For more information about summer reading assignments, please visit the Middle School Summer Reading Assignment document
Please note that the titles below are suggestions to help you complete your summer reading assignment.
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**Once you click on "Check Catalog" for an item below, be sure to limit to items owned by South Plainfield (on the left hand side of the screen). Titles owned by South Plainfield will be shaded in a green background.**
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Pandemics and Disease
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Fiction Choices
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Fever 1793
Laurie Halse Anderson - Moline Public Library
Format: Paperback
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An epidemic of fever sweeps through the streets of 1793 Philadelphia in this novel from Laurie Halse Anderson where "the plot rages like the epidemic itself" (The New York Times Book Review) .During the summer of 1793, Mattie Cook lives above the family coffee shop with... |
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The Kill Order
James Dashner - Delacorte Press
Format: Book
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Read the fourth book in the #1 New York Times bestselling Maze Runner series, perfect for fans of The Hunger Games and Divergent. The first and second books, The Maze Runner and The Scorch Trials, are now major motion pictures featuring the star of MTV's... |
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One for Sorrow: A Ghost Story
Mary Downing Hahn - Clarion Books
Format: Hardcover
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Against the ominous backdrop of the influenza epidemic of 1918, Annie, a new girl at school, is claimed as best friend by Elsie, a classmate who is a tattletale, a liar, and a thief. Soon Annie makes other friends and finds herself joining them in teasing and tormenting Elsie. Elsie dies... |
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New from Here
Kelly Yang - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Nonfiction Choices
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More Deadly Than War: The Hidden History of the Spanish Flu and the First World War
KENNETH C DAVIS - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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From bestselling author Kenneth C. Davis comes a fascinating account of the Spanish influenza pandemic 100 years after it first swept the world in 1918."Davis deftly juggles compelling storytelling, gruesome details, and historical context. More Deadly Than War reads like a terrifying... |
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The Deadliest Diseases Then and Now
Deborah Hopkinson - Scholastic Focus
Format: Hardcover
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Perfect for young readers of I Survived and the Who Was series! Packed with graphics, photos, and facts for curious minds, this is a gripping look at pandemics through the ages.The deadly outbreak of plague known as the Great Mortality, which struck Europe in the mid 1300s and raged for four... |
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Past Pandemics and COVID-19
Walt K Moon - Brightpoint Pr
Format: Hardcover
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"COVID-19 is not the first pandemic to spread around the world. More than 500 million people became sick with the flu in 1918. The Black Death killed nearly one-third of Europe's population. Past Pandemics and COVID-19 examines how COVID-19 compares to widespread diseases of history"-- |
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Covid-19 and Other Pandemics: A Comparison
Don Nardo - Referencepoint Pr Inc
Format: Hardcover
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"Similarities between human reactions to onslaughts of deadly diseases separated by millennia illustrates the morbid universality of such outbreaks. It reminds us that large attacks of lethal germs are nothing new, nor are human reactions to them. One problem inherent in such pandemics... |
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Mythology
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Fiction Choices
You can read any of the Rick Riordan series: Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Heroes of Olympus, The Trials of Apollo, Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, and The Kane Chronicles. The first book of each series is linked below.
You can read any of the Joan Holub Goddess Girls series, as well as the Kate McMullan Myth-O-Mania series. The first book of each series is linked below.
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Loki's Wolves
K. L. Armstrong - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Calling all fans of myths, action-adventure, and the Percy Jackson series - don't miss this first book in the Blackwell Pages trilogy from bestselling authors K.L. Armstrong and Melissa Marr.While thirteen-year-old Matt Thorsen has always known he's a modern-day descendent of Thor, he's... |
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Odin's Ravens
K. L. Armstrong - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Seven kids, Thor's hammer, and a whole lot of Valkyries are the only things standing against the end of the world. When thirteen-year-olds Matt Thorsen and Fen and Laurie Brekke, modern-day descendants of Thor and Loki, discovered they were fated to take the places of the Norse gods... |
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Immortal Games
Annaliese Avery - Scholastic Inc.
Format: Paperback
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The Blood Moon marks the start of the Immortal Games.The Gods of Olympus randomly select humans as their tokens and then gamble with their lives. The stakes are high and survival is unlikely.16-year-old Ara is seeking revenge on the Gods for allowing her sister to die in the games. She's... |
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Call Me Athena: Greek Goddess of Wisdom
Shirin Yim Bridges - Goosebottom Books
Format: Hardcover
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Athena, Greek Goddess of Wisdom, steps fully formed from her father's head into the already established world of the Olympians. A motherless newcomer, she has to find her own place and purpose. Her adventures bring her down to Earth, where she forms close bonds with the Greek Heroes.... |
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City of the Plague God
Sarwat Chadda - Rick Riordan Presents
Format: Hardcover
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Characters from the Epic of Gilgamesh populate this high-stakes contemporary adventure in which all of Manhattan is threatened by the ancient god of plagues.Thirteen-year-old Sik wants a simple life going to school and helping at his parents' deli in the evenings. But all that is blown... |
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The Scroll of Chaos
Elsie Chapman - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover
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Join Astrid Xu in this action-packed adventure as she ventures into the world of mythological China in order to save her mother -- and the world! Perfect for fans of Rick Riordan and Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings!When Astrid Xu stumbles upon an ancient scroll with Chinese characters,... |
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Children of Ragnarok
CINDA WILLIAMS CHIMA - Balzer Bray
Format: Book
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Ever since Ragnarok—the great war between the gods and the forces of chaos--the human realm of the Midlands has become a dangerous place, bereft of magic, where most lead lives of desperation.
Sixteen-year-old Eiric Halvorsen is among the luckier ones. Between fishing, going... |
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The Rift
Rachael Craw - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover
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As corporate greed is pitted against supernatural forces, two young friends must try to protect the precious Old Herd - and their island itself.For generations, the rangers of Black Water Island have guarded the Old Herd against the horrors released by the Rift. And Cal West, an apprentice... |
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Momotaro Xander and the Lost Island of Monsters
Margaret Dilloway - Disney-Hyperion
Format: Print book
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Xander Miyamoto would rather do almost anything than listen to his sixth grade teacher, Mr. Stedman, drone on about weather disasters happening around the globe. If Xander could do stuff he's good at instead, like draw comics and create computer programs, and if Lovey would stop harassing... |
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Who Let the Gods Out?
Maz Evans - Chicken House
Format: Hardcover
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Elliot Hooper wants nothing more than a regular life for him and his mom. Then a Constellation of the Zodiac crashes from the sky into a pile of cow dung in front of him, and that wish explodes in a spray of...well...you know.Virgo, a 1,964-year-old girl, is on a routine mission to Earth... |
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Athena the Brain
Joan Holub - Aladdin; 1 edition
Format: Paperback
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In Athena the Brain, Athena always knew she was smart and special, but she didn’t realize that she was a goddess! When she’s whisked away to Mount Olympus Academy, she worries about fitting in and dealing with her dad (Zeus). Luckily, she meets the Goddess Girls and finds the best... |
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Have a Hot Time, Hades! (Myth-O-Mania)
Kate McMullan - Capstone Press
Format: July 1
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Think you know the real story behind the Greek myths? Think again. Most people only know what Zeus wants them to. But the truth is, Zeus is a total myth-o-maniac. Hades, King of the Underworld, is here to set the record straight on how he ended up as Ruler of the Underworld and Zeus became... |
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The Lost Hero
Rick Riordan - Disney-Hyperion
Format: Hardcover
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After saving Olympus from the evil Titan lord, Kronos, Percy and friends have rebuilt their beloved Camp Half-Blood, where the next generation of demigods must now prepare for a chilling prophecy of their own:Seven half-bloods shall answer the call,To storm or fire the world must fall.An... |
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Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, Book 1: The Sword of Summer
Rick Riordan - Disney-Hyperion
Format: Print book
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Magnus Chase has always been a troubled kid. Since his mother's mysterious death, he's lived alone on the streets of Boston, surviving by his wits, keeping one step ahead of the police and the truant officers.One day, he's tracked down by an uncle he barely knows-a man his mother claimed... |
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Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book One The Lightning Thief
Rick Riordan - Disney-Hyperion
Format: Print book
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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. When Percy's mom finds out,... |
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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 Trials of Apollo Book One The Hidden Oracle
Rick Riordan - Disney-Hyperion
Format: Hardcover
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"After angering his father Zeus, the god Apollo is cast down from Olympus. He must learn to survive in the modern world until he can somehow find a way to regain Zeus's favor"-- |
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Race to the Sun
Rebecca Roanhorse - Rick Riordan Presents
Format: Hardcover
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Lately, seventh grader Nizhoni Begay has been able to detect monsters, like that man in the fancy suit who was in the bleachers at her basketball game. Turns out he's Mr. Charles, her dad's new boss at the oil and gas company, and he's alarmingly interested in Nizhoni and her brother, Mac,... |
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Nonfiction Choices
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Mesopotamian Gods & Goddesses
Vincent Hale - Britannica Educational Pub
Format: Library Binding
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Discusses the gods and goddesses of Mesopotamian mythology. |
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Chinese Mythology
Jim Ollhoff - ABDO & Daughters
Format: Book
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Collects stories from ancient Chinese mythology, including the creation of the world, the story of the Yellow Emperor, and the importance of dragons who would intervene to help the Chinese people.Title: Chinese MythologyAuthor: Ollhoff, JimPublisher: Abdo GroupPublication Date: 2011/01/01Number... |
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Japanese Mythology
Jim Ollhoff - ABDO & Daughters
Format: Print book
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Introduces popular themes in Japanese mythology, such as creation stories, the Oni, and the Sun goddess Amaterasu, and explains the importance of myth to the country's ancient and modern inhabitants.Title: Japanese MythologyAuthor: Ollhoff, JimPublisher: Abdo GroupPublication Date:... |
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Native American Mythology
Jim Ollhoff - ABDO & Daughters
Format: Hardcover
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Who is Kokyanwuuti? What is a shaman? Why are myths so important in our lives? Myths are a rich source of history. People use them to make sense of our world. Even before myths were written down, people told and retold the stories of the gods and goddesses of their homeland. Readers of Native... |
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The Ancient Greeks (Myths of the World)
Virginia Schomp - Benchmark Books
Format: Library Binding
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"A retelling of several key ancient Greek myths, with background information describing the history, geography, belief systems, and customs of the ancient Greeks"--Provided by publisher. |
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The Norsemen (Myths of the World)
Virginia Schomp - Benchmark Books
Format: Book
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A retelling of several key early Scandinavian myths, with background information describing the history, geography, belief system, and customs of the Norse World. |
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Natural Disasters
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Fiction Choices
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Ivy Aberdeen's Letter to the World
Ashley Herring Blake - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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In the wake of a destructive tornado, one girl develops feelings for another in this stunning, tender novel about emerging identity, perfect for fans of The Thing About Jellyfish.When a tornado rips through town, twelve-year-old Ivy Aberdeen's house is destroyed and her family of five... |
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The Talent Show
Dan Gutman - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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When their town gets destroyed by a tornado, everyone is pretty depressed. So in order to cheer everyone up and raise some money, the community decides to put on a talent show. Unfortunately, no one in town is particularly talented. But that doesnt stop everyone from giving it their all!... |
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Sea
