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Holly Schindler · HarperTeen
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Acclaimed author Holly Schindler writes a compelling contemporary tale with a dash of magic. The theater comes to life in this story of family ties, fate, love, and one girl's quest to rewrite history.The local Avery Theater was just a run-down building to Quin - until her mother told...
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Chien-Shiung Wu: Nuclear Physicist

Nelson Yomtov · Essential Library
Pages: 112
Format: Library Binding

Women scientists have made key contributions to the pursuit of science and some of the most important discoveries of all time. In Chien-Shiung Wu, learn how the Chinese nuclear physicist chose to pursue a career in science and made breakthrough discoveries in nuclear fission and the scientific...
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Smokejumpers: Fighting Fires from the Sky

Justin Petersen · an imprint of Capstone Press
Pages: 32
Format: Print book

"Gives readers a behind-the-scenes look at how emergency responders do their day-to-day jobs"--
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The Duke of Bannerman Prep

Katie Nelson · Sky Pony Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Words are weapons. Facts can be manipulated. And nothing is absolute - especially right and wrong.Tanner McKay is at Bannerman Prep for one reason: to win. The elite school recruited him after he argued his public school's debate team to victory last year, and now Bannerman wants that...
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Ship It

Britta Lundin · Freeform
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

CLAIRE is a sixteen-year-old fangirl obsessed with the show Demon Heart. FOREST is an actor on Demon Heart who dreams of bigger roles. When the two meet at a local Comic-Con panel, it's a dream come true for Claire. Until the Q&A, that is, when Forest laughs off Claire's assertion...
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This Raging Light

Estelle Laure · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 277
Format: Print book

For fans of Jandy Nelson and Rainbow Rowell comes a gorgeous debut novel about family, friends, and first love. Lucille Bennett is pushed into adulthood after her mom decides to "take a break" ... from parenting, from responsibility, from Lucille and her little sister, Wren....
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Black Wings Beating

Alex London · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

"Epic thrills, heart-punching romance, and a marvel of a hero" --Adam Silvera, New York Times-bestselling author of They Both Die at the EndThe people of Uztar have long looked to the sky with hope and wonder. Nothing in their world is more revered than the birds of prey and no one more...
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Scowler

Daniel Kraus · Delacorte Press
Pages: 306
Format: eBook

Equal parts haunting and horrifying, this literary horror novel gives readers insight into the mind of a controlling homicidal man and the son who must stop him. "Marvin Burke is one of the great monsters of literature, a figure of immense, credible terror and savagery."--Cory...
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The poet X

Elizabeth Acevedo · Harper Audio
Format: Audiobook on CD

Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking. But Xiomara has plenty she wants to say, and she pours all her frustration and passion onto the pages of a leather...
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Weapons and Vehicles of the Vietnam War

Elizabeth Summers · Capstone Press
Format: Print book

The Vietnam War was difficult for the United States troops. Military forces had limited choices of vehicles and weapons to use in the jungles. U.S. soldiers used flamethrowers and cluster bombs, while the North Vietnamese forces buried thousands of land mines. Young readers will learn about...
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The Diminished

Kaitlyn Sage Patterson · Harlequin Teen
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

"Two fierce young people battle a fiery landscape and vicious foes in a race for freedom. I was glued to my seat!" - #1 New York Times bestselling author Tamora Pierce In the Alskad Empire, nearly all are born with a twin, two halves to form one whole ... yet some face the world...
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The emerald sea

Richelle Mead
Format: Audiobook on CD

Meet Tamsin, the Glittering Court's hard-angled emerald. Her outsized aspirations make her a fierce competitor, rising to the top of the ranks. But when the ship she boards for the New World is tragically lost at sea, she is quite literally thrown off-course.
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Christy Miller Collection, Vol 1 (The Christy Miller Collection)

Robin Jones Gunn · Multnomah Books
Format: Kindle Edition

The first nine books in the popular Christy Miller series are now available in three treasured volumes! Bestselling author Robin Jones Gunn packs each one with enough action, romance, and drama to keep you reading and wanting more. It all starts the summer Christy vacations on a California...
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Allegedly

Tiffany D Jackson · Katherine Tegen Books
Pages: 387
Format: Hardcover

Orange Is the New Black meets Walter Dean Myer's Monster in this gritty, twisty, and haunting debut by Tiffany D. Jackson about a girl convicted of murder seeking the truth while surviving life in a group home.Mary B. Addison killed a baby. Allegedly. She didn't say much in that first interview...
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Fatal Faults: The Story of the Challenger Explosion

Eric Braun · Capstone Press
Format: Print book

Some said it was too dangerous to fly. Others insisted the shuttle must take off. Lies, pressure, and faulty parts all played a terrible part in the explosion of the Challenger space shuttle in 1986. Through powerful narrative storytelling, follow the tales of people who experienced the tragedy...
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