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The Pact

Monica McKayhan · Harlequin Kimani
Format: Paperback

Break up for the summer…That's the deal Indigo Summer makes with her boyfriend, Marcus Carter. That way, they can both enjoy their vacations, no guilt, no questions asked. Not that Indigo isn't worried when Marcus heads to Texas to spend time with his estranged mother—kissing...
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Farworld Book 2: Land Keep

J. Scott Savage · Shadow Mountain; Reprint edition
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback

Four mythical Elementals Water, Land, Air, and Fire have the power to save two worlds, Earth and Farworld, from a common enemy: the Dark Circle. In book one, Water Keep, Marcus, a disabled boy from Earth, and Kyja, a girl with no magic from Farworld, begin their epic quest to find the Elementals...
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Heir to the Sky

Amanda Sun · Harlequin Teen
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback

I dangle my legs over the edge of the cliff, tapping my heels against the smooth dirt that crumbles down the side of the continent. I don't fear falling. The world below looks unreal and distant, like it's only been painted on. Falling is something I can't even imagine. As heir...
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Manners & Mutiny

Gail Carriger · Little
Pages: 326
Format: Print book

If one must flirt...flirt with danger.

Lessons in the art of espionage aboard Mademoiselle Geraldine's floating dirigible have become tedious without Sophronia's sweet sootie Soap nearby. She would much rather be using her skills to thwart the dastardly Picklemen, yet her concerns...
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All Fall Down

Ally Carter · Scholastic Inc.
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

Grace Blakely is absolutely certain of three things:1. She is not crazy.2. Her mother was murdered.3. Someday she is going to find the killer and make him pay.As certain as Grace is about these facts, nobody else believes her -- so there's no one she can completely trust. Not her grandfather,...
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

J K Rowling · Listening Library
Format: Audiobook on CD

Harry Potter has no idea how famous he is. That's because he's being raised by his miserable aunt and uncle who are terrified Harry will learn that he's really a wizard, just as his parents were. But everything changes when Harry is summoned to attend an infamous school for wizards,...
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The Secret Diary of Lydia Bennet

Natasha Farrant · Scholastic Inc.
Pages: 318
Format: Print book

Lydia is the youngest of the five Bennet girls. She's stubborn, never listens, and can't seem to keep her mouth shut--not that she would want to anyway. She's bored with her country life and wishes her older sisters would pay her attention . . . for once!

Luckily, the handsome Wickham...
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Ender's Shadow

Orson Scott Card · Tor Teen; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

A companion novel to the beloved, bestselling science fiction classic Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card, a major motion picture event in November 2013 If Julian Delphiki, known as "Bean," has learned anything from living on the streets, it's how to survive. And not with...
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Wolf Children

PAUL DOWSWELL · Bloomsbury Childrens
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

It is July 1945, Hitler's Third Reich has fallen, and Berlin is in ruins. Living on the edge of survival in the cellar of an abandoned hospital, Otto and his ragtag gang of kids have banded together in the desperate, bombed-out city.
The war may be over, but danger lurks in the shadows...

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Black, White, Other: In Search of Nina Armstrong

Joan Steinau Lester · Blink
Pages: 222
Format: Paperback

Identity Crisis. As a biracial teen, Nina is accustomed to a life of varied hues - mocha-colored skin, ringed brown hair streaked with red, a black father, a white mother. When her parents decide to divorce, the rainbow of Nina's existence is reduced to a much starker reality. Shifting...
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Saving the World: A Maximum Ride Novel

James Patterson · Little, Brown and Company; Rep Rei edition
Format: Print book

In MAXIMUM RIDE SAVING THE WORLD AND OTHER EXTREME SPORTS the time has arrived for Max and her winged Flock to face their ultimate enemy and discover their original purpose to defeat the takeover of Re-evolution a sinister experiment to re-engineer a select population into a scientifically...
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Holocaust Rescue and Liberation

Craig E Blohm · ReferencePoint Press
Pages: 80
Format: Print book

During the Holocaust, many individuals and groups risked their lives to rescue Jews who had fled from the dangers of Nazi-occupied territory. They provided the refugees with hiding places, food and clothing, and forged documents to help them escape. When the Allies liberated the Holocaust...
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Stephen Hillenburg and SpongeBob SquarePants

Carla Mooney · ReferencePoint Press
Pages: 80
Format: Print book

Cartoonist Stephen Hillenburg, creator of SpongeBob SquarePants, has been fascinated by the ocean and its creatures since he was a child. His passion for the sea resulting in one of the most well-known and popular cartoon shows in television history.
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Red Madness: How a Medical Mystery Changed What We Eat

Gail Jarrow · Highlights for Children
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback

One hundred years ago, a mysterious and alarming illness spread across America's South, striking tens of thousands of victims. No one knew what caused it or how to treat it. People were left weak, disfigured, insane, and in some cases, dead. Award-winning science and history writer...
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The Whole Thing Together

Ann Brashares · Delacorte Press
Pages: 304
Format: Library Binding

A beautifully written novel about love, class differences, and betrayal playing out over the course of a fractured American family's Long Island summer from #1 New York Times bestselling author Ann Brashares, author of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series.

"A...
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