Heidi R. Kling - Putnam Juvenile; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Still haunted by nightmares of her mother's death, fifteen-year-old Sienna Jones reluctantly travels to Indonesia with her father's relief team to help tsunami orphans with their post traumatic stress disorder--something Sienna knows a lot about. Since her mother's plane went... |
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Trapped
Michael Northrop - Scholastic Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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The day the blizzard started, no one knew that it was going to keep snowing for a week. That for those in its path, it would become not just a matter of keeping warm, but of staying alive. . . .Scotty and his friends Pete and Jason are among the last seven kids at their high school waiting... |
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Life as We Knew It
Susan Beth Pfeffer - HMH Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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I guess I always felt even if the world came to an end, McDonald's still would be open.High school sophomore Miranda's disbelief turns to fear in a split second when an asteroid knocks the moon closer to Earth, like "one marble hits another." The result is catastrophic.... |
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Wildfire: A Novel
Rodman Philbrick - The Blue Sky Press
Format: Hardcover
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Newbery Honor author Rodman Philbrick sends readers straight into the nightmare of a raging wildfire as 12-year-old Sam is trapped by explosive flames and deadly smoke that threaten to take his life. Can he survive?Flames race toward Sam Castine's summer camp as evacuation buses are loading,... |
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Nonfiction Choices
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It's Raining Fish and Spiders
Bill Evans - Forge Books; Original edition
Format: Paperback
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One of the things Bill Evans enjoys the most is talking to young people about weather. Middle-schoolers in particular, Evans says, are deeply interested in the natural world and in weather. It’s Raining Fish and Spiders covers everything, from tornadoes and hurricanes to lightning... |
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The Deadliest Fires Then and Now
Deborah Hopkinson - Scholastic Focus
Format: Hardcover
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Perfect for fans of I Survived and the Who Was series, and packed with graphics, photos, and facts for curious minds, this is a gripping look at the deadliest fires in American history.As the sun sank over the town of Peshtigo, Wisconsin, one warm October night in 1871, a smoky haze hung... |
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The Deadliest Hurricanes Then and Now
Deborah Hopkinson - Scholastic Focus
Format: Hardcover
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Perfect for fans of I Survived and the Who Was series! Packed with graphics, photos, and facts for curious minds, this is a gripping look at America's deadliest hurricanes.As a hurricane gathered in the Caribbean, blue skies covered Galveston, Texas. Scientists knew a storm was coming.... |
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Blizzard
Jim Murphy - Scholastic Press; Later Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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Presents a history, based on personal accounts and newspaper articles, of the massive snow storm that hit the Northeast in 1888, focusing on the events in New York City. |
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The Great Fire
Jim Murphy - Scholastic Inc.
Format: Print book
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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. An account of the Great Chicago Fire combines archival photographs and drawings with personal accounts by its survivors and historical documents. |
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Hurricanes and Tornadoes in Action
Louise Spilsbury - Rosen Central
Format: Print book
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Presents information about hurricanes and tornadoes, including their causes, their aftereffects, rescue efforts, and case studies of actual past disasters caused by them. |
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Technology
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Fiction Choices
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Girl Gone Viral
Arvin Ahmadi - Viking Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Perfect for fans of Warcross and Black Mirror, Girl Gone Viral is the inventive and timely story of a seventeen-year-old coder's catapult to stardom.For seventeen-year-old Opal Hopper, code is magic. She builds entire worlds from scratch: Mars craters, shimmering lakes,... |
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Glitch
Heather Anastasiu - St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Paperback
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In the Community, there is no more pain or war. Implanted computer chips have wiped humanity clean of destructive emotions, and thoughts are replaced by a feed from the Link network. When Zoe starts to malfunction (or "glitch"), she suddenly begins having her own thoughts, feelings,... |
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Feed
M.T. Anderson - Candlewick
Format: Paperback
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A Time Magazine 100 Best YA Books of All Time Selection. The tour de force that set the gold standard for dystopian YA fiction - in a compelling paperback edition.. For Titus and his friends, it started out like any ordinary trip to the moon - a chance to party during spring break.... |
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The Friendship Code #1
STACIA DEUTSCH - Penguin Workshop
Format: Hardcover
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Perfect for fans of The Babysitters Club and anyone interested in computer science, this series is published in partnership with the organization Girls Who Code!Loops, variables, input/output - Lucy can't wait to get started with the new coding club at school. Finally, an after school activity... |
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Team BFF: Race to the Finish! #2
STACIA DEUTSCH - Penguin Workshop
Format: Hardcover
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Perfect for fans of The Babysitters Club and anyone interested in computer science, this series is published in partnership with the organization Girls Who Code!Sophia and her coding club BFFs have the best time together. Sure, they work on coding projects, but mostly they gossip... |
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Screen Queens
Lori Goldstein - Razorbill
Format: Hardcover
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The Bold Type meets The Social Network when three girls participate in a startup incubator competition and uncover the truth about what it means to succeed in the male-dominated world of tech.This summer Silicon Valley is a girls' club.Three thousand applicants. An acceptance... |
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The Smartest Kid in the Universe Book 2: Genius Camp
Chris Grabenstein - Random House Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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bestselling author of Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library!Jake McQuade is the smartest kid in the universe - and he's back to defend his title! This time, he is heading off to a camp for geniuses sponsored by billionaire tech mogul (and brilliant inventor) Zane Zinkle. But genius... |
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Warcross
Marie Lu - G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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From #1 New York Times bestselling author Marie Lu - when a game called Warcross takes the world by storm, one girl hacks her way into its dangerous depths. For the millions who log in every day, Warcross isn't just a game - it's a way of life. The obsession started ten years ago and its fan base... |
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Wildcard
MARIE LU - G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Return to the immersive, action-packed world of Warcross in this thrilling sequel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Marie LuEmika Chen barely made it out of the Warcross Championships alive. Now that she knows the truth behind Hideo's new NeuroLink algorithm, she can no longer... |
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Emmy in the Key of Code
Aimee Lucido - Versify
Format: Hardcover
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In this innovative middle grade novel, coding and music take center stage as new girl Emmy tries to find her place in a new school. Perfect for fans of the Girls Who Code series and The Crossover. In a new city, at a new school, twelve-year-old Emmy has never felt more out of tune.... |
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Lights, Music, Code! #3
JO WHITTEMORE - Penguin Workshop
Format: Hardcover
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Perfect for fans of The Babysitters Club and anyone interested in computer science, this series is published in partnership with the organization Girls Who Code!Maya and her friends from coding club have an exciting new project: they're coding lights and music for the winter dance!... |
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Nonfiction Choices
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Changing the Equation: 50 US Black Women in STEM
Tonya Bolden - Abrams Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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A celebratory and inspiring look at some of the most important black women in STEM Award-winning author Tonya Bolden explores the black women who have changed the world of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) in America. Including groundbreaking computer scientists,... |
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With a Little Luck: Surprising Stories of Amazing Discoveries
Dennis Brindell Fradin - Dutton Juvenile
Format: Hardcover
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Luck genius serendipity From Isaac Newtonrsquos sudden grasp of gravity to Alexander Flemingrsquos chance development of penicillin from fossils to the Dead Sea Scrolls rubber balls to nuclear fission history is brimming with stories of fantastic lucky breaksThough genius and hard work... |
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Attention Deficit: How Technology Has Hijacked Our Ability to Concentrate
Stuart A Kallen - Referencepoint Pr Inc
Format: Hardcover
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Smartphones, social media, and the Internet are creating a distraction pandemic. Digital devices steal attention, lower productivity, and increase stress in users. This book focuses on personal stories, academic studies, and current events to illustrate society's attention deficit while... |
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Virtual Reality and Other Useful Tech
Madeline King - World Book
Format: Book
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Describes the development and potential impacts of virtual reality, virtual assistants, personal transport, health trackers, smart kitchens, tech toys, holograms, and 3D projections.
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Girls Who Code: Learn to Code and Change the World
RESHMA SAUJANI - Viking Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Part how-to, part girl-empowerment, and all fun, from the leader of the movement championed by Sheryl Sandberg, Jack Dorsey, and other giants of tech. Since 2012, the organization Girls Who Code has taught computing skills to and inspired over 10,000 girls across America. Now its founder,... |
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Hidden Figures Young Readers' Edition
Margot Lee Shetterly - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover
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Now in a special new edition perfect for young readers, this is the amazing true story of four African-American female mathematicians at NASA who helped achieve some of the greatest moments in our space program. Soon to be a major motion picture.Before John Glenn orbited the earth or Neil... |
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Screen Addiction: A Teen Epidemic
Bradley Steffens - Referencepoint Pr Inc
Format: Hardcover
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In November 2021, researchers reported that the amount of time teenagers spent in front of screens for non-school-related purposes more than doubled during the pandemic, from 3.8 to 7.7 hours per day. For teens, increased time in front of a screen can morph into an addiction to electronic... |
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The Environment
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Fiction Choices
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Breathe
Sarah Crossan - Greenwillow Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The world has no air. If you want to survive, you pay to breathe. But what if you cant? And what if you think everything could be different? Three teens will leave everything they know behind in Sarah Crossans gripping and original dystopian teen novel of danger, longing, and glimmering... |
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The First Rule of Climate Club
Carrie Firestone - G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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In this companion to Dress Coded, an eighth grader starts a podcast on climate activism and rallies her friends to create lasting change in their local community and beyond.When Mary Kate Murphy joins a special science pilot program focused on climate change, the class opens her eyes to lots... |
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The Nature of Witches
Rachel Griffin - Sourcebooks Fire
Format: Hardcover
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One of the Most Anticipated Young Adult Debuts of 2021! From a stunning new voice in YA comes the fierce, romantic story about a world on the brink of destruction, the one witch who holds the power to save it, and the choice that could cost her everything she loves. For centuries, witches... |
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Hoot
Carl Hiaasen - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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This Newbery Honor-winning, hilarious Floridian adventure involves new kids, bullies, alligators, eco-warriors, pancakes, pint-sized owls, and more. A New York Times bestseller!Everybody loves Mother Paula's pancakes. Everybody, that is, except the colony of cute but endangered owls... |
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Unnatural Disasters
Jeff Hirsch - Clarion Books
Format: Hardcover
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From a bestselling author, an edgy, voice-driven novel set in a not-so-distant-future world about teens trying to survive when attacks by an unknown terrorist organization throw the entire planet into chaos. Just right for fans of Tommy Wallach's We All Looked Up. Will the Class... |
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Better Off Undead
James Preller - Feiwel & Friends
Format: Hardcover
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After becoming undead, a boy tries to survive middle school.Adrian Lazarus has met with a curious fate. He's returned from the dead (after a bad bike accident, no helmet) , yet not a lot has changed. He's always been an outcast. But it's not just being a zombie that makes Adrian feel... |
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Nonfiction Choices
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Earth Will Survive: ...but we may not
Katie Coppens - Tumblehome, Inc.
