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The Six
Mark Alpert - Sourcebooks Fire
Format: Hardcover
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To save humanity, they must give up their own.Adam's muscular dystrophy has stolen his mobility, his friends, and in a few short years, it will take his life. Virtual reality games are Adam's only escape from his wheelchair. In his alternate world, he can defeat anyone. Running,... |
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How the Beatles Changed the World
Martin W. Sandler - Walker Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Bloomsbury
Format: Hardcover
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The Beatles' first appearance on the Ed Sullivan show, has been called "a night that changed the course of American culture." More than seventy million television viewers - the largest-ever audience for an entertainment show - watched the Beatles' performance that February... |
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Doable: The Girls' Guide to Accomplishing Just About Anything
Deborah Reber - Simon Pulse ; Hillsboro, Oregon
Format: Print book
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Got goals? This empowering guide shows how to tackle your to-dos with confidence and enthusiasm so that you can transform anxiety into accomplishment.It's great to dream big, but with day-to-day demands and stresses that seem to dominate our lives, larger goals are easily overlooked... |
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The Great Greene Heist
Varian Johnson - Scholastic
Format: Hardcover
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Jackson Greene swears he's given up scheming. Then school bully Keith Sinclair announces he's running for Student Council president, against Jackson's former friend Gaby de la Cruz. Gaby wants Jackson to stay out of it -- but he knows Keith has "connections" to the principal,... |
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Divergent Thinking: YA Authors on Veronica Roth's Divergent Trilogy
Leah Wilson - Smart Pop, an imprint of Benbella Books, Inc.,
Format: Paperback
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Veronica Roth's Divergent trilogy (Divergent, Insurgent, Allegiant) has captured the hearts and thoughts of millions of readers. In Divergent Thinking, YA authors explore even more of Tris and Tobias' world, including:* What Divergent's factions have in common with one of psychology's... |
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BZRK Apocalypse
Michael Grant - Carolrhoda Lab TM
Format: Book
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The Matrix meets Inner Space in this third book in the BZRK trilogy from New York Times best-selling author Michael Grant. The members of BZRK are preparing for their final stand. Noah and Sadie have seen death, and it holds no fear for them. Madness does, though. And losing each other.... |
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In the Afterlight
Alexandra Bracken - Disney Pr
Format: Hardcover
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Ruby can't look back. Fractured by an unbearable loss, she and the kids who survived the government's attack on Los Angeles travel north to regroup. Only Ruby can keep their highly dangerous prisoner in check. But with Clancy Gray, there's no guarantee you're fully in control,... |
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Black Lives Matter
Sue Bradford Edwards - Essential Library, an imprint of ABDO Publishing
Format: Print book
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"Black Lives Matter covers the shootings that touched off passionate protests, the work of activists to bring about a more just legal system, and the tensions in US society that these events have brought to light." from the publisher's website |
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A List of Things That Didn't Kill Me
Jason Schmidt - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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Jason Schmidt wasn't surprised when he came home one day during his junior year of high school and found his father, Mark, crawling around in a giant pool of blood. Things like that had been happening a lot since Mark had been diagnosed with HIV, three years earlier.Jason's life... |
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Surviving Natural Disasters
Marcia Amidon Lusted - 21st Century
Format: Book
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Earthquakes. Hurricanes. Meteorites. Tsunamis. The natural world is full of powerful forces that can kill you in an instant. Hiding in your closet wont save you. Clinging to your roof is a good idea, until your roof is swept out to sea. When faced with a natural disaster, sometimes the only... |
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Rat Runners
Oisín McGann - Open Road Media Teen & Tween
Format: Print book
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If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear . . .Four young thieves, one simple mission: Steal a black-leather box from the daughter of a murdered scientist without anyone noticing. But WatchWorld controls London now, and the organization knows everything.Every major street is monitored... |
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Bet Your Life
Jane Casey - St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Hardcover
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Jess Tennant has now been living in a tiny town on the English seaside for three months, and is just beginning to relax and think of it as home after the traumatic events of last summer. But in the small hours of Halloween night, a teenage boy is left for dead by the side of the road. Seb Dawson... |
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She Takes a Stand: 16 Fearless Activists Who Have Changed the World
Michael Elsohn Ross - Chicago Review Press
Format: Hardcover
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In an age of "slacktivism" and fleeting social media fame, She Takes a Stand offers a realistic look at the game-changing decisions, high stakes, and bold actions of women and girls around the world working to improve their personal situations and the lives of others. This inspiring... |
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Graduation Day
Joelle Charbonneau - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book
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She wants to put an end to the TestingIn a scarred and brutal future, The United Commonwealth teeters on the brink of all-out civil war. The rebel resistance plots against a government that rules with cruelty and cunning. Gifted student and Testing survivor, Cia Vale, vows to fight. But she can't... |
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Rock Crawling: Tearing It Up
Paul Hoblin - Lerner Publishing Group
Format: Book
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Did you know that some drivers go over boulders instead of around them? Rock crawling vehicles have huge wheels that can grip rocks and help the cars climb steep slopes. The sport is all about precise driving. At rock crawling events, you might see cars crossing wide chasms, driving down... |
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Eleven
James Phelan - Kane Miller
Format: Book
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Sam is the first of the last 13 Dreamers to be revealed. Caught in a covert battle to preserve life as we know it, he must follow the clues to find twelve more Dreamers. Only this unique group can unravel the mysteries of an ancient prophecy and locate the long-lost key to Earth's survival.... |
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Grasshopper Jungle
Andrew Smith - Dutton Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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A 2015 Michael L. Printz Honor BookWinner of the 2014 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Fiction"Grasshopper Jungle is a rollicking tale that is simultaneously creepy and hilarious. Its propulsive plot would be delightful enough on its own, but Smiths ability to blend teenage drama into... |
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The Story of the St. Louis Rams
Nate Frisch - Creative Education
Format: Hardcover
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"The history of the National Football League's St. Louis Rams, surveying the franchise's biggest stars and most memorable moments from its inaugural season in 1936 to today"-- |
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As White as Snow
Salla Simukka - Skyscape
Format: Print book
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Book 2 in the Snow White trilogy.The heat of the summer sun bakes the streets of Prague, but Lumikki's heart is frozen solid.Looking to escape the notoriety caused by the part she played in taking down Polar Bear's crime ring, seventeen-year-old Lumikki Andersson escapes to Prague,... |
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Always Emily
Michaela MacColl - Chronicle Books
Format: Hardcover
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Emily and Charlotte Bront are about as opposite as two sisters can be. Charlotte is practical and cautious; Emily is headstrong and imaginative. But they do have one thing in common: a love of writing. This shared passion will lead them to be two of the first published female novelists... |
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Long May She Reign
Rhiannon Thomas - HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover
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The Girl of Fire and Thorns meets The Queen of the Tearling in this thrilling fantasy standalone about one girl's unexpected rise to power.Freya was never meant to be queen. Twenty-third in line to the throne, she never dreamed of a life in the palace, and would much rather research in her laboratory... |
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Ida M. Tarbell: The Woman Who Challenged Big Business--and Won!
