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Kaplan AP U.S. Government & Politics 2014

Ulrich Kleinschmidt · Kaplan Publishing
Format: Print book

You’ve spent the year gaining advanced knowledge. Now it’s time to reap the rewards: money-saving college credit or advanced placement, and an admissions edge. Yet a top score on the AP exam requires more than knowing the material. Even if your instructor was great and you worked...
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Lost Cause: The End of the Civil War, 1864-1865

James R Arnold · Lerner Publications Co.
Pages: 72
Format: Print book

Discusses the last year of the Civil War, including Linclon's reelection, and the final battles west of Richmond which ended the Confederate Army's hopes of victory and the surrender at Appomattox.Title: Lost CauseAuthor: Arnold, James R./ Wiener, RobertaPublisher: Lerner Pub GroupPublication...
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Where There's a Wolf, There's a Way

Lisi Harrison · Poppy; 1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover

The frighteningly hip teenage children of the worlds most famous monsters have gathered together under one roof...to brave the horrors of high school! Always overshadowed by her six brothers and her fab friends, Clawdeen Wolf plans to finally strut her stuff in the spotlight at her upcoming...
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Black Bird of the Gallows

MEG KASSEL · Entangled
Pages: 300
Format: Hardcover

A simple but forgotten truth: Where harbingers of death appear, the morgues will soon be full.Angie Dovage can tell there's more to Reece Fernandez than just the tall, brooding athlete who has her classmates swooning, but she can't imagine his presence signals a tragedy that will devastate...
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The Dead

Charlie Higson · Hyperion Book CH
Format: Print book

The disease only affects people sixteen or older. It starts with the symptoms of a cold. Then the skin begins to itch, and spots appear--spots that soon turn into pus-filled boils. But the worst part is the headache, the inner voices that tell you that you need to eat them . . . the young...
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Just Write: Here's How!

Walter Dean Myers · Collins
Pages: 176
Format: Print book

After writing more than one hundred books, it still amazes me that I have been lucky enough to spend most of my life doing what I truly love: writing.What makes a writer? The desire to tell a story, a love of language, an eye for detail, practice, practice, practice. How well should you know...
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Top Prospect

Paul Volponi · Carolrhoda Books
Format: Print book

Travis, a pre-teen quarterback with big potential, gets the opportunity of a lifetime when the University of Florida football coach offers him a scholarship before he's even in high school. Can he handle his newfound celebrity status?
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Good Queen Bess: The Story of Elizabeth I of England

Diane Stanley
Format: Print book

"This biography of Queen Elizabeth I does an excellent job of describing the context of her life so that reasons for many of her actions become clear . . . The resulting depth . . . will give the book a wide audience."--BOOKLIST , starred review. Bibliography included. 1
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Sweet Shadows

Tera Lynn Childs · Katherine Tegen Books
Pages: 328
Format: Hardcover

The action-packed second book of Tera Lynn Childs's Greek mythology-based Sweet Venom trilogy is perfect for teen fans of Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson series.Three teenage descendants of Medusa must figure out where their fate will take them. The warring factions among the gods...
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The Hobbit

J. R. R. Tolkien · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 300
Format: Paperback

A great modern classic and the prelude to The Lord of the Rings. Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life, rarely traveling any farther than his pantry or cellar. But his contentment is disturbed when the wizard Gandalf and a company of dwarves arrive on his doorstep...
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The Salem Witch Tryouts

Kelly McClymer · Simon Pulse; Original edition
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback

Prudence Stewart had it all at Beverly Hills High: straight A's, the cutest crush, and a sweet gig as captain of the cheerleading squad. Then poof! Mom and Dad announce they're moving to Salem, Massachusetts. Turns out, Pru comes from a long line of witches and it's time for her to learn...
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