Format: Hardcover
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A history of humans' understanding of Earth, our impact on it, and the steps we must take to save countless species - including our own. |
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AN Inconvenient Truth: The Crisis of Global Warming
Al Gore - Viking Juvenile
Format: Paperback
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Former Vice President Al Gore's New York Times #1 bestselling book is a daring call to action, exposing the shocking reality of how humankind has aided in the destruction of our planet and the future we face if we do not take action to stop global warming. Now, Viking has adapted this... |
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Our Choice: How We Can Solve the Climate Crisis
Al Gore - Viking Juvenile
Format: Hardcover
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In this follow-up to his groundbreaking AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH, former Vice President Al Gore explores the causes of the current climate crisis and what we can do to help solve it. In full color, with photographs, graphics, and illustrations throughout. , |
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Earth Day and the Environmental Movement: Standing Up for Earth
Peterson, Christy - TWENTY FIRST CENTURY BOOK
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The history of Earth Day parallels the history of the modern environmental movement. While early activists such as John Muir and Rachel Carson were part of the collective consciousness well before 1970, the founding of Earth Day and the political actions that followed launched environmental... |
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The Plastic Problem
Rachel Salt - Firefly Books
Format: Hardcover
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The shocking truth of plastic's impact on our planet -- and what we can do about it. The data is in and it's bad. We create and throw away too much plastic, and it is killing our planet. However, too many people have very little idea about just how far this problem reaches, and those... |
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You Are Eating Plastic Every Day: What's in Our Food?
Danielle Smith-Llera - Compass Point Books
Format: Library Binding
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Scientists have recently started studying plastic pollution and our food supply. And, make no mistake, you are eating microscopic pieces of plastic everyday. What does it mean for our health? And what can you do about it? Students will get practical tips on how they can get involved and become... |
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Spies
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Fiction Choices
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Also Known As
Robin Benway - Walker Books
Format: Hardcover
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Being a 16-year-old safecracker and active-duty daughter of international spies has its moments, good and bad. Pros: Seeing the world one crime-solving adventure at a time. Having parents with super cool jobs. Cons: Never staying in one place long enough to have friends or a boyfriend.... |
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NERDS: National Espionage, Rescue, and Defense Society
Michael Buckley - Amulet Books
Format: eBook
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NERDS combines all the excitement of international espionage with all the awkwardness of elementary school, and the results are hilarious. A group of unpopular fifth graders run a spy network from inside their school. With the help of cutting-edge science, they transform their nerdy... |
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Ruby Redfort Look Into My Eyes
Lauren Child - Candlewick Press
Format: eBook
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"Sardonic narration will grab readers from the get-go, and puzzles laced throughout will intrigue those who share Ruby's passion for solving mysteries." - Publishers Weekly (starred review) Everyone knows that Clarice Bean is exceptionordinarily keen on the Ruby Redfort... |
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Ruby Redfort Take Your Last Breath
Gwen Hall - Class Publishing; 5th edition
Format: Hardcover
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Crack open Ruby Redfort’s second adventure — and you will literally be on the edge of your wits.Everyone’s favorite girl detective is back for a second mind-blowing installment, packed with all the off-the-wall humor, action, and friendship of the first book. This time,... |
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Charlie Thorne and the Last Equation
Stuart Gibbs - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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"Fast-paced, smart, and action-packed...a real page-burner." - Chris Grabenstein, #1 New York Times bestelling author of the Mr. Lemoncello's Library series From New York Times bestselling author Stuart Gibbs comes the first novel in a thrilling new series about... |
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Spy School
Stuart Gibbs - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Like many kids, Ben Ripley imagines life as a secret agent would be pretty awesome -- so when he learns he's been recruited to the C.I.A.'s top secret Academy of Espionage, it sounds too good to be true. And it is. From the moment he arrives -- and ends up in the middle of an enemy attack... |
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Spy Camp
Stuart Gibbs - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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In this follow-up to the Edgar-nominated Spy School, top-secret training continues into summer for aspiring spy Ben Ripleyand so does the danger. Ben Ripley is a middle-schooler whose school is not exactly averagehes spent the last year training to be a top-level spy and dodging all sorts... |
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Evil Spy School
Stuart Gibbs - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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When Ben gets kicked out of the CIA’s spy school, he enrolls with the enemy. This companion to Spy School and Spy Camp is rife with action, adventure, and espionage.During a spy school game of Capture the Flag, twelve-year-old Ben Ripley somehow accidentally shoots a live mortar into... |
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Spy Ski School
Stuart Gibbs - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Print book
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Ben Ripley enrolls in ski school, where the slopes, and the stakes, get really steep in this follow-up to the Edgar Award-nominated Spy School, Spy Camp, and Evil Spy School.Thirteen-year-old Ben Ripley is not exactly the best student spy school has ever seen--he keeps... |
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Stormbreaker
Anthony Horowitz - Philomel Books
Format: Hardcover
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They told him his uncle died in an accident. He wasn't wearing his seatbelt, they said. But when fourteen-year-old Alex finds his uncle's windshield riddled with bullet holes, he knows it was no accident. What he doesn't know yet is that his uncle was killed while on a top-secret mission.... |
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Murder, Magic, and What We Wore
KELLY JONES - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Fans of Patrice Kindl's Keeping the Castle or Patricia C. Wrede and Caroline Stevermer's Sorcery and Cecelia will adore this funny Regency-era mystery about a determined young woman with a magical trick up her sleeve . . . The year is 1818, the city is London, and 16-year-old... |
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Devil Darling Spy
Matt Killeen - Viking Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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In this utterly gripping thriller, Sarah, the fearless heroine of indie bestseller Orphan Monster Spy, hunts a rogue German doctor in Central Africa who might be a serial murderer.It's 1940, and Sarah Goldstein is hiding in plain sight as Ursula Haller, the Shirley Temple of Nazi... |
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Orphan Monster Spy
MATT KILLEEN - Viking Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Her name is Sarah. She's blonde, blue-eyed, and Jewish in 1939 Germany. And her act of resistance is about to change the world.After her mother is shot at a checkpoint, fifteen-year-old Sarah meets a mysterious man with an ambiguous accent, a suspiciously bare apartment, and a lockbox full... |
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Mrs. Smith's Spy School for Girls
Beth McMullen - Aladdin
Format: Hardcover
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A girl discovers her boarding school is actually an elite spy-training program, and she must learn the skills of the trade in order to find her mother in this action-packed middle grade debut.After a botched escape plan from her boarding school, Abigail is stunned to discover the school... |
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The doublecross
Jackson Pearce - Bloomsbury, 2015.