Emily Arnold McCully - Clarion Books
Format: Hardcover
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Born in 1857 and raised in oil country, Ida M. Tarbell was one of the first investigative journalists and probably the most influential in her time. Her series of articles on the Standard Oil Trust, a complicated business empire run by John D. Rockefeller, revealed to readers the underhanded,... |
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What Waits in the Woods
Kieran Scott - Point, 2015. ©2015
Format: Print book
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Seeing things. You were just seeing things.For city girl Callie Velasquez, nothing sounds more terrifying than a night out in the wilderness. But, wanting to bond with her popular new friends, Lissa and Penelope, she agrees to join them on a camping trip. At least Callie's sweet new boyfriend,... |
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The Final Empire (Mistborn, Book 1)
Brandon Sanderson - Tor Books
Format: Hardcover
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From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, the Mistborn series is a heist story of political intrigue and magical, martial-arts action.For a thousand years the ash fell and no flowers bloomed. For a thousand years the Skaa slaved in misery and lived in fear. For a thousand... |
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Princess Academy: The Forgotten Sisters
Shannon Hale - Bloomsbury USA Childrens
Format: Paperback
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A New York Times BestsellerIn this third book in New York Times bestselling, Newbery Honor-winning author Shannon Hales Princess Academy series, Miri goes from student . . . to teacher!Miri has spent a year at the kings palace, learning all about being a proper princess. But instead of returning... |
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The End of Oz
Danielle Paige - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover
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In this dark, action-packed fourth book in the New York Times bestselling Dorothy Must Die series, Amy Gumm travels from Oz to the twisted land of Ev, where she fights to free Oz from evil once and for all.My name is Amy Gumm. You might remember me as the other girl from Kansas. When a tornado... |
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The King Slayer
Virginia Boecker - Little
Format: Print book
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An action-packed and suspenseful sequel to "The Witch Hunter, " perfect for fans of "Graceling" and the Grisha Trilogy. ""I think, in time, you'll either be my greatest mistake or my greatest victory. "" Former witch hunter Elizabeth Grey is hiding... |
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Independent Study: The Testing, Book 2
Joelle Charbonneau - Harcourt Brace and Company
Format: Hardcover
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In the series debut The Testing, sixteen-year-old Cia Vale was chosen by the United Commonwealth government as one of the best and brightest graduates of all the colonies . . . a promising leader in the effort to revitalize postwar civilization. In Independent Study, Cia is a freshman at the University... |
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Macanudo #1
Liniers - Enchanted Lion Books
Format: Hardcover
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"Anyone can draw a cat, anyone can draw a little girl or a man with a hat, but not everyone can make that cat, that little girl and that man with a hat different from any we've ever seen before and have them become part of our world, as if we knew them personally. Liniers draws... |
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Day 21
Kass Morgan - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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It's been 21 days since the hundred landed on Earth. They're the only humans to set foot on the planet in centuries...or so they thought. |
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Twisted
Hannah Jayne - Sourcebooks Fire
Format: Print book
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Bex is ready to start a new life in foster care. There, she won't be known as a serial killer's daughter. Though her father was never tried for the murders attributed to "The Wife Collector," he disappeared after questioning. And Bex struggles with the guilt that she provided... |
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On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness
Andrew Peterson - WaterBrook Press
Format: Paperback
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Once, in a cottage above the cliffs on the Dark Sea of Darkness, there lived three children and their trusty dog Nugget. Janner Igiby, his brother Tink, their crippled sister Leeli are gifted children as all children are, loved well by a noble mother and ex-pirate grandfather. But they... |
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North Dakota
Darlene R. Stille - Childrens Pr; Revised edition
Format: Book
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The third series of America the Beautiful is back in a revised edition. The books in this series are bursting with fascinating facts, updated statistics, and brand-new full-color photographs. America the Beautiful's dynamic design and editorial approach to the geography, history, people,... |
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Passenger on the Pearl: The True Story of Emily Edmonson's Flight from Slavery
Winifred Conkling - Algonquin Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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NOW IN PAPERBACK! The page-turning, heart-wrenching true story of one young woman willing to risk her safety and even her life for a chance at freedom in the largest slave escape attempt in American history. In 1848, thirteen-year-old Emily Edmonson, five of her siblings, and seventy other... |
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Last Descendants: An Assassin's Creed Novel Series
Matthew Kirby - Scholastic Inc.
