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Fishbone's Song

Gary Paulsen · Simon & Schuster Books
Pages: 160
Format: Print book

An orphan reflects on the lessons he was taught by the wise old man who raised him in this lyrical novel that reads like poetry from three-time Newbery Honor-winning author Gary Paulsen.Deep in the woods, in a rustic cabin, lives an old man and the boy he's raised as his own. This sage...
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Frost Like Night

Sara Raasch · Balzer + Bray
Pages: 488
Format: Print book

Game of Thrones meets Graceling in this shocking and action-packed fantasy - the highly anticipated final book in the New York Times bestselling Snow Like Ashes series.Angra is alive, his Decay is spreading - and no one is safe.Meira will do anything to save her world. With Angra trying...
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The Girl in the Picture

Alexandra Monir · Delacorte Press
Pages: 263
Format: Print book

"A dark and addictive mystery that had me flying through the pages: best read late at night under the covers with the doors locked!" - Kara Thomas, author ofThe Darkest CornersOne dead body, one photograph, one comprimising secret. Everyone's a suspect in this classic "whodunit"...
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The Thickety #4: The Last Spell

J A White · Katherine Tegen Books
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover

The spellbinding conclusion in the critically acclaimed Thickety series, perfect for fans of Neil Gaiman. In The Thickety #4: The Last Spell, Kara and her brother Taff must find the hidden pieces of Princess Evangeline's grimoire to defeat Rygoth and her army of witches in one last good...
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Bull

David Elliott · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 200
Format: Print book

SEE THE STORY OF THESEUS AND THE MINOTAUR IN A WHOLE NEW LIGHT Minos thought he could Pull a fast one On me, Poseidon! God of the Sea! But I'm the last one On whom you Should try such a thing. The nerve of that guy. The balls. The audacity. I AM THE OCEAN! I got capacity! Depths! Darkness!...
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Coin Heist

Elisa Ludwig · Adaptive Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

The last place you'd expect to find a team of criminals is at a prestigious Philadelphia prep school. But on a class trip to the U.S. Mint - which prints a million new coins every 30 minutes - an overlooked security flaw becomes far too tempting for a small group of students to ignore....
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Get Happy

Mary Amato · Egmont USA, 2014.
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

In this poignant, realistic, contemporary YA by a state master list star, perfect for fans of Sarah Dessen and Gayle Forman, a young songwriter builds a substitute family with her friends in place of the broken family she grew up with.Minerva has been raised by her single mother after her father...
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Black River Falls

Jeff Hirsch · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Seventeen-year-old Cardinal has escaped the virus that ravaged his town, leaving its victims alive but without their memories. He chooses to remain in the quarantined zone, caring for a group of orphaned kids in a mountain camp with the help of the former brutal school bully, now transformed...
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Death at Kent State: How a Photograph Brought the Vietnam War Home to America

Michael Burgan · Capstone Press
Pages: 64
Format: Print book

It didnt seem possible. Four college students shot dead May 4, 1970, by Ohio National Guardsmen during a protest against the Vietnam War. The shootings at Kent State University would shock the nation and spark a mass student strike across the country, the only one in U.S. history. A photojournalism...
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Just Another Girl

Elizabeth Eulberg · Scholastic Press
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

Hope knows there's only one thing coming between her and her longtime crush: his girlfriend, Parker. She has to sit on the sidelines and watch as the perfect girl gets the perfect boy . . . because that's how the universe works, even though it's so completely wrong.Parker doesn't feel perfect....
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Sylvia Game

Vivien Alcock · Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

During a trip to the seaside with her ne'er-do-well artist father, twelve-year-old Emily makes friends with a gypsy's son and the young heir to a stately home, who are struck by her resemblance to mysterious, long-dead Sylvia, a girl in a painting by Renoir.
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The Names They Gave Us

Emery Lord · Bloomsbury Usa
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

From the acclaimed author of When We Collided comes a vibrant, compelling story of love, loss, faith, and friendship. Lucy Hansson was ready for a perfect summer with her boyfriend, working at her childhood Bible camp on the lake and spending quality time with her parents. But when her mom's...
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Escape from Tibet: A True Story

Nick Gray · Annick Press
Format: Book

Two brothers face cruelty, hardship, and hope, on the ultimate journey in search of freedom. Eleven-year-old Tenzin hasn't seen his older brother, Pasang, in five years, so he is thrilled when Pasang unexpectedly returns to their Tibetan village late one night. Now eighteen, Pasang...
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Messenger

Carol Lynch Williams · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

From PEN Award-winning author Carol Lynch Williams comes an eerie and atmospheric coming-of-age tale about a girl who can talk to the dead - even if she would rather not.Evie Messenger knows that her family is different from other families. But it isn't until her fifteenth birthday that...
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Poop Is Power

Robin Michal Koontz · Rourke Educational Media
Pages: 47
Format: Print book

How much power is in poop? Discover the biofuel technology that turns human and animal waste into energy for everything from cooking to powering up entire buildings. This item is Non-Returnable.
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