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172 Hours on the Moon

Johan Harstad - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Audiobook

A terrifying thriller for young adult fans of The Martian and paranormal space adventure that will be devoured in one heart-pounding sitting. Its been decades since anyone set foot on the moon. Now three ordinary teenagers, the winners of NASAs unprecedented, worldwide lottery, are about...
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The 5th Wave

Rick Yancey - Listening Library
Format: Paperback

The Passage meets Enders Game in an epic new series from award-winning author Rick Yancey. After the first wave, only darkness remains. After the second, only the lucky escape. And after the third, only the unlucky survive. After the fourth wave, only one rule applies: Trust no one. Now,...
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Sherman Alexie - Little
Format: Hardcover

Bestselling author Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands, Junior leaves his troubled school on the rez to attend an all-white farm town high school where the only other...
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The Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel

Michael Scott - Listening Library
Format: Audio CD

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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BONE: Quest for the Spark #1

Tom Sniegoski - GRAPHIX
Format: Hardcover

A return to the enthralling world of BONE with book one in this gripping spin-off novel trilogy, illustrated in four-color!Twelve-year-old Tom Elm is just an ordinary turnip farmer from the Valley, but he's always felt destined for something bigger. So when he discovers everyone in his village...
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The Book Thief

Markus Zusak - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

The extraordinary #1 New York Times bestseller that is now a major motion picture, Markus Zusak's unforgettable story is about the ability of books to feed the soul.It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still.Liesel...
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The Angel Experiment: A Maximum Ride Novel

James Patterson - Little
Format: Paperback

In James Patterson's blockbuster series, fourteen-year-old Maximum Ride, better known as Max, knows what it's like to soar above the world. She and all the members of the "flock"--Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gasman and Angel--are just like ordinary kids--only they have wings and can fly....
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The Boys in the Boat

Daniel James Brown - Viking Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestseller about the Greatest Generation freshly adapted for the next generation. For readers of Unbroken, out of the depths of the Great Depression comes the astonishing tale of nine working-class boys from the American West who at the 1936 Olympics...
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Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two

Joseph Bruchac - Dial; 1ST edition
Format: Hardcover

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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The Dangerous Days of Daniel X

James Patterson - Little, Brown
Format: Hardcover

<div><div>The greatest superpower of all isn't to be part spider, part man, or to cast magic spells--the greatest power is the power to create. </div><div></div><div>Daniel X has that power.</div><div>Daniel's secret abilities -- like being...
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Down and Across

Arvin Ahmadi - Viking Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

"Quirky and charming, wise and unpredictable. " --Khaled Hosseini, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Kite Runner Scott Ferdowsi has a track record of quitting. Writing the Great American Novel? Three chapters. His summer internship? One week. His best friends know exactly...
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Eragon (Inheritance)

Christopher Paolini - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Hardcover

Perfect for fans of Lord of the Rings, the New York Times bestselling Inheritance Cycle about the dragon rider Eragon has sold over 35 million copies and is an international fantasy sensation.Fifteen-year-old Eragon believes that he is merely a poor farm boy - until his destiny as a Dragon...
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The City of Ember: The First Book of Ember

Jeanne DuPrau - Random House Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

The city of Ember was built as a last refuge for the human race. Two hundred years later, the great lamps that light the city are beginning to flicker. When Lina finds part of an ancient message, she's sure it holds a secret that will save the city. She and her friend Doon must decipher...
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Flipped

Wendelin Van Draanen - Ember
Format: Hardcover

A classic he-said-she-said romantic comedy! This updated anniversary edition offers story-behind-the-story revelations from author Wendelin Van Draanen. The first time she saw him, she flipped. The first time he saw her, he ran. That was the second grade, but not much has changed by the seventh....
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Confessions of a Murder Suspect

James Patterson - Little, Brown and Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

James Patterson returns to the genre that made him famous with a thrilling teen detective series about the mysterious and magnificently wealthy Angel family . . . and the dark secrets they're keeping from one another.On the night Malcolm and Maud Angel are murdered, Tandy Angel knows...
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The Golden Compass