Format: Print book
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In "Last Descendants," Owen and a group of other teens located the first piece of an ancient and powerful relic long considered a legend-the Trident of Eden. This piece was sought by the Brotherhood of Assassins and the Templar Order, but before either organization could take... |
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Amazing Feats of Aerospace Engineering
Angie Smibert - Essential Library
Format: Library Binding
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Engineers design our modern world. They combine science and technology to create incredible vehicles, structures, and objects. This title examines amazing feats of aerospace engineering. Engaging text explores the Saturn V moon rocket, the International Space Station, and the world's... |
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The Jewel
Amy Ewing - HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times bestselling author Amy Ewing delivers a dark and riveting tale that "will have fans of Oliver's Delirium, Cass's The Selection, and DeStefano's Wither breathless."*The Jewel has many meanings: wealth, beauty, royalty. But for Violet, the Jewel has always meant servitude.Born... |
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The Memory of Things: A Novel
Gae Polisner - Griffin
Format: Print book
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On the morning of September 11, 2001, sixteen-year-old Kyle Donohue watches the first twin tower come down from the window of Stuyvesant High School. Moments later, terrified and fleeing home to safety across the Brooklyn Bridge, he stumbles across a girl perched in the shadows, covered... |
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The Boy Most Likely To
Huntley Fitzpatrick - Dial Books
Format: Hardcover
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A surprising, utterly romantic companion to My Life Next Door - great for fans of Sarah Dessen and Jenny Han Tim Mason was The Boy Most Likely To find the liquor cabinet blindfolded, need a liver transplant, and drive his car into a houseAlice Garrett was The Girl Most Likely To . . . well,... |
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Weird Birds
Chris Earley - Firefly Books
Format: Paperback
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Praise for Weird Insects A gallery of brilliantly clear color photos gives intimate close-up looks at just of the millions of insects crawling flying scurrying and burrowing on our planet but Woreks choices open up a visual treasure house of the class Insecta From metallic armored... |
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There Will Be Bears
Ryan Gebhart - Candlewick Pr
Format: Print book
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Tyson is determined to hunt an elk - even if it means sneaking his grandpa out of a nursing home - in a debut novel sparked with dry wit and wilderness adventure. Thirteen-year-old Tyson loves hanging out with his roughneck Grandpa Gene, who's a lot more fun than Tyson's ex-best friend,... |
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Let the Storm Break
Shannon Messenger - Simon Pulse, 2014.
Format: Print book
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Whirlwind romance and breathtaking action continues in the sequel to Let the Sky Fall, which Becca Fitzpatrick called "charged and romantic."Vane Weston is haunted. By the searing pull of his bond to Audra. By the lies he's told to cover for her disappearance. By the treacherous... |
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Love and Other Foreign Words
Erin McCahan - Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Format: Hardcover
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Perfect for fans of John Green and Rainbow Rowell, Love and Other Foreign Words is equal parts comedy and coming of age--a whip-smart, big-hearted, laugh-out-loud love story about sisters, friends, and what it means to love at all.Can anyone be truly herself--or truly in love--in a language... |
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Doing It Right: Making Smart, Safe, and Satisfying Choices About Sex
Bronwen Pardes - Simon Pulse; Updated edition
Format: Book
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An experienced sex educator gets up front and personal in this updated reissue of an informative and candid guide aimed directly at teens.Enjoy responsibly. Sex. Sometimes it feels like everybody's doing it. Maybe you are. Maybe you're thinking about it. Maybe it's years away.... |
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Espionage
Matt Anniss - Gareth Stevens Publishing
Format: Library Binding
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Wild Ocean: Sharks, Whales, Rays, and Other Endangered Sea Creatures
Matt Dembicki - Fulcrum Publishing
Format: Paperback
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The world's oceans represent the last wild frontier on Earth. In this graphic novel collection, Matt Dembicki, editor and artist of the award-winning Trickster, pulls together stories of twelve iconic endangered sea animals. Produced in cooperation with the non-profit PangeaSeed,... |
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Dove Arising
Karen Bao - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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Fans of Ender's Game and The Maze Runner will love this smart sci-fi debut and its sequel, Dove Exiled!Phaet Theta has lived her whole life in a colony on the Moon. She's barely spoken since her father died in an accident nine years ago. She cultivates the plants in Greenhouse... |
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Adrift
Paul Griffin - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover
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From critically acclaimed writer Paul Griffin comes a fast-paced young adult novel about five very different teens lost at sea with no one to count on but each other. Matt and John are best friends working out in Montauk for the summer. When Driana, JoJo and Stef invite the boys to their... |
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Strange Fruit, Volume I: Uncelebrated Narratives from Black History
Joel Christian Gill - Fulcrum Publishing
Format: Paperback
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Strange Fruit Volume I is a collection of stories from early African American history that represent the oddity of success in the face of great adversity. Each of the nine illustrated chapters chronicles an uncelebrated African American hero or event. From the adventures of lawman... |
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North and South America
Tim Harris - Brown Bear Books
Format: Print book
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"Describes various animals in North and South America that are endangered and at risk of becoming extinct. Data Sheet sidebars and maps accompany the text."-- |
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The Replaced
Kimberly Derting - Harper Teen
Format: Hardcover
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The gripping second installment in the Taking trilogy is perfect for fans of The Fifth Wave and the Body Finder series. Explosive and romantic, with creepy, otherworldly elements and twisty, psychological thrills, The Replaced will have you questioning what exactly it means to be human.... |
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Nightshade
Andrea Cremer - Philomel Books; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Calla Tor has always known her destiny: After graduating from the Mountain School, she'll be the mate of sexy alpha wolf Ren Laroche and fight with him, side by side, ruling their pack and guarding sacred sites for the Keepers. But when she violates her masters' laws by saving a beautiful... |
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Skyscraping
Cordelia Jensen - Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Format: Print book
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A heartrending, bold novel in verse about family, identity, and forgiveness Mira is just beginning her senior year of high school when she discovers her father with his male lover. Her world-and everything she thought she knew about her family-is shattered instantly. Unable to comprehend... |
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The Young Chef: Recipes and Techniques for Kids Who Love to Cook
Mark Ainsworth - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book
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Learn how to cook and think like a chef from the best of the best - the experts at The Culinary Institute of America Aspiring chefs turn to The Culinary Institute of America for top-tier training - and now younger cooks can too. Coauthored by chef-instructor (and parent) Mark Ainsworth,... |
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The End or Something Like That
Ann Dee Ellis - Dial Books
Format: Hardcover
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For fans of Sara Zarr and Stephen Chbosky, an achingly raw and surprisingly funny novel about coping with lossEmmy's best friend Kim had promised to visit from the afterlife after she died. But so far Kim hasn't shown up even once. Emmy blames herself for not believing hard enough.... |
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The Far Dawn: Book Three of the Atlanteans
Kevin Emerson - Katherine Tegen Books; Original edition
Format: Paperback
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The Far Dawn is the third and final novel in Kevin Emerson's Atlanteans series, bringing the story of Atlantean descendant Owen Parker to a high-stakes, dramatic conclusion. The Atlanteans series has been praised for its "emotional sucker punches" (Kirkus Reviews) , "solid... |
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Mandela and Truth and Reconciliation: Days of Decision
Cath Senker - Heinemann
Format: Print book
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How did Nelson Mandela help to heal a divided nation by supporting South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission? What choices did he have, what support and advice did he receive, and how did his decisions affect history and his legacy? This book looks at a momentous event from... |
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The Giant
Lex Thomas - Carolrhoda Lab
Format: Print book
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In this fourth book in the Quarantine series, Gonzalo, now released from the high school quarantine, travels across a ravaged America looking for his beloved girlfriend Sasha. |
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Never Never: Part Two
Colleen Hoover - CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Format: Print book
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The continuation of the Never Never series. |
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The Children of the King
Sonya Hartnett - Candlewick Press
Format: Hardcover
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Internationally acclaimed author Sonya Hartnett tells a hauntingly beautiful story set during World War II. Cecily and Jeremy have been sent to live with their uncle Peregrine in the English countryside, safe from the war, along with a young refugee named May. But when Cecily and May find... |
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The Disappearance of Emily H.
