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Gravity

Sarah Deming · Make Me a World
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

A. S. King meets Chris Crutcher in boxing journalist Sarah Deming's YA novel about a young female boxer who learns to fight for what she wants.

When Gravity Delgado walks into Cops 'n Kids, a no-frills Brooklyn boxing gym, and starts working with the legendary Coach Thomas, she joins...
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I Can Swim

Conn, Marla · READY READERS

Ready for Science series, Emergent Reader, non fiction narrative, strong picture support, Text features: Picture glossary, labels, Comprehension strategies: Identify main idea and details, ask and answer questions, and make text to self and text to world connections. Themes: life science,...
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The Year of Secret Assignments

Jaclyn Moriarty · Scholastic Paperbacks
Pages: 340
Format: Mass Market Paperback

Three girls. Three boys. Two rival schools. This could get messy.The Ashbury-Brookfield pen pal program is designed to bring together the two rival schools in a spirit of harmony and "the Joy of the Envelope." But when Cassie, Lydia, and Emily send their first letters to Matthew,...
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The Wicker King

Kayla Ancrum · Imprint
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

The Wicker King is a psychological young adult thriller that follows two friends struggling as one spirals into madness.Jack once saved August's life ... now can August save him?August is a misfit with a pyro streak and Jack is a golden boy on the varsity rugby team -- but their intense...
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Children of Virtue and Vengeance

Tomi Adeyemi · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

After battling the impossible, Zélie and Amari have finally succeeded in bringing magic back to the land of Orïsha. But the ritual was more powerful than they could've imagined, reigniting the powers of not only the maji, but of nobles with magic ancestry, too.

Now, Zélie...
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The Giver

Lois Lowry · HMH Books for Young Readers
Pages: 225
Format: Hardcover

The Giver, the 1994 Newbery Medal winner, has become one of the most influential novels of our time. The haunting story centers on twelve-year-old Jonas, who lives in a seemingly ideal, if colorless, world of conformity and contentment. Not until he is given his life assignment...

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Defy the Stars

Claudia Gray · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 503
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: Lost Stars and Bloodline comes a thrilling sci-fi adventure that Kass Morgan, bestselling author of The 100 series, calls "startlingly original and achingly romantic...nothing short of masterful."
She's...
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Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team

Steve Sheinkin · Roaring Brook Press
Pages: 280
Format: Hardcover

"Sheinkin has made a career of finding extraordinary stories in American history." -- The New York Times Book Review

Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team is an astonishing underdog sports story -- and more. It's an unflinching...

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Guinness World Records: Gamer's Edition 2020

Guinness World Records · Guinness World Records
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

Gamer's 2020 is bursting at the seams with the characters our readers love and the games making the biggest splash in gaming right now!

Gamer's 2020 features characters and legends such as Super Mario, Spider-Man, Pikachu, Link, Master Chief, Solid Snake, Batman,...

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A Season of Daring Greatly

Ellen Emerson White · Greenwillow Books
Pages: 432
Format: Print book

Eighteen-year-old Jill Cafferty just made history. Her high school's star pitcher, she is now the first woman drafted by a major league baseball team. Only days after her high school graduation, she'll join the Pittsburgh Pirates' Class A Short Season team . . . but not everyone is happy...

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The Fountains of Silence

Ruta Sepetys · Philomel Books
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Salt to the Sea and Between Shades of Gray comes a gripping, unforgettable portrait of love, silence, and secrets amidst a Spanish dictatorship.

Madrid, 1957. Under the fascist dictatorship of General Francisco...
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Call Down the Hawk

Maggie Stiefvater · Scholastic Press
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Raven Boys, a mesmerizing story of dreams and desires, death and destiny.


The dreamers walk among us . . . and so do the dreamed. Those who dream cannot stop dreaming - they can only try to control it. Those who are dreamed...
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Five Feet Apart

Rachael Lippincott · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pages: 288
Format: eBook

Soon to be a major motion picture starring Cole Sprouse and Haley Lu Richardson in March 2019! In this moving story that's perfect for fans of John Green's The Fault in Our Stars, two teens fall in love with just one minor complication - they can't get within a few feet of each...
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Fab Fashions You Can Make and Share

Mari Bolte · Capstone Press
Format: Paperback

Sleepover Girl Delaney volunteers to help with a fashion show fund-raiser for a local animal shelter. Follow these fun and creative crafts ideas to make fashion-forward projects for your own personal runway.
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He Laughed with His Other Mouths

M.T. Anderson · Beach Lane Books
Pages: 297
Format: Hardcover

In the sixth and final Pals in Peril adventure, Jasper Dash is off into the universe to search for his long lost father!In this action-packed conclusion to the celebrated Pals in Peril series, Jasper Dash soars to unprecedented heights - as in, intergalactic, out-of-this-world dimensions...
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