Philip Pullman - Listening Library
Format: Audio CD

Read by the author and a full cast10 hours, 49 minutes9 CDsWhen Lyra and her daemon Pantalaimon decide to spy on a presentation her uncle, the commanding Lord Asriel, is making to the elders of Jordan College they have no idea that they will become witnesses to an attempted murder - and even...
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The House of the Scorpion

Nancy Farmer - Simon Pulse
Format: Paperback

Series: National Book Award Winner for Young People's Literature, Newbery Honor Book, Printz Honor BookMatteo Alacrn was not born; he was harvested.His DNA came from El Patrn, lord of a country called Opium--a strip of poppy fields lying between the United States and what was once called...
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The Hunger Games

Suzanne Collins - Scholastic Press
Format: Paperback

In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. Long ago the districts waged war on the Capitol and were defeated. As part of the surrender terms, each district agreed to send one boy and one girl to appear...
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Leviathan

Scott Westerfeld - Simon & Schuster Audio
Format: eAudiobook

It is the cusp of World War I, and all the European powers are arming up. The Austro-Hungarians and Germans have their Clankers, steam-driven iron machines loaded with guns and ammunition. The British Darwinists employ fabricated animals as their weaponry. Their Leviathan is a whale...
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Lockdown: Escape from Furnace 1

Alexander Gordon Smith - Square Fish; 1 edition
Format: Paperback

Furnace Penitentiary: the world's most secure prison for young offenders, buried a mile beneath the earth's surface. Convicted of a murder he didn't commit, sentenced to life without parole, "new fish" Alex Sawyer knows he has two choices: find a way out, or resign...
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Looking For Alaska

John Green - Dutton Books
Format: Hardcover

The award-winning, genre-defining debut from John Green, the #1 international bestselling author of Turtles All the Way Down and The Fault in Our Stars Winner of the Michael L. Printz Award Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist New York Times bestsellerFirst...
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Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

Jesse Andrews - Harry N. Abrams; Mti edition
Format: Print book

The book that inspired the hit film! Sundance U.S. Dramatic Audience Award Sundance Grand Jury Prize This is the funniest book you'll ever read about death. It is a universally acknowledged truth that high school sucks. But on the first day of his senior year, Greg Gaines thinks...
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Me and Miranda Mullaly

Jake Gerhardt - Viking Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

They each have 33% chance with her, but shes 0% interested.Meet Sam, the comedian; Duke, the intellectual; and Chollie, the athlete. Their fates converge at Penn Valley Middle as each falls desperately for the enigmatic Miranda Mullaly - the girl who smiles like she means it, the girl who makes...
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The Merchant of Death

D.J. MacHale - Aladdin
Format: Hardcover

DENDURON Bobby Pendragon is a seemingly normal fourteen-year-old boy. He has a family, a home, and even Marley, his beloved dog. But there is something very special about Bobby. He is going to save the world. And not just Earth as we know it. Bobby is slowly starting to realize that...
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Miss Peregrines Home for Peculiar Children

Ransom Riggs - Listening Library
Format: Audiobook

A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of very curious photographs. It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrines Home for Peculiar Children, an unforgettable novel that makes for a thrilling listening experience. As our story opens, a horrific family tragedy...
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Mystery at the Final Four

John Feinstein - Yearling
Format: Paperback

After winning a basketball reporting contest, eighth graders Stevie and Susan are sent to cover the Final Four tournament, where they discover that a talented player is being blackmailed into throwing the final game.
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The Outsiders

S E Hinton - Speak
Format: Paperback

The 45th anniversary of a landmark work of teen fiction Ponyboy can count on his brothers and his friends, but not on much else besides trouble with the Socs, a vicious gang of rich kids who get away with everything, including beating up greasers like Ponyboy. At least he knows what to expect--until...
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Paper Towns

John Green - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback

From the #1 bestselling author of Turtles All the Way Down and The Fault in Our Stars Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Young Adult Mystery #1 New York Times Bestseller USA Today Bestseller Publishers Weekly BestsellerNow a major motion picture When...
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Pop

Gordon Korman - Balzer Bray
Format: Print book

When Marcus moves to a new town in the dead of summer, he doesn't know a soul. While practicing football for impending tryouts, he strikes up an unlikely friendship with an older man. Charlie is a charismatic prankster - and the best football player Marcus has ever seen. He can't...
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Prisoner B-3087