Barrie Summy - Delacorte Press
Format: Print book
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A girl who can see the past tries to save the future in this compelling tween mystery. A girl is missing. Three girls are lying. One girl can get to the truth. Emily Huvar vanished without a trace. And the clues are right beneath Raine's fingertips. Literally. Raine isn't like other... |
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The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender
Leslye Walton - Candlewick Press
Format: Hardcover
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A 2015 William C. Morris YA Debut Award Finalist. Magical realism, lyrical prose, and the pain and passion of human love haunt this hypnotic generational saga. . Foolish love appears to be the Roux family birthright, an ominous forecast for its most recent progeny, Ava Lavender. Ava - in all other... |
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The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club
Phillip Hoose - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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A Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Honor WinnerAt the outset of World War II, Denmark did not resist German occupation. Deeply ashamed of his nation's leaders, fifteen-year-old Knud Pedersen resolved with his brother and a handful of schoolmates to take action against the Nazis if the adults... |
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Polar Regions
Louise Spilsbury - Smart Apple Media, 2016.
Format: Print book
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Can you imagine living and working at the North or South pole? It's the reality for some scientists, who inhabit laboratories in the frozen wastes of the Arctic or Antarctic. Research on the Edge - Polar Lab is a gripping look at the daily lives of these scientists, and the vital research... |
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The Remedy
Suzanne Young - Simon Pulse
Format: Hardcover
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Can one girl take on so many identities without losing her own? Find out in this riveting companion to The Program and the New York Times bestselling The Treatment.In a world before The Program ... Quinlan McKee is a closer. Since the age of seven, Quinn has held the responsibility of providing... |
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This Star Won't Go Out: The Life and Words of Esther Grace Earl
Esther Earl - Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Format: Book
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New York Times Bestseller! "This moving read will have you reaching for the tissues and smiling with delight ... .Stunningly alive on the page, Esther shows that sometimes the true meaning of life - helping and loving others - can be found even when bravely facing death." -People... |
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The Minnow
Diana Sweeney - Text Publishing
Format: Paperback
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Winner of The Text Prize for Young Adult and Children's Writing, 2013."Quietly powerful and compelling. A tender, lyrical book about love, loss and starting over." - Meg Rosoff, author of How I Live Now'A powerful touchstone of longing and melancholy...Sweeney expertly... |
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The Darfur Genocide
Zoe Lowery - Rosen Publishing
Format: Print book
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This volume offers readers a history of the term genocide and then moves into what has been called perhaps the foulest humanitarian crisis of the early twenty-first century: the crisis in Darfur. This edifying resource offers a look into the countrys history and the events that led up to the violence... |
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Watercolors
Mari Bolte - Capstone Press
Format: Library Binding
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Bring out your inner artist by picking up a paintbrush! Paint It will inspire you to create a one of a kind masterpiece. Whether you'd rather swirl through oils, dip your way through watercolors, blend with pastels, or mix up acrylics, you'll be painting like a pro in no time. |
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One Past Midnight
Jessica Shirvington - Bloomsbury USA Childrens; Reprint edition
Format: Hardcover
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Sabine isn't like anyone else. For as long as she can remember, she's had two lives. Every twenty-four hours she 'Shifts', living each day twice. In one life, Sabine has everything: popular friends, expensive clothes, perfect grades, and the guy everyone wants. In the other,... |
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Wyoming
G. S. Prentzas - C. Press/F. Watts Trade
Format: Library Binding - Revised Ed.
