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Jennifer Richard Jacobson - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover

"Will engender empathy and understanding of a serious and all-too-real problem. Jacobsons story is poignant but never preachy." - School Library Journal (starred review) . When forced to choose between staying with her guardian and being with her big brother, Ari chose her big brother....
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The One

Kiera Cass - HarperTeen
Format: Paperback

The captivating third book in Kiera Cass's #1 New York Times bestselling Selection seriesAmerica Singer searches for her happily ever after in this swoon-worthy YA dystopian romance, perfect for readers who loved Veronica Roth's Divergent, Lauren Oliver's Delirium, or Rene Ahdieh's The Wrath...
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Million-Dollar Throw

Mike Lupica - Philomel Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

1 New York Times bestseller Mike Lupica asks the question If a million dollars was at stake, could you make the throw Nate Brodie is nicknamed Brady not only for his arm, but also because hes the biggest Tom Brady fan. Hes even saved up to buy an autographed football. And when he does,...
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Minnesota

Ann Heinrichs - Children's Press
Format: Print book

Describes the geography, history, economy, culture, and people of the state of Minnesota.
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Sophomore Switch

Abby McDonald - Candlewick; Stated 1st Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Take an administrative snafu, a bad breakup, and what shall heretofore be known as "The Hot-Tub Incident," and you’ve got two unprepared sophomores on a semester abroad. For American party girl Tasha, an escape to Oxford may be a chance to ditch her fame as a tabloid temptress,...
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The Fall

Bethany Griffin - Greenwillow Books
Format: Hardcover

Madeline Usher has been buried alive. The doomed heroine comes to the fore in this eerie reimagining of Edgar Allan Poe's classic short story "The Fall of the House of Usher." Gothic, moody, and suspenseful from beginning to end, The Fall is literary horror for fans of Miss Peregrine's...
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The Sound of Life and Everything

Krista Van Dolzer - G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

A fascinating speculative historical fiction debut set in 1950s California - perfect for fans of When You Reach Me. Twelve-year-old Ella Mae Higbee is a sensible girl. She eats her vegetables and wants to be just like Sergeant Friday, her favorite character on Dragnet. So when her auntie...
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The Jewel

Amy Ewing - HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover

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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Dead Upon a Time

Elizabeth Paulson - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover

It's a fairy-tale nightmare . . .One girl is kept in a room where every day the only food she's given is a poisoned apple. Another is kept in a room covered in needles -- and if she pricks her finger, she'll die. Then there are the brother and sister kept in a cell that keeps...
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Rapture Practice

Aaron Hartzler - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Aaron Hartzler grew up in a home where he was taught that at any moment Jesus might come down in the twinkling of an eye, and scoop his whole family up to Heaven. As a kid, Aaron was thrilled by the idea that each day might be his last one on planet Earth. He couldn't wait to blastoff...
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Signing Their Lives Away: The Fame and Misfortune of the Men Who Signed the Declaration of Independence

Denise Kiernan - Quirk Book
Format: Print book

In the summer of 1776, fifty-six men risked their lives and livelihood to defy King George III and sign the Declaration of Independence--yet how many of them do we actually remember?
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Finding Paris

Joy Preble - Balzer + Bray
Format: Hardcover

An evocative and compelling story of two sisters who would do anything for each otherperfect for fans of Thirteen Reasons Why and Speak. Joy Prebles stirring new novel explores the lengths to which sisters go to protect each other, and the winding road that brings two strangers into each...
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The Night We Said Yes

Lauren Gibaldi - HarperTeen
Format: eBook

A fun, romantic read, perfect for fans of Sarah Dessen and Susane Colasanti! What happens when Matt and Ella reunite one year after their breakup Are second chances really possibleBefore Matt, Ella had a plan. Get over her ex-boyfriend and graduate high schoolsimple as that. But Mattthe...
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Charmed and Dangerous: The Clique Prequel

Lisi Harrison - Poppy; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

Happy New Clique!Once upon a time, in Westchester and Orlando, there were four betas just waiting for their alpha. It took a miracle to bring the Pretty Committee together-or rather, one miraculous-and fabulous-New Year's Eve party. Massie Block: Is destined to lead, but trapped as a beta...
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Her Dark Curiosity

Megan Shepherd - Balzer & Bray
Format: Hardcover

Inspired by The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, this tantalizing sequel to Megan Shepherds gothic suspense novel The Madmans Daughter explores the hidden natures of those we love and how far well go to save them from themselves. Perfect for fans of Libba Bray. Back in London after...
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5 to 1

