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The Boy at the Top of the Mountain

John Boyne · Henry Holt and Company
Pages: 262
Format: Print book

From the author of "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas "comes another extraordinary story of World War II and innocence in the face of evil. When Pierrot becomes an orphan, he must leave his home in Paris for a new life with his aunt Beatrix, a servant in a wealthy Austrian household....
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Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor's Story

Caren Barzelay Stelson · Carolrhoda Books
Pages: 144
Format: Print book

This striking work of narrative nonfiction tells the true story of six-year-old Sachiko Yasui's survival of the Nagasaki atomic bomb on August 9, 1945 and the heartbreaking and lifelong aftermath. Having conducted extensive interviews with Sachiko Yasui, Caren Stelson shares the true...
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The Swap

Megan Shull · Katherine Tegen Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

This smart and funny twist on Freaky Friday is perfect for fans of Wendy Mass, Jerry Spinelli, and Jon Scieszka.With one random wish, Jack and Ellie are living life in each other's shoes. He's her. And she's him. ELLIE assumed popular guys didn't worry about body image,...
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I Am Number Four

Pittacus Lore · Harper; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Nine of us came here. We look like you. We talk like you. We live among you. But we are not you. We can do things you dream of doing. We have powers you dream of having. We are stronger and faster than anything you have ever seen. We are the superheroes you worship in movies and comic books...
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When

Victoria Laurie · Harpercollins
Pages: 327
Format: Book

Maddie Fynn is a shy high school junior, cursed with an eerie intuitive ability: she sees a series of unique digits hovering above the foreheads of each person she encounters. Her earliest memories are marked by these numbers, but it takes her father's premature death for Maddie and her family...
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Unblemished

Sara Ella · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

Eliyana can't bear to look at her own reflection. But what if that were only one Reflection - one world? What if another world exists where her blemish could become her strength? Eliyana is used to the shadows. With a birthmark covering half her face, she just hopes to graduate high...
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Kingdom Keepers VII: The Insider

Ridley Pearson · Disney Pr
Pages: 609
Format: Print book

The Kingdom Keepers' senior year in high school is almost over. For more than three years, things have been quiet. Their battles are long behind them, they agree, the threat to the Disney realm silenced albeit at great cost. But inside the catacombs of the Aztec temple where Finn Whitman...
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Uprooted: The Japanese American Experience During World War II

Albert Marrin · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 246
Format: Print book

On the 75th anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor comes a harrowing and enlightening look at the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II - from National Book Award finalist Albert Marrin Just seventy-five years ago, the American government did something that most would...
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Raging Sea: Undertow Trilogy Book 2

Michael Buckley · Houghton Mifflin, 2016.
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

In the first book of Michael Buckley's Undertow trilogy, the Alpha arrived and the world was never the same. At the start of the second book, most of south Brooklyn is in ruins and the nation is terrified. Nearly everyone that Lyric Walker loves is either missing or presumed dead, including...
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The Siege

Mark Alpert · Sourcebooks Fire
Pages: 275
Format: Print book

Mission: Sabotage.Adam gave up everything for a new chance at life. Now with a cutting-edge digital mind, he is smarter, faster, better than a normal teen. Except Adam is anything but invincible. He's indebted to the government program that gave him this ability-and freedom comes at a price....
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