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Getting to Know Alice
Getting to Know Alice

Jeanne Nagle · Rosen Classroom
Format: Paperback

Alice is one of several programming environments that use prewritten code to help get beginners started with coding. This animated overview discusses Alice's history and development, why it was created, and how it has made programming fun and easy for novice coders. Readers will learn how to access...
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Scrooge #worstgiftever

Brett Wright · Random House
Pages: 112
Format: Print book

A Christmas Carol, one of the holiday's greatest traditions told . . . in texts?! Imagine: What if Scrooge, Marley, the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future, and the whole Cratchit family had smartphones? A classic is reborn in this clever adaptation of Charles Dickens's...
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The Walk On
The Walk On

John Feinstein · Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Book

Bestselling sportswriter John Feinstein kicks off a new series for middle grade featuring Alex Myers, a student athlete who tries to take on the sports establishment in his new town. Alex Myers is a quarterback, but from the first day of football practice, it's clear that that position...
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I Have a Bad Feeling About This
I Have a Bad Feeling About This

Jeff Strand · Sourcebooks, 2013.
Pages: 242
Format: Paperback

Wilderness Survival Tip #1 Drinking your own sweat will not save your life. Somebody might have told you that, but they were trying to find out if you'd really do it. Henry Lambert would rather play video games than spend time in the great outdoors -- but that doesn't make him a wuss. Skinny...
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Reckoning
Reckoning

Kerry Wilkinson · St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Hardcover

One girl. One chance. One destiny. In the village of Martindale, hundreds of miles north of the new English capital of Windsor, sixteen-year-old Silver Blackthorne takes the Reckoning. This coming-of- age test not only decides her place in society - Elite, Member, Inter or Trog - but also...
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The Last Boy and Girl in the World
The Last Boy and Girl in the World

Siobhan Vivian · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pages: 432
Format: Print book

From the critically acclaimed author of The List comes a stunning new novel about a girl who must say goodbye to everything she knows after a storm wreaks havoc on her hometown.What if your town was sliding underwater and everyone was ordered to pack up and leave? How would you and your...
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The Leaving
The Leaving

Tara Altebrando · Bloomsbury
Pages: 421
Format: Print book

Eleven years ago, six kindergartners went missing without a trace. After all that time, the people left behind moved on, or tried to. Until today. Today five of those kids return. They're sixteen, and they are . . . fine. Scarlett comes home and finds a mom she barely recognizes, and doesn't...
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The Girl from the Well
The Girl from the Well

Rin Chupeco · Sourcebooks Fire
Pages: 267
Format: Print book

I am where dead children go. Okiku is a lonely soul. She has wandered the world for centuries, freeing the spirits of the murdered-dead. Once a victim herself, she now takes the lives of killers with the vengeance they're due. But releasing innocent ghosts from their ethereal tethers does...
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The Queen's Choice
The Queen's Choice

Cayla Kluver · Harlequin Teen
Pages: 501
Format: Hardcover

Magic was seeping out of me, black and agonizing. I could see it drifting away. The magic that would let me pass the Road to reach home again.When sixteen-year-old Anya learns that her aunt, Queen of the Faerie Kingdom of Chrior, will soon die, her grief is equaled only by her despair for the future...
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Storm Siren
Storm Siren

Mary Weber · Thomas Nelson
Format: Hardcover

There are few things more exciting to discover than a debut novel packed with powerful storytelling and beautiful language. STORM SIREN is one of those rarities. Ill read anything Mary Weber writes. More, please! -Jay Asher, New York Times bestselling author of THIRTEEN REASONS WHY Storm Siren is...
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Raging Star
Raging Star

Moira Young · Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pages: 432
Format: Print book

The gut-wrenching third book in the highly praised Dust Lands trilogy, which MTV's Hollywood Crush blog called "better than The Hunger Games."Saba is ready to seize her destiny and defeat DeMalo and the Tonton...until she meets him and he confounds all her expectations with his seductive...
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Boys Don't Knit
Boys Don't Knit

T. S. Easton · Feiwel & Friends
Format: Hardcover

After an incident regarding a crossing guard and a bottle of Martini Rossi and his friends, 17-year-old worrier Ben Fletcher must develop his sense of social alignment, take up a hobby, and do some community service to avoid any further probation.He takes a knitting class it was that or his fathers...
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I Remember You
I Remember You

Cathleen Davitt Bell · Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

For fans of THE FUTURE OF US comes an engrossing story of two teens, whose love for each other is tested by time and fate.   Lucas and Juliet couldn’t be more different from each other. But from the moment Lucas sees Juliet, he swears he remembers their first kiss. Their first...
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Like No Other
Like No Other

Una LaMarche · Razorbill
Pages: 347
Format: Print book

"One of the most poignant and star-crossed love stories since The Fault in Our Stars." - Entertainment WeeklyFitting seamlessly alongside current bestsellers like Rainbow Rowell's Eleanor & Park, and John Green's Paper Towns, LIKE NO OTHER provides a thoroughly modern take...
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