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Meg Haston · HarperTeen
Pages: 288
Format: Print book |
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In the vein of Laurie Halse Anderson's Wintergirls, this emotionally haunting and beautifully written young adult debut delves into the devastating impact of trauma and loss.Seventeen-year-old Stevie is trapped. In her life. In her body. And now in an eating-disorder treatment center on the dusty... |
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The Voice inside My Head
S J Laidlaw · Tundra Books,
Pages: 249
Format: Print book |
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Seventeen-year-old Luke's older sister, Pat, has always been his moral compass, like a voice inside his head, every time he has a decision to make. So when Pat disappears on a tiny island off the coast of Honduras and the authorities claim she's drowned - despite the fact that they... |
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Bridge
Patrick Jones · Lerner Classroom
Pages: 96
Format: Paperback |
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José can't keep up. As the only English speaker in a family of undocumented immigrants, he handles everything from taking family members to the doctor to bargaining with the landlord. Plus he works two jobs. With all this responsibility, he's missing a lot of school. When he does make... |
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Sexting
Roman Espejo · Greenhaven Press
Format: Hardcover |
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87 pages ; 24 cm. |
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WARP Book 2: The Hangman's Revolution
Eoin Colfer · Harpercollins
Pages: 376
Format: Hardcover |
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Young FBI agent Chevie Savano arrives back in modern-day London after a time-trip to the Victorian age, to find the present very different from the one she left. Europe is being run by a Facsist movement known as the Boxites, who control their territory through intimidation and terror.... |
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World War I on the Front Lines
Tim Cooke · Capstone Press
Format: Paperback |
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World War I soldiers faced violence on the battlefield and contagious diseases and filthy living conditions off it. Experience life on the front lines in a time of global uncertainty and fear. |
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The Chocolate War
Robert Cormier
Format: Paperback |
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One of the most controversial YA novels of all time, The Chocolate War is a modern masterpiece that speaks to fans of S. E. Hinton’s The Outsiders and John Knowles’s A Separate Peace.  After suffering rejection from seven major publishers, The Chocolate War made its debut in 1974,... |
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Die I Will Not: A Regency Mystery
S. K. Rizzolo · Poisoned Pen Press; 1 edition
Format: Print book |
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Unhappy wife and young mother Penelope Wolfe fears scandal for her family and worse. A Tory newspaper editor has been stabbed while writing a reply to the latest round of letters penned by the ¬ rebrand Collatinus. Twenty years before, her father, the radical Eustace Sandford, also... |
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Half a Man
Michael Morpurgo · Candlewick Press
Pages: 64
Format: Hardcover |
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Revered author Michael Morpurgo evokes the post-war Britain of his childhood in this unflinching and deeply poignant tale of the physical and mental scars of war.From a young age, Michael was both fascinated by and afraid of his grandfather. Grandpa's ship was torpedoed during the Second... |
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Don't Let Go
Michelle Gagnon · HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover |
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In this pulse-pounding final installment of the Don’t Turn Around trilogy, which Kirkus Reviews called “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo for teens, a surefire hit,” Noa and Peter race across the country in their search to destroy Project Persephone before time runs out.Noa... |
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The Walk On
John Feinstein · Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover |
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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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Laughing at My Nightmare
Shane Burcaw · Roaring Brook
Pages: 250
Format: Print book |
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With acerbic wit and a hilarious voice, Shane Burcaw's Laughing at My Nightmare describes the challenges he faces as a twenty-one-year-old with spinal muscular atrophy. From awkward handshakes to having a girlfriend and everything in between, Shane handles his situation with humor and a "you-only-live-once"... |
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Playing for the Commandant
Suzy Zail · Candlewick
Format: Hardcover |
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A young Jewish pianist at Auschwitz, desperate to save her family, is chosen to play at the camp commandant's house. How could she know she would fall in love with the wrong boy?"Look after each other . . . and get home safe. And when you do, tell everyone what you saw and what... |
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The Great Greene Heist
Varian Johnson · Scholastic
Pages: 226
Format: Hardcover |
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Jackson Greene swears he's given up scheming. Then school bully Keith Sinclair announces he's running for Student Council president, against Jackson's former friend Gaby de la Cruz. Gaby wants Jackson to stay out of it -- but he knows Keith has "connections" to the principal,... |
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Luminary
Krista McGee · Thomas Nelson,
Pages: 311
Format: Paperback |
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Thalli thought escaping to the surface would mean freedom. But is she any less of an anomaly aboveground? After escaping an underground annihilation chamber, Thalli, Berk, Rhen, and John find themselves fleeing across the former United States, aboveground for the first time. As the defectors... |
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