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Fire Emblem Warriors - Nintendo Switch

Nintendo of America Inc. · Nintendo of America
Format: Video Game

Clash with legions of soldiers and Fierce monsters as Marth, Xander, Corrin, and other Fire Emblem heroes unleashing over-the-top-powerful Dynasty Warriors-style moves. Take direct control of known and original Fire Emblem characters, issue them strategic commands in the midst of battle,...
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Draw 50 Boats, Ships, Trucks, and Trains: The Step-by-Step Way to Draw Submarines, Sailboats, Dump Trucks, Locomotives, and Much More...

Lee J Ames · Watson-Guptill
Pages: 64
Format: Paperback

Draw 50 Boats, Ships, Trucks, and Trains teaches aspiring artists how to draw with ease by following simple, step-by-step instructions. Celebrated author Lee J. Ames shows readers how to draw dozens of modes of transportation from throughout history, such as a Viking ship and the Santa...
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Dreamland

Robert Luis Anderson · HarperTeen
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

From immensely talented debut author Robert L. Anderson comes a stunning, complex, and imaginative story about the fine line between dreams and reality that will appeal to fans of Maggie Stiefvater's The Raven Cycle.

Odea Donahue has been able to travel through people's dreams...

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The Unquiet

Mikaela Everett · Greenwillow Books
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

For most of her life, Lirael has been training to kill - and replace - a duplicate version of herself on a parallel Earth. She is the perfect sleeper-soldier. But she's beginning to suspect she is not a good person. Fans of eerily futuristic and beautifully crafted stories such as Never...
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Eat the sky, drink the ocean

Kirsty Murray · Margaret Mcelderry Bks
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

Nineteen contributors from India and Australia - including Printz Award-winning author Margo Lanagan and New York Times bestsellers Justine Larbalestier and Samhita Arnir - team up to create a groundbreaking collection of feminist stories about the connections we all share.

In...
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Counting Thyme

Melanie Conklin · G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Newbery-winning Rules meets Counting by 7s in this affecting story of a girl's devotion to her brother and what it means to be home

When eleven-year-old Thyme Owens' little brother, Val, is accepted into a new cancer drug trial, it's just the second chance that he needs....

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My Ideal Boyfriend Is a Croissant

Laura Dockrill · Delacorte Press
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

This honest, laugh-out-loud novel brimming with body positivity, bite-sized nuggets of feminism, and commentary on eating will have readers rooting for sixteen-year-old BB as she navigates her world while maintaining her plucky zest for life even in the most trying of times.It's a food...
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Brooding YA Hero: Becoming a Main Character

Carrie DiRisio · Sky Pony Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Have you ever wished you could receive a little guidance from your favorite book boyfriend? Ever dreamed of being the Chosen One in a YA novel? Want to know all the secrets of surviving the dreaded plot twist?

Or maybe you're just really confused about what "opal-tinted, luminous...
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The Final Four: The Pursuit of College Basketball Glory

Matt Doeden · Millbrook Press
Pages: 64
Format: Print book

When basketball fans hear the words Final Four, they probably think of the buzzer-beaters, Cinderella stories, and bracket-busters that have thrilled people for years. However, you don't need to be a die-hard fan to know that the NCAA men's basketball tournament is one of the most...
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Grandmaster: A Novel

David Klass · Farrar
Pages: 226
Format: Hardcover

Freshman Daniel Pratzer gets a chance to prove himself when the chess team invites him and his father to a weekend-long parent-child tournament. Daniel, thinking that his father is a novice, can't understand why his teammates want so badly for them to participate. Then he finds out the truth:...

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The Wren Hunt

Mary Watson · Bloomsbury YA
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

Thrilling, atmospheric, and filled with ancient magic, this lyrically written YA debut is perfect for readers of The Raven Cycle and Wink Poppy Midnight.

Every Christmas, Wren is chased through the woods near her isolated Irish village by her family's enemies--the Judges--and...

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American Panda

Gloria Chao · Simon Pulse
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

An incisive, laugh-out-loud contemporary debut about a Taiwanese-American teen whose parents want her to be a doctor and marry a Taiwanese Ivy Leaguer despite her squeamishness with germs and crush on a Japanese classmate.

At seventeen, Mei should be in high school, but skipping...
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Hidden Human Computers: The Black Women of Nasa

SUE BRADFORD EDWARDS · ESSENTIAL LIBRARY
Pages: 112
Format: Print book

Hidden Human Computersdiscusses how in the 1950s, black women made critical contributions to NASA by performing calculations that made it possible for the nation's astronauts to fly into space and return safely to Earth. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards....
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The Way You Make Me Feel

MAURENE GOO · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

An NPR Best Book of 2018
A Boston Globe Best Children's Book of 2018
A We Need Diverse Books 2018 Must-Read
A TAYSHAS 2019 Reading List Book

From the author of I Believe in a Thing Called Love, a laugh-out-loud story of love, new friendships, and one unique food...

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Teach Me to Forget

Erica Chapman · Merit Press
Pages: 287
Format: Print book

Ellery wants to die. Nothing is going right. Her younger sister is dead, and her family is in a shambles. But on the day that she tries to end it all, even the gun won't work. When she tries to return it, she's intercepted by a security guard who also happens to be a boy in one of her classes,...
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