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Crash

Jerry Spinelli
Format: Audiobook

Spinelli (There's a Girl in My Hammerlock) takes the brawny, bullying jock who is the villain in so many middle-grade novels and casts him as the narrator of this agile tale. Ever since first grade "Crash" Coogan has been tormenting dweeby Penn Ward, a skinny vegetarian...
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It Started with Goodbye

Christina June · Blink
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback

Sixteen-year-old Tatum Elsea is bracing for the worst summer of her life. After being falsely accused of a crime, she's stuck under stepmother-imposed house arrest and her BFF's gone ghost. Tatum fills her newfound free time with community service by day and working at her covert graphic...
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Artemis Fowl

Eoin Colfer · Listening Library
Format: Audio CD

A NEW EDITION of AS English Literature for AQA A to cover the new set texts and provide a complete match to the specification A NEW EDITION of AS English Literature for AQA A to cover the new set texts and provide a complete match to the specification Written by the same author team of experienced...
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Deadly Little Lies (Touch, Book 2)

Laurie Faria Stolarz · Disney-Hyperion; 1 edition
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Last fall, sixteen-year-old Camelia fell for Ben, the mysterious new boy at school who turned out to have a very mysterious gift--pyschometry, the ability to sense the future through touch. But just as Camelia and Ben's romance began to heat up, he abruptly left town. Brokenhearted,...
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Texas Gothic

Rosemary Clement-Moore · Delacorte Press
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

Amy Goodnight knows that the world isn't as simple as it seems. She also understands that "normal" doesn't mix with magic, and she's worked hard to build a wall between the two worlds. Not only to protect her family, who are all practicing witches, but to protect any hope of ever...
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A Curse So Dark and Lonely

Brigid Kemmerer · Bloomsbury YA
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover

In a lush, contemporary fantasy retelling of Beauty and the Beast, Brigid Kemmerer gives readers another compulsively readable romance perfect for fans of Marissa Meyer.Fall in love, break the curse.It once seemed so easy to Prince Rhen, the heir to Emberfall. Cursed by a powerful enchantress...
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The Sweetest Spell

Suzanne Selfors · Walker Childrens; First Edition first Printing edition
Format: Hardcover

Emmeline Thistle, a dirt-scratcher's daughter, has escaped death twice-first, on the night she was born, and second, on the day her entire village was swept away by flood. Left with nothing and no one, Emmeline discovers her rare and mysterious ability-she can churn milk into chocolate,...
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I Am J

Cris Beam · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

J had always felt different. He was certain that eventually everyone would understand who he really was: a boy mistakenly born as a girl. Yet as he grew up, his body began to betray him; eventually J stopped praying to wake up a "real boy" and started covering up his body, keeping...
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Mean Girls: A Novel

MICOL OSTOW · Scholastic Inc.
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

You know the story--or do you? Cady Heron grew up homeschooled in Africa with scientist parents as her teachers, monkeys as her classmates and the African plains as her playground. But when her family moves to the suburbs of Illinois, she finds herself a stranger in a strange land: high...
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Landscape with Invisible Hand

M T ANDERSON · Candlewick
Pages: 149
Format: Hardcover

National Book Award winner M. T. Anderson returns to future Earth in a sharply wrought satire of art and truth in the midst of colonization.When the vuvv first landed, it came as a surprise to aspiring artist Adam and the rest of planet Earth - but not necessarily an unwelcome one. Can it really...
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Letters to the Lost

Brigid Kemmerer · Bloomsbury USA Childrens
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Juliet Young always writes letters to her mother, a world-traveling photojournalist. Even after her mother's death, she leaves letters at her grave. It's the only way Juliet can cope. Declan Murphy isn't the sort of guy you want to cross. In the midst of his court-ordered community service...
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Angel: A Maximum Ride Novel

James Patterson · Little, Brown Young Readers; Unabridged edition
Format: Audio CD

In the seventh book in the bestselling series, evil scientists are still trying to convince Max that she needs to save the world, this time by providing the genetic link in speeding up the pace of evolution. Worse, they're trying to convince her that her perfect mate is Dylan, the newest...
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