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The third series of America the Beautiful is back in a revised edition. The books in this series are bursting with fascinating facts, updated statistics, and brand-new full-color photographs. America the Beautiful's dynamic design and editorial approach to the geography, history, people,... |
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Still a Work in Progress
Jo Knowles - Candlewick Press
Format: Print book
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In a return to middle-grade fiction, master of perspectives Jo Knowles depicts a younger sibling struggling to maintain his everyday life while coping with his sister's secret struggle.Noah is just trying to make it through seventh grade. The girls are confusing, the homework is boring,... |
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Still Waters
Ash Parsons - Recorded Books
Format: Audiobook
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Jason Roberts knows how to take a hit, and he has taken plenty: both from the boys at his high school, and from his deadbeat, drug-dealing father. But Jason has learned to give as good as he gets, and his reputation as the school tough guy has made him something of a legend. It isnt his rep that... |
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Gene Therapy
L E Carmichael - ABDO Publishing Company
Format: Book
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Amazing medical breakthroughs are made every day. In the past decades, medical researchers have cured diseases that were once deadly and devised new methods to heal that were once unimaginable. This title follows the development of gene therapy, including the discovery of DNA, groundbreaking... |
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War Brothers: The Novel
Sharon McKay - Annick Press; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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The unforgettable novel about one child soldier's struggle with friendship, courage, and resilience. Jacob is a 14-year-old Ugandan who is sent away to a boys' school. Once there, he assures his friend Tony that they need not be afraid -- they will be safe. But not long after,... |
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Alpha Goddess
Amalie Howard - Sky Pony Press
Format: Hardcover
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In Serjana Caelum's world, gods exist. So do goddesses. Sera knows this because she is one of them. A secret long concealed by her parents, Sera is Lakshmi reborn, the human avatar of an immortal Indian goddess rumored to control all the planes of existence. Marked by the sigils of both... |
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The Hidden Summer
Gin Phillips - Puffin Books; Reprint edition
Format: Book
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After a falling out between their mothers, 13-year-old best friends Nell and Lydia are forbidden from seeing each other for the whole summer. Nell struggles with the thought of not only losing her best friend, but also losing the only person in whom Nell finds refuge from the difficulties... |
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Careers in the Secret Service
Adam Woog - Cavendish Square Publishing
Format: Book
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"Provides a comprehensive look at the careers available in the Secret Service"--Provided by publisher. |
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Brazen
Katherine Longshore - Viking Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Mary Howard has always lived in the shadow of her powerful family. But when shes married off to Henry Fitzroy, King Henry VIIIs illegitimate son, she rockets into the Tudor courts inner circle. Mary and Fitz join a tight clique of rebels who test the boundaries of courts strict rules with... |
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Diary of William Bircher: A Civil War Drummer
William Bircher - Capstone Press
Format: Library Binding
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In 1861 William Bircher joined the Union Army to help fight the Civil War. Too young to be a soldier, William was a drummer. He witnessed the many hardships of war long marches, severe cold, hunger, disease, and the great loss of lives. Through it all, 15 year old William recorded his experiences... |
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Mania
J. R. Johansson - Flux
Format: Paperback
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Jack and his half-brother, Parker, have no time to mourn the loss of their father. With an attack by the body-stealing Takers imminent, the pair must put aside their grief and track down the ingredients of their fathers formulaone that will rein in the power-hungry Takers and keep their... |
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Costa Rica
Nelson Yomtov - Children's Press, An Imprint of Scholastic Inc., 2014.
Format: Print book
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Take a trip around the world with the latest entries in the Enchantment of the World series! Readers are transported to distant lands with the fascinating text and attention-grabbing photos in these books. Each country's culture, history, and geography are explored in detail, allowing... |
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Up for Sale: Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery
Alison Marie Behnke - 21st Century Books
Format: Book
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Describes human trafficking around the world, in which children and women are forced to work as prostitutes, debt slaves, household servants, and soldiers.-- |
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Abortion: Interpreting the Constitution
Carol Hand - Rosen Publishing Group
Format: Book : Juvenile audience : EnglishView all editions and formats
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From School Library Journal Gr 7 Up-This series explores the Constitution in terms of how it was created: how it applies to history and current society and how it shapes policy, law, civil rights, and the way we live today. The series highlights seven different subjects... |
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Sword Art Online: Fairy Dance, Vol. 2 - manga (Sword Art Online Manga, 3)
Reki Kawahara - Yen Press
Format: Paperback
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Kirito jumps into a new VRMMORPG called ALfheim Online (ALO) in search of Asuna, who still hasnt regained consciousness. On his quest to find the World Tree and reach Asuna, he meets a sylph girl named Leafa. A veteran player experienced with the sword, Leafa recognizes that Kirito is motivated... |
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Ellen Degeneres: Television's Funniest Host
Barbara Gottfried Hollander - Rosen Young Adult
Format: Print book
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Comedian, host, and executive producer Ellen DeGeneres, with her Emmy-award-winning show and whip-smart wit, is a household name. But many may be unaware that Ellen's life has not always been full of laughs. This book introduces readers to her background--her personal and professional setbacks... |
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Geek Girl
Holly Smale - Harpercollins
Format: Print book
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Geek + runway = a runaway UK hit! Geek Girl is the first book in a hilarious, internationally bestselling series that's perfect for fans of Louise Rennison and The Princess Diaries.Harriet Manners is a geek. She always has been, and she thought she always would be - but when she's discovered... |
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Like Water on Stone
Dana Walrath - Delacorte Press
Format: Library Binding
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"Evocative and hopeful," says Newbery Honor-Winner Rita Williams-Garcia of this intense survival story set during the Armenian genocide of 1915. It is 1914, and the Ottoman Empire is crumbling into violence. Beyond Anatolia, in the Armenian... |
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Dorothy Must Die Stories: No Place Like Oz, The Witch Must Burn, The Wizard Returns
Danielle Paige - HarperCollins
Format: Paperback
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A collection of three prequel novellas to the New York Times bestselling Dorothy Must Die series by Danielle Paige!These three prequel novellas to the New York Times bestselling Dorothy Must Die series follow the iconic characters from the beloved classic The Wizard of Oz as their lives... |
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The Forgetting
Sharon Cameron - Scholastic Press
Format: Print book
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What isn't written, isn't remembered. Even your crimes. Nadia lives in the city of Canaan, where life is safe and structured, hemmed in by white stone walls and no memory of what came before. But every twelve years the city descends into the bloody chaos of the Forgetting, a day of no remorse,... |
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Queens of Geek
Jen Wilde - Feiwel & Friends
Format: Print book
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Three friends. Two love stories. One convention.Charlie likes to stand out. She's a vlogger and actress promoting her first movie at SupaCon, and this is her chance to show fans she's over her public breakup with co-star Reese Ryan. When internet-famous cool-girl actress Alyssa Huntington... |
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Three Day Summer
Sarvenaz Tash - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Boy meets girl...at the most amazing concert the world has ever seen.Michael is unsure about most things. Go to college? Enlist in the military? Break up with his girlfriend? All big question marks. He is living for the moment and all he wants is a few days at the biggest concert of the summer.Cora... |
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Love and Other Unknown Variables
Shannon Lee Alexander - Entangled: Teen
Format: Hardcover
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Charlie Hanson has a clear vision of his future. A senior at Brighton School of Mathematics and Science, he knows he'll graduate, go to MIT, and inevitably discover solutions to the universe's greatest unanswered questions. He's that smart. But Charlie's future blurs the moment... |
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100 Sideways Miles
Andrew Smith - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Destiny takes a detour in this heartbreakingly hilarious novel with five starred reviews, from the acclaimed author of Winger, which Kirkus Reviews called "smart" and "wickedly funny."Finn Easton sees the world through miles instead of minutes. Its how he makes sense... |
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I'm With Cupid
Anna Staniszewski - Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Format: Print book
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Marcus is a Cupid. Lena is a Reaper. Opposites attract in the exciting new Switched At First Kiss series by the acclaimed author of The Dirt Diary. When she's dared to kiss the adorkable Marcus Torelli at a party, Lena thinks it's the perfect opportunity to cross First Kiss off her list... |
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The Cresswell Plot
Eliza Wass - Hyperion
Format: Book
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Everyone knows the Cresswells--they live in the woods, believe strange things, and don’t mix with other people. The only reason they go to school is because the law forced their father to send them.
