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Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings: A Memoir

Margarita Engle · Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pages: 192
Format: Print book

In this poetic memoir, which won the Pura Belpré Author Award, acclaimed author Margarita Engle tells of growing up as a child of two cultures during the Cold War.Margarita is a girl from two worlds. Her heart lies in Cuba, her mother's tropical island country, a place so lush with vibrant...
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Bloom: A Girl's Guide to Growing Up Gorgeous

Carmindy · Perigee
Pages: 148
Format: Paperback

From the makeup artist on TLC's What Not to Wear, a full color make-up book that shows teenagers how to embrace their own inner beauty. Carmindy gives teens the beauty basics and best skincare practices needed to grow up gorgeous. Instead of teaching them to cover up their "flaws,"...
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The Kill Order

James Dashner · Delacorte Press
Pages: 329
Format: Book

Read the fourth book in the #1 New York Times bestselling Maze Runner series, perfect for fans of The Hunger Games and Divergent. The first and second books, The Maze Runner and The Scorch Trials, are now major motion pictures featuring the star of MTV's Teen Wolf, Dylan O'Brien; Kaya Scodelario;...
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Falling into Place

Amy Zhang · Greenwillow Books; Reprint edition
Format: Print book

She would be an object in motion that would stay in motion, even if it meant flattening everything in her path.One cold fall day, high school junior Liz Emerson steers her car into a tree. Why? Why did Liz Emerson decide that the world would be better off without her? Why did she give up? This...
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I Luv U 2: Understanding Relationships and Dating

Pete Heiden · Abdo Publishing Company; 1 edition
Format: Book

Relationships can be so confusing. What do you do if you are too nervous to ask someone out? If you make out with someone and later regret it? If relationships cause problems between you and your friends? If you're not ready to date? What if someone dumps you? Figuring it all out can complicate...
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The Hunted

Charlie Higson · Disney-Hyperion
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

Ella is out in the country, alone now except for her silent rescuer, Scarface, about whom she knows nothing, while Ed leaves London on a dangerous quest, determined to find Ella and keep his promise to Small Sam that he will reunite sister and brother.
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Fallout

Gwenda Bond · Switch Press, a Capstone imprint
Pages: 303
Format: Print book

Lois Lane is starting a new life in Metropolis. An Army brat, Lois has lived all over--and seen all kinds of things. (Some of them defy explanation, like the near-disaster she witnessed in Kansas in the middle of one night.) But now her family is putting down roots in the big city, and Lois...
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Mosquitoland

David Arnold · Viking
Pages: 342
Format: Hardcover

"Top-notch" - USA Today "Illuminating" - Washington Post "A breath of fresh air" - Entertainment Weekly "Memorable" - People I am a collection of oddities, a circus of neurons and electrons: my heart is the ringmaster, my soul is the trapeze artist,...
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The death and life of Zebulon Finch. Volume one, At the edge of empire

Daniel Kraus · Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pages: 642
Format: Print book

"The story follows Zebulon Finch, a teenager murdered in 1896 Chicago who inexplicably returns from the dead and searches for redemption through the ages"--
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Illusive

Emily Lloyd-Jones · Little, Brown and Company, 2014.
Pages: 406
Format: Hardcover

The X-Men meets Ocean's Eleven in this edge-of-your-seat sci-fi adventure about a band of "super" criminals.
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The Revenge of Seven

Pittacus Lore · HarperCollins; Reprint edition
Format: Print book

The fifth book in the New York Times bestselling I Am Number Four series! The Garde have suffered an unbearable loss. Number Five has betrayed them. Eight is gone forever. Ella has been kidnapped. The others are now scattered.In Chicago, John makes the unlikeliest of allies Adam, a Mogadorian...
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Everything, Everything

NICOLA YOON · Ember
Pages: 310
Format: Paperback

The instant #1 New York Times bestseller--now a major motion picture starring Amandla Stenberg as Maddy and Nick Robinson as Olly. Risk everything . . . for love.What if you couldn't touch anything in the outside world? Never breathe in the fresh air, feel the sun warm your face . . . or kiss...
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Painless Writing

Jefferey Strausser · Barron'S
Pages: 300
Format: Print book

Learn how to express your thoughts clearly, enliven your writing with vivid images, avoid the dull passive voice, and more. Titles in Barron's extensive Painless Series cover a wide range of subjects, as they are taught at middle school and high school levels. Perfect for supporting...
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Fly Girls: The Daring American Women Pilots Who Helped Win WWII

P O'Connell Pearson · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

In the tradition of Hidden Figures, debut author Patricia Pearson offers a beautifully written account of the remarkable but often forgotten group of female fighter pilots who answered their country's call in its time of need during World War II.At the height of World War II, the US Army...
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Caged Warrior

Alan Lawrence Sitomer · Hyperion
Pages: 216
Format: Print book

McCutcheon Daniels' life is full of bone-cracking violence. As a star fighter in the gritty underground Mixed Martial Arts circuit in the poorest section of Detroit, McCutcheon fights under the tutelage of his volatile and violent father, not so much for himself but to survive as protector...
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