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Roller Coasters: From Concept to Consumer

Kevin Cunningham · Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc.
Pages: 64
Format: Book

Readers will get a close look at how people in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) careers are helping to build our future. Discover how people use STEM skills to solve problems and innovate throughout history. Diagrams, graphs, and charts help to clarify complex subjects...
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Nantucket Red

Leila Howland · Disney-Hyperion
Format: Hardcover

Cricket Thompson's lifetime of overachieving has paid off: she's headed to Brown University in the fall, with a spot on the lacrosse team and a scholarship that covers almost everything. Who knew living in the dorm cost money? An Ivy League education seems to mean living at home...
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Sweet Home Alaska

Carole Estby Dagg · Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) , 2016.
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

This exciting pioneering story, based on actual events, introduces readers to a fascinating chapter in American history, when FDR set up a New Deal colony in Alaska to give loans and land to families struggling during the Great Depression. Trip can't wait to follow in Laura Ingalls Wilder's...
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Falcon Wild

Terry Lynn Johnson · Charlesbridge
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover

An action-packed, contemporary novel about surviving in the wilderness.Thirteen-year-old Karma is desperate to become a certified falconer. At her dad's bird education center, she helps give demonstrations to guests and can fly the birds. But when her favorite rescued falcon, Stark, hurts...
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Conversion

Katherine Howe · Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Pages: 402
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane comes a chilling mystery - Prep meets The Crucible. It's senior year at St. Joan's Academy, and school is a pressure cooker. College applications, the battle for valedictorian, deciphering boys'...
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Salt & Storm

Kendall Kulper · Little, Brown and Company, 2014.
Pages: 398
Format: Hardcover

A sweeping historical romance about a witch who foresees her own murder--and the one boy who can help change her future.
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Scott Pilgrim Color Hardcover Volume 6: Finest Hour

Bryan Lee O'Malley · Oni Press
Format: Hardcover

Scott Pilgrim has faced down six of Ramona Flowers's evil exes. But now that the happy couple is no more, was it even worth it? And if Scott and Ramona aren't together, then why do the ominous messages from Gideon Graves keep coming? This the end of the Scott Pilgrim saga like...
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Sophie Someone

Hayley Long · Candlewick
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

What if you found out your life has been threaded with secrets - ones that rocked you to your core? An affecting page-turner written in a brave, memorable language all its own.Some words are hard to get out of your mouth. Because they spell out secrets that are too huge to be spoken out loud....
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Batman '66 Vol. 1

Jeff Parker · DC Comics
Format: Paperback

CAN the Caped Crusader unravel the Riddlers latest ruse?WILL Catwoman, that feline queen of crime, sink her claws into our heroes?HAVE the Dynamic Duo met their match in the Antarctic Alliance of the Penguin and Mr. Freeze?WHO will get the last laugh when Batman and Robin are forced to team...
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Strange the Dreamer

Laini Taylor · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 536
Format: Hardcover

A new epic fantasy by National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author Laini Taylor of the Daughter of Smoke & Bone trilogy.The dream chooses the dreamer, not the other way around--and Lazlo Strange, war orphan and junior librarian, has always feared that his dream...
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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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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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Love or Something Like It

Laurie Friedman · Darby Creek
Format: Hardcover

Now that April is officially going out with hot-boy-next-door Matt, she's head over heels. She loves how he makes her feel . . . most of the time. But one minute he's sweet and attentive, and the next, it's as if he's forgotten they're together. April just wants things...
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Essential Maps for the Lost

Deb Caletti · Simon Pulse, 2016.
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

From beloved author and National Book Award finalist Deb Caletti comes a fresh and luminous novel about the grief that can tear us apart and the people who can make us whole again.There are many ways to be lost. Sometimes people want to be lost. Madison - Mads to everyone who knows her - is trying...
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The Shepherd's Crown

Terry Pratchett · Blackstone
Pages: 1
Format: Music CD

[Young Adult Fiction (Ages 12 - 17) ]The Shepherd's Crown is the forty-second and final novel in Sir Terry Pratchett's New York Times bestselling 'Discworld' series and the fifth to feature the witch Tiffany Aching. Deep in the Chalk, something is stirring. The owls and the foxes...
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