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Milestones of Flight: From Hot-Air Balloons to SpaceShipOne

Tim Grove · Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pages: 112
Format: Print book

Milestones of Flight takes readers soaring through the high points of American aviation: from the Wright brothers and their competitors to the military pilots who first circumnavigated the globe, from the initial space rocket to the moon walk, from the earliest manmade satellite to today's...
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Misunderstood: Why the Humble Rat May Be Your Best Pet Ever

Rachel Toor · Farrar
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

As much a moving memoir as it is an amusing pet manual, Misunderstood is a unique nonfiction book for teens and tweens about domesticated rats in general and a wonderful rat named Iris in particular. Brimming with smarts and energy just like its furry subjects, Rachel Toor's text blends...
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5 Steps to a 5: AP Biology 2017

Mark Anestis · Mcgraw-Hill Education
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

Get ready for your AP Biology exam with this straightforward, easy-to-follow study guide The wildly popular test prep guide -- updated and enhanced for smartphone users -- 5 Steps to a 5: AP Biology 2017 provides a proven strategy to achieving high scores on this demanding Advanced Placement...
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Learning to Swear in America

Katie Kennedy · Bloomsbury Childrens Books
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

An asteroid is hurtling toward Earth. A big, bad one. Maybe not kill-all-the-dinosaurs bad, but at least kill-everyone-in-California-and-wipe-out-Japan-with-a-tsunami bad. Yuri, a physicist prodigy from Russia, has been recruited to aid NASA as they calculate a plan to avoid disaster.The...
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Woods Runner

Gary Paulsen · Wendy Lamb Books
Pages: 164
Format: Print book

Samuel, 13, spends his days in the forest, hunting for food for his family. He has grown up on the frontier of a British colony, America. Far from any town, or news of the war against the King that American patriots have begun near Boston.But the war comes to them. British soldiers and Iroquois...
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You Know Me Well: A Novel

Nina LaCour · St. Martin's Griffin
Pages: 250
Format: Print book

Who knows you well? Your best friend? Your boyfriend or girlfriend? A stranger you meet on a crazy night? No one, really?Mark and Kate have sat next to each other for an entire year, but have never spoken. For whatever reason, their paths outside of class have never crossed. That is until...
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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 Siege

Mark Alpert · Sourcebooks Fire
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

Mission: Sabotage.Adam gave up everything for a new chance at life. Now with a cutting-edge digital mind, he is smarter, faster, better than a normal teen. Except Adam is anything but invincible. He's indebted to the government program that gave him this ability-and freedom comes at a price....
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Run

Kody Keplinger · Scholastic Press
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Bo Dickinson is a girl with a wild reputation, a deadbeat dad, and a mama who's not exactly sober most of the time. Everyone in town knows the Dickinsons are a bad lot, but Bo doesn't care what anyone thinks. Agnes Atwood has never gone on a date, never even stayed out past ten, and never...
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Throne of Glass 5

Sarah J Maas · Bloomsbury Usa
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

The long path to the throne has only just begun for Aelin Galathynius. Loyalties have been broken and bought, friends have been lost and gained, and those who possess magic find themselves at odds with those don't.As the kingdoms of Erilea fracture around her, enemies must become allies...
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