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Booked

Kwame Alexander · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 314
Format: Print book

National Book Award Long ListNew York Times Bestseller Like lightning/you strike/fast and free/legs zoom/down field/eyes fixed/on the checkered ball/on the goal/ten yards to go/can't nobody stop you/can't nobody cop you ... In this follow-up to the Newbery-winning novel THE CROSSOVER, soccer,...
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Feral Nights

Cynthia Leitich Smith · Candlewick
Format: Book

Fans of the Tantalize quartet will thrill to see werepossum Clyde and other favorite secondary characters - plus all-new ones - take to the fore in book one of an all-new series.When sexy, free-spirited werecat Yoshi tracks his sister, Ruby, to Austin, he discovers that she is not only...
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Sekret

Lindsay Smith · Roaring Brook Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

An empty mind is a safe mind. Yulia's father always taught her to hide her thoughts and control her emotions to survive the harsh realities of Soviet Russia. But when she's captured by the KGB and forced to work as a psychic spy with a mission to undermine the U.S. space program,...
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Deadly Design

Debra Dockter · G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

The emotional power of If I Stay meets the survival story of Maze Runner Genetically engineered identical twins Kyle and Connor McAdams were born two years apart. Their parents figured it was safer that way, to increase their odds of survival. Connor was born first, paving an impossibly...
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Rollover: A Dan Mahoney Mystery

Susan Slater · Poisoned Pen Press; 1 edition
Format: Print book

A bank heist turns sleepy little Wagon Mound, New Mexico, on its ear. Its no straight-forward, demand all the money at gun-point and hustle out the front door kind of robbery. Its a sneaky tunneling that probably took months to complete and landed the thieves in a room of safe deposit boxesnot...
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Made You Up

Francesca Zappia · Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pages: 428
Format: Print book

Reality, it turns out, is often not what you perceive it to be - sometimes, there really is someone out to get you. For fans of Silver Linings Playbook and Liar, this thought-provoking debut tells the story of Alex, a high school senior - and the ultimate unreliable narrator - unable to tell...
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VIII

H. M. Castor · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers; Reprint edition
Format: Hardcover

Destined for greatness...tormented by demons. The epic story of Henry VIII’s transformation from a handsome, gifted youth to a murderous, cruel king.Hal is a young man of extraordinary talents, astonishing warrior skills, sharp intelligence, and a fierce sense of honor and virtue....
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The Day the President Was Shot: The Secret Service, the FBI, a Would-Be Killer, and the Attempted Assassination of Ronald Reagan

Bill O'Reilly · Henry Holt and Company
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

The year was 1981. Just two months into his presidency, Ronald Reagan was shot after leaving a speaking engagement in Washington, D. C. The quick action of the Secret Service and medical professionals saved the president's life. Mere days after his near-death experience, Reagan's personal...
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The Art of Being Normal

Lisa Williamson · Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr)
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

David Piper has always been an outsider. His parents think he's gay. The school bully thinks he's a freak. Only his two best friends know the real truth: David wants to be a girl.On the first day at his new school Leo Denton has one goal: to be invisible. Attracting the attention...
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The Width of the World

David Baldacci · Scholastic Press
Pages: 448
Format: Print book

This is it. Vega Jane's time. She's been lied to her whole life, so she breaks away from Wormwood, the only home she's ever known, in search of the truth. She battles horrors to fight her way across the Quag with her best friend, Delph, and her mysterious canine, Harry Two. Against all odds,...
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Even in Paradise

Chelsey Philpot · HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover

The Great Gatsby meets Looking for Alaska in this stunning debut novel.When Julia Buchanan enrolls at St. Annes at the beginning of junior year, Charlotte Ryder already knows all about her. Most people do . . . or think they do. Charlotte certainly never expects shell be Julias friend....
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Women of Steel and Stone: 22 Inspirational Architects, Engineers, and Landscape Designers

Anna M. Lewis · Chicago Review Press
Pages: 264
Format: Hardcover

An inspiration for young people who love to design, build, and work with their hands, Women of Steel and Stone tells the stories of 22 female architects, engineers, and landscape designers from the 1800s to today. Engaging profiles based on historical research and firsthand interviews stress...
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My Brilliant Idea

Stuart David · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 238
Format: Print book

Meet the man Jack "The Jackdaw" Dawson. Jack is a man with a plan, a serious plan. Always on the lookout for a get-rich-quick scheme (essentially, a get-me-away-from-the-life-my-parents-live one) , he thinks he has come up with the perfect solution an app which stops you from...
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The Whisper

Aaron Starmer · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

Twelve-year-old Alistair Cleary has washed up on shore. But where? It seems to be Aquavania, the magical realm where children create entire worlds from their imagination. There's something wrong, though. The creators have disappeared and the worlds are falling apart. All Alistair wants...
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