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Once Was a Time

Leila Sales · Chronicle Books
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

In the war-ravaged England of 1940, Charlotte Bromley is sure of only one thing: Kitty McLaughlin is her best friend in the whole world. But when Charlotte's scientist father makes an astonishing discovery that the Germans will covet for themselves, Charlotte is faced with an impossible...
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Vengeance Road

Erin Bowman · HMH Books for Young Readers
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

When Kate Thompson's father is killed by the notorious Rose Riders for a mysterious journal that reveals the secret location of a gold mine, the eighteen-year-old disguises herself as a boy and takes to the gritty plains looking for answers and justice. What she finds are devious strangers,...
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The Cipher

John C. Ford · Viking Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

"Ford's The Cipher is a thrill-a-minute ride. A very cool read."--David Baldacci You think your emails are private?Your credit card number is secure?That stock trades, government secrets, and nuclear codes are safe?...th1nk aga1n.Robert "Smiles" Smylie is not a genius....
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Amazing Basketball Records

Thom Storden · Capstone Press
Format: Book

From Wilt Chamberlain to Michael Jordan, great players playing for great teams have thrilled basketball fans through the decades. Explore some of basketballs most mind blowing records with high action photos and sensational stats.,
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HEAR

Robin Epstein · Soho Teen
Pages: 260
Format: Print book

Kassandra Black used to get away with things. She was her high school's anonymous vigilante, exposing bullies and predators. But when she's expelled for breaking into another student's car just weeks before graduation, her acceptance to Columbia is revoked.Now her future depends on behaving...
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The Lie Tree

Frances Hardinge · Amulet Books
Pages: 377
Format: Print book

Read this thought-provoking, critically acclaimed novel (6 starred reviews ) from Frances Hardinge, winner of the Costa Book of the Year, Costa Children's Book Award, and Horn Book-Boston Globe Award. Faith Sunderly leads a double life. To most people, she is reliable, dull, trustworthy...
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Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina

Michaela Deprince · Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Print book

Michaela is nothing short of a miracle, born to be a ballerina. For every young brown, yellow, and purple dancer, she is an inspiration! —Misty Copeland, world-renowned ballet dancerThe extraordinary memoir of Michaela DePrince, a young dancer who escaped war-torn Sierra Leone for the rarefied...
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Journey to Star Wars: The Last Jedi Leia, Princess of Alderaan

CLAUDIA GRAY · Disney Lucasfilm Press
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

A young adult novel, written by New York Times Best-selling author Claudia Gray, about sixteen-year-old Princess Leia, set before A New Hope.
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Music & Musicians

Z. B. Hill · Mason Crest
Format: Book

Presents information about occupations in the music industry, describes the history and creative aspects of music, profiles famous musicians, and offers guidance on how to generate income and create a successful career.
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Avalon

Mindee Arnett · HarperCollins Publishers
Pages: 418
Format: Hardcover

For fans of Josh Whedon's cult classic television show Firefly comes a fascinating and fast-paced sci-fi thriller from author Mindee Arnett, which New York Times bestselling author Kiersten White calls "a heart-pounding, tense joyride of a novel."Jeth Seagrave and his crew have...
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Boy21

Matthew Quick · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

You can lose yourself in repetition--quiet your thoughts; I learned the value of this at a very young age.Basketball has always been an escape for Finley. He lives in broken-down Bellmont, a town ruled by the Irish mob, drugs, violence, and racially charged rivalries. At home, his dad works...
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Toxic

Sara Shepard · HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover

Toxic is the fifteenth - and second-to-last - volume in Sara Shepard's #1 New York Times bestselling Pretty Little Liars series, also a hit ABC Family original TV show.High school seniors Aria, Emily, Spencer, and Hanna barely survived their most recent encounter with A. And it's...
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Black Lives Matter

Sue Bradford Edwards · Essential Library, an imprint of ABDO Publishing
Pages: 112
Format: Print book

"Black Lives Matter covers the shootings that touched off passionate protests, the work of activists to bring about a more just legal system, and the tensions in US society that these events have brought to light." from the publisher's website
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Vivian Apple at the End of the World

Katie Coyle · HMH Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Seventeen-year-old Vivian Apple never believed in the evangelical Church of America, unlike her recently devout parents. But when Vivian returns home the night after the supposed "Rapture," all that's left of her parents are two holes in the roof. Suddenly, she doesn't...
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