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LeBron James : NBA Champion.
Justine Ciovacco; Tracey Baptiste · Britannica Educational Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Details of James's life as a young man struggling in his home life to his rise to fame and fortune on the basketball court are illustrated in full-color photos in this biography. Fans get an inside look into the events that made him a star, how he keeps himself grounded amid media attention,... |
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Road Rash
Mark Huntley Parsons · Random House Childrens Books
Pages: 346
Format: Hardcover
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A teenage drummer finds out what life is really like on tour with a rock band in this funny and bittersweet YA novel. For anyone who loved Almost Famous or This Is Spinal Tap. After being dropped from one band, sixteen-year-old drummer Zach gets a chance to go on tour with a much better... |
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Everybody Knows Your Name
Andrea Seigel · Viking Books for Young Readers
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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Meet Magnolia.Her father's dead, her boyfriend's ditched her to commit himself more fully to surfing, and her mother's depressed because she can't get cast on The Real Housewives of Orange County. All Magnolia wants is to reinvent herself.Meet Ford.Half his family is in jail, the other... |
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Employment and Workers' Rights
Jack Covarubias · Mason Crest
Pages: 64
Format: Print book
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Striking a balance between the right of corporations to earn a profit with the rights of the people they employ is a key struggle in any democracy. The challenges are many, from fair and equal pay to workplace safety, and from hiring discrimination to protection from unjust firing. This... |
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Assembling the Avengers #7
Jim Zub · Marvel Age
Pages: 24
Format: Library Binding
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Nick Fury asks the World Security Council for help in hopes of assembling a special team to combat large threats in their changing world. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Spotlight is a division of ABDO. |
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Challenger Deep
Neal Shusterman · HarperTeen
Pages: 308
Format: Hardcover
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National Book Award and Golden Kite Award WinnerA captivating novel about mental illness that lingers long beyond the last page, Challenger Deep is a heartfelt tour de force by New York Times bestselling author Neal Shusterman.Caden Bosch is on a ship that's headed for the deepest point... |
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Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad
M.T. Anderson · Candlewick Press
Pages: 456
Format: Print book
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National Book Award winner M. T. Anderson delivers a brilliant and riveting account of the Siege of Leningrad and the role played by Russian composer Shostakovich and his Leningrad Symphony.In September 1941, Adolf Hitler's Wehrmacht surrounded Leningrad in what was to become one of the longest... |
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Finding Mighty
Sheela Chari · Harry N. Abrams
Pages: 316
Format: Hardcover
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Along the train lines north of New York City, twelve-year-old neighbors Myla and Peter search for the link between Myla's necklace and the disappearance of Peter's brother, Randall. Thrown into a world of parkour, graffiti, and diamond-smuggling, Myla and Peter encounter a band of thugs... |
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Pieces of why
K L Going · Puffin Books
Pages: 240
Format: Print book
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From the award winning author of "Fat Kid Rules the World" and "The Liberation of Gabriel King" comes a lyrical gem that asks all the hard questions and hits all the right notes--perfect for fans of Cynthia Rylant and "Mockingbird" by Kathryn Erskine Tia lives... |
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Ramadan
Betsy Richardson · Mason Crest Publishers
Pages: 96
Format: Hardcover
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Ramadan, the most sacred month of the year for more than 1 billion Muslims, is a holiday traditionally devoted to prayer, fasting, and charity, though more recently it has become an occasion for many Muslims to feast, party, and shop. Commemorating the revelation of the sacred Muslim text,... |
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This Side of Salvation
Jeri Smith-Ready · Simon Pulse, 2014.
Pages: 368
Format: Print book
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Everyone mourns differently. When his older brother was killed, David got angry. As in, fist-meets-someone-else's-face furious. But his parents? They got religious. David's still figuring out his relationship with a higher power, but there's one thing he does know for sure:... |
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Starry Night
Isabel Gillies · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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Sometimes one night can change everything On this particular night Wren and her three best friends are attending a black-tie party at the Metropolitan Museum of Art to celebrate the opening of a major exhibit curated by her father An enormous wind blasts through the city making everyone... |
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Lovely, Dark, and Deep
Justina Chen · Arthur A. Levine Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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"A luminous read that will rekindle your faith in the indomitable human spirit." -- Matthew Quick, author of The Silver Linings Playbook"An inspiring, romantic novel full of redemption and hope." -- Mitali Perkins, author of You Bring the Distant NearWhen Viola Li returns... |
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I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
ERIKA L SNCHEZ · Knopf Books for Young Readers
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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National Book Award Finalist!Instant New York Times Bestseller!The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian meets Jane the Virgin in this poignant but often laugh-out-loud funny contemporary YA about losing a sister and finding yourself amid the pressures, expectations, and stereotypes... |
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