Castley Cresswell is 17, and ready to leave her controlling, possibly insane... |
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The Lazarus Game
Stephen J. Valentine - Cedar Fort Publishing & Media
Format: Print book
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An amazing new video game has the power to resurrect the brightest minds of the past and see what they'd create in the modern world. There's just one catch: it requires another person's soul. Carter Chance, who is a teenage genius, must find a way to stop his generation from... |
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After the Fall
Kate Hart - Farrar
Format: Print book
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Seventeen-year-old Raychel is sleeping with two boys: her overachieving best friend Matt ... and his slacker brother, Andrew. Raychel sneaks into Matt's bed after nightmares, but nothing ever happens. He doesn't even seem to realize she's a girl, except when he decides she needs rescuing.... |
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Empire of Dust
Eleanor Herman - Harlequin Teen
Format: Print book
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In Macedon, war rises like smoke, forbidden romance blooms and ancient magic tempered with rage threatens to turn an empire to dust After winning his first battle, Prince Alexander fights to become the ruler his kingdom demands - but the line between leader and tyrant blurs with each new threat.... |
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Rise of aurora west.
J T Petty - First Second Books
Format: Print book
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Aurora West, daughter of Arcopolis's last great hero, seeks to uncover the mystery of her mother's death, and to find her place in a world overrun with monsters and corruption. |
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Bandana-rama - Wrap, Glue, Sew: Kids Make 21 Fast & Fun Craft Projects
Judith Cressy - C&T Publishing / FunStitch Studio
Format: Print book
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Give the crafty kid in your life the gift of style! Bandana-ramaWrap, Glue, Sew makes it easy for kids of all experience levels to complete all 21 projects featured in the book. From headbands, belts, and hoodies, to pillows and a guitar strap, all the projects can be achieved by hand sewing,... |
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Yo, Miss: A Graphic Look At High Schoool
Lisa Wilde - Microcosm Publishing
Format: Print book
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Yo, Miss A Graphic Look at High School takes the reader inside Wildcat Academy, a second chance high school in New York City where all the students are considered at-risk. Through strong and revealing black and white images, the book tells the story of eight students who are trying to get that... |
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Windwitch
Susan Dennard - Random House/Listening Library
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A shadow man haunts the Nubrevnan streets, leaving corpses in his wake and then raising those corpses from the dead. Windwitch continues the tale of Merik, who is a cunning privateer, prince, and windwitch. |
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Perfect Lies
Kiersten White - HarperTeen; Reprint edition
Format: Print book
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This explosive sequel to Mind Games, which New York Times bestselling author Holly Black called a brutal, exciting gem of a book, is a lightning-fast, wickedly smart tale of two sisters trapped in a web of deceitperfect for fans of Sara Shepards Lying Game series.For years, Annie and Fia have... |
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Dangerous
Shannon Hale - Bloomsbury U.S.A. Children's Books
Format: Hardcover
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How far would you go to save the ones you love? And how far would you go to save everyone else?Maisie Danger Brown just wanted to get away from home for a bit and see something new. She never intended to fall in love with a boy at space camp. And she certainly never intended to stumble... |
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Find Your Style: Boost Your Body Image Through Fashion Confidence
Sally McGraw - Twenty-First Century Books
Format: Print book
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Style can be a flag we wave, a declaration of who we are. Discover awesome tips about understanding your body type so you can build flattering outfits, using colors, shapes, patterns, and accessories to your advantage. Learn how to build self-esteem by busting media myths about beauty standards... |
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Zom-B: Family
Darren Shan - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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After being betrayed and captured by the most heinous survivors of the human race, B Smith lands back in the clutches of a fiend she had hoped to never see again, someone who is intent on making her suffer in the most tortuous ways. Discovering the fate of loved ones from Bs past adds to the agony... |
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Special Education Teacher
Ellyn Sanna - Mason Crest
Format: Hardcover
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Each book in this series combines information about a real-life career with practical steps toward building character, as well as facts about educational requirements and skills necessary for these popular careers. |
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Mark of the Plague
Kevin Sands - Aladdin
Format: Hardcover
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Christopher Rowe is back and there are more puzzles, riddles, and secrets to uncover in this follow-up to the Indie Next pick The Blackthorn Key, which was called a "spectacular debut" by Kirkus Reviews in a starred review.The Black Death has returned to London,... |
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This Is My Brain on Boys
Sarah Strohmeyer - Balzer Bray
Format: Print book
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Jane Austen's Emma meets The Rosie Project in this quirky, irresistible, romantic comedy from Sarah Strohmeyer, the author of Smart Girls Get What They Want.Addie Emerson doesn't believe in love. Not for herself anyway. With one year left of high school, she's more interested... |
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The Revival
Chris Weitz - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Print book
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The teens forge a new world in this epic conclusion to The Young World trilogy.After the emotional cliffhanger of The New Order, shocking events take place for Donna, Jefferson, Kath, and their tribe as they face their greatest challenge yet--how to hold the new city-state of New York... |
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Exploring the Mysteries of Genius and Invention (The Stem Guide to the Universe)
Jack Challoner - Rosen Young Adult
Format: Library Binding
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Beautifully illustrated throughout, this book gives readers unprecedented insight into the minds and lives of some of the great men and women who have helped shape the modern world. The book transports the reader back in time to share the excitement and inspiration of some of the most important... |
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Careers in Computer Support
Jeri Freedman - Rosen Publishing
Format: Book : Juvenile audience : English : First Edition
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With the importance of computers and mobile devices in every business and industry, the demand for computer support professionals is greater than ever before. As a result, those with strong skills in computer support have a relatively secure career path and the ability to apply their knowledge... |
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Marriage Rights and Gay Rights: Interpreting the Constitution
Barbara Gottfried Hollander - Rosen Classroom
Format: Book
