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The Magician's Fire

Simon Nicholson · Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Format: Print book

Young Harry Houdini spends his days chaining himself to train tracks and teetering on wires high above the city with his two best friends, Arthur and Billie. But when Harry's friend and magical mentor, Herbie, disappears, the three friends band together, determined to rescue the beloved...
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Homes of the Native Americans

Colleen Madonna Flood Williams · Mason Crest Publishers
Format: Hardcover

Explores different Native American dwellings, looking at how they reflected the environments in which their inhabitants lived and how and with what materials they were built.
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The Twelve Days of Dash & Lily

Rachel Cohn · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 215
Format: Print book

A 2016 Zoella Book Club Pick!New York Times bestselling authors Rachel Cohn and David Levithan are back together with a life-affirming new holiday romance starring Dash and Lily of Dash & Lily's Book of Dares! Dash and Lily have had a tough year since readers watched the couple fall...
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The August 5

Jenna Helland · Farrar Straus Giroux
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

In a world rocked by revolt, your worst enemy can become your greatest hopeFourteen-year-old Tommy Shore lives a life of privilege: he has the finest clothing, food, and education available and servants to take care of his every whim. He is the son of the chief administrator of Aeren-the...
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The Walled City

Ryan Graudin · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

730. That's how many days I've been trapped.18. That's how many days I have left to find a way out.
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Learning to Swear in America

Katie Kennedy · Bloomsbury USA Childrens
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

A Summer/Fall 2016 Indies Introduce selectionAn asteroid is hurtling toward Earth. A big, bad one. Maybe not kill-all-the-dinosaurs bad, but at least kill-everyone-in-California-and-wipe-out-Japan-with-a-tsunami bad. Yuri, a physicist prodigy from Russia, has been recruited to aid NASA...
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Canada's First Nations and Cultural Genocide

Robert Z Cohen · Rosen Publishing
Pages: 64
Format: Print book

For more than 100 years, Canadas First Nations, Inuits, and Metis people endured an educational system designed to essentially remove all evidence of their native identities. Children were mistreated and stripped of their identities as they were educated in the ways of a nation that wanted...
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Sammy Keyes and the Kiss Goodbye

Wendelin Van Draanen · Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Print book

The final mystery starring Sammy Keyes: "the most winning junior detective ever in teen lit. (Take that, Nancy Drew!) " - Midwest Children's Book Review Sammy doesn't go looking for trouble, but she seems to find it everywhere. She's forever sniffing out clues...
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Little & Lion

Brandy Colbert · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

A stunning novel on love, loss, identity, and redemption, from Publishers Weekly Flying Start author Brandy Colbert
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What the Native Americans Wore

Colleen Madonna Flood Williams · Mason Crest Publishers
Format: Print book

Discusses common clothing items of Native American tribes, and explains the cultural and religious significance of these items.
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Kansas

Deborah Cannarella · Childrens Pr; Revised edition
Format: Book

The third series of America the Beautiful is back in a revised edition. The books in this series are bursting with fascinating facts, updated statistics, and brand-new full-color photographs. America the Beautiful's dynamic design and editorial approach to the geography, history, people,...
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The Icy Hand: Something Wickedly Weird, vol. 2

Chris Mould · Roaring Brook Press
Pages: 174
Format: Print book

THE ICY HAND VOLUME 2 :THE SECOND ADVENTURE IN STANLEY BUGGLE'S SAGAEven more wicked and weird than the first! Stanley is looking forward to a relaxing winter. After all, nothing could have been weirder than the werewolf curse and plotting pirates he had to face the summer before! Or at least...
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Cool Careers Without College for People Who Love Animals

Carol Hand · Rosen Publishing Group
Pages: 144
Format: Print book

"From working with dogs to horses to elephants, there is a job out there for every person who loves working with animals. And the ones in this volume don't require college! Giving readers all the tools they need to begin a career working with animals, this text is filled with exciting...
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Lost Girl Found

Leah Bassoff · Groundwood Books
Pages: 212
Format: Hardcover

For Poni, life in her small village in southern Sudan is simple and complicated at the same time. But then the war comes and there is only one thing for Poni to do. Run. Run for her life. Driven by the sheer will to survive and the hope that she can somehow make it to the Kakuma refugee...
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I Was Here

Gayle Forman · Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) , 2015.
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of If I Stay comes "a heartbreaking novel about coping with loss" (People) . When her best friend, Meg, commits suicide by drinking a bottle of industrial-strength cleaner alone in a motel room, Cody is understandably shocked and devastated....
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