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Game On!: Video Game History from Pong and Pac-Man to Mario, Minecraft, and More

Dustin Hansen · Feiwel & Friends
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

Find out about the fast and furious growth and evolution of video games (including how they are quickly taking over the world!) by looking at some of the most popular, innovative, and influential games ever, from Pong, the very first arcade game ever, to modern hits like Uncharted.Learn...
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Black Bullet, Vol. 5: Rentaro Satomi, Fugitive

Shiden Kanzaki · Yen On
Pages: 208
Format: Print book

With the chaos of the Third Kanto Battle subsiding, peace is finally returning to the Tendo Civil Security Agency, and Rentaro, Kisara, Enju, and Tina are taking full advantage of the quiet. But when an old friend from Rentaro's childhood reappears, their bright days turn suddenly dark--and...
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Steeplejack: A Novel

A J Hartley · Tor Teen
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

Thoughtfully imaginative and action-packed, Steeplejack is New York Times bestselling A. J. Hartley's YA debut set in a 19th-century South African fantasy worldSeventeen-year-old Anglet Sutonga lives repairing the chimneys, towers, and spires of the city of Bar-Selehm. Dramatically different...
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Director's Cut

Vanessa Acton · Darby Creek
Pages: 96
Format: Print book

The Sanford's Folly movie set has been abandoned since burning to the ground in the 1980s. Rumor has it the place is cursed after a film shoot gone terribly wrong. But that's not enough to scare Alex and his buddies away. After all, they live on an air force base. There's plenty...
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Boys, Girls and Other Hazardous Materials

Rosalind Wiseman · Putnam; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Looking for a new beginning after a terrible mean girl past, Charlie Healey realizes there’s no escaping high school drama. Charlie Healey thinks Harmony Falls is the beginning of a whole new life. Middle school was brutal. But high school is Charlie’s big chance to start...
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Airborne: A Photobiography of Wilbur and Orville Wright

Mary Collins · National Geographic Children's Books
Format: Hardcover

This is the inspiring photobiography of Wilbur and Orville Wright, whose determination and curiosity led them to create the first working airplane. The newest edition adds common core-aligned critical thinking activities for even further learning in the classroom or at home. Packed...
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The Passion of Dolssa

Julie Gardner Berry · Viking Children'S Books, 2016.
Pages: 496
Format: Print book

I must write this account, and when I have finished, I will burn it. Buried deep within the archives of a convent in medieval France is an untold story of love, loss, and wonder and the two girls at the heart of it all. Dolssa is an upper-crust city girl with a secret lover and an uncanny...
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The call : 3 minutes to save your life

Peadar O'Guilin · Scholastic Audio

The Hunger Games meets horror in this unforgettable thriller where only one thing is certain... you will be Called. Thousands of years ago, humans banished the Sidhe fairy race to another dimension. The beautiful, terrible Sidhe have stewed in a land of horrors ever since, plotting their...
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Tell Me Something Real

Calla Devlin · Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pages: 290
Format: Print book

"The three Babcock sisters must travel to a Mexican clinic across the border so their mother, ill with leukemia, can receive alternative treatments. The sisters' world is about to shatter under the weight of an incomprehensible betrayal. . . an illness far more insidious than cancer...
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All We Have Left

Wendy Mills · Bloomsbury
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

Now: Sixteen-year-old Jesse is used to living with the echoes of the past. Her older brother died in the September 11th attacks, and her dad since has filled their home with anger and grief. When Jesse gets caught up with the wrong crowd, one momentary hate-fueled decision turns her life...
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