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All the Crooked Saints

Maggie Stiefvater · Scholastic Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Here is a thing everyone wants: A miracle.Here is a thing everyone fears:What it takes to get one.Any visitor to Bicho Raro, Colorado, is likely to find a landscape of dark saints, forbidden love, scientific dreams, miracle-mad owls, estranged affections, one or two orphans, and a sky full...
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The Metropolitans

Carol Goodman · Viking Books for Young Readers
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler meets The Apothecary in this time-bending mystery from bestselling author Carol Goodman!The day Japan bombs Pearl Harbor, four thirteen-year-olds converge at the Metropolitan Museum of Art where an eccentric curator is seeking four uncommonly...
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Zane and the Hurricane: A Story of Katrina

W R Philbrick · Scholastic Canada, Limited
Pages: 181
Format: Print book

Newbery Honor author Rodman Philbrick presents a gripping yet poignant novel about a 12-year-old boy and his dog who become trapped in New Orleans during the horrors of Hurricane Katrina.Zane Dupree is a charismatic 12-year-old boy of mixed race visiting a relative in New Orleans when Hurricane...
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The Wondrous and the Wicked

Page Morgan · Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover

For fans of Lauren Kate's Fallen series comes the exciting conclustion to the trilogy that includes The Beautiful and the Cursed and The Lovely and the Lost. The Waverly sisters must save themselves before all is lost. Since the Waverlys arrived in Paris, the streets have grown more...
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Like a river glorious.

Rae Carson · Greenwillow Books
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

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Metaltown

Kristen Simmons · Tor Teen
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

Kristen Simmons's Metaltown, where factories rule, food is scarce, and hope is in short supply.The rules of Metaltown are simple: Work hard, keep your head down, and watch your back. You look out for number one, and no one knows that better than Ty. She's been surviving on the factory line...
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Are You Misusing Other People's Words?

Barbara Francis · Enslow Pub Inc
Format: Book

Understand what plagiarism is and why it is wrong. While plagiarism has been a problem since the invention of the printing press, today the Internet had made copying and cheating easier than ever. Author Barbara Francis describes ways that students can avoid plagiarism in their own work...
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The Last Apprentice: Fury of the Seventh Son

Joseph Delaney · HarperCollins Publishers
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

The thirteenth - and final - book in the internationally bestselling fantasy adventure series that inspired the forthcoming major motion picture Seventh Son. Finally, Tom Ward, the spook's last apprentice, will confront the Fiend for the last time. A stunning conclusion to the acclaimed...
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The Rule of Three: Fight for Power

Eric Walters · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 346
Format: Hardcover

After sixty-six days of a catastrophic global blackout, life in the suburbs is not what it used to be for Adam and his fortified neighborhood of Eden Mills. Although an explosive clash has minimized one threat from outside the walls, Adam's battle-hardened mentor, Herb, continues to make...
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Flying

Carrie Jones · a Tor Teen Book
Pages: 252
Format: Print book

New York Times bestselling author Carrie Jones introduces sassy alien-hunting cheerleader Mana in Flying, the launch of a sparkling new YA Science Fiction series.People have always treated seventeen-year-old Mana as someone in need of protection. She's used to being coddled, being an only...
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Tattoo Atlas

Tim Floreen · Simon Pulse
Pages: 370
Format: Hardcover

A teenage sociopath is "fixed" after he gets an implant that's supposed to cure him in this thrilling coming of age tale from the author of Willful Machines.A year ago, Rem Braithwaite watched his classmate Franklin Kettle commit a horrific crime. Now, apart from the nightmares,...
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The Whydah: A Pirate Ship Feared, Wrecked, and Found

Martin W Sandler · Candlewick
Pages: 170
Format: Hardcover

The exciting true story of the captaincy, wreck, and discovery of the Whydah - the only pirate ship ever found - and the incredible mysteries it revealed.The 1650s to the 1730s marked the golden age of piracy, when fearsome pirates like Blackbeard ruled the waves, seeking not only treasure...
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Runaways

Beth Szymkowski · AwesomenessINK
Format: Print book

A select group of Danbury Prep students are interrogated about the disappearance of the schools most unlikely couple. Kaylee and Mason left behind a dead body and a trail of secrets. Its anyones guess what happened, but everyone has their theories. Classmates Lily, Jared, Keesha, Trevor,...
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Where Futures End

Parker Peevyhouse · Kathy Dawson Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Perfect for fans of innovative storytelling, like Marcus Sedgwick's The Ghosts of Heaven and David Mitchell's The Bone Clocks, Where Futures End is a collection of five time-spanning, interconnected novellas that weave a subtly science-fictional web stretching out from the present into...
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