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Ghost Prison

Joseph Delaney · Sourcebooks Fire
Format: Hardcover

Once I felt someone touch the back of my neck. It felt like the tip of an ice-cold finger. But when I turned to look there was nobody there. Night falls, the moon rises, and fifteen-year-old Billy starts his first night as a prison guard. But this is no ordinary prison. There are haunted...
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Courage to Soar: A Body in Motion, A Life in Balance

Simone Biles · Dreamscape Media
Format: Audiobook

Simone Biles' God-given talent, passion, and perseverance have made her one of the top gymnasts in the world, as well as a four-time winner of Olympic gold in Rio de Janeiro. But there is more to Simone than the nineteen medals-fourteen of them gold-and the Olympic successes. Through...
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Three Times Lucky

Sheila Turnage · Puffin Books
Pages: 312
Format: Print book

A Newbery Honor BookA hilarious Southern debut with the kind of characters you meet once in a lifetime Rising sixth grader Miss Moses LoBeau lives in the small town of Tupelo Landing, NC, where everyone's business is fair game and no secret is sacred. She washed ashore in a hurricane eleven...
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Whistling in the Dark

SHIRLEY HUGHES · Candlewick
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

Legendary author Shirley Hughes draws on her young teenage memories for a compelling novel of friendship and mysteries set in Liverpool during the Blitz.Liverpool, 1940: Thirteen-year-old Joan's home is under constant threat from the Nazis' terrifying nightly air raids. Everyone...
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The Maze Runner

James Dashner · Delacorte Press
Format: Print book

Perfect for fans of Divergent and The Hunger Games, this special movie tie-in edition of the first book in the 1 New York Times bestselling Maze Runner series, The Maze Runner,  features an eight-page full-color insert with photos from the film and an exclusive fan sticker. The Maze Runner...
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An Enchantment of Ravens

Margaret Rogerson · Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pages: 300
Format: Hardcover

Parents' Choice Silver Honors Winner A skilled painter must stand up to the ancient power of the faerie courts - even as she falls in love with a faerie prince - in this gorgeous debut novel.Isobel is a prodigy portrait artist with a dangerous set of clients: the sinister fair folk, immortal...
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The Fault in Our Stars

John Green · Speak; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

John Green’s brilliant #1 bestselling novel The Fault in Our Stars is now a major motion picture starring Shailene Woodley, Ansel Elgort, Laura Dern, and Willem Dafoe, in movie theaters June 6, 2014!   Includes a full-color insert of stills from the movie! Despite the tumor-shrinking...
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Just One Year

Gayle Forman · Dutton Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Just One Day. Just One Year. Just One Read.Before you find out how their story ends, remember how it began....When he opens his eyes, Willem doesn't know where in the world he is - Prague or Dubrovnik or back in Amsterdam. All he knows is that he is once again alone, and that he needs...
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A Dog in the Cave: The Wolves Who Made Us Human

Kay Frydenborg · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

We know dogs are our best animal friends, but have you ever thought about what that might mean? Fossils show we've shared our work and homes with dogs for tens of thousands of years. Now there's growing evidence that we influenced dogs' evolution - and they, in turn, changed ours. Even...
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Tumbling

Caela Carter · Viking Books for Young Readers
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

For fans of Make It Or Break It, a novel about the road to Olympics for the world's most elite gymnasts.Work harder than anyone. Be the most talented. Sacrifice everything. And if you're lucky, maybe you will go to the Olympics. Grace lives and breathes gymnastics - but no matter how hard...
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In Dreams

Erica Orloff · Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Pages: 263
Format: Paperback

Inception meets Unearthly in this hot romance for fans of Meg Cabot's Abandon Series!In the land of nightmares, she finds the man of her dreams...He haunts her in her dreams. She is always searching, looking for the man who calls her from afar, a disembodied voice who knows everything...
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Alliance: The Paladin Prophecy Book 2

Mark Frost · Ember; Reprint edition
Format: Print book

Readers of I Am Number Four, The Maze Runner, and Legend will love this exciting new adventure series by the co-creator of the groundbreaking television show Twin Peaks, with its unique combination of mystery, heart-pounding action, and the supernatural.   Will West is a student...
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The Gulf War on the Front Lines

Tim Cooke · Edge Books
Format: Paperback

U.S. and other coalition soldiers fighting in the Gulf War faced violence on the battlefield, extreme heat, and blinding sandstorms after they were sent to fight the Iraqis in 1991. Experience life on the front lines, in a time of shifting political power and advanced technology.
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Space shuttle disaster : the tragic mission of the challenger

Henry M Holden · Enslow Publishers
Format:  Book : Juvenile audience : EnglishView all editions and formats

On the frigid morning of January 28, 1986, the space shuttle CHALLENGER rumbled off the launchpad at Cape Canaveral, Florida. Brilliant orange flames and clouds of smoke billowed out of the external fuel tank, lifting CHALLENGER high into the crystal-blue sky. The mission had attracted...
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Until It Hurts to Stop

Jennifer Hubbard · Viking Juvenile
Format: Hardcover

When you can’t trust anyone, how can you ever feel safe? In seventh grade, Maggie Camden was the class outcast. Every day, the other girls tripped her, pinched her, trapped her in the bathroom, told her she would be better off dead. Four years have passed since then, and Maggie’s...
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