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Phantom limbs

Paula Garner · Candlewick Press
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

How do you move on from an irreplaceable loss? In a poignant debut, a sixteen-year-old boy must learn to swim against an undercurrent of grief - or be swept away by it.Otis and Meg were inseparable until her family abruptly moved away after the terrible accident that left Otis's little...
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Expelled

James Patterson · jimmy patterson
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A secret Twitter accountAn anonymous photoEveryone is a suspect Will Foster's Twitter account used to be anonymous--until someone posted The Photo that got him and three other students expelled, their futures ruined forever. But who took the picture, and why are they being targeted?To uncover...
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Beastly Brains: Exploring How Animals Think, Talk, and Feel

Nancy F Castaldo · HMH Books for Young Readers
Pages: 152
Format: Hardcover

In Beastly Brains, Castaldo delves into the minds of animals and explores animal empathy, communication, tool use, and social societies through interviews and historical anecdotes. Researchers from Charles Darwin to Jane Goodall have spent years analyzing the minds of animals, and today's...
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The Thickety: Well of Witches

J A White · Katherine Tegen Books
Pages: 512
Format: Print book

J. A. White's The Thickety: Well of Witches is an epic quest into an enchanted kingdom with new kinds of magic, an old enemy, and only one way out. Fans of Neil Gaiman will love this third novel in the spectacular and twisty fantasy series that has readers and reviewers raving.Kara...
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Rebel with a Cupcake

Anna Mainwaring · Kids Can Press
Pages: 216
Format: Hardcover

Jesobel Jones is bold and brash, the daughter of a hand model and a washed-up rock star. Jess sees no need to apologize for her rambling house, her imperfect family, her single status ... or her weight. Jess is who she is. She makes her own cupcakes and she eats them, too. No regrets.That...
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Bookish Boyfriends

Tiffany Schmidt · Amulet Paperbacks
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback

The first of two books in an intended paperback original series about a girl whose classic literary crushes manifest in real life. Merrilee Campbell, 16, thinks boys are better in books, chivalry is dead, and there'd be nothing more romantic than having just one guy woo her like the heroes...
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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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Our Country's Presidents: A Complete Encyclopedia of the U.S. Presidency

Ann Bausum · Natl Geographic
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

National Geographic presents the 43 individuals who have led the U.S., plus America's newest commander-in-chief, in this up-to-date, authoritative, and lavishly illustrated family, school, and library reference. It features comprehensive profiles of the 43 former presidents along with...
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The Price Guide to the Occult

LESLYE WALTON · Candlewick
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

From the author of The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender comes a haunting maelstrom of magic and murder in the lush, moody Pacific Northwest.When Rona Blackburn landed on Anathema Island more than a century ago, her otherworldly skills might have benefited friendlier neighbors....
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The Winner's Kiss

Marie Rutkoski · Farrar
Pages: 484
Format: Print book

War has begun. Arin is in the thick of it with untrustworthy new allies and the empire as his enemy. Though he has convinced himself that he no longer loves Kestrel, Arin hasn't forgotten her, or how she became exactly the kind of person he has always despised. She cared more for the empire...
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The Memory Book

Lara Avery · Poppy
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

They tell me that my memory will never be the same, that I'll start forgetting things. At first just a little, and then a lot. So I'm writing to remember.
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The Weight of Feathers: A Novel

Anna-Marie McLemore · Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Griffin
Pages: 308
Format: Print book

A finalist for the William C. Morris YA Debut Award, Anna-Marie McLemore's The Weight of Feathers is an utterly captivating young adult novel by a talented new voice.For twenty years, the Palomas and the Corbeaus have been rivals and enemies, locked in an escalating feud for over a generation....
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A Problematic Paradox

Eliot Sappingfield · G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Guardians of the Galaxy meets The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy in this wild, warm-hearted, and hilarious sci-fi debut about a brainy young girl who is recruited for a very special boarding school.Nikola Kross has given up on living in harmony with classmates and exasperated teachers:...
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Turtles All the Way Down

John Green · Dutton Books
Pages: 286
Format: Hardcover

Sixteen-year-old Aza never intended to pursue the mystery of fugitive billionaire Russell Pickett, but there's a hundred-thousand-dollar reward at stake and her best and most fearless friend, Daisy, is eager to investigate. So together, they navigate the short distance and broad divides...
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The Giant

Lex Thomas · Carolrhoda Lab
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

In this fourth book in the Quarantine series, Gonzalo, now released from the high school quarantine, travels across a ravaged America looking for his beloved girlfriend Sasha.
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