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Don't You Trust Me?

Patrice Kindl · Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pages: 246
Format: Print book

A teenage girl switches identities with a stranger and pulls off a long-term scam in this smart, sarcastic thriller perfect for fans of Ally Carter.Don't you trust me? I mean, look at me. Blond, blue-eyed, the very image of innocence. Pretty enough, if you care about that kind of thing....
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The Young Chef: Recipes and Techniques for Kids Who Love to Cook

Mark Ainsworth · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 191
Format: Print book

Learn how to cook and think like a chef from the best of the best - the experts at The Culinary Institute of America Aspiring chefs turn to The Culinary Institute of America for top-tier training - and now younger cooks can too. Coauthored by chef-instructor (and parent) Mark Ainsworth,...
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Lost in Love

Susane Colasanti · Katherine Tegen Books
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

In this second book of the City Love trilogy by bestselling author Susane Colasanti, three girls share a Manhattan apartment the summer before college begins. Lost in Love captures the essence of summer love, self-discovery, and sisterhood, a perfect fit for fans of Sarah Dessen, Jenny...
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Like No Other

Una LaMarche · Razorbill
Format:  eBook : Document : Fiction : Secondary (senior high) school : EnglishView all editions and formats

One of the most poignant and star-crossed love stories since The Fault in Our Stars. —Entertainment WeeklyFitting seamlessly alongside current bestsellers like Rainbow Rowells Eleanor Park, and John Greens Paper Towns, LIKE NO OTHER provides a thoroughly modern take on romance that...
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And I Darken

Kiersten White · Delacorte Press
Pages: 486
Format: Print book

This vividly rendered novel reads like HBO's Game of Thrones . . . if it were set in the Ottoman Empire. Ambitious in scope and intimate in execution, the story's atmospheric setting is rife with political intrigue, with a deftly plotted narrative driven by fiercely passionate characters....
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Change Places with Me

Lois Metzger · Balzer + Bray
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

From Lois Metzger, the acclaimed author of A Trick of the Light, comes a work of speculative fiction set in the near future about a teen girl who gains a new perspective on her life. Perfect for readers who enjoyed Adam Silvera's More Happy than Not.Rose has changed. She still lives in the same...
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Phoenix Island

John Dixon · Gallery Books
Pages: 320
Format: Book

WINNER OF THE BRAM STOKER AWARD FOR SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN A YOUNG ADULT NOVEL John Dixon's critically acclaimed Phoenix Island reads like "Lord of the Flies meets Wolverine and Cool Hand Luke" (F. Paul Wilson, creator of Repairman Jack) . For fans of The Bourne Identity, Alex...
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Definitions of Indefinable Things

Whitney Taylor · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

Reggie isn't really a romantic: she's been hurt too often, and doesn't let people in as a rule. Plus, when you're dealing with the Three Stages of Depression, it's hard to feel warm and fuzzy. When Reggie meets Snake, though, he doesn't give her much of a choice. Snake has a neck tattoo,...
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The Width of the World

David Baldacci · Scholastic Press
Pages: 448
Format: Print book

This is it. Vega Jane's time. She's been lied to her whole life, so she breaks away from Wormwood, the only home she's ever known, in search of the truth. She battles horrors to fight her way across the Quag with her best friend, Delph, and her mysterious canine, Harry Two. Against all odds,...
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Shuttles and Space Missions

Giles Sparrow · Cavendish Square
Pages: 80
Format: Print book

Shuttles and Space Missions examines topics on space exploration, from early orbital missions to the first astronauts on the moon. Detailed illustrations and clear charts help explain these complicated topics.
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The Sound of Letting Go

Ali Novak · Viking Children's
Format: Kindle Edition

Publishers Weekly? 12/09/2013 Kehoe's second novel-in-verse, after 2011's Audition, movingly evokes the conflicting emotions of 17-year-old Daisy Meehan as her family teeters on the edge of falling apart due to her younger brother Steven's violent episodes. A skilled trumpet...
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Castor

Shaun Young · Harmony Ink Press
Pages: 230
Format: Paperback

Sixteen-year-old James Fisher lives on the distant planet of Castor where he toils for the ruling classes as an indentured servant. He's a "Half-Adapt"--one of thousands like him who were shipped to Castor from Earth and biologically altered so they could breathe the planet's...
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Trench Warfare

Sue Bradford Edwards · Essential Library
Pages: 112
Format: Print book

This title examines the conditions, designs, soldiers, diseases, and warfare tactics of World War Is trenches. Compelling narrative text and well-chosen historical photographs and primary sources make this book perfect for report writing. Features include a glossary, a selected bibliography,...
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Another

Yukito Ayatsuji · Yen On
Format: Hardcover

In the spring of 1998, Koichi Sakakibara transfers to Yomiyama North Middle School. In class, he develops a sense of unease as he notices that the people around him act like theyre walking on eggshells, and students and teachers alike seem frightened. As a chain of horrific deaths begin...
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Under a Painted Sky

Stacey Lee · G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 374
Format: Print book

A powerful story of friendship and sacrifice, for fans ofCode Name Verity Missouri, 1849: Samantha dreams of moving back to New York to be a professional musician not an easy thing if you re a girl, and harder still if you re Chinese. But a tragic accident dashes any hopes of fulfilling...
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