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Dumplin'

Julie Murphy · Balzer + Bray
Pages: 375
Format: Print book

Sixteen-year-old Willowdean wants to prove to everyone in her small Texas town that she is more than just a fat girl, so, while grappling with her feelings for a co-worker who is clearly attracted to her, Will and some other misfits prepare to compete in the beauty pageant her mother runs.
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The Heroes of Olympus, Book One The Lost Hero: The Graphic Novel

Robert Venditti · Disney-Hyperion
Format: Hardcover

Jason has a problem. He doesn't remember anything before waking up on a school bus holding hands with a girl. Apparently she's his girlfriend Piper, his best friend is a kid named Leo, and they're all students in the Wilderness School, a boarding school for "bad kids."...
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Night Witches: A Novel of World War Two

Kathryn Lasky · Scholastic Audio Books
Format: Audio CD

16-year-old Valya knows what it feels like to fly. She's a pilot who's always felt more at home soaring through the sky than down on earth. But since the Germans surrounded Stalingrad, Valya's been forced to stay on the ground and watch her city crumble. When her mother is killed...
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Daughters of Ruin

K D Castner · Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Game of Thrones meets Graceling in a thrilling debut that follows the four fierce princesses of enemy kingdoms as their worlds collide in the throes of war.Rhea, Cadis, Suki, and Iren have lived together since they were children. They are called sisters. They are not. They are called equals....
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Frostblood

Elly Blake · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 376
Format: Hardcover

The Frost King will burn.
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Getting the Most Out of Makerspaces to Make Musical Instruments

Greg Roza · Rosen Classroom
Format: Paperback

Makerspaces are all about teaching through collaboration. This title grabs the attention of young people who are musically as well as technically inclined by showing them that they can make their own instrumentsliterally. Recent technologies such as 3-D printing and Arduino microcontrollers...
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Nigeria

Lura Rogers Seavey · Children's Press
Pages: 144
Format: Print book

With the largest population of any African country, Nigeria is home to a remarkably diverse group of people from many different ethnic and religious backgrounds. Its vast natural resources also make it one of Africa's leading economic powers. Readers will explore this incredible country's...
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Getting the Most Out of Makerspaces to Build Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Don Rauf · Rosen Publishing Group
Format: Paperback

The makerspace movement is as nascent and revolutionary as the technology behind unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) , and this volume introduces readers to both fascinating worlds. UAVs are no longer science fiction. Though their surveillance capabilities are controversial, theyre also being...
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The shadow behind the stars

Rebecca Hahn · Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

A girl's dark destiny could cause the unraveling of the world in this "shattering and transcendent" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) novel from the author of A Creature of Moonlight.Heed this warning, mortal: stay far away from the three sister Fates. For if they come to love...
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The Survival Guide for Kids with LD*:

Rhoda Cummings · Free Spirit Publ
Pages: 128
Format: Print book

Kids with LD can learn - they just learn differently. Young people labeled with a "learning disability" or "learning disorder" will find a welcome resource in this fully revised and updated survival guide. The book retains the warmth, affirmation, and straightforward...
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Willow

Tonya Cherie Hegamin · Candlewick Press (MA)
Pages: 374
Format: Hardcover

In 1848, an educated slave girl faces an inconceivable choice - between bondage and freedom, family and love.On one side of the Mason-Dixon Line lives fifteen-year-old Willow, her master's favorite servant. She's been taught to read and has learned to write. She believes her master...
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Crystal Kingdom

Amanda Hocking · St. Martin's Griffin, 2015.
Pages: 414
Format: Print book

Cast out by her kingdom and far from home, she's the Kanin people's only hope.Bryn Aven-unjustly charged with murder and treason-is on the run. The one person who can help is her greatest enemy, the gorgeous and enigmatic Konstantin Black. Konstantin is her only ally against those who have...
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Unrivaled

Alyson Noël · Katherine Tegen Books
Format: Print book

"Aspiring reporter Layla, budding actress Aster, and future guitar hero Tommy find themselves with a VIP invite to the world of Los Angeles's nightlife and lured into a competition where Hollywood's hottest starlet, Madison Brooks, is the target. Just as their hopes begin to gleam...
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Stranger Than Fanfiction

Chris Colfer · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Chris Colfer comes a funny, heartbreaking, unforgettable novel about friendship and fame. Cash Carter is the young, world famous lead actor of the hit television Wiz Kids. When four fans jokingly invite him on a cross-country road trip, they are shocked...
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A Fierce and Subtle Poison

Samantha Mabry · Algonquin
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

In this stunning debut, legends collide with reality when a boy is swept into the magical, dangerous world of a girl filled with poison. Everyone knows the legends about the cursed girl--Isabel, the one the senoras whisper about. They say she has green skin and grass for hair, and she feeds...
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