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Anne of Avonlea
Anne of Avonlea

L. M. Montgomery · Aladdin
Format: Hardcover

The inimitable Anne Shirley makes her mark on Avonlea in this artfully packaged edition of the sequel to Anne of Green Gables.Five years after Anne Shirley came to the town of Avonlea, she feels (a little) more grown up, but she's still the same skinny, red-headed orphan Matthew and Marilla...
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Wild Swans
Wild Swans

Jessica Spotswood · Sourcebooks Fire
Pages: 295
Format: Print book

The summer before Ivy's senior year is going to be golden-all bonfires, barbeques, and spending time with her best friends. For once, she will just get to be. No summer classes, none of Granddad's intense expectations to live up to the family name. For generations, the Milbourn women have...
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X: A Novel
X: A Novel

Ilyasah Shabazz · Candlewick
Pages: 348
Format: Hardcover

Winner of the 2016 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work for Youth/TeensA 2016 Coretta Scott King Author Honor BookCowritten by Malcolm X's daughter, this riveting and revealing novel follows the formative years of the man whose words and actions shook the world.Malcolm Little's...
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Cinder: Book One of the Lunar Chronicles
Cinder: Book One of the Lunar Chronicles

Marissa Meyer · Macmillan Young Listeners; Unabridged edition
Format: Audio CD

A wicked mash-up of fairy tale and Terminator--set in a Star Wars kind of world--Marissa Meyer's Cinder is a fresh and fiercely ingenious futuristic retelling of CinderellaHumans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space,...
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The Revenge of Seven
The Revenge of Seven

Pittacus Lore · HarperCollins
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

The fifth book in the New York Times bestselling I Am Number Four series! The Garde have suffered an unbearable loss. Number Five has betrayed them. Eight is gone forever. Ella has been kidnapped. The others are now scattered.In Chicago, John makes the unlikeliest of allies: Adam, a Mogadorian...
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The Geography of You and Me
The Geography of You and Me

Jennifer E Smith · Little
Pages: 337
Format: Hardcover

Lucy lives on the twenty-fourth floor. Owen lives in the basement. It's fitting, then, that they meet in the middle -- stuck between two floors of a New York City apartment building, on an elevator rendered useless by a citywide blackout. After they're rescued, Lucy and Owen spend the night...
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The Leveller
The Leveller

Julia Durango · HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pages: 245
Format: Print book

Gamers and action fans of all types will dive straight into the MEEP, a virtual-reality gaming world, thanks to Julia Durango's cinematic storytelling. A touch of romance, constant twists, and a vivid, multidimensional journey through a tricked-out virtual city will keep readers flying...
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Edison's Alley
Edison's Alley

Neal Shusterman · Disney-Hyperion
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Fourteen-year-old Nick has learned that the strange antiques in his attic bedroom were left there by the eccentric inventor Nikola Tesla. They are pieces of Tesla's Far Range Energy Emitter, capable of transmitting "free energy" to the globe. Some components of the contraption...
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Women Heroes of World War II—the Pacific Theater: 15 Stories of Resistance, Rescue, Sabotage, and Survival
Women Heroes of World War II—the Pacific Theater: 15 Stories of Resistance, Rescue, Sabotage, and Survival

Kathryn J Atwood · Chicago Review Press Incorporated
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

Women Heroes of World War II - The Pacific Theater is a collective biography featuring 15 women who were involved with and affected by the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War II. Through suspenseful, fast-paced narrative, readers are introduced to the variety of roles women filled...
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The Ghosts of Heaven
The Ghosts of Heaven

Marcus Sedgwick · Roaring Brook
Pages: 359
Format: Print book

Timeless, beautiful, and haunting, spirals connect the four episodes of The Ghosts of Heaven, the mesmerizing new novel from Printz Award winner Marcus Sedgwick. They are there in prehistory, when a girl picks up a charred stick and makes the first written signs; there tens of centuries...
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American Girls: A Novel
American Girls: A Novel

Alison Umminger · Flatiron Books
Pages: 293
Format: Print book

A bittersweet, honest, and widely acclaimed YA coming-of-age novel that distills honest truths about American girldomAnna is a fifteen-year-old girl slouching toward adulthood, and she's had it with her life at home. So Anna "borrows" her stepmom's credit card and runs away to Los Angeles,...
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For This Life Only
For This Life Only

Stacey Kade · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pages: 307
Format: Print book

A young man struggles to move forward after the death of his twin brother in this gripping, coming-of-age tale about loss, redemption, love, and the moment you begin to see the world differently.Three minutes. Jacob Palmer died for three life-changing minutes. And when he woke up, nothing...
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