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Stem Jobs in Sports

Rick Raymos · Rourke Pub Group
Pages: 48
Format: Book

Some of the most exciting careers are in STEM fields. A strong STEM education will allow you to research, test, and build new things. Learn about what role STEM plays in the sports industry. The sports engineers who design uniforms that keep players safe and protected from injury, also...
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As Brave As You

Jason Reynolds · Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pages: 410
Format: Print book

Kirkus Award Finalist Schneider Family Book Award Winner Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book When two brothers decide to prove how brave they are, everything backfires - literally - in this piercing middle grade novel by the winner of the Coretta Scott King - Johnson Steptoe Award.Genie's...
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Kingdom Keepers VII: The Insider

Ridley Pearson · Disney-Hyperion; Reprint edition
Format: Print book

The Kingdom Keepers senior year in high school is almost over. For more than three years, things have been quiet. Their battles are long behind them, they agree, the threat to the Disney realm silenced albeit at great cost. But inside the catacombs of the Aztec temple where Finn Whitman...
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Will Grayson, Will Grayson

John Green · Dutton
Pages: 310
Format: Book

Two award-winning and New York Times-bestselling author join forces for a collaborative novel of awesome proportions.One cold night, in a most unlikely corner of Chicago, two teens - both named Will Grayson - are about to cross paths. As their worlds collide and intertwine, the Will Graysons...
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My Book of Life by Angel

Martine Leavitt · Square Fish; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

"16-year-old Angel struggles to free herself from the trap of prostitution in which she is caught."--
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Die I Will Not: A Regency Mystery

S K Rizzolo · Poisoned Pen Pr
Pages: 279
Format: Print book

Unhappy wife and young mother Penelope Wolfe fears scandal for her family and worse. A Tory newspaper editor has been stabbed while writing a reply to the latest round of letters penned by the firebrand Collatinus. Twenty years before, her father, the radical Eustace Sandford, also wrote...
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Children of the Holocaust

Alex Woolf · Barron's Educational Series
Format: Hardcover

The Holocaust remains one of the most shocking events of the 20th century, one that still resonates strongly today. Its Nazi perpetrators showed no mercy, not even to children, so it is often the experiences of the children of this era that speak to us most powerfully. Children of the Holocaust...
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Software Development: Science, Technology, Engineering

Wil Mara · Scholastic Library Pub
Format: Print book

From the simple applications that people use every day to specialized professional software, all computer programs are the result of hard work and creativity. Readers will find out how the members of a software development team work together to create todays top programs. They will also...
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Black River Falls

Jeff Hirsch · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Seventeen-year-old Cardinal has escaped the virus that ravaged his town, leaving its victims alive but without their memories. He chooses to remain in the quarantined zone, caring for a group of orphaned kids in a mountain camp with the help of the former brutal school bully, now transformed...
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The Boy Who Lost Fairyland

Catherynne M. Valente · Square Fish
Format: Paperback

One of the most extraordinary works of fantasy, for adults or children, published so far this century.-Time magazine, on the Fairyland When a young troll named Hawthorn is stolen from Fairyland by the Red Wind, he becomes a changeling-a human boy-in the strange city of Chicago, a place...
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Mad Dogs

Robert Muchamore · Simon Pulse; Reprint edition
Format: Print book

Gang warfare gets gruesome in the eighth book of the CHERUB series, which Rick Riordan says has “plenty of action.”CHERUB agents are highly trained, extremely talented—and all under the age of seventeen. For official purposes, these agents do not exist. They are sent out on missions...
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See You in the Cosmos, Carl Sagan

Jack Cheng · Dial Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

A space-obsessed boy and his dog, Carl Sagan, take a journey toward family, love, hope, and awe in this funny and moving novel for fans of Counting by 7s and Walk Two Moons. 11-year-old Alex Petroski loves space and rockets, his mom, his brother, and his dog Carl Sagan - named for his hero,...
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The Boy at the Top of the Mountain

John Boyne · Henry Holt and Company
Pages: 262
Format: Print book

From the author of "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas "comes another extraordinary story of World War II and innocence in the face of evil. When Pierrot becomes an orphan, he must leave his home in Paris for a new life with his aunt Beatrix, a servant in a wealthy Austrian household....
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The Griffin and the Dinosaur: How Adrienne Mayor Discovered a Fascinating Link Between Myth and Science

Marc Aronson · National Geographic Children's Books
Format: Print book

Could Griffins have been real When Adrienne Mayor carefully read the ancient Greek and Roman descriptions this mythic hybrid of a lion and an eaglesounded like something people had actually seen What could explain that evidence After a decade of hunting through myths poring over old maps...
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Fairest: The Lunar Chronicles: Levana's Story

Marissa Meyer · Feiwel & Friends
Format: Hardcover

Mirror, mirror, on the wall.Who is the Fairest of them all? Pure evil has a name, hides behind a mask of deceit, and uses her glamour to gain power. But who is Queen Levana? Long before she crossed paths with Cinder, Scarlet, and Cress in The Lunar Chronicles, Levana lived a very different...
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