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Orbiting Jupiter

Gary D. Schmidt · Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 183
Format: Print book

The two-time Newbery Honor winner Gary D. Schmidt delivers the shattering story of Joseph, a father at thirteen, who has never seen his daughter, Jupiter. After spending time in a juvenile facility, he's placed with a foster family on a farm in rural Maine. Here Joseph, damaged and withdrawn,...
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Star Wars: Science Fair Book

Samantha Margles · Scholastic
Pages: 126
Format: Paperback

Gear up for Science Fair season with exciting Star Wars-themed science experiments!Based on themes from the Star Wars movies, this book guides budding scientists to create more than thirty exciting science experiments. Includes how to create crystals, move things with "the Force,"...
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I'll give you the sun

Jandy Nelson · Brilliance Audio

Jude and her brother, Noah, are incredibly close twins. At thirteen, isolated Noah draws constantly and is falling in love with the charismatic boy next door, while daredevil Jude surfs and cliff-dives and wears red-red lipstick and does the talking for both of them. But three years later,...
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Attack of the Fiend

Joseph Delaney · Greenwillow Books
Pages: 532
Format: Paperback

"I see your future clearly. Your master will be dead, and you will be alone. It would be better if you had never been born." Thomas Ward is the apprentice for the local Spook, who banishes boggarts and drives away ghosts. But now a new danger is threatening Tom's world: the witches...
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You're Welcome, Universe

Whitney Gardner · Alfred A Knopf
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

A vibrant, edgy, fresh new YA voice for fans of More Happy Than Not and Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda, packed with interior graffiti. When Julia finds a slur about her best friend scrawled across the back of the Kingston School for the Deaf, she covers it up with a beautiful (albeit...
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The Physics of Toys and Games Science Projects

Robert Gardner · Enslow Pub Inc
Format: Book

Ideas introduced in this book discuss gravity, friction, electrical charges and more. This book is filled with projects that use toys as the basis for experiments, including party balloons, balls used in various sports, skis, sleds, toboggans, and a variety of other games and toys that...
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To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Jenny Han · Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pages: 355
Format: Book

Lara Jean's love life goes from imaginary to out of control in this heartfelt novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Summer I Turned Pretty series.What if all the crushes you ever had found out how you felt about them ... all at once? Lara Jean Song keeps her love letters...
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Fear

Michael Grant · Katherine Tegen Books; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Its been one year since all the adults disappeared. Gone.Despite the hunger and the lies, even despite the plague, the kids of Perdido Beach are determined to survive. Creeping into the tenuous new world theyve built, though, is perhaps the worst incarnation yet of the enemy known as the Darkness...
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Splintered: Splintered Book One

A G Howard · Amulet Books
Pages: 371
Format: Book

This stunning debut captures the grotesque madness of a mystical under-land, as well as a girl's pangs of first love and independence. Alyssa Gardner hears the whispers of bugs and flowers - precisely the affliction that landed her mother in a mental hospital years before. This family curse...
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Mistress Pat

L.M. Montgomery · Sourcebooks Fire
Format: Kindle Edition

On Canada's Prince Edward Island in the 1930s, twenty-year-old Pat must choose between the possibility of a lonely life at Silver Bush and leaving her home for romance.
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The Burning Sky

Sherry Thomas · HarperCollinsPublishers
Pages: 449
Format: Hardcover

Just before the start of Summer Half, in April 1883, a very minor event took place at Eton College, that venerable and illustrious English public school for boys. A sixteen-year-old pupil named Archer Fairfax returned from a three-month absence, caused by a fractured femur, to resume his education....
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The Last Boy and Girl in the World

Siobhan Vivian · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pages: 432
Format: Print book

From the critically acclaimed author of The List comes a stunning new novel about a girl who must say goodbye to everything she knows after a storm wreaks havoc on her hometown.What if your town was sliding underwater and everyone was ordered to pack up and leave? How would you and your...
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Pete the Cat's Groovy Guide to Love

Kim Dean · Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pages: 48
Format: Print book

Love is in the air! Pete the Cat shares some groovy words from the heart in this fun collection of all his favorite famous quotes about living an awesome life filled with love. This cool cat adds his heartfelt take on well-known classics, from Vincent van Gogh to Virgil to Ovid to Charles...
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Black Beauty

L. L. Owens · Stone Arch Books
Format: Book

Black Beauty faces human cruelty and mistreatment in a world that cares little for the happiness of animals.  Written in graphic-novel format. These reader-favorite tiles are now updated for enhanced Common Core State Standards support, including discussion and writing prompts developed...
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