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Burn Baby Burn
Meg Medina · Candlewick Press
Pages: 310
Format: Print book |
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While violence runs rampant throughout New York, a teenage girl faces danger within her own home in Meg Medina's riveting coming-of-age novel.Nora Lopez is seventeen during the infamous New York summer of 1977, when the city is besieged by arson, a massive blackout, and a serial killer... |
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Holes: 10th Anniversary Edition
Louis Sachar · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 265
Format: Print book |
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10th Anniversary EditionLouis Sachar received great recognition for his groundbreaking story of Stanley Yelnats - a boy with a history of bad luck. As School Library Journal predicted in their starred review of the book when it was first published, "Kids will love Holes." A decade... |
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The Tightrope Walkers
David Almond · Candlewick Press, 2015. ©2014
Pages: 326
Format: Print book |
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International award winner David Almond draws on memories of his early years in Tyneside, England, for a moving coming-of-age novel, masterfully told.A gentle visionary coming of age in the shadow of the shipyards of northern England, Dominic Hall is torn between extremes. On the one hand,... |
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Ida M. Tarbell: The Woman Who Challenged Big Business--and Won!
Emily Arnold McCully · Clarion Books
Pages: 279
Format: Hardcover |
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Born in 1857 and raised in oil country, Ida M. Tarbell was one of the first investigative journalists and probably the most influential in her time. Her series of articles on the Standard Oil Trust, a complicated business empire run by John D. Rockefeller, revealed to readers the underhanded,... |
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Finding Wonders: Three Girls Who Changed Science
Jeannine Atkins · Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pages: 208
Format: Print book |
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A gorgeously written novel in verse about three girls in three different time periods who grew up to become groundbreaking scientists.Maria Merian was sure that caterpillars were not wicked things born from mud, as most people of her time believed. Through careful observation she discovered... |
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Look Both Ways
Alison Cherry · Delacorte Press
Pages: 304
Format: Print book |
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Thoughtful, funny, and steeped in the wild drama of growing up, Alison Cherry's new novel is the story of a girl hoping she's found a place to belong . . . only to learn that neither talent nor love is as straightforward as she thinks. A summer away from the city is the beginning of everything... |
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Fangirl: A Novel
Rainbow Rowell · St. Martin's Griffin; Special edition
Format: Hardcover |
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This special edition includes fan art, a ribbon bookmark, a Q&A with the author, and an excerpt from her new book Carry On.In Rainbow Rowell's Fangirl, Cath is a Simon Snow fan. Okay, the whole world is a Simon Snow fan, but for Cath, being a fan is her life-and she's really... |
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Perfect Lies
Kiersten White · HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Pages: 233
Format: Hardcover |
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This explosive sequel to Mind Games, which New York Times bestselling author Holly Black called "a brutal, exciting gem of a book," is a lightning-fast, wickedly smart tale of two sisters trapped in a web of deceit - perfect for fans of Sara Shepard's Lying Game series.For... |
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Tiny Pretty Things
Sona Charaipotra · Harper Teen
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover |
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Black Swan meets Pretty Little Liars in this soapy, drama-packed novel featuring diverse characters who will do anything to be the prima at their elite ballet school.Gigi, Bette, and June, three top students at an exclusive Manhattan ballet school, have seen their fair share of drama. Free-spirited... |
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Honor Girl: A Graphic Memoir
Maggie Thrash · Candlewick Press (MA)
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover |
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All-girl camp. First love. First heartbreak. At once romantic and devastating, brutally honest and full of humor, this graphic-novel memoir is a debut of the rarest sort.Maggie Thrash has spent basically every summer of her fifteen-year-old life at the one-hundred-year-old Camp Bellflower... |
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