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Civil War Battles and Leaders

DK Publishing · DK CHILDREN; 1st edition
Pages: 96
Format: Paperback

The Civil War tested the new political experiment that began with the American Revolution. In this guide to the battles and leading figures of the war that tore America apart, readers will find a wealth of images, from pictures of artifacts to portraits and battlefield paintings and maps....
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The Giver

Lois Lowry · Houghton Mifflin
Pages: 180
Format: Book

The Giver, the 1994 Newbery Medal winner, has become one of the most influential novels of our time. The haunting story centers on twelve-year-old Jonas, who lives in a seemingly ideal, if colorless, world of conformity and contentment. Not until he is given his life assignment as the Receiver...
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Where It Began

Ann Redisch Stampler · Simon Pulse
Format: Hardcover

A teens world comes crashing down in this compulsively readable YA debut thats as literary as it is commercial. Gabby Gardiner wakes up in a hospital bed looking like a cautionary ad for drunk driving—and without a single memory of the accident that landed her there. But what she can recall,...
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First Impressions: Rembrandt

Gary Schwartz · Harry N. Abrams
Pages: 92
Format: Hardcover

A biography of Rembrandt describes the artist's childhood, his apprenticeship with a painter, his job at the court of the Prince of Orange in the Hague, and his success.
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A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution

Carol Berkin · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

We know--and love--the story of the American Revolution, from the Declaration of Independence to Cornwallis's defeat. But the Articles of Confederation, our first government, was a disaster. This crisis caused a group of men to journey to Philadelphia in 1787 to create a lasting and more...
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Everless

Sara Holland · HarperTeen
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestseller!"Sara Holland is a fierce storyteller. Everless gives new and terrifying meaning to the phrase running out of time." - Stephanie Garber, New York Times bestselling author of CaravalIn the kingdom of Sempera, time is currency - extracted from blood, bound...
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Suspect

Kristin Wolden Nitz · Peachtree Publishers; 1 edition
Format: Print book

Seventeen-year-old Jen is scheduled to spend the summer helping Grandma Kay run the Shoenhaus, a Victorian bed and breakfast. But Grandma Kay s plans include a lot more than housekeeping; she intends to solve a real mystery from the past involving the disappearance of a young woman.And...
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Dead Ends

Erin Jade Lange · Bloomsbury USA Childrens
Pages: 328
Format: Hardcover

A riddle rarely makes sense the first time you hear it. The connection between Dane and Billy D doesn't make sense the second time you hear it. But it's a collection of riddles that solidifies their unusual friendship. Dane is a bully with two rules: don't hit girls and don't hit special...
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Death and the Girl Next Door

Darynda Jones · St. Martin's Griffin; Original edition
Format: Paperback

Darynda Jones, author of The New York Times bestselling series that began with First Grave on the Right, brings us Death and the Girl Next Door, a thrilling Young Adult novel garnering high praise and early buzz from major authorsTen years ago, Lorelei's parents disappeared without...
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Plague: A Gone Novel

Michael Grant · Katherine Tegen Books; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Its been eight months since all the adults disappeared. Gone.Theyve survived hunger. Theyve survived lies. But the stakes keep rising, and the dystopian horror keeps building. Yet despite the simmering unrest left behind by so many battles, power struggles, and angry divides, there is a momentary...
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