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The Borden Murders: Lizzie Borden and the Trial of the Century

Sarah Miller · Yearling
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

With murder, court battles, and sensational newspaper headlines, the story of Lizzie Borden is compulsively readable and perfect for the Common Core. Lizzie Borden took an axe, gave her mother forty whacks. When she saw what she had done, she gave her father forty-one. In a compelling,...
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My Name Is Not Friday

JON WALTER · David Fickling Books
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback

* "Fascinating and unforgettable." --Kirkus Reviews, starred review* "A rich, thought-provoking, and deeply satisfying book." --Publishers Weekly, starred reviewNamed to Bustle's "12 YA Novels That Will Make You See The World Differently"Well-mannered Samuel...
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A Totally Awkward Love Story

Tom Ellen · Delacorte Press
Pages: 307
Format: Hardcover

Some loves are meant to be. Others are awkward. Get ready for the second type in this "laugh-out-loud" (Bustle.com) romance about missed connections and trying to find - and keep - "The One." Written by a former real-life couple! The summer before college, Hannah...
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The Gilded Cage

Lucinda Gray · Square Fish
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

Murder, mystery, and a feisty heroine come together in The Gilded Cage, an intriguing historical novel from Lucinda Gray. After growing up on a farm in Virginia, Walthingham Hall in England seems like another world to sixteen-year-old Katherine Randolph. Her new life, filled with the splendor...
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The Great Hunt

Wendy Higgins · HarperTeen
Pages: 11
Format: Print book

Now available in paperback from Wendy Higgins, author of the Sweet Evil series, the New York Times bestselling The Great Hunt reimagines the Brothers Grimm fairy tale "The Singing Bone" in a dramatic, romance-filled fantasy with rugged hunters, romantic tension, and a princess...
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The Drowning Eyes

Emily Foster · Tom Doherty Assoc Llc, 2016.
Pages: 144
Format: Print book

When the Dragon Ships began to tear through the trade lanes and ravage coastal towns, the hopes of the arichipelago turned to the Windspeakers on Tash. The solemn weather-shapers with their eyes of stone can steal the breeze from raiders' sails and save the islands from their wrath....
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Suffer Love

Ashley Herring Blake · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

Sam Bennett falls for Hadley St. Clair before he knows her last name. When Sam finds out she is that St. Clair, daughter of the man who destroyed Sam's family, he has a choice: follow his heart or tell the truth about the scandal that links their families. Funny and passionate, Suffer Love...
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The Great Pursuit

Wendy Higgins · HarperCollins Publishers and Blackstone Audio
Pages: 1
Format: Audio CD

[Young Adult Fiction (Ages 12-17) ]In New York Times bestselling author Wendy Higgins's dramatic, romance-filled sequel to The Great Hunt, a new evil emerges as the hunter Pax and Princess Aerity fight to see if their love is more powerful than the war between the magical Lashed and the nonmagical...
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Crown of Feathers

Nicki Pau Preto · Simon Pulse
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover

An Ember in the Ashes meets Three Dark Crowns in this lush debut fantasy novel about a girl who disguises herself as a boy to join a secret group of warriors that ride phoenixes into battle.I had a sister, once ... In a world ruled by fierce warrior queens, a grand empire was built upon...
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Chance the Rapper: Independent Innovator

DIANE BAILEY · Essential Library
Pages: 112
Format: Library Binding

This biography highlights the life and accomplishments of Chance the Rapper. Readers learn about Chance's early life, inspiration to pursue music, and successes as a hip-hop artist. With striking photographs and thought-provoking sidebars, the book brings to life Chance's faith,...
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Spare and Found Parts

Sarah Maria Griffin · Blackstone Audio
Format: Audiobook on CD

Nell Crane has never held a boy's hand. In a city devastated by an epidemic, where survivors are all missing parts--an arm, a leg, an eye--Nell has always been an outsider. Her father is the famed scientist who created the biomechanical limbs that everyone now uses. But she's the only...
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The Raven's Tale

Cat Winters · Amulet Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

"Brooding, macabre, romantic, and surprisingly whimsical . . . a must-read for Poe fans and Poe newcomers alike." -- Kendare Blake, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Three Dark Crowns series"Winters's smart, silvery, slithering prose finds beauty in the grotesque...
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Demon Pirate

Kevin Charles Smith · Journey Publications, LLP
Pages: 294
Format: Perfect Paperback

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Dead Girls Society

Michelle Krys · Delacorte Press
Pages: 292
Format: Print book

A girl accepts a mysterious invitation to play a deadly game in this suspense-filled thriller from the author of HEXED--perfect for fans of NERVE by Jeanne Ryan and Lauren Oliver's PANIC.You are cordially invited to participate in a game of thrills and dares. Tell no one, and come alone....
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The Prey

Tom Isbell · HarperTeen
Pages: 404
Format: Print book

The Maze Runner meets The Hunger Games in this heart-pounding trilogy. Orphaned teens, soon to be hunted for sport, must flee their resettlement camps in their fight for survival and a better life. For in the Republic of the True America, it's always hunting season. Riveting action, intense...
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