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Vampire Academy

Richelle Mead · Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Pages: 332
Format: Paperback

The story that kicked off the international #1 bestselling Vampire Academy series is NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE!St. Vladimir's Academy isn't just any boarding school - it's a hidden place where vampires are educated in the ways of magic and half-human teens train to protect them. Rose Hathaway...
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Bless Me, Ultima

Rudolfo A Anaya · Warner Books
Pages: 290
Format: Paperback

With exquisite prose and wondrous storytelling, this coming of age classic follows a young boy as he questions his faith and beliefs in family, religion, and other aspects of his Chicano culture.Antonio Marez is six years old when Ultima comes to stay with his family in New Mexico. She is a curandera,...
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How to Be a Zombie: The Essential Guide for Anyone Who Craves Brains

Serena Valentino · Candlewick; First Edition/First Printing edition
Format: Hardcover

So you’re a zombie. What now? Slow down — and flesh out the life of the mindless with this essential guide for the newly undead.The vacant stare, the shambling gait, the sense that you’re falling apart — adjusting to "life" as a zombie takes a little getting...
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The Eleventh Plague

Jeff Hirsch · Scholastic Press
Pages: 278
Format: Hardcover

In an America devastated by war and plague, the only way to survive is to keep moving.In the aftermath of a war, America's landscape has been ravaged and two-thirds of the population left dead from a vicious strain of influenza. Fifteen-year-old Stephen Quinn and his family were among the few that...
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Across Five Aprils

Irene Hunt · Berkley/Pacer
Pages: 190
Format: Paperback

The unforgettable story of young Jethro Creighton who comes of age during the turbulent years of the Civil War.
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Some Quiet Place

Kelsey Sutton · Flux
Format: Paperback

I can’t feel sadness, anger, or fear. I can’t feel anything. I’ve grown talented at pretending. Elizabeth Caldwell doesn’t feel emotions . . . she sees them in human form. Longing hovers around the shy, adoring boy at school. Courage materializes beside her dying...
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Leviathan

Scott Westerfeld · Simon & Schuster Audio; Unabridged edition
Format: Audio CD

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. The Leviathan is a living airship,...
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Rx

Tracy Lynn · Simon Pulse
Pages: 262
Format: Paperback

Thyme Gilchrest is an honors student. Thyme Gilchrest is popular. Thyme Gilchrest is on student council. Thyme Gilchrest is a drug dealer. Like piecing together a logic puzzle, Thyme has organized a complex trading system that enables her to obtain the meds her friends need. They all come...
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Cold Spell

Jackson Pearce · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 323
Format: Hardcover

Kai and Ginny grew up together--best friends since they could toddle around their building's rooftop rose garden. Now they're seventeen, and their relationship has developed into something sweeter, complete with stolen kisses and plans to someday run away together.
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The Beloved Wild

MELISSA OSTROM · Feiwel & Friends
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A debut YA American epic and historical adventure from Melissa Ostrom about striking out for your own destiny. She's not the girl everyone expects her to be.Harriet Winter is the eldest daughter in a farming family in New Hampshire, 1807. She is expected to help with her younger sisters....
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Turtles all the way down

John Green · Findaway World

Aza Holmes is a young woman navigating daily existence within the ever-tightening spiral of her own thoughts.
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To Be Perfectly Honest: A Novel Based on an Untrue Story

Sonya Sones · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Can honesty lead to heartbreak if the truth is subjective? A compelling novel in verse from Sonya Sones.Her friends have a joke about her:How can you tell if Colette is lying? Her mouth is open. Fifteen-year-old Colette is addicted to lying. Her shrink says this is because she’s got a very...
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The hate u give

Angie Thomas · Playaway
Format: Audiobook

"Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands...
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Pro Baseball by the Numbers

Todd Kortemeier · Capstone Press
Pages: 32
Format: Print book

Engaging text and bold infographics help sports statistics jump off the page. Readers won't look at baseballor numbersin the same way again.
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