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One would think that by now the issue of marriage and the simple right for two people who love one another to be together would be settled. Even in the 21st century, people ask, "What is marriage?" Although the word "marriage" isn't even mentioned in the Constitution,... |
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Sweep: Book of Shadows, The Coven, and Blood Witch: Volume 1
Cate Tiernan - Speak; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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Perfect for fans of The Secret Circle, The Vampire Diaries, and The Witches of East End series.The first three Sweep books bound into one gorgeous edition at a fabulous price! Morgan Rowlands never thought she was anything other than a typical sixteen-year-old girl. But when she meets Cal,... |
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Amazing Feats of Biological Engineering
Melissa Abramovitz - Essential Library
Format: Book
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Engineers design our modern world. They combine science and technology to create incredible vehicles, structures, and objects. This title examines amazing feats of biological engineering. Engaging text explores bionic legs, artificial organs, and animal cloning. It also examines the engineers... |
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Thirty Sunsets
Christine Hurley Deriso - Flux
Format: Print book
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Forrest Shepherd is convinced she's right. About what's best for her brother and his horrible girlfriend, Olivia. About her mother's need for control. Most of all, she thinks she's right about Scott, the first cute guy to hit on her. But on the Shepherds' annual summer... |
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This Is How It Ends
Jen Nadol - Simon Pulse
Format: Book
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If you could see the future, would you want to? After the disturbing visions Riley and his friends see turn out to be more than hallucinations, fate takes a dangerous twist in this dark and suspenseful page-turner.Riley and his friends are gearing up for their senior year by spending one last... |
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This Impossible Light
LILY MYERS - Philomel Books
Format: Hardcover
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From the YouTube slam poetry star of "Shrinking Women" (more than 5 million views!) comes a novel in verse about body image, eating disorders, self-worth, mothers and daughters, and the psychological scars we inherit from our parents.Fifteen-year-old Ivy's world is in flux.... |
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Native American Spirit Beings
Jeanne Nagle - Rosen Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover
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Native American spirituality is as rich and varied as the cultures wherein it is practiced. Unlike the ancient Greeks and Romans, who worshipped divine gods and goddesses, the indigenous people of North America revere a variety of non-deity spirit beings, which are entities with mystical... |
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Things I Should Have Known
Claire Scovell LaZebnik - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book
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An unforgettable story about autism, sisterhood, and first love that's perfect for fans of Jenny Han, Sophie Kinsella, and Sarah Dessen. New York Times bestselling author of Tell Me Three Things Julie Buxbaum raved: "I couldn't put it down." Meet Chloe Mitchell,... |
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La Sangre del Olimpo
Rick Riordan - Vintage Espanol; Tra edition
Format: Book
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Los tripulantes del Argo II han salido victoriosos de sus misiones, pero estn lejos de derrotar a Gea, la madre Tierra. Ella ha conseguido alzar a todos sus gigantes y planea sacrificar a dos semidioses en la festividad de Spes necesita su sangre, la sangre del Olimpo, para despertar.... |
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Speed of Life
J M Kelly - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book
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Twins Crystal and Amber have the same goal: to be the first in their family to graduate high school and make something of their lives. When one gets pregnant during their junior year, they promise to raise the baby together. It's not easy, but between their after-school jobs, they're... |
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Paranoia
J. R. Johansson - Flux
Format: Book
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In the aftermath of the events that nearly killed him, Parker Chipp is trying to learn to cope better with life as a Watcher. And it seems to be working...until he wakes up in jail with a hangover and 12 hours of missing time. Darkness has somehow taken control and Parker doesnt have a clue... |
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This Broken Wondrous World
Jon Skovron - Viking Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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"My fellow monsters," said Moreau. "No longer will we hide in the shadows, cringing, cowardly, hiding our true potential. You see, the humans do not view us as people. We must force them to expand their view of personhood to include us. By any means necessary."A year... |
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Rani Patel In Full Effect
Sonia Patel - Cinco Puntos Press
Format: Print book
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Almost seventeen, Rani Patel appears to be a kick-ass Indian girl breaking cultural norms as a hip-hop performer in full effect. But in truth, she's a nerdy flat-chested nobody who lives with her Gujarati immigrant parents on the remote Hawaiian island of Moloka'i, isolated from her high... |
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Queen of Hearts
Colleen Oakes - SparkPress
Format: Paperback
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Winner of the 2014 Next Generation Indie Book Award for Young Adult Fiction.As Princess of Wonderland Palace and the future Queen of Hearts, Dinahs days are an endless monotony of tea, tarts, and a stream of vicious humiliations at the hands of her father, the King of Hearts. The only highlight... |
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A World After an Asteroid Strike
Alex Woolf - Heinemann-Raintree Middle School Nonfiction
Format: Book
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Can you imagine what our lives would be like after a devastating asteroid strike? What effect would the resulting tsunami, storms, and dust cloud have? What would happen to the climate, wildlife, and our food supplies? This book traces the possible consequences of a global event on this... |
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Ruins
Dan Wells - Balzer Bray
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times BestsellerKira, Samm, and Marcus fight to prevent a final war between Partials and humans in the gripping final installment in the Partials Sequence, a series that combines the thrilling action of The Hunger Games with the provocative themes of Blade Runner and The Stand.There... |
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Beautiful Broken Girls
Kim Savage - Farrar
Format: Print book
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Remember the places you touched me. Ben touched seven parts of Mira Cillo: her palm, hair, chest, cheek, lips, throat, and heart. It was the last one that broke her. After Mira's death, she sends Ben on a quest to find notes she left him in the seven places where they touched notes that... |
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Allegedly
Tiffany D Jackson - Katherine Tegen Books
Format: Hardcover
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Orange Is the New Black meets Walter Dean Myer's Monster in this gritty, twisty, and haunting debut by Tiffany D. Jackson about a girl convicted of murder seeking the truth while surviving life in a group home.Mary B. Addison killed a baby. Allegedly. She didn't say much in that first interview... |
