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Four Racketeers #1

Owen B Greenwald · EPIC Press
Pages: 216
Format: Print book

Jason Jorgensen is the most unique guy among the rest of his classbecause the club he leads is a front for a group of scam artists. Spurred on by a new addition to the team, Jason tackles his biggest con yet: rigging a local poker game. But this isnt like their high school plotsthis is real...
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Scarlet

A C Gaughen · Bloomsbury USA Childrens
Pages: 292
Format: Paperback

Will Scarlet is good at two things: stealing from the rich and keeping secrets--skills that are in high demand in Robin Hood's band of thieves, who protect the people of Nottingham from the evil sheriff. Scarlet's biggest secret of all is one only Robin and his men know . . . that...
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Courageous Women of the Vietnam War: Medics, Journalists, Survivors, and More

Kathryn J Atwood · Chicago Review Press
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

One of just a handful of women reporting on the Vietnam War, Kate Webb was captured by North Vietnamese troops and presumed dead - until she emerged from the jungle waving a piece of white parachute material after 23 days in captivity. Le Ly Hayslip enjoyed a peaceful early childhood in a Vietnamese...
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Frenzy

robert lettrick · Disney/Hyperion Books
Pages: 298
Format: Print book

Camp Harmony. A place to relax, swim in the river, and stage epic water fights. A time to escape and admire the outdoors. That was how Heath Lambert wanted to spend his summer. But nobody told him that he would spend it running for his life. Almost every animal in the surrounding forest-thousands...
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Essential Maps for the Lost

Deb Caletti · Simon Pulse, 2016.
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

From beloved author and National Book Award finalist Deb Caletti comes a fresh and luminous novel about the grief that can tear us apart and the people who can make us whole again.There are many ways to be lost. Sometimes people want to be lost. Madison - Mads to everyone who knows her - is trying...
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Grace and Fury

Tracy E Banghart · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Bold, brutal, and beautiful--a must-read fantasy full of fierce sisterhood, action, and political intrigue for fans of The Selection series, Caraval, and The Handmaid's Tale.Serina Tessaro has been groomed her whole life to become a Grace--someone to stand by the heir to the throne as a shining,...
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Gabi, a Girl in Pieces

Isabel Quintero · Cinco Puntos Press
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback

Named to Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2014Named to School Library Journal Best Books of 2014Gabi Hernandez chronicles her last year in high school in her diary: college applications, Cindy's pregnancy, Sebastian's coming out, the cute boys, her father's meth habit, and the food she craves....
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My Plain Jane

CYNTHIA HAND · HarperTeen
Pages: 450
Format: Hardcover

Move over, Charlotte Bronte. The authors of the New York Times bestselling My Lady Jane are back with an irreverent spin on Jane Eyre - a tale of mischief, romance, and supernatural mayhem perfect for fans of The Princess Bride or A Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue. You may think you know...
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Lucky Few

Katie Ormsbee · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

In the tradition of Me and Earl and the Dying Girl comes a hilarious, madcap, and quirky debut novel about a group of oddball teens struggling to find themselves when facing their own mortality.The life of homeschooler Stevie Hart gets all shook up when she meets a strange boy, Max, who survived...
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Taken by Storm

Jennifer Lynn Barnes · EgmontUSA; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

The third and final fast-paced installment in the popular Raised by Wolves books, called "the most compelling YA werewolf series out there" by New York Times best-selling author Melissa Marr.In the eye of a storm stands Bryn, the alpha of the Cedar Ridge werewolf pack. She is young....
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You Bring the Distant Near

MITALI PERKINS · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Longlisted for the 2017 National Book Award for Young People's Literature ★ Horn Book ★ School Library Journal ★ Publishers Weekly ★ BOOKLIST Five girls. Three generations. One great American love story. You Bring the Distant Near explores sisterhood, first loves,...
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The In-Between

Barbara Stewart · St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Paperback

When Elanor’s near-death experience opens a door to a world inhabited by bold, beautiful Madeline, she finds her life quickly spiraling out of controlFourteen-year-old Elanor Moss has always been an outcast who fails at everything she tries—she's even got the fine, white...
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Kalahari

Jessica Khoury · Razorbill
Format: Hardcover

Deep in the Kalahari Desert, a Corpus lab protects a dangerous secret ... But what happens when that secret takes on a life of its own? When an educational safari goes wrong, five teens find themselves stranded in the Kalahari Desert without a guide. It's up to Sarah, the daughter of zoologists,...
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Quicksilver

R. J. Anderson · Carolrhoda Books
Format: Hardcover

Back home Tori was the girl who had everything a sixteen-year-old could want--popularity, money, beauty. Everything. Including a secret. That secret made her very valuable. Now she's left everything from her old life behind, including her real name and Alison, the only person who truly...
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