Format: Print book
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Overweight and non-athletic, twelve-year-old Hale may have been born and raised to be a spy for the Sub Rosa Society but it seems he is unlikely to become a Field Agent until his parents are captured by the evil League and Hale sets out on a solo mission to save them. |
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Prettyboy Must Die: A Novel
Kim Reid - Tor Teen
Format: Hardcover
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A CIA prodigy's cover is blown when he accidentally becomes an internet sensation in #Prettyboy Must Die, Kimberly Reid's fun, fast thriller inspired by the #Alexfromtarget story.When Peter Smith's classmate snaps a picture of him during a late night run at the track, Peter thinks... |
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Rebel Spy
Veronica Rossi - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover
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A reimagining of the story behind Agent 355--a New York society girl and spy for George Washington during the Revolutionary War--perfect for fans of Tatiana de Rosnay's Sarah's Key and the novels of Julie Berry.Rebellious Frannie Tasker knows little about the war between England... |
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Liar & Spy
Rebecca Stead - Wendy Lamb Books; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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An instant New York Times bestseller,Liar Spy is a story about games and friendship. Seventh-grader Georges moves into a Brooklyn apartment building and meets Safer, a twelve-year-old self-appointed spy. Georges becomes Safers first spy recruit. His assignment Tracking the mysterious Mr. X, who lives... |
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Spy Runner
Eugene Yelchin - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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In Spy Runner, a noir mystery middle grade novel from Newbery Honor author Eugene Yelchin, a boy stumbles upon a secret that jeopardizes American national security. |
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Nonfiction Choices
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Unbreakable: The Spies Who Cracked the Nazis' Secret Code
Rebecca E. F. Barone - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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Unbreakable is the edge-of-your seat true story of the codebreakers, spies, and navy men who cracked the Nazis' infamous Enigma encryption machine and turned the tide of World War II -- perfect for fans of The Imitation Game. "A thrilling adventure of intrigue and daring worthy... |
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Secrets, Lies, Gizmos and Spies: A History of Spies and Espionage
Janet Wyman Coleman - Harry N. Abrams
Format: Hardcover
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Published in conjunction with the International Spy Museum in Washington DC, this heavily illustrated volume details the secret history of spies and espionage through the ages. From the Trojan War to World War II, from James Bond to Austin Powers, all aspiring secret agents will learn about... |
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The Real Spy's Guide to Becoming a Spy
Peter Earnest - Abrams Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Created by the founding executive director of the International Spy Museum, who is also a former operative in the CIA’s Clandestine Service, this is the official handbook for kids who dream of one day becoming a spy or working in the intelligence field. Have you ever wondered... |
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Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown
Steve Sheinkin - Roaring Brook Press
Format: Hardcover
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?As World War II comes to a close, the United States and the Soviet Union emerge as the two greatest world powers on extreme opposites of the political spectrum. After the United States showed its hand with the atomic bomb in Hiroshima, the Soviets refuse to be left behind. With communism... |
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Anti-Racism
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Fiction Choices
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The Crossover
Kwame Alexander - HMH Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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2015 Newbery Medal Winner2015 Coretta Scott King Honor Award WinnerNew York Times Bestseller "With a bolt of lightning on my kicks . . .The court is SIZZLING. My sweat is DRIZZLING. Stop all that quivering. Cuz tonight I'm delivering," announces dread-locked, 12-year... |
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The Only Black Girls in Town
Brandy Colbert - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Award-winning YA author Brandy Colbert's debut middle-grade novel about the only two black girls in town who discover a collection of hidden journals revealing shocking secrets of the past. Beach-loving surfer Alberta has been the only black girl in town for years. Alberta's best... |
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Blended
SHARON M DRAPER - Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books
Format: Hardcover
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Eleven-year-old Isabella's blended family is more divided than ever in this thoughtful story about divorce and racial identity from the award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of Out of My Mind, Sharon M. Draper.Eleven-year-old Isabella's parents are divorced,... |
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A Good Kind of Trouble
Lisa Moore Ramee - Balzer + Bray
Format: Hardcover
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After attending a powerful protest, Shayla starts wearing an armband to school to support the Black Lives Matter movement, but when the school gives her an ultimatum, she is forced to choose between her education and her identity. |
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All American Boys
Jason Reynolds - Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books
Format: Hardcover
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A 2016 Coretta Scott King Author Honor book, and recipient of the Walter Dean Myers Award for Outstanding Children's Literature. In this Coretta Scott King Honor Award-winning novel, two teens - one black, one white - grapple with the repercussions of a single violent act that leaves their... |
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Black Brother, Black Brother
Jewell Parker Rhodes - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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From award-winning and bestselling author, Jewell Parker Rhodes comes a powerful coming-of-age story about two brothers, one who presents as white, the other as black, and the complex ways in which they are forced to navigate the world, all while training for a fencing competition. p.p1... |
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Ghost Boys
Jewell Parker Rhodes - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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An instant New York Times bestsellerAn instant IndieBound bestsellerThe #1 Kids' Indie Next Pick A heartbreaking and powerful story about a black boy killed by a police officer, drawing connections through history, from award-winning author Jewell Parker Rhodes.Only the living... |
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The Hate U Give
Angie Thomas - Balzer & Bray
Format: Paperback
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Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police... |
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On The Come Up
ANGIE THOMAS - Balzer + Bray
Format: Hardcover
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This is the highly anticipated second novel by Angie Thomas, the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling, award-winning The Hate U Give.Sixteen-year-old Bri wants to be one of the greatest rappers of all time. Or at least win her first battle. As the daughter of an underground hip hop legend... |
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Nonfiction Choices
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Policing and Race: The Debate over Excessive Use of Force
Jim Gallagher - Referencepoint Pr Inc
Format: Hardcover
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"There is a long and ugly history of violent encounters between law enforcement officers and Americans of color, particularly Black Americans. About 1,000 Americans are killed each year by law-enforcement officers, and numerous studies have found a link between race and police killings"-- |
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We Are Power: How Nonviolent Activism Changes the World
Todd Hasak-Lowy - Abrams Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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A stirring look at nonviolent activism, from American suffragists to Civil Rights to the Climate Change Movement We Are Power brings to light the incredible individuals who have used nonviolent activism to change the world. The book explores questions such as what is nonviolent resistance... |
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This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 lessons on how to wake up, take action, and do the work
Tiffany Jewell - Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Format: Paperback
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Who are you What is racism Where does it come from Why does it exist What can you do to disrupt it Learn about social identities, the history of racism and resistance against it, and how you can use your anti-racist lens and voice to move the world toward equity and liberation."In... |
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Coping With Racial Inequality
Tamra Orr - Rosen Young Adult
Format: Library Binding
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One of the most pressing issues of the last few years has been the rise of activism and other efforts that aim to combat discrimination and racial inequality. This book provides an overview of the problem as well as a starting point for young readers mitigating the effects of racial intolerance... |
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Immigration
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Fiction Choices
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The Lines We Cross
Randa Abdel-Fattah - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover
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Michael likes to hang out with his friends and play with the latest graphic design software. His parents drag him to rallies held by their anti-immigrant group, which rails against the tide of refugees flooding the country. And it all makes sense to Michael.Until Mina, a beautiful girl... |
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Efren Divided
Ernesto Cisneros
Format: Hardcover
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Efrén Nava’s Amá is his Superwoman—or Soperwoman, named after the delicious Mexican sopes his mother often prepares. Both Amá and Apá work hard all day to provide for the family, making sure Efrén and his younger siblings Max and Mía... |
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Something in Between
Melissa de la Cruz - Harlequin Teen
Format: Print book
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Be the first to read the thought-provoking new novel from Melissa de la Cruz, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Isle of the Lost and Return to the Isle of the Lost. She had her whole life planned.She knew who she was and where she was going. Until the truth... |
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Other Words for Home
Jasmine Warga - Balzer + Bray
Format: Hardcover
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A gorgeously written, hopeful middle grade novel in verse about a young girl who must leave Syria to move to the United States, perfect for fans of Jason Reynolds and Aisha Saeed.Jude never thought she'd be leaving her beloved older brother and father behind, all the way across the ocean... |
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La Linea
Ann Jaramillo - Roaring Brook Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Miguels life is just beginning Or so he thinks Fifteen-year-old Miguel leaves his rancho deep in Mexico to migrate to California across la linea the border in a debut novel of life-changing cliff-hanging moments But Miguels carefully laid plans change suddenly when his younger sister Elena... |
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Nonfiction Choices
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My Family Divided: One Girl's Journey of Home, Loss, and Hope
DIANE GUERRERO - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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Before landing a spot on the megahit Netflix show Orange is the New Black; before wow-ing audiences as Lina on Jane the Virgin; and before her incredible activism and work on immigration reform, Diane Guerrero was a young girl living in Boston. One day, while Guerrero was at school,... |
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Sexual Assault
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Fiction Choices
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The Summer of Owen Todd
Tony Abbott - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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Owen and his best friend, Sean, are both eleven years old. They've lived on Cape Cod all their lives, and now that they're a little older, they'll finally be free to spend some time on their own. But Sean's mother has a different idea -- she hires a babysitter to look after... |
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Speak
Laurie Halse Anderson - Square Fish
Format: Paperback
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Freshman year at Merryweather High is not going well for Melinda Sordino. She busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops, and now her friends - and even strangers - all hate her. So she stops trying, stops talking. She retreats into her head, and all the lies and hypocrisies of high... |
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Maybe He Just Likes You
Barbara Dee - Aladdin
Format: Hardcover
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Barbara Dee explores the subject of #MeToo for the middle grade audience in this heart-wrenching - and ultimately uplifting - novel about experiencing harassment and unwanted attention from classmates. For seventh-grader Mila, it starts with some boys giving her an unwanted hug on the school... |
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Chirp
Kate Messner - Bloomsbury Children's Books
Format: Hardcover
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"[A] deftly layered mystery about family, friendship, and the struggle to speak up." - Laurie Halse Anderson, bestselling author of Speak and ShoutFrom acclaimed author Kate Messner comes the powerful story of a young girl with the courage to make her voice heard,... |
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When You Know What I Know
Sonja K. Solter - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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A sensitive, harrowing, and ultimately hopeful novel in verse about one girl's journey in the aftermath of abuse. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Times; color: #000000} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Times; color: #000000; min-height: 16.0px}... |
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Nonfiction Choices
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SHOUT
Laurie Halse Anderson - Viking Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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A searing poetic memoir and call to action from the bestselling and award-winning author of Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson!Bestselling author Laurie Halse Anderson is known for the unflinching way she writes about, and advocates for, survivors of sexual assault. Now, inspired by her fans... |
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Things We Haven't Said: Survivors of Sexual Violence Speak Out
Erin Moulton - Zest Books
Format: Paperback
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*A necessary and powerful resource. --Kirkus, Starred Review *This inclusive, poignant look at a diverse representation of sexual assault survivors tackles an extremely sensitive subject with hope, tools,... |
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Coping With Sexual Harassment
IV Thurston - Rosen Young Adult
Format: Paperback
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Sexual harassment is a problem that is prevalent in the lives of people of all ages. Although victimization was once more direct, as we live our lives with various social media and other online outlets, new, more subtle ways to harass have emerged. This insightful volume helps readers recognize... |
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Mental Health
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Fiction Choices
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Focused
Alyson Gerber - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover
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Clea can't control her thoughts. She knows she has to do her homework . . . but she gets distracted. She knows she can't just say whatever thought comes into her head . . . but sometimes she can't help herself. She know she needs to focus . . . but how can she do that when the people around... |
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Let's Call It a Doomsday
Katie Henry - Katherine Tegen Books
Format: Hardcover
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An engrossing and thoughtful contemporary tale that tackles faith, friendship, family, anxiety, and the potential apocalypse from Katie Henry, the acclaimed author of Heretics Anonymous.There are many ways the world could end. A fire. A catastrophic flood. A super eruption that spews lakes... |
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Who Put This Song On?
Morgan Parker - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover
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"Unflinchingly irreverent, laugh-out-loud funny, and heartbreakingly honest." - Elizabeth Acevedo, National Book Award winner and New York Times bestselling author of The Poet XIn the vein of powerful reads like The Hate U Give and Girl in Pieces,... |
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Stanley Will Probably Be Fine
Sally J Pla - HarperCollins
Format: Paperback
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A New York Public Library Best Kids Book of 2018 * A Kirkus Best Book of 2018 * A Bank Street Best Childrens Book of 2019This funny and moving second novel from the author of The Someday Birds features comic trivia, a safety superhero, and a super-cool scavenger hunt all over downtown San Diego,... |
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Nonfiction Choices
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Your Brain Needs a Hug: Life, Love, Mental Health, and Sandwiches
Rae Earl - Imprint
Format: Paperback
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Imbued with a sense of humor, understanding, and hope, Your Brain Needs a Hug is a judgment-free guide for living well with your mind.My Mad Fat Diary author Rae Earl offers her personalized advice on the A to Zs of mental health, social media, family and friendship. When... |
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(Don't) Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start the Conversation about Mental Health
Kelly Jensen - Algonquin Young Readers
Format: Paperback
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Who's Crazy? What does it mean to be crazy? Is using the word crazy offensive? What happens when such a label gets attached to your everyday experiences? In order to understand mental health, we need to talk openly about it. Because there's no single definition of crazy,... |
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Titanic
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Fiction Choices
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SOS Titanic
Bunting, Eve - Harcourt Brace & Co.
