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Lirael

Garth Nix · HarperCollins; Revised edition
Format: Print book

New York Times bestseller Lirael is perfect for fans of epic fantasy like Game of Thrones. In this sequel to the critically acclaimed Sabriel, Garth Nix draws readers deeper into the magical landscape of the Old Kingdom.Lirael has never felt like a true daughter of the Clayr. Abandoned...
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Fadeaway

Maura Ellen Stokes · Yellow Jacket
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

When Sam's best friend Reagan dies after her heart suddenly gives out, Sam must learn to deal with her grief and ultimately discover who she is without her best friend by her side.Fourteen-year-old Sam thinks she has all summer to hang out with her best friend, Reagan. But then her life...
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Hero at the Fall

Alwyn Hamilton · Viking Books for Young Readers
Pages: 452
Format: Hardcover

The breathless finale to the New York Times bestselling Rebel of the Sands series will have you on the edge of your seat until the dust from the final battle clears!When gunslinging Amani Al'Hiza escaped her dead-end town, she never imagined she'd join a revolution, let alone lead one....
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Rot & Ruin

Jonathan Maberry · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pages: 458
Format: Print book

In the zombie-infested, post-apocalyptic America where Benny Imura lives, every teenager must find a job by the time they turn fifteen or get their rations cut in half. Benny doesn't want to apprentice as a zombie hunter with his boring older brother Tom, but he has no choice. He expects...
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Organ Transplants

Racquel Foran · Essential Library
Format: Hardcover

Explores the history, challenges, technologies, and successes of organ transplantation.
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The Password to Larkspur Lane (Nancy Drew, Book 10)

Carolyn Keene · Grosset & Dunlap
Pages: 175
Format: Hardcover

A carrier pigeon furnishes Nancy with a clue to a mysterious retreat. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Silver on the Tree

Susan Cooper · Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pages: 274
Format: Paperback

The Dark is rising in its last and greatest bid to control the world. And Will Stanton -- last-born of the immortal Old Ones, dedicated to keeping the world free -- must join forces with this ageless master Merriman and Bran, the Welsh boy whose destiny ties him to the Light. Drawn in with...
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You Bring the Distant Near

MITALI PERKINS · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Longlisted for the 2017 National Book Award for Young People's Literature ★ Horn Book ★ School Library Journal ★ Publishers Weekly ★ BOOKLIST Five girls. Three generations. One great American love story. You Bring the Distant Near explores sisterhood, first loves,...
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Seven Billion and Counting: The Crisis in Global Population Growth

Michael M. Andregg · Twenty-First Century Books
Pages: 88
Format: Hardcover

"October 31, 2011, marked an uneasy milestone for Planet Earth. On this day, the global population surpassed seven billion. What does that mean for a world that, until the nineteenth century, was home to less than one billion people? Experts say it means the planet is in trouble. Some...
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Money-Making Opportunities for Teens Who Like Pets and Animals

Paula Johanson · Rosen Publishing Group
Format: Print book

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Hawthorn

Carol Goodman · Viking Books for Young Readers
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

A world on the brink of war. All Avaline Hall wants is to enjoy her senior year at Blythewood Academy, the boarding school where she's been trained to defend humankind from forces of dark magic. But when Ava is shown a glimpse into the future in the enchanted Blythe Wood, she discovers...
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The Serpent King

Jeff Zentner · Crown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 372
Format: Hardcover

Named to ten BEST OF THE YEAR lists and selected as a William C. Morris Award Winner,The Serpent King is the critically acclaimed, much-beloved story of three teens who find themselves--and each other--while on the cusp of graduating from high school with hopes of leaving their small-town...
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Down and Across

Arvin Ahmadi · Viking Books for Young Readers
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

"Quirky and charming, wise and unpredictable. " --Khaled Hosseini, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Kite Runner Scott Ferdowsi has a track record of quitting. Writing the Great American Novel? Three chapters. His summer internship? One week. His best friends know exactly...
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Sports and Entertainment of the 2000s

Carla Mooney · ReferencePoint Press, Inc.,
Pages: 96
Format: Print book

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Love & Other Carnivorous Plants

Florence Gonsalves · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

A darkly funny debut for fans of Becky Albertalli, Matthew Quick, and Ned Vizzini about a nineteen-year-old girl who's consumed by love, grief, and the many-tentacled beast of self-destructive behavior.Freshman year at Harvard was the most anticlimactic year of Danny's life. She's failing...
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