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ALEX FLINN · HarperTeen
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback

#1 New York Times bestselling author Alex Flinn is back with magical twists on four fairy-tale favorites, each featuring a little help from Kendra, the witch from Beastly, as she searches through cities and centuries for her lost love. Now available in paperback and featuring retellings...
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Escape Theory

Margaux Froley · Soho Teen
Format: Hardcover

Sixteen-year-old Devon Mackintosh has always felt like an outsider at Keaton, the prestigious California boarding school perched above the Pacific. As long as she’s not fitting in, Devon figures she might as well pad her application to Stanford’s psych program. So junior year,...
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The Iron Traitor

Julie Kagawa · Harlequin Enterprises, Limited
Pages: 348
Format: Paperback

IN THE REAL WORLD, WHEN YOU VANISH INTO THIN AIR FOR A WEEK, PEOPLE TEND TO NOTICE After his unexpected journey into the lands of the fey, Ethan Chase just wants to get back to normal. Well, as "normal" as you can be when you see faeries every day of your life. Suddenly the former...
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The Wanderers

Kate Ormand · Sky Pony Press
Format: Hardcover

A Unique Twist on Shape-Shifters with Fast-Paced Action, Thrilling Adventure, Mystery, and a Bit of RomanceFlo lives an eccentric life - she travels with a popular circus in which the main acts star orphaned children with secret shape-shifting abilities. Once Flo turns sixteen, she must...
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The Civilization of Ancient China

John D. Chinnery · Rosen Classroom
Format: Book

China is a country full of culture, life, and history that spans centuries. Readers explore these elements of ancient China through its art. Bright, colorful photographs show artistic depictions of the life and culture of China and how it has changed through the centuries.
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The Great Depression: Worldwide Economic Crisis

Siyavush Saidian · Lucent Press
Pages: 104
Format: Library Binding

The Great Depression was a difficult time in American history, and it eventually became an economic crisis that affected the entire world. Readers uncover important facts and enlightening details about the Great Depression, including what caused it, how average Americans dealt with financial...
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What This Story Needs Is a Munch and a Crunch

Emma J Virjan · Harpercollins, 2016.
Pages: 40
Format: Print book

Join Pig and her friends in another fun read-aloud adventure as they figure out a way to keep the picnic fun and games going, even with a little rain.What this story needsis a pig in a wigbaking bread,pouring punch,and meeting a friend for a picnic lunch.But just as the outdoor fun and games...
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Maggot Moon

Sally Gardner · Candlewick
Format: Hardcover

A 2014 Michael L. Printz Honor BookIn Sally Gardners stunning novel, set in a ruthless regime, an unlikely teenager risks all to expose the truth about a heralded moon landing.What if the football hadnt gone over the wall. On the other side of the wall there is a dark secret. And the devil....
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Freedom Flight

Patrick Jones · Darby Creek Publishing
Format: Print book

When Paige's mom returns from her final tour of Air Force duty, Paige couldn't be happier for things to go back to normal. But before long, Paige realizes her mom brought something else back with her?an addiction to pain pills. The irritable, medicated, zombie version of her mom isn't...
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Stolen

Melissa de la Cruz · Putnam Pub Group
Pages: 284
Format: Hardcover

Who is Eliza Wesson?Months after Nat and Wes said good-bye on the shores of the Blue, Nat is learning how to control and use her new power. She and her drakon are the last of their kind - and she's risked her life for their reunion. When she receives a mysterious distress call, she races...
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Stealing Snow

Danielle Paige · Bloomsbury
Pages: 375
Format: Print book

From Danielle Paige, the New York Times bestselling author of Dorothy Must Die, comes a re-imagining of "The Snow Queen" fairy tale.Seventeen-year-old Snow has spent the majority of her life within the walls of the Whittaker Institute, a high security mental hospital in upstate...
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The Dead I Know

Scot Gardner · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 201
Format: Print book

Aaron Rowe walks in his sleep and haunted by dreams he can't explain and memories he can't recover. Death doesn't scare him - his new job with a funeral director may even be his salvation. But if he doesn't discover the truth about his hidden past soon, he may fall asleep one night and never...
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Evidence of Things Not Seen

Lindsey Lane · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

When high school junior Tommy Smythe goes missing, everyone has a theory about what happened to him. He was an odd kid, often deeply involved in particle physics, so maybe he just got distracted and wandered off. He was last seen at a pullout off the highway, so maybe someone snatched him....
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Press Play

Eric Devine · Running Press Kids
Format: Book

BOOKLIST Top 10 Sports Books for Youth: 2015Pound by sweaty pound, Greg Dunsmore's plan is working. Greg is steadily losing weight while gaining the material he needs to make the documentary that will get him into film school and away from the constant jeers of "Dun the Tun."But...
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We Are Okay

Nina Lacour · Dutton
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

From the award-winning author of Hold Still comes an achingly beautiful novel about grief and the enduring power of friendship.★ "Exquisite." - Kirkus, starred review★ "LaCour paints a captivating depiction of loss, bewilderment, and emotional paralysis . . . raw and beautiful."...
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