Format: Paperback
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Irish teenager Barry O'Neill is journeying to New York on the Titanic's fateful maidenvoyage. He's homesick and worried about the Flynn boys traveling in steerage, whohave threatened to throw him overboard. Little does Barry know that a struggle withthe Flynns is the least of the dangers... |
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Maiden Voyage: A Titanic Story
SARAH JANE - Scholastic Press
Format: Paperback
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Isabella is shocked when her parents book her passage on the incredible Titanic and inform her that she'll be sailing by herself. She is given an envelope and told the contents will explain everything, but she is forbidden from opening it until the boat reaches the U.S.Lucille is worried... |
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Luck of the Titanic
Stacey Lee - G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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on its ill-fated maiden voyage.Valora Luck has two things: a ticket for the biggest and most luxurious ocean liner in the world, and a dream of leaving England behind and making a life for herself as a circus performer in New York. Much to her surprise though, she's turned away at the gangway;... |
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Haunting the Deep
Adriana Mather - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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The Titanic meets the delicious horror of Ransom Riggs and the sass of Mean Girls in this follow-up to the #1 New York Times bestseller How to Hang a Witch, in which a contemporary teen finds herself a passenger on the famous "ship of dreams" - a story... |
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Iceberg
Jennifer A. Nielsen - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover
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The thrilling story of a young girl who stows away onboard the Titanicand as she explores, attempting to find answers to her many questions about the ship, suddenly finds herself caught up in the desperate struggle to survive after it strikes an iceberg.Hazel Rothbury is traveling all alone... |
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Nonfiction Choices
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The Sinking of The Titanic
Craig E Blohm - Referencepoint Press
Format: Book
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The RMS Titanic was the most magnificent ship to ever set sail. When it began its maiden voyage in April 1912, its passengers and crew could not have known or even imagined their sad fate. The sinking of the Titanic was one of the greatest maritime tragedies in history, a story that... |
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History: The American Revolution
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Fiction Choices
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Chains
Laurie Halse Anderson - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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If an entire nation could seek its freedom, why not a girl? As the Revolutionary War begins, thirteen-year-old Isabel wages her own fight...for freedom. Promised freedom upon the death of their owner, she and her sister, Ruth, in a cruel twist of fate become the property of a malicious... |
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Forge
Laurie Halse Anderson - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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In this compelling sequel to Chains, a National Book Award Finalist and winner of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction, acclaimed author Laurie Halse Anderson shifts perspective from Isabel to Curzon and brings to the page the tale of what it takes for runaway slaves to forge... |
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Ashes
Laurie Halse Anderson - Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books
Format: Hardcover
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Return to the American Revolution in this blistering conclusion to the trilogy that began with the bestselling National Book Award Finalist Chains and continued with Forge, which The New York Times called "a return not only to the colonial era but to historical... |
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The Fighting Ground 25th Anniversary Edition
Avi - Harper & Row Publishers
Format: Paperback
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April 3, 1778He may be just thirteen, but Jonathan knows he's ready to go to the war against the British. He can handle a gun. He yearns to battle for glory, just like his brother and cousin.So when Jonathan hears the tavern bell toll, calling men to fight, he runs to join them. He doesn't... |
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My Brother Sam Is Dead
James Lincoln Collier - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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A young rebel's decision to fight against the British affects his Tory family |
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Alex and Eliza: A Love Story
Melissa de la Cruz - G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Witches of East End and the Descendants series comes the love story of young Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler. 1777. Albany, New York. As battle cries of the American Revolution echo in the distance,... |
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Love & War: An Alex & Eliza Story
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ - G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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The thrilling romance of young Alexander Hamilton and Eliza Schuyler continues in the sizzling sequel to the New York Times bestselling Alex & Eliza: A Love StoryAs the war for American Independence carries on, newlyweds Alexander Hamilton and Eliza Schuyler are settling... |
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Soldier's Secret: The Story of Deborah Sampson
Sheila Solomon Klass - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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In the 1700s, women’s responsibilities were primarily child rearing and household duties. But Deborah Sampson wanted more from life. She wanted to read, to travel—and to fight for her country’s independence. When the colonies went to war with the British in 1775, Deborah... |
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Woods Runner
Gary Paulsen - Wendy Lamb Books; 1 edition
Format: Book
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Samuel, 13, spends his days in the forest, hunting for food for his family. He has grown up on the frontier of a British colony, America. Far from any town, or news of the war against the King that American patriots have begun near Boston.But the war comes to them. British soldiers and Iroquois... |
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Molly Pitcher (Revolutionary War Leaders)
Eileen Dunn Bertanzetti - Chelsea House Publications
Format: Library Binding
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- Compelling portraits of American history's most notable male and female leaders- Includes informative sidebars- Interesting, easy-to-understand content- Complements school curriculum |
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Fight for Freedom: The American Revolutionary War
Benson Bobrick - Atheneum Books for Young Readers; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Renowned historian Benson Bobrick has written a moving chronicle of the American Revolution for young readers. From the first stirrings of unrest under British rule at the Boston Tea Party, to the treachery of Benedict Arnold at West Point, to George Washington's Christmas Eve surprise... |
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Sterling Biographies®: George Washington: An American Life
Laurie Calkhoven - Sterling
Format: Paperback
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First in war first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymenand first in the minds of schoolchildren who learn about George Washington as soon as they begin studying American history From Washingtons Virginia childhood through his days as a soldier and general to his inauguration... |
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Washington at Valley Forge
Russell Freedman - Holiday House
Format: Hardcover
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Newbery Award-winning author Russell Freedman offers up this powerful account of the survival of American soldiers while camped at Valley Forge during a crucial period in the American Revolution. George Washington's army almost perished during the winter of 1777-78. Camped at Valley... |
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Count on Us: American Women in the Military
Amy Nathan - National Geographic Society
Format: Book
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In this clearly written, well-organized book, Nathan traces the gains women in the military have made from the Revolutionary War to the present day, including the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Glimpses of each time period are skillfully woven into the text, providing a solid historical overview.... |
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Answering the Cry for Freedom: Stories of African Americans and the American Revolution
Gretchen Woelfle - Calkins Creek Books
Format: Print book
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Even as American Patriots fought for independence from British rule during the Revolutionary War, oppressive conditions remained in place for the thousands of enslaved and free African Americans living in this country. But African Americans took up their own fight for freedom by joining... |
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History: The Civil War
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Fiction Choices
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Private Captain: A Story of Gettysburg
Marty Crisp
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In 1863 Pennsylvania, twelve-year-old Ben and his dog Captain set off in search of Ben's brother Reuben, who is missing from the Union Army. |
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Day of Tears: A Novel in Dialogue
Julius Lester - Jump At The Sun
Format: Hardcover
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Since their mother Fanny left, Emma has taken care of the Butler children, Sarah and Frances. She wants to raise them to have good hearts, as a rift in morals has ripped the Butler household apart: Sarah and their mother oppose the inhumanity of slavery while Frances and their father Pierce... |
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Escape from Slavery
Doreen Rappaport - HarperColl
Format: Hardcover
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Freedom!Eliza and her baby, running across the ice. Selena and Cornelia Jackson, masquerading as boys. Henry Box Brown, shipping himself north in a wooden crate. Jane Johnson, risking everything to testify against her former owner in court. Ellen Craft, posing as her husband's owner.Escaping... |
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Behind Rebel Lines: The Incredible Story of Emma Edmonds, Civil War Spy
Reit, Seymour - Gulliver Books [u.a.]