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Stubby the War Dog: The True Story of World War I's Bravest Dog
Ann Bausum - National Geographic Society
Format: Hardcover
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Move over, Rin Tin Tin. Here comes Sgt. Stubby! That German shepherd star of the silver screen may have been born behind enemy lines during World War I, but Stubby, the stump-tailed terrier, worked behind enemy lines, and gained military honors along the way. Private Robert Conroy casually... |
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Seed
Lisa Heathfield - Running Press Kids
Format: Hardcover
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All that Pearl knows can be encapsulated in one word: Seed. It is the isolated community that she was born into. It is the land that she sows and reaps. It is the center of her family and everything that means home. And it is all kept under the watchful eye of Papa S.At fifteen years old,... |
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Bush, Blair, and Iraq: Days of Decision
Andrew Langley - Na-H
Format: Library Binding
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Why did George W. Bush and Tony Blair decide their countries should invade Iraq in 2003? What choices did they have, what support and advice did they receive, and how have their decisions affected the world we live in and their legacies? This book looks at a controversial event from recent... |
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The Split History of the Women's Suffrage Movement: A Perspectives Flip Book
Don Nardo - CPB Grades 4-8
Format: Hardcover
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In the mid-19th century, a few women living in upstate New York decided it was time for women to stop accepting their status as second-class citizens. Women lacked many basic civil rights that men enjoyed, including suffrage—the right to vote. These women from New York held a convention... |
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Catching Fire
Suzanne Collins - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover
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Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has won the annual Hunger Games with fellow district tribute Peeta Mellark. But it was a victory won by defiance of the Capitol and their harsh rules. Katniss and Peeta should be happy. After all, they have just won for themselves and their families a life... |
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Sir John Hargrave's Mischief Maker's Manual
John Hargrave - Grosset & Dunlap
Format: Print book
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This is the definitive guide to pranking and mayhem. Written in the style of a training manual, but with hilarious illustrations, this book is broken up into five sections. The "Basics" shows kids how to find a pranking partner and how to pull simple pranks like making crank calls.... |
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Astro City: Through Open Doors (Astro City, 9)
Kurt Busiek - Vertigo
Format: Hardcover
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The long awaited return of the award-winning series ASTRO CITY finally arrives!. Kurt Busiek and Brent Anderson launch their next epic in the world of Astro City when a mysterious door appears, heralding the arrival of the Ambassador. But when an ordinary man is caught in a cosmic conflict,... |
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Someone I Wanted to Be
Aurelia Wills - Candlewick Press
Format: Print book
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When an insecure teen starts impersonating someone else, her life spirals dangerously out of control in a realistic, relatable novel about finding yourself - and discovering your true friends.Leah Lobermier dreams of becoming a doctor, but it's hard to stay focused on getting good grades... |
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Ocean of blood
Darren Shan - Little Brown
Format: Book
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Before Larten Crepsley was a vampire general . . . Before he was Darren Shan's master. . . Before the War of Scars . . . Larten Crepsley was a teenager. Sucking all he can out of humanity, Larten stumbles into a violent, hedonistic lifestyle, where cheats beckon, power corrupts, and enemies... |
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Gods & Goddesses of Ancient India
Tammy Laser - Rosen Publishing Group
Format: Book
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This encyclopedic volume is a thorough examination of the history of religion in ancient India, detailing each of the gods and goddesses, his or her origins, and how the gods continue to be worshipped today. The history of religion is directly tied to the history of the past one thousand... |
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Maid of the King's Court
Lucy Worsley - Candlewick Press
Format: Print book
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In the vibrant, volatile court of Henry VIII, can even the most willful young woman direct her own fate and follow her heart in a world ruled by powerful men?Clever, headstrong Elizabeth Rose Camperdowne knows her duty. As the sole heiress to an old but impoverished noble family, Eliza... |
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Legalizing Marijuana: Promises and Pitfalls
Margaret J Goldstein - Twenty-First Century Books
Format: Library Binding
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With the increase in states legalizing marijuana, understanding the debate about marijuana is more important than ever. Learn about the movement to legalize, the arguments on each side, and what it means for patients, state economies, and legal systems. Examine issues including the history... |
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Latitude Zero
Diana Renn - Viking Juvenile
Format: Book
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"I have to run," said Juan Carlos. "You will call? Please? It is very important." "Yes. I will call. Definitely. At two." That's what Tessa promises. But by two o'clock, young Ecuadorian cycling superstar Juan Carlos is dead, and Tessa, one of the last... |
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The Vo-Tech Track to Success in Manufacturing, Mechanics, and Automotive Care
Joe Craig - Rosen Publishing Group
Format: Book
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Many students are coming to realize that traditional four-year colleges do not necessarily lead to gainful employment after graduation and, therefore, do not always make good financial sense. Vocational and technical education, on the other hand, provides practical skills training, real-world... |
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Princess in Love
Meg Cabot - HarperTeen
Format: Book
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Princess Amelia Mignonette Grimaldi Thermopolis Renaldo may seem the luckiest girl ever.She's a princess, for starters. She also lives in New York City. And while she's no supermodel, mirrors do not crack at her reflection. Best of all, she finally has a boyfriend.The truth is, however,... |
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Deadly Design
Debra Dockter - G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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The emotional power of If I Stay meets the survival story of Maze Runner Genetically engineered identical twins Kyle and Connor McAdams were born two years apart. Their parents figured it was safer that way, to increase their odds of survival. Connor was born first, paving an impossibly... |
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Voices from the March on Washington
J. Patrick Lewis - WordSong
Format: Hardcover
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The powerful poems in this poignant collection weave together multiple voices to tell the story of the March on Washington, DC, in 1963. From the woman singing through a terrifying bus ride to DC, to the teenager who came partly because his father told him, "Don't you dare go to that... |
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