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Little Miss Red

Robin Palmer · Speak; 1 edition
Format: Paperback

The ideal L.A. fairy tale for fans of Once Upon a Time and L.A. Candy, from the author of Geek Charming.Sophie Greene gets good grades, does the right thing, and has a boyfriend that her parents - and her younger brother - just love. (Too bad she doesn't love him.) Sophie dreams of being...
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Tales of the Peculiar

Ransom Riggs · Listening Library (Audio)
Format: Audiobook

A companion to the bestselling Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, soon to be a major motion picture directed by Tim Burton. Before Miss Peregrine gave them a home, the story of peculiars was written in the Tales.Wealthy cannibals who dine on the discarded limbs of peculiars....
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Black River Falls

Jeff Hirsch · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Seventeen-year-old Cardinal has escaped the virus that ravaged his town, leaving its victims alive but without their memories. He chooses to remain in the quarantined zone, caring for a group of orphaned kids in a mountain camp with the help of the former brutal school bully, now transformed...
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Still a Work in Progress

Jo Knowles · Candlewick Press
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

In a return to middle-grade fiction, master of perspectives Jo Knowles depicts a younger sibling struggling to maintain his everyday life while coping with his sister's secret struggle.Noah is just trying to make it through seventh grade. The girls are confusing, the homework is boring,...
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Susan B. Anthony: Voice for Women's Voting Rights (Historical American Biographies)

Martha E. Kendall · Enslow Publishers
Pages: 128
Format: Library Binding

Describes the life of the early women's rights activist who fought for women's right to vote.
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The Boy in the Black Suit

Jason Reynolds · Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

Just when seventeen-year-old Matt thinks he cant handle one more piece of terrible news, he meets a girl whos dealt with a lot more—and who just might be able to clue him in on how to rise up when life keeps knocking him down—in this vivid, satisfying, and ultimately upbeat tale of grief,...
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Attack of the Killer Video Book: Tips and Tricks for Young Directors

Mark Shulman · Annick Press
Pages: 64
Format: Hardcover

A fun and funny guide to making great videos. Anyone can make a video (we've all seen other people's home movies, ugh!). But can anyone make great videos? Of course! Say hello to Attack of the Killer Video Book. Hilarious yet instructive text provides kids with a thorough overview...
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Leviathan

Scott Westerfeld · Simon & Schuster Audio
Pages: 440
Format: eAudiobook

It is the cusp of World War I, and all the European powers are arming up. The Austro-Hungarians and Germans have their Clankers, steam-driven iron machines loaded with guns and ammunition. The British Darwinists employ fabricated animals as their weaponry. Their Leviathan is a whale airship,...
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Daniel X: Armageddon

James Patterson · Little, Brown and Company; 1 Reprint edition
Format: Hardcover

In the fifth installment of James Patterson's action-packed Daniel X series, Daniel must now face an alien whose origins appear nearer to the depths of Hell than the outer reaches of the galaxy. Number Two on the List of Alien Outlaws is an unstoppable criminal that's slowly been...
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Stormbreaker

Anthony Horowitz · Philomel Books
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

They told him his uncle died in an accident. He wasn't wearing his seatbelt, they said. But when fourteen-year-old Alex finds his uncle's windshield riddled with bullet holes, he knows it was no accident. What he doesn't know yet is that his uncle was killed while on a top-secret mission....
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