Format: Paperback
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In 1861, when war erupted between the States, President Lincoln made an impassioned plea for volunteers. Determined not to remain on the sidelines, Emma Edmonds cropped her hair, donned men's clothing, and enlisted in the Union Army. Posing in turn as a slave, peddler, washerwoman,... |
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The Land
Mildred D. Taylor - Dial
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the Coretta Scott King Award! Millions of fans have followed the Logan family in their seven-book series. Living in the South in the not-so-distant past, the Logans are the only black family to own farmland, while most of their black neighbors are sharecroppers on white-owned... |
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The Civil War (America's Wars)
Timothy L. Biel - Lucent Books
Format: Library Binding
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Examines the political, cultural, and military aspects of the conflict that tragically divided the United States in the mid-nineteenth century. |
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Abraham Lincoln: The Making of America #3
Teri Kanefield - Abrams Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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The third installment of the Making of America series, Abraham Lincoln, tells of one of our most beloved presidents. Born in a cabin deep in the backwoods of Kentucky, growing up in a family considered "the poorest of the poor," Lincoln rose to become the sixteenth president of the United... |
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Fields of Fury: The American Civil War
James M. McPherson - Atheneum Books for Young Readers; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Pulitzer Prize award-winning historian James M. McPherson has written for young readers a stirring account of the greatest conflict to happen on our nation's soil, the Civil War, bringing to life the tragic struggle that divided not only a nation, but also friends and family. From the initial... |
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Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination That Changed America Forever
Bill O'Reilly - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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Lincoln's Last Days is a gripping account of one of the most dramatic nights in American history - of how one gunshot changed the country forever. Adapted from Bill O'Reilly's bestselling historical thriller, Killing Lincoln, this book will have young readers - and grown-ups too - hooked... |
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I'll Pass For Your Comrade: Women Soldiers in the Civil War
Anita Silvey - Clarion Books
Format: Print book
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The Civil War has been studied, written about, even sun about for generations. Most people know that it was a conflict between North and South, Unionists and rebels, blue and gray. We recognize the names of Jefferson Davis, Ulysses S. Grant, and Robert E. Lee. Many people know about Clara... |
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History: World War II
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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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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
John Boyne - David Fickling Books
Format: Hardcover
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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne. David Fickling Books,2006 |
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Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two
Joseph Bruchac - Dial; 1ST edition
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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Artifice
Sharon Cameron - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover
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A dramatic story of duplicity and resistance, betrayal and loyalty, set against the backdrop of World War II, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Light in Hidden Places.Isa de Smit was raised in the vibrant, glittering world of her parents' small art gallery in Amsterdam,... |
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The Light in Hidden Places
Sharon Cameron - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover
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The extraordinary story of Stefania Podgorska, a Polish teenager who chose bravery and humanity by hiding thirteen Jews in her attic during WWII -- from #1 New York Times bestselling author Sharon Cameron.One knock at the door, and Stefania has a choice to make...It is 1943, and for four... |
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This Light Between Us: A Novel of World War II
Andrew Fukuda - Tor Teen
Format: Hardcover
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For readers of The Librarian Of Auschwitz, This Light Between Us is a powerfully affecting story of World War II about the unlikeliest of pen pals -- a Japanese American boy and a French Jewish girl -- as they fight to maintain hope in a time of war."I remember visiting... |
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Genevieve's War
Patricia Reilly Giff - Holiday House
Format: Print book
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Thirteen-year-old American girl Genevieve has spent the summer of 1939 at her grandmother's farm in Alsace, France. Then she makes an impulsive choice: to stay in France. It proves to be a dangerous decision. World War II erupts. The Nazis conquer Alsace and deport the Jews and others.... |
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Allies
Alan Gratz - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover
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Alan Gratz, bestselling author of Refugee, weaves a stunning array of voices and stories into an epic tale of teamwork in the face of tyranny -- and how just one day can change the world.June 6, 1944: The Nazis are terrorizing Europe, on their evil quest to conquer the world. The only... |
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Grenade
Alan Gratz - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times bestseller!It's 1945, and the world is in the grip of war.Hideki lives on the island of Okinawa, near Japan. When WWII crashes onto his shores, Hideki is drafted into the Blood and Iron Student Corps to fight for the Japanese army. He is handed a grenade and a set of instructions:... |
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Prisoner B-3087
Alan Gratz - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover
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10 concentration camps. 10 different places where you are starved, tortured, and worked mercilessly. It's something no one could imagine surviving. But it is what Yanek Gruener has to face. As a Jewish boy in 1930s Poland, Yanek is at the mercy of the Nazis who have taken over. Everything... |
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Projekt 1065: A Novel of World War II
Alan Gratz - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover
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Infiltrate. Befriend. Sabotage.World War II is raging. Michael O'Shaunessey, originally from Ireland, now lives in Nazi Germany with his parents. Like the other boys in his school, Michael is a member of the Hitler Youth.But Michael has a secret. He and his parents are spies. Michael despises... |
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Girl in the Blue Coat
Monica Hesse - Little
Format: Hardcover
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"In 1943 Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, teenage Hanneke--a 'finder' of black market goods--is tasked with finding a Jewish girl a customer had been hiding, who has seemingly vanished into thin air, and is pulled into a web of resistance activities and secrets as she attempts to solve the mystery... |
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The War Outside
Monica Hesse - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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A stunning novel of conviction, friendship, and betrayal from Monica Hesse, the Edgar Award-winning and bestselling author of Girl in the Blue CoatIt's 1944, and World War II is raging across Europe and the Pacific. The war seemed far away from Margot in Iowa and Haruko in Colorado--until... |
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Weedflower
Cynthia Kadohata - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Twelve-year-old Sumiko feels her life has been made up of two parts before Pearl Harbor and after it. The good part and the bad part. Raised on a flower farm in California, Sumiko is used to being the only Japanese girl in her class. Even when the other kids tease her, she always has had her flowers... |
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White Bird: A Novel: Based on the Graphic Novel
R J PALACIO - Knopf Books for Young Readers; Media tie-in edition
Format: Hardcover
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Now a major motion picture starring Helen Mirren and Gillian Anderson! Read the novelized version of the celebrated New York Times bestselling story of kindness and unrelenting courage in a time of war--inspired by the blockbuster phenomenon Wonder.Sara Blum lives an idyllic life with... |
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White Rose
Kip Wilson - Versify
Format: Hardcover
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"In a searing indictment of silent complicity, White Rose shines a light on one remarkable young woman's insistence on the power of truth, no matter the cost. A timely call to resistance." - Joy McCullough, author of Blood Water Paint "White Rose is a resonant... |
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Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow
Susan Campbell Bartoletti - Scholastic Nonfiction; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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In her first full-length nonfiction title since winning the Robert F. Sibert Award, Susan Campbell Bartoletti explores the riveting and often chilling story of Germany's powerful Hitler Youth groups."I begin with the young. We older ones are used up . . . But my magnificent youngsters!... |
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The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz: A True Story Retold for Young Readers
Jeremy Dronfield - Quill Tree Books
Format: Hardcover
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This powerful, moving middle grade adaptation of the adult international bestselling narrative nonfiction book The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz shines a light on the true story of two brothers who experienced the atrocities of the Holocaust in very different ways.Fritz Kleinmann... |
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The Shelter and the Fence: When 982 Holocaust Refugees Found Safe Haven in America
Norman H. Finkelstein - Chicago Review Press
Format: Hardcover
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- David A. Adler, author of The Number on My Grandfather's Arm In 1944, at the height of World War II, 982 European refugees found a temporary haven at Fort Ontario in Oswego, New York. They were men, women, and children who had spent frightening years one step ahead of Nazi pursuers... |
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Anne Frank: The Diary Of A Young Girl
Anne Frank - Bantam Books
Format: Hardcover
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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. A young girl's journal records her family's struggles during two years of hiding from the Nazis in war-torn Holland. |
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Signs of Survival: A Memoir of the Holocaust
Renee Hartman - Scholastic Nonfiction
Format: Hardcover
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RENEE: I was ten years old then, and my sister was eight. The responsibility was on me to warn everyone when the soldiers were coming because my sister and both my parents were deaf.I was my family's ears.Meet Renee and Herta, two sisters who faced the unimaginable -- together. This... |
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Torpedoed: The True Story of the World War II Sinking of "The Children's Ship"
Deborah Heiligman - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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From award-winning author Deborah Heiligman comes Torpedoed, a true account of the attack and sinking of the passenger ship SS City of Benares, which was evacuating children from England during WWII. Amid the constant rain of German bombs and the escalating violence of World... |
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We Had to Be Brave: Escaping the Nazis on the Kindertransport
Deborah Hopkinson - Scholastic Focus
Format: Hardcover
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Sibert Honor author Deborah Hopkinson illuminates the true stories of Jewish children who fled Nazi Germany, risking everything to escape to safety on the Kindertransport.Ruth David was growing up in a small village in Germany when Adolf Hitler rose to power in the 1930s. Under the Nazi... |
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We Must Not Forget: Holocaust Stories of Survival and Resistance
Deborah Hopkinson
Format: Hardcover
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As World War II raged, millions of young Jewish people were caught up in the horrors of the Nazis' Final Solution. Many readers know of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi state's genocidal campaign against European Jews and others of so-called "inferior" races. Yet so many of the individual... |
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Race Against Death: The Greatest POW Rescue of World War II (Scholastic Focus)
Deborah Hopkinson - Scholastic Focus
Format: Hardcover
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A thrilling account of the most daring American P.O.W. rescue mission of World War II.Following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, America entered World War II, and a new theater of battle opened up in the Pacific. But US troops, along with thousands of Filipino soldiers who fought alongside... |
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To Look a Nazi in the Eye: A Teen's Account of a War Criminal Trial
KATHY KACER - Second Story Press
Format: Paperback
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The true story of nineteen-year-old Jordana Lebowitz's time at the trial of Oskar Groening, known as the bookkeeper of Auschwitz, a man charged with being complicit in the death of more than 300,000 Jews. A granddaughter of Holocaust survivors, Jordana attended the trail. She realized that... |
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I Will Protect You: A True Story of Twins Who Survived Auschwitz
Eva Mozes Kor - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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The illuminating and deeply moving true story of twin sisters who survived Nazi experimentation, against all odds, during the Holocaust.Eva and her identical twin sister, Miriam, had a mostly happy childhood. Theirs was the only Jewish family in their small village in the Transylvanian... |
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Hitler's Last Days: The Death of the Nazi Regime and the World's Most Notorious Dictator
Bill O'Reilly - Henry Holt & Company
Format: Hardcover
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By early 1945, the destruction of the German Nazi State seems certain. The Allied forces, led by American generals George S. Patton and Dwight D. Eisenhower, are gaining control of Europe, leaving German leaders scrambling. Facing defeat, Adolf Hitler flees to a secret bunker with his new wife,... |
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Oskar Schindler: Righteous Gentile (Holocaust Biographies)
Jeremy Roberts - Rosen Publishing Group; 1st edition
Format: Library Binding
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Oskar Schindler was many things: playboy, womanizer, bon vivant, scoundrel, slime. Such words all accurately describe a man who drank far too much and regularly cheated on his wife. They all describe Oskar Schindler. He was no saint. Yet, the same man would prove to have depths of courage... |
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Nazi Saboteurs: Hitler's Secret Attack on America
Samantha Seiple - Scholastic Nonfiction
Format: Hardcover
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A gripping tale of the little-known Nazi plot to attack on American soil, and the brave individuals who got in the way.In 1942, amid a growing German threat, Nazi agents infiltrated the United States in hopes of destroying American infrastructure and sowing panic throughout the nation.... |
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Impossible Escape: A True Story of Survival and Heroism in Nazi Europe
Steve Sheinkin - Roaring Brook Press
Format: Hardcover
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From three-time National Book Award finalist and Newbery Honor author Steve Sheinkin, a true story of two Jewish teenagers racing against time during the Holocaust -- one in hiding in Hungary, and the other in Auschwitz, plotting escape.. It is 1944. A teenager named Rudolph (Rudi) Vrba... |
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Focus on Japanese American Incarceration (History in Pictures (Read Woke ™ Books))
ELLIOTT SMITH - Lerner Publications ™
Format: Paperback
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The US government forced Japanese Americans to live in US incarceration camps during World War II (1939-1945) . Through photographs from the past and present, discover how fear and racism led to the incarceration camps, what life in the camps was like, and what happened after Japanese Americans... |
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Raoul Wallenberg: Swedish Diplomat and Humanitarian (Holocaust Biographies)
Thomas Streissguth - Rosen Publishing Group; 1st edition
Format: Library Binding
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Raoul Wallenberg, a wealthy Swedish Diplomat and Humanitarian, who traveled to Paris while German troops were occupying the city. They strictly controlled people arriving or leaving. As a neutral Swede and a businessman, Wallenberg could move around freely. In Budapest, Wallenberg spent... |
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It's My Whole Life: Charlotte Salomon: An Artist in Hiding During World War II