Alan Gratz - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover

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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The Raven Boys

Maggie Stiefvater - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover

Every year, Blue Sargent stands next to her clairvoyant mother as the soon-to-be dead walk past. Blue never sees them--until this year, when a boy emerges from the dark and speaks to her. His name is Gansey, a rich student at Aglionby, the local private school. Blue has a policy of staying...
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The Recruit

Robert Muchamore - Simon Pulse
Format: Hardcover

CHERUB agents are all seventeen and under. They wear skate tees and hemp, and look like regular kids. But they're not. They are trained professionals who are sent out on missions to spy on terrorists and international drug dealers. CHERUB agents hack into computers, bug entire houses,...
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Salt to the Sea

Ruta Sepetys - Philomel Books
Format: Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller and winner of the Carnegie Medal! "Masterfully crafted" - The Wall Street JournalFor readers of Between Shades of Gray and All the Light We Cannot See, Ruta Sepetys returns to WWII in this epic novel that shines a light on one of the war's...
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Screaming at the Ump

Audrey Vernick - Clarion Books
Format: Hardcover

Twelve-year-old Casey Snowden knows everything about being an umpire. His dad and grandfather run a New Jersey umpire school, Behind the Plate, and Casey lives and breathes baseball. Casey's dream, however, is to be a reporter - objective, impartial, and fair, just like an ump. But when...
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Skink--No Surrender

Carl Hiaasen - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book

Carl Hiaasen serves up his unique brand of swamp justice in the New York Times bestseller Skink - No Surrender. A National Book Award Longlist Selection When your cousin goes missing under suspicious circumstances, who do you call? There's only one man for the job:...
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Stalking Jack the Ripper

Kerri Maniscalco - jimmy patterson
Format: Hardcover

A #1 New York Times Bestseller! Presented by James Patterson's new children's imprint, this deliciously creepy horror novel has a storyline inspired by the Ripper murders and an unexpected, blood-chilling conclusion...Seventeen-year-old Audrey Rose Wadsworth was born a lord's daughter,...
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Stormbreaker

Anthony Horowitz - Philomel Books
Format: Hardcover

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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Tangerine

Edward Bloor - HMH Books for Young Readers; Reissue edition
Format: Hardcover

Paul Fisher sees the world from behind glasses so thick he looks like a bug-eyed alien. But he’s not so blind that he can’t see there are some very unusual things about his family’s new home in Tangerine County, Florida. Where else does a sinkhole swallow the local school,...
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Turtles All the Way Down

John Green - Dutton Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

"Wrenching and revelatory." An instant #1 bestseller, the widely acclaimed Turtles All the Way Down is John Green's brilliant and shattering new novel.Featured on 60 Minutes, Fresh Air, Studio 360, Good Morning Amercia, The TODAY Show"A tender story about learning...
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Unbroken

Laura Hillenbrand - Delacorte
Format: Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestseller, which is also a major motion picture directed by Angelina Jolie, has now been adapted by the author for young adults. Beautifully illustrated throughout, this riveting biography includes more than 100 black-and-white photos, as well as exclusive content,...
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Unwind (Unwind Dystology)

Neal Shusterman - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Paperback

The first twisted and futuristic novel in the perennially popular New York Times bestselling Unwind dystology by Neal Shusterman.In America after the Second Civil War, the Pro-Choice and Pro-Life armies came to an agreement: The Bill of Life states that human life may not be touched...
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Virals

Kathy Reichs - ‎Puffin Books; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

Adventure is in Tory Brennans blood. After all, shes the grandniece of world-famous forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan. Always up for a challenge, Tory and her science-geek friends spend their time exploring the marshlands of Loggerhead Island, home to the very off-limits...
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Witch & Wizard

James Patterson - Little
Format: Paperback

YOUR BOOKS, MUSIC, AND ART--BANNED BY THE NEW ORDER!Everything is about to change. The government has seized control of every aspect of society, and this is the astonishing testimonial of Wisty and Whit Allgood, a sister and brother who were torn from their family in the middle of the night,...
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