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Nightbird

Alice Hoffman · Wendy Lamb Books, 2015.
Pages: 199
Format: Print book

Bestselling author Alice Hoffman's bewitching Nightbird is perfect for ages 10-13: love and friendship empower a lonely girl to embrace her uniqueness and discover her strengths. Twig lives in Sidwell, where people whisper that fairy tales are real. After all, her town is rumored to hide...
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Smoke and Summons

Charlie N. Holmberg · 47North
Format: Hardcover

A captivating world of monsters and magic from the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Paper Magician Series.As a human vessel for an ancient spirit, Sandis lives no ordinary life. At the command of her master, she can be transformed against her will into his weapon - a raging...
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Time out of Time: Book Two: The Telling Stone

Maureen Doyle McQuerry · Harry N. Abrams
Format: Hardcover

In book two, the excitement and mystery continue as Timothy, his sister, Sarah, and their friend Jessica journey from America to Edinburgh, Scotland, where they seek the Four Treasures of Ireland, especially the Telling Stone. They must keep the treasures from falling into the hands of Balor,...
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The Apprentices

Maile Meloy · G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

It's 1954, and Janie Scott is in boarding school in New Hampshire, trying to make a new life. Two years have passed since she last saw the mysterious apothecary - or his defiant son, Benjamin. All she knows is that her friends are out there somewhere, trying to keep the world safe in an age of mounting...
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Not If I Save You First: Library Edition

Ally Carter · Scholastic Audio
Format: Preloaded Digital Audio Player

Bestselling author Ally Carter returns with an exciting stand-alone novel, about a girl stranded in the middle of the Alaskan wilderness with the boy who wronged her . . . as an assassin moves in. Maddie and Logan were torn apart by a kidnapping attempt when they were young. They were only...
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Finding Yvonne

Brandy Colbert · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

For fans of Nicola Yoon and Nina LaCour comes a striking novel about difficult choices from acclaimed author Brandy Colbert.Since she was seven years old, Yvonne has had her trusted violin to keep her company, especially in those lonely days after her mother walked out on their family....
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Prodigal & Riven: The Lost Imperials

Sherry Ficklin · Clean Teen Publishing
Format: Print book

Welcome to the TIME WAR STEIN has been with the Hollows for as long as she can remember. Taken as a child, she has no memories of her pastand thats always been fine by her. Until the day she stumbles across a hidden journal containing the devastating truth about her paternity. Now everything...
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Explorers of Antiquity: From Alexander the Great to Marco Polo

Kenneth Pletcher · Rosen
Pages: 144
Format: Print book

Crossing geographic and cultural boundaries at a time when much of the world remained uncharted was a challenge faced by ancient explorers. Long before the Golden Age of Exploration, an assortment of travellers ventured into the unknown, uncovering untapped riches of land and resources...
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Me Being Me Is Exactly as Insane as You Being You

Todd Hasak-Lowy · Simon Pulse
Pages: 656
Format: Hardcover

A heartfelt, humorous story of a teen boy's impulsive road trip after the shock of his lifetime - told entirely in lists!Darren hasn't had an easy year. There was his parents' divorce, which just so happened to come at the same time his older brother Nate left for college and his longtime...
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Belles on Their Toes

Frank B Gilbreth · Harper Perennial
Pages: 225
Format: Paperback

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Gold Medal Winter

Donna Freitas · Scholastic Inc.
Pages: 313
Format: Hardcover

After years of practice and competitions, of sit spins and perfect poses and thrillingly high jumps, Esperanza Flores will be skating for the United States. But with the excitement of an Olympic shot comes new attention -- and BIG distractions.Suddenly Espi can't go out with her friends,...
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The Prince of Venice Beach

Blake Nelson · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Robert "'Cali" Callahan is a teen runaway, living on the streets of Venice Beach, California. He's got a pretty sweet life: a treehouse to sleep in, a gang of surf bros, a regular basketball game...even a girl who's maybe-sorta interested in him.What he doesn't...
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Make a Podcast!

Matt Anniss · Arcturus Publishing
Format: Print book

Got something interesting to say? Find out what it takes to make a podcast with this brilliant book. Packed with hints, skills and tips to get you noticed, this book will help you to focus all of that creative energy! --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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The Bridge Troll Murders: A Hook Runyon Mystery

Sheldon Russell · Roadrunner Press
Pages: 280
Format: Hardcover

They say a railroad is little more than a small town that stretches a thousand miles along a single winding thread. And like any small town, gossip is known to travel up and down the rail so fast it might as well be a telephone party line. So when a local runaway turns up dead sixty miles...
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The Wicked Will Rise

Danielle Paige · HarperCollins; 1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover

In this New York Times bestselling sequel to Dorothy Must Die, who is good - and who is actually Wicked? The Wicked Will Rise is perfect for fans of richly reimagined fairy tales and classic tales like Marissa Meyer's Lunar Chronicles and Gregory Maguire's Wicked.My name is Amy Gumm...
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