SUSAN WIDER - Norton Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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A gripping middle grade biography of Charlotte Salomon, and an ode to how art can capture both life's everyday beauty and its monumental horrors.Charlotte Salomon was a German-Jewish artist born in Berlin. She is remembered for her autobiographical series of paintings, Life? or Theater?,... |
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In Harm's Way
Michael J. Tougias
Format: Hardcover
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A young readers edition of Doug Stanton and Michael J. Tougias' New York Times bestseller In Harm's Way -- a riveting World War II account of the greatest maritime disaster in US naval history.On July 30, 1945, the U.S.S. Indianapolis was torpedoed in the South Pacific by a Japanese... |
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Physical Disabilities
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Fiction Choices
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Out of My Heart
Sharon M. Draper - Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books
Format: Hardcover
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Melody, the huge-hearted heroine of Out of My Mind, is now a year older and a year braver. But not as brave as she wants to be, as she's terrified of horses. Even though she loves horses - loves loves loves them - from afar. Not one to be thwarted, Melody decides summer camp, one with... |
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Out of My Mind
Sharon M Draper - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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"If there is one book teens and parents (and everyone else) should read this year, Out of My Mind" should be it" (Denver Post") .Melody is not like most people. She cannot walk or talk, but she has a photographic memory; she can remember every detail of everything... |
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Wink
Rob Harrell - Dial Books
Format: Hardcover
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A hilarious and heartwrenching story about surviving middle school--and an unthinkable diagnosis--while embracing life's weirdness.Ross Maloy just wants to be a normal seventh grader. He doesn't want to lose his hair, or wear a weird hat, or deal with the disappearing friends who don't... |
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Auggie & Me: Three Wonder Stories
R J Palacio - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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WONDER IS SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING JULIA ROBERTS AND JACOB TREMBLAY!Over 6 million people have read the #1 New York Times bestseller Wonder - the book that inspired the Choose Kind movement - and have fallen in love with Auggie Pullman, an ordinary... |
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Wonder
R J Palacio - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING JULIA ROBERTS, OWEN WILSON, AND JACOB TREMBLAY!Over 6 million people have read the #1 New York Times bestseller WONDER and have fallen in love with Auggie Pullman, an ordinary boy with an extraordinary face. The book that inspired the Choose Kind... |
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Freak The Mighty
W R Philbrick - Blue Sky Press
Format: Hardcover
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Two boys - a slow learner stuck in the body of a teenage giant and a tiny Einstein in leg braces - forge a unique friendship when they pair up to create one formidable human force. (Made into the film, The Mighty.) * \u201cA wonderful story of triumph over imperfection, shame, and loss.\u201d... |
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The Chance to Fly
Ali Stroker - Amulet Books
Format: Hardcover
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Thirteen-year-old Nat Beacon loves a lot of things: her dog Warbucks, her best friend Chloe, and competing on her wheelchair racing team, the Zoomers, to name a few. But there's one thing she's absolutely OBSESSED with: MUSICALS! From Hamilton to Les Mis, there's not a cast... |
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Roll with It
Jamie Sumner - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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"A big-hearted story that's as sweet as it is awesome." - R.J. Palacio, author of Wonder In the tradition of Wonder and Out of My Mind, this big-hearted middle grade debut tells the story of an irrepressible girl with cerebral palsy whose life takes an unexpected... |
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Nonfiction Choices
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Ugly
Robert Hoge - VIKING
Format: Print book : Biography : Juvenile audience : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"Robert Hoge was born with a tumor the size of a tennis ball in the middle of his face and short, twisted legs, but he refused to let what made him different stand in the way of leading a happy, successful life. This is the true story of how he embraced his circumstances and never... |
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A Face for Picasso: Coming of Age with Crouzon Syndrome
Ariel Henley
Format: Hardcover
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At only eight months old, identical twin sisters Ariel and Zan were diagnosed with Crouzon syndrome -- a rare condition where the bones in the head fuse prematurely. They were the first twins known to survive it.Growing up, Ariel and her sister endured numerous appearance-altering procedures.... |
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Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio
Peg Kehret - Albert Whitman & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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In a riveting story of courage and hope, Peg Kehret tells of months spent in a hospital when she was 12, first struggling to survive a severe case of polio, then slowly learning to walk again. Her powerful account is also full of the humor that she and four spunky roommates found in daily... |
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Born Just Right
Jordan Reeves - Aladdin
Format: Hardcover
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From twelve-year-old advocate for limb difference and founder of Project Unicorn Jordan Reeves and her mom, Jen, comes an inspiring memoir about how every kid is perfect just the way they are. When Jordan Reeves was born without the bottom half of her left arm, the doctors reassured her parents... |
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Disability Visibility
Alice Wong - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover
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The seventeen eye-opening essays in Disability Visibility, all written by disabled people, offer keen insight into the complex and rich disability experience, examining life's ableism and inequality, its challenges and losses, and celebrating its wisdom, passion, and joy. The accounts... |
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Sports
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Fiction Choices
Anything by Tim Green, Derek Jeter, and Mike Lupica
Some titles are listed below, but more may be available if you search by the author's name.
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The Big Time: A Football Genius Novel
Tim Green - HarperCollins; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Things couldn't be going better for Troy White. The Atlanta Falcons' football genius is at the top of his game, helping the team get to the playoffs. Agents and lawyers are knocking on his door with big-money offers for the upcoming season. And his own football team has just won the Georgia... |
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Final Season
Tim Green - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover
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From New York Times bestselling author and former NFL player Tim Green comes a gripping, deeply personal standalone football novel about a star middle school quarterback faced with a life-changing decision after his dad is diagnosed with ALS. Perfect for fans of Mike Lupica! With two all-star... |
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Left Out
Tim Green - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times bestselling author and former NFL player Tim Green tells a heartfelt and moving story about a deaf boy's journey to change how others see him - both on and off the football field. Perfect for fans of Mike Lupica.Landon Dorch wants to be like everyone else. But his deafness... |
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Pinch Hit
Tim Green - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover
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Trevor and Sam look alike. But their lives couldnt be more different. Trevor is a movie star, living the Hollywood life in a huge mansion with his own limo, pool, and bowling alley. Theres nothing he doesnt have except the one thing he wants most: to play baseball for real. Sam... |
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Rivals: A Baseball Great Novel
Tim Green - HarperCollins; 1 edition
Format: Book
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Cooperstown! Josh is thrilled when all his hard training pays off in a big way and his team, the Titans, makes it to a national tournament in Cooperstown, home of the National Baseball Hall of Fame. More is on the line for Josh than just a trophy. Winning would mean everything to his dad—now... |
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The Contract
Derek Jeter - Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
Format: Hardcover
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The debut book in the Jeter Publishing imprint, The Contract is a middle grade baseball novel inspired by the youth of legendary sports icon and role model Derek Jeter.As a young boy, Derek Jeter dreams of being the shortstop for the New York Yankees. He even imagines himself in the World... |
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Hit & Miss
Derek Jeter - Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
Format: Hardcover
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The second book in the New York Times bestselling Jeter Publishing imprint, Hit & Miss is a middle grade baseball novel inspired by the youth of legendary sports icon and role model Derek Jeter."Just try to make solid contact, stay level and in control. Positive thoughts only,... |
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Change Up
Derek Jeter - Simon & Schuster Books
Format: Print book
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In the third book in the New York Times bestselling middle grade series inspired by the life of iconic New York Yankee Derek Jeter, Derek's father keeps his promise to coach his son's youth baseball team.Derek is sure this will be the best season yet! He has it all planned - his dad will... |
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Fair Ball
Derek Jeter - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Print book
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Inspired by Derek Jeter's own life, Fair Ball is the fourth middle grade novel in the New York Times bestselling Jeter Publishing Program and focuses on the theme "the world isn't always fair."Life isn't always fair. You can't control that, but you can control... |
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Batting Order
Mike Lupica - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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From acclaimed author of the Home Team Mike Lupica comes a brand-new novel about the heart and soul of baseball.On or off the field, Matt and Ben couldn't be more different. Ben Roberson is an all-or-nothing player: he's big, he's bold, and he's brash. Ben's swing can hit a ball right out of the park... |
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The Big Field
Mike Lupica - Philomel Books
Format: Hardcover
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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Losing his spot as shortstop on the team to a new arrival named D-Will, Hutch finds the transition difficult, especially when his father, an ex-professional shortstop, starts giving his replacement all of his tips and attention. |
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Defending Champ
Mike Lupica - Philomel Books
Format: Hardcover
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bestseller Mike Lupica takes us to the soccer field in another empowering story about dismantling sexism in sports.Fresh off her football victory as QB, Alex Carlisle is on cloud nine. But with football season ending, Alex is ready to get back on the field in the spring. Ideally she'd... |
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Last Man Out
Mike Lupica - Philomel Books
Format: Print book
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From the #1 bestselling author of Heat, Travel Team and Fantasy League comes a story of heroes, family, the thrills of skateboarding, and football.When the Brighton Bears suit up on game day, 12-year-old Tommy Gallagher is the toughest kid on the football field. And the bravest.... |
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No Slam Dunk
Mike Lupica - Philomel Books
Format: Hardcover
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A fast-paced, heartfelt story for basketball fans that proves being a good teammate remains the most important quality in basketball--and in life, from New York Times bestselling author Mike Lupica.Wes' father always told him that there was only one ball in basketball. That you had to know... |
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Team Players
Mike Lupica - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Cassie must learn that you can't "fix" someone else after a girl with Aspergers joins her softball team in the fourth and final book of the Home Team series from New York Times bestselling author and sports-writing legend Mike Lupica.Cassie Bennett is great at being in charge.... |
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Key Player (Front Desk #4)
KELLY YANG - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover
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Mia Tang is going for the goal in the fourth Front Desk novel by New York Times bestselling author Kelly Yang!The Women's World Cup coming to Southern California, everyone is soccer-crazy -- especially Mia Tang! The U.S. is playing China in the finals, and Mia feels like her two identities... |
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Nonfiction Choices
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Legends: the Best Players, Games, and Teams in Baseball
Howard Bryant - Philomel Books
Format: Hardcover
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"With the LEGENDS series, Howard Bryant brings to life the best that sports has to offer - the heroes, the bitter rivalries, the moments that every sports-loving kid should know." - Mike Lupica, #1 bestselling author of Travel Team, Heat, and Fantasy League Experience... |
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Legends: The Best Players, Games, and Teams in Basketball
Howard Bryant - Philomel Books
Format: Hardcover
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From Magic Johnson to Michael Jordan to LeBron James to Steph Curry, ESPN's Howard Bryant presents the best from the hardwood--a collection of NBA champions and superstars for young sports fans! Fast-paced, adrenaline-filled, and brimming with out-of-this-world athleticism, basketball has won the hearts... |
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Legends: the Best Players, Games, and Teams in Football
Howard Bryant - Philomel Books
Format: Print book
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"With the LEGENDS series, Howard Bryant brings to life the best that sports has to offer - the heroes, the bitter rivalries, the moments that every sports-loving kid should know." - Mike Lupica, #1 bestselling author of Travel Team, Heat, and Fantasy League In the second... |
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Champions of Women's Soccer
Ann Killion - Philomel Books
Format: Hardcover
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From the World Cup to the Olympics, from Mia Hamm to Carli Lloyd to Alex Morgan, here is the ultimate guide to Women's Soccer for young sports fans from an award-winning sports journalist.The moment the U.S. Women's Soccer team won the World Cup in 1999, the team's--and the sport's--popularity... |
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Rising Above: Inspiring Women in Sports
Gregory Zuckerman - Philomel Books
Format: Hardcover
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Behold the power of women! These are the inspirational real-life stories of female superstar athletes Serena and Venus Williams, Simone Biles, Carli Lloyd, and more -- role models all. For sports fans, aspiring athletes and readers of sports biographies.Growing up in a crime-plagued, gang-infested... |
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LGBTQ+ Rights
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Fiction Choices
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Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
Becky Albertalli - Balzer + Bray
Format: Paperback
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Now a major motion picture: Love, Simon, starring Nick Robinson and Katherine Langford!William C. Morris Award Winner: Best Young Adult Debut of the Year * National Book Award Longlist"A remarkable gift of a novel." - Andrew Smith, author of Grasshopper Jungle"I am so in love... |
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George
Alex Gino - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover
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When people look at George, they think they see a boy. But she knows she's not a boy. She knows she's a girl.George thinks she'll have to keep this a secret forever. Then her teacher announces that their class play is going to be Charlotte's Web. George really, really, REALLY wants... |
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Rick
Alex Gino - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover
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From the award-winning author of George, the story of a boy named Rick who needs to explore his own identity apart from his jerk of a best friend.Rick's never questioned much. He's gone along with his best friend Jeff even when Jeff's acted like a bully and a jerk. He's... |
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In the Role of Brie Hutchens...
