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Kids of Kabul: Living Bravely Through a Never-Ending War

Deborah Ellis - Groundwood Books
Format: Hardcover

Since its publication in 2000, hundreds of thousands of children all over the world have read and loved The Breadwinner. By reading the story of eleven-year-old Parvana and her struggles living under the terror of the Taliban, young readers came to know the plight of children in Afghanistan....
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Landscape with Invisible Hand

M T ANDERSON - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover

National Book Award winner M. T. Anderson returns to future Earth in a sharply wrought satire of art and truth in the midst of colonization.When the vuvv first landed, it came as a surprise to aspiring artist Adam and the rest of planet Earth - but not necessarily an unwelcome one. Can it really...
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Arcadia Falls

Kai Meyer - Balzer + Bray
Format: Hardcover

Romeo and Juliet meets The Godfather amid an exotic Sicilian setting—filled with shape-shifters and mortal danger—in this thrilling conclusion to the first YA trilogy by bestselling German author Kai Meyer.Everyone close to mafia clan leader Rosa Alcantara is dead.Everything...
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Nothing Happened

Molly Booth - Disney-Hyperion
Format: Paperback

IT'S MUCH ADO . . . ABOUT EVERYTHING.This modern-day retelling of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing takes place at the idyllic Camp Dogberry, where sisters Bee and Hana Leonato have lived their whole lives. Their parents own the place, and every summer they look forward...
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The Clockwork Scarab: A Stoker & Holmes Novel

Colleen Gleason - Chronicle Books
Format: Print book

"The mishmash of popular tropes (steampunk! vampires! Sherlock Holmes!) will bring readers in, but it's the friendship between the two girls that will keep them."--Kirkus ReviewsEvaline Stoker and Mina Holmes never meant to get into the family business. But when you're...
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The Innocents

Lili Peloquin - Razorbill
Format: Hardcover

Even the innocent don't kiss and tell...   “…the quick pacing will keep readers engrossed in this series kickoff as Alice and Charlie try to sort through the soap opera that is their new lives and figure out who they can trust. It’s Gossip Girl for Connecticut’s...
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Yours Truly, Lucy B. Parker: Take My Advice: Book 4

Robin Palmer - Putnam Juvenile
Format: Book

A brand-new look for Lucy B. Parker!Lucy B. Parker has a problem. Actually, she has a LOT of problems--specifically, everyone else's problems. Lucy's not really quite sure how all of that happened, considering she's usually the one going to other people for advice, but when...
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Scarlet Portal

Dax Varley - Spellbound
Format: Library Binding

While Max's mom recovers, he goes in search of the Scarlet Portal and a final showdown with the demons.
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DK Readers L1: Sea Otters

DK - DK Publishing
Format: Print book

Get a close-up look at the lives of sea otters and watch them eat, play, groom, and dive together. Filled with bold, adorable images of these aquatic creatures in their natural habitat, Sea Otters explores a day in the life of these furry, whiskered marine mammals.Perfect for 3-5 year...
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Where It Began

Ann Redisch Stampler - Simon Pulse
Format: Hardcover

A teens world comes crashing down in this compulsively readable YA debut thats as literary as it is commercial. Gabby Gardiner wakes up in a hospital bed looking like a cautionary ad for drunk drivingand without a single memory of the accident that landed her there. But what she can recall,...
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