Holly Bodger - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book

Part Homeless Bird and part Matched, this is a dark look at the near future told through the alternating perspectives of two teens who dare to challenge the system. In the year 2054, after decades of gender selection, India now has a ratio of five boys for every girl, making...
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Breakfast With Neruda

Laura Moe - Merit Pr
Format: Print book

Michael Flynn is just trying to get through his community service after he made the dumb decision to try to blow up his friend's car with fireworks--the same friend who stole Michael's girl. Being expelled and losing his best buddy and his girlfriend are the least of his problems:...
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McDougal Littell Algebra 1 (McDougal Littell Mathematics)

MCDOUGAL LITTEL - MCDOUGAL LITTEL
Format: Hardcover

. Book Details:Format: WorkbookPublication Date: 1/5/2006Pages: 1136Reading Level: Age 13 and Up
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Landscaping with Stone, 2nd Edition

Pat Sagui - Creative Homeowner; Second edition
Format: Paperback

<DIV><DIV>Landscaping with Stone, 2nd Edition, is a combination landscape design and project book in one, whcih has been updated with all new photographs. The first section of the book provides readers with a framework for incorporating stone in their landscape designs, including...
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The Eternal City

Paula Morris - Point
Format: Hardcover

From master of suspense Paula Morris comes a tale of gods and goddesses, thrilling romance, and mystery set in present-day Rome. Laura Martin is visiting Rome on a class trip, and she's entranced by the majestic Colosseum, the Trevi Fountain, the Pantheon . . . Everything in this city...
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Blue Birds

Caroline Starr Rose - G. P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Format: Print book

It's 1587 and twelve-year-old Alis has made the long journey with her parents from England to help settle the New World, the land christened Virginia in honor of the Queen. And Alis couldn't be happier. While the streets of London were crowded and dirty, this new land, with its trees...
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Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope

Bruce Jones - Spotlight
Format: Book

While transporting the Empire's secret plans for the Death Star to Rebel leaders, Princess Leia's ship is apprehended by Darth Vader. Droids R2-D2 and C-3PO alone escape to the desert planet of Tatooine, where R2-D2, carrying the secret plans, reveals to young Luke Skywalker a message from...
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On the Edge

Allison van Diepen - HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover

From Allison van Diepen, author of Light of Day, Snitch, and Street Pharm, comes a sexy, dangerous novel - perfect for fans of Simone Elkeles and Paul Griffin - about a teen who witnesses a murder and gets caught up in the seedy world of Miami's gangs.Maddie Diaz never should have taken...
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Nimona

Noelle Stevenson - HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover

Indies Choice Book of the Year * National Book Award Finalist * New York Times Bestseller * New York Times Notable Book * Kirkus Best Book * School Library Journal Best Book * Publishers Weekly Best Book * NPR Best Book * New York Public Library Best Book * Chicago Public Library Best BookThe...
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Killer Pizza

Greg Taylor - Feiwel and Friends
Format: Print book

Pizza you'll die for!Toby McGill dreams of becoming a world-famous chef, but up until now, his only experience has been watching the Food Network. When Toby lands a summer job at Killer Pizza, where pies like The Monstrosity and The Frankensausage are on the menu, things seem perfect....
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Gossip Girl: I Will Always Love You: A Gossip Girl novel

Cecily von Ziegesar - Poppy; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Blair, Serena, Nate, Dan, and Vanessa went off to live their lives. Now they're coming home for the holidays. A lot can change in a few months . . . but some things never do. It finally happened: we went to college. We started over. No one knows who we've coveted, what we scored...
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Pennsylvania

Barbara A Somervill - Children's Press
Format: Print book

Put kids on the road to discovery with the series that brings the United States to life, state by exciting state. It's all here - the history and geography, the people and culture, plus colorful photos, entertaining extras, easy recipes, and so much more. For an armchair tour of the U.S.,...
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113 Things To Do By 13

Brittany & Terri Macleod - Harlequin; Original edition
Format: Paperback

Talk about drama! Your crush likes your BFF…you've got homework up to your eyeballs…the school mean girl is on the attack…a hot party is on the agenda and you've got nothing to wear. No worries: 113 Things To Do by 13 has all the deets on stuff you need to know now.•...
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Another Faust

Daniel and Dina Nayeri - Candlewick; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

