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The Watch That Ends the Night: Voices from the Titanic
Allan Wolf - Candlewick Press
Format: Paperback
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Arrogance and innocence, hubris and hope--twenty-four haunting voices of the Titanic tragedy, as well as the iceberg itself, are evoked in a stunning tour de force.Millionaire John Jacob Astor hopes to bring home his pregnant teen bride with a minimum of media scandal. A beautiful Lebanese... |
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Gilead: A Novel
Marilynne Robinson - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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2005 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Fiction 2004 National Book Critics Circle Winner In 1956, toward the end of Reverend John Amess life, he begins a letter to his young son, an account of himself and his forebears. Ames is the son of an Iowan preacher and the grandson of a minister who, as a young... |
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The Red Badge of Courage
Stephen Crane - Readers Digest Assn
Format: Leather Bound
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Pupils will gain a full appreciation of the text as all novels are reproduced in an unabridged format. Relevance to the National Curriculum and GCSE syllabuses is assured by including a range of pre-twentieth century literature. Understanding of the novels is aided by clean and comprehensive... |
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Catherine, Called Birdy
Karen Cushman - Clarion Books; First Printing First Trade Edition edition
Format: Print book
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Catherine, a spirited and inquisitive young woman of good family, narrates in diary form the story of her fourteenth year--the year 1290. A Newbery Honor Book. |
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Girl With a Pearl Earring
Tracy Chevalier - Dutton Adult
Format: Hardcover
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A beguiling story about artistic vision and sensual depth that eerily and eloquently re-creates the feeling of the famous painting that inspired itIn seventeenth-century Delft, there's a strict social order-rich and poor, Catholic and Protestant, master and servant-and all know their... |
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Countdown
Deborah Wiles - Scholastic Press
Format: Paperback
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The story of a formative year in 12-year-old Franny Chapman's life, and the life of a nation facing the threat of nuclear war.It's 1962, and it seems everyone is living in fear. Twelve-year-old Franny Chapman lives with her family in Washington, DC, during the days surrounding the Cuban... |
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The Boy at the Top of the Mountain
John Boyne - Henry Holt and Company
Format: Print book
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From the author of "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas "comes another extraordinary story of World War II and innocence in the face of evil. When Pierrot becomes an orphan, he must leave his home in Paris for a new life with his aunt Beatrix, a servant in a wealthy Austrian household.... |
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Crossing Ebenezer Creek
Tonya Bolden - Bloomsbury USA Childrens
Format: Hardcover
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When Mariah and her young brother Zeke are suddenly freed from slavery, they join Sherman's march through Georgia. Mariah wants to believe that the brutalities of slavery are behind them, but even as hope glimmers, there are many hardships yet to come. When she meets a free black named... |
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