Melleby, Nicole - ALGONQUIN YOUNG READERS
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Introducing Brie Hutchens: soap opera super fan, aspiring actor, and so-so student at her small Catholic school. Brie has big plans for eighth grade. She's going to be the star of the school play and convince her parents to let her go to the performing arts high school. But when Brie's... |
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Both Sides Now
Peyton Thomas - Dial Books
Format: Hardcover
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There's only one thing standing between Finch Kelly and a full-blown case of high school senioritis: the National Speech & Debate Tournament. Taking home the gold would not only be the pinnacle of Finch's debating career, but the perfect way to launch himself into his next chapter:... |
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Nonfiction Choices
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Gender Identity: Beyond Pronouns and Bathrooms
Maria Cook - Nomad Press
Format: Paperback
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An informative and project-filled book for middle graders to explore the meaning and history behind LGBTQ rights movements, including biographies of key figures in gender and gay/lesbian history, the context behind today's transgender "bathroom wars" and dozens of activities... |
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Growing Up Trans: In Our Own Words
Lindsay Herriot - Orca Book Publishers
Format: Paperback
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What does it mean to be young and transgender today? Growing Up Trans shares stories, essays, art and poetry created by trans youth aged 11 to 18. In their own words, the works illustrate the trans experience through childhood, family and daily life, school, their bodies and mental health.... |
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Human Rights in Focus: The Lgbt Community
Damon Karson - Referencepoint Press
Format: Hardcover
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Human rights advocates contend that the LGBT community has yet to achieve full equality and acceptancein the United States and elsewhere. In recent years in the United States, state legislators have introduced more than 250 bills that limit LGBT rightsand twenty of these have become law.... |
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LGBTQ Rights
Virginia Loh-Hagan - 45th Parallel Press
Format: August 1
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Learn all about LGBTQ activism, from gender-neutral bathrooms to legalizing same-sex marriage. Get a global look at the history of the movement, meet the activists involved, and celebrate some of the legal victories! Each chapters end with a call to action, so kids can feel inspired to get involved... |
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LGBTQ Human Rights Movement (Civic Participation: Fighting for Rights)
Theresa Morlock - Powerkids Pr
Format: Paperback
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People who identify as LGBTQ are often treated with inequality and violence. Until recently, they were viewed as sick or even criminals. This volume gives important insight into the injustices faced by LGBTQ individuals, and the activists and groups that have fought for equal rights. Photographs... |
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Video Games
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Fiction Choices
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Insert Coin to Continue
John David Anderson - Aladdin Books
Format: Print book
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Bryan Biggins wakes up to find that his life has become a video game in this funny, honest coming-of-age novel from the author of Sidekicked and Minion.Meet Bryan Biggins. Most of the time he's a freckle-faced boy, small for his age, who attends a school known for its unwritten uniform... |
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The Eye of Minds
James Dashner - Delacorte Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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From James Dashner, the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Maze Runner series, which includes The Maze Runner and The Scorch Trials - both #1 movies worldwide - comes an all-new, edge-of-your seat adventure. The Eye of Minds is the first novel in the Mortality Doctrine series set in a world... |
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Level 13
Gordon Korman - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover
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From the bestselling author of Swindle, Restart, and Slacker is another hilarious story about an underachiever who learns to go above and beyond.Cameron Boxer, king of the slackers, has found something worth his time. By playing video games online in front of an audience... |
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Slacker
Gordon Korman - Scholastic Press
Format: Print book
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Cameron Boxer is very happy to spend his life avoiding homework, hanging out with his friends, and gaming for hours in his basement. It's not too hard for him to get away with it . . . until he gets so caught up in one game that he almost lets his house burn down around him. Oops. It's... |
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SLAY
Brittney Morris - Simon Pulse
Format: Hardcover
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"Gripping and timely." - People "The YA debut we're most excited for this year." - Entertainment Weekly "A book that knocks you off your feet while dropping the kind of knowledge that'll keep you down for the count. Prepare to BE slain." - Nic Stone,... |
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Gamer Army
Trent Reedy - Arthur A. Levine Books
Format: Hardcover
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After Rogan Webber levels up yet again on his favorite video game, Laser Viper, the world-famous creator of the game invites him to join the five best players in the country for an exclusive tournament. The gamers are flown to the tech mogul's headquarters, where they stay in luxury dorms... |
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Game Over, Pete Watson
Joe Schreiber - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book
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When videogame obsessed Pete Watson discovers his dad is not only a super-spy but has been kidnapped and is now trapped inside a video game, he has to use his super gaming skills and enter the game to rescue him. Will he be able to save his friends and family and the entire world from... |
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Gnat vs. Spyder (Volume 1) (Gamer Girls)
Andrea Towers - Andrews McMeel Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Thirteen-year-old Natalie lives a double life. By day, she's an average eighth grader at Golden Trails Middle. At night, she's Gnat112, a streamer for her favorite video game, Alienlord. But when the new girl moves in next door, will Natalie's double life be revealed?. Natalie... |
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Nonfiction Choices
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Game Design
Greg Austic - Cherry Lake Publishing
Format: Paperback
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Video Games: Design and Code Your Own Adventure
Kathy Ceceri - Nomad Press
Format: Hardcover
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Catch a glimpse inside a school bus and youll see lots of kids looking down. What are they doing? Theyre deciding on strategy, building cities, setting traps for monsters, sharing resources, and nurturing critical relationships.. Over 90 percent of kids ages 2-17 play video games. In Video... |
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The Awesome Inner Workings of Video Games
Arie Kaplan - Lerner Publications Company,
Format: Print book
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Gamers, beware - your video games can think for themselves! Ever wondered what's inside the plastic of your video game console, but don't want to crack it open to find out? Crack open this book instead! You'll learn what computer code looks like, how a game console's "brain"... |
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The Brain-Boosting Benefits of Gaming
Arie Kaplan - Lerner Publishing Group
Format: Print book
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Has anyone ever told you gamers out there that your time would be better spent studying? Well, dont let go of that joystick just yet! Turns out, advancing to that next level of Super Mario Brothers has a similar effect on your brain as getting an A on your spelling test. Video games have... |
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Gamer Girls: 25 Women Who Built the Video Game Industry
Mary Kenney
Format: Hardcover
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Discover the women behind the video games we love - the iconic games they created, the genres they invented, the studios and companies they built - andhow they changed the industry forever.Women have always made video games, from the 1960s and the first-of-its-kind, projector-based Sumerian... |
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Immortality
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Fiction Choices
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Tuck Everlasting
Natalie Babbitt - Farrar
Format: Book
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Doomed to - or blessed with - eternal life after drinking from a magic spring, the Tuck family wanders about trying to live as inconspicuously and comfortably as they can. When ten-year-old Winnie Foster stumbles on their secret, the Tucks take her home and explain why living forever at one age is less... |
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This Book Is Not Good For You
Pseudonymous Bosch - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Between the pages of this book lies the secret to the best-tasting chocolate in all the world. I promise, your taste buds will tingle. Your palette will sing! Oh no, have I accidentally tempted you to read this book I will warn you, however, the most delicious things are never good for you...and... |
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Aru Shah and the Nectar of Immortality
Roshani Chokshi - Rick Riordan Presents
Format: Hardcover
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*"Chokshi spins a fantastical narrative that seamlessly intertwines Hindu cosmology and folklore, feminism, and witty dialogue for an uproarious novel."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review of Aru Shah and the End of Time) The Pandavas only have until the next full moon to stop the Sleeper... |
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Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone
J. K. Rowling - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover
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A winner of England's National Book Award, the acclaimed debut novel tells the outrageously funny, fantastic adventure story of Harry Potter, who escapes a hideous foster home thanks to a scholarship to The Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. |
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The Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel
Michael Scott - Listening Library
Format: Audio CD
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Nicholas Flamel appeared in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter - but did you know he really lived? And he might still be alive today! Discover the truth in Michael Scott's New York Times bestselling series the Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel with The Alchemyst,... |
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Nonfiction Choices
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A Beginner's Guide to Immortality: From Alchemy to Avatars
Maria Birmingham - Owlkids
Format: Hardcover
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Is it possible to live forever? People have been trying to figure out a way to escape mortality since, well, forever. This book takes readers on a fast-paced tour of several wacky and wise methods humans have used to try prolonging their lives, from ancient immortality elixirs and quests... |
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