A devilish debut by a brother-sister team invites us into the world of the elite Marlowe School, where some gifted students are having a hell of a year.One night, in cities all across Europe, five children vanish — only to appear, years later, at an exclusive New York party with a strange...
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Chloe by Design: Balancing Act

Margaret Gurevich - Capstone Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

In this collection of four previously published works Chloe, winner of the Teen Design Diva contest, embarks on her prize--an internship with a famous fashion designer in New York City.
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We Were Liars

E Lockhart - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times BestsellerOne of James Patterson's "Favorite Thrillers for the Beach" (New York Times) "Haunting, sophisticated . . . a novel so twisty and well-told that it will appeal to older readers as well as to adolescents." - Wall Street...
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The Distance from Me to You

Marina Gessner - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Print book

Wild meets Endless Love in this multilayered story of love, survival, and self-discoveryMcKenna Berney is a lucky girl. She has a loving family and has been accepted to college for the fall. But McKenna has a different goal in mind: much to the chagrin of her parents, she defers...
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Between the Notes

Sharon Huss Roat - Harper Teen
Format: Hardcover

After Ivy is forced to move to "the wrong side of the tracks" due to economic hard times, she discovers that not everything - or everyone - is what they seem, even herself. Fans of Jenny Han and Sarah Dessen will love this funny, poignant, and relatable story.When Ivy Emerson's...
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Oh Yeah, Audrey!

Tucker Shaw - Harry N. Abrams
Format: Hardcover

It’s 5:00 a.m. on Fifth Avenue, and 16-year-old Gemma Beasley is standing in front of Tiffany & Co. wearing the perfect black dress with her coffee in hand—just like Holly Golightly. As the cofounder of a successful Tumblr blog—Oh Yeah Audrey!—devoted to all things...
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Dreamfire: A novel

Kit Alloway - Griffin
Format: Hardcover

Unlike most 17-year-olds, Joshlyn Weaver has a sacred duty. She's the celebrated daughter of the dream walkers, a secret society whose members enter the Dream universe we all share and battle nightmares. If they fail, the emotional turmoil in the Dream could boil over and release...
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Boys R Us

Lisi Harrison - Little, Brown
Format: Paperback

Massie Block: After disbanding the Pretty Committee, Massie takes charge like Visa, forming OCD's hawtest clique yet: Massie And Crew. Even though money can't buy love, it can buy new friends . . . or at least model-actresses who will act like your besties until you get real ones....
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The Tightrope Walkers

David Almond - Candlewick Press, 2015. ©2014
Format: Print book

International award winner David Almond draws on memories of his early years in Tyneside, England, for a moving coming-of-age novel, masterfully told.A gentle visionary coming of age in the shadow of the shipyards of northern England, Dominic Hall is torn between extremes. On the one hand,...
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Italy

Jean F Blashfield - Franklin Watts
Format: Print book

Describes the history, geography, plants and animals, economy, language, people and culture of Italy.
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Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad

M.T. Anderson - Candlewick Press
Format: Print book

National Book Award winner M. T. Anderson delivers a brilliant and riveting account of the Siege of Leningrad and the role played by Russian composer Shostakovich and his Leningrad Symphony.In September 1941, Adolf Hitler's Wehrmacht surrounded Leningrad in what was to become one of the longest...
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After Us

Amber Hart - K-Teen
Format: Paperback

"Beautiful, lyrical writing and a dangerously suspenseful plot. . .an unforgettable novel that readers will love." --Lucy Connors, author of The Lonesome YoungSometimes secrets kill. Maybe slowly, maybe painfully. Maybe all at once. Melissa smiles. She flirts. She jokes. But she never...
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The Nine Lives of Alexander Baddenfield

John Bemelmans Marciano - Viking Juvenile; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Alexander Baddenfield is a horrible boy—a really horrible boy—who is the last in a long line of lying, thieving scoundrels.  One day, Alexander has an astonishing idea.  Why not transplant the nine lives from his cat into himself?  Suddenly, Alexander has lives...
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We Are the Goldens

Dana Reinhardt - Wendy Lamb Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

"Reinhardt writes wonderfully about delicate, precarious human relationships, articulating dynamics I never noticed but which ring brilliantly true. The Goldens radiate charm, but beneath their charm is heartbreak, ambition, and delusion. There is so much to dissect and discuss here:...
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The Fire Children

Lauren M. Roy - Ravenstone
Format: Print book

Two children escape the darkness of their underground dