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Nightbird

Alice Hoffman · Wendy Lamb Books, 2015.
Pages: 199
Format: Print book

Bestselling author Alice Hoffman's bewitching Nightbird is perfect for ages 10-13: love and friendship empower a lonely girl to embrace her uniqueness and discover her strengths. Twig lives in Sidwell, where people whisper that fairy tales are real. After all, her town is rumored to hide...
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The Evolution of Claire

RANDOM HOUSE. · Random House Books for Young Readers
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Don't miss this pulse-pounding prequel to the Jurassic World movies that reveals the never-before-seen backstory of beloved film character Claire Dearing.Freshman year in college is full of obstacles--there are messy roommates, cranky professors, and disgusting dining halls. But for Claire...
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How Valuable Is A College Degree?

Noe?l Merino · Greenhaven Press
Pages: 103
Format: Print book

These books provide a range of opinions on a social issue; each volume focuses on a specific issue and offers a variety of perspectives, e. g. , eyewitness accounts, governmental views, scientific analysis, newspaper accounts, to illuminate the issue. ; Greenhaven Press's At Issue series...
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HelloFlo: The Guide, Period.

Naama Bloom · Dutton Books for Young Readers
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback

"What we love most about this book (which we'll be gifting to our tween cousins, nieces, and daughters!) is the empowering message woven throughout: that 'your body is your body,' as Bloom puts it, and you're the only one who gets to decide what to do with it." - Health.com"Full...
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Things I Should Have Known

Claire Scovell LaZebnik · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

An unforgettable story about autism, sisterhood, and first love that's perfect for fans of Jenny Han, Sophie Kinsella, and Sarah Dessen. New York Times bestselling author of Tell Me Three Things Julie Buxbaum raved: "I couldn't put it down." Meet Chloe Mitchell, a popular Los Angeles...
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Ninja Science: Camouflage, Weapons, and Stealthy Attacks

Marcia Amidon Lu?sted · Capstone Press
Pages: 32
Format: Print book

Ninja warriors were masters of stealth and disguise. They could quickly defeat their enemies without raising the alarm. They may not have realized it, but they owed their success to science. Engaging text, fascinating photos, and useful illustrations will help young readers understand how science...
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Heart of Iron

ASHLEY POSTON · Balzer + Bray
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

An action-packed tale full of romance, royalty, and adventure, inspired by the story of Anastasia. Perfect for fans of Six of Crows, Cinder, and the cult classic television show Firefly. Seventeen-year-old Ana is a scoundrel by nurture and an outlaw by nature. Found as a child drifting...
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Stay Sweet

SIOBHAN VIVIAN · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

From the author of The Last Boy and Girl in the World and The List comes a bold and sweet summer read about first love, feminism, and ice cream.Summer in Sand Lake isn't complete without a trip to Meade Creamery - the local ice cream stand founded in 1944 by Molly Meade who started...
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Empress of a Thousand Skies

Rhoda Belleza · Razorbill
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

For fans of Pierce Brown and Firefly comes an epic sci-fi fantasy that Kiersten White, author of And I Darken, calls "dazzling--an adventure as sweeping in scope as the galaxies it spans!"Empress Rhee, also known as Crown Princess Rhiannon Ta'an, is the sole surviving heir to a powerful...
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Pitch Dark

Courtney Alameda · Feiwel & Friends
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

From Courtney Alameda, the author of Shutter, this thrilling, sci-fi horror and space adventure will be sure to stay with readers long after the last pages.Lost to time, Tuck Morgan and his crew have slept in stasis aboard the USS John Muir for centuries. Their ship harbors a chunk of Earth,...
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Hocus Pocus and the All-New Sequel

A W JANTHA · Freeform
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover

Hocus Pocus is beloved by Halloween enthusiasts all over the world. Diving once more into the world of witches, this electrifying two-part young adult novel, released on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the 1993 film, marks a new era of Hocus Pocus. Fans will be spellbound by a fresh retelling...
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MILA 2.0: Redemption

Debra Driza · Katherine Tegen Books
Pages: 408
Format: Hardcover

This final book in Debra Driza's exhilarating MILA 2.0 series is perfect for fans of books filled with suspense and imagination, like The Bourne Identity and Legend, and it will surprise and thrill readers to the very end.Mila has been running for her life for so long. But that was before...
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Loving vs. Virginia: A Documentary Novel of the Landmark Civil Rights Case

Patricia Hruby Powell · Chronicle Books
Pages: 260
Format: Print book

From acclaimed author Patricia Hruby Powell comes the story of a landmark civil rights case, told in spare and gorgeous verse. In 1955, in Caroline County, Virginia, amidst segregation and prejudice, injustice and cruelty, two teenagers fell in love. Their life together broke the law, but their...
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Allegedly

Tiffany D Jackson · Katherine Tegen Books
Pages: 387
Format: Hardcover

Orange Is the New Black meets Walter Dean Myer's Monster in this gritty, twisty, and haunting debut by Tiffany D. Jackson about a girl convicted of murder seeking the truth while surviving life in a group home.Mary B. Addison killed a baby. Allegedly. She didn't say much in that first interview...
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Dreamland Burning

Jennifer Latham · Little
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

Some bodies won't stay buried.Some stories need to be told. When seventeen-year-old Rowan Chase finds a skeleton on her family's property, she has no idea that investigating the brutal century-old murder will lead to a summer of painful discoveries about the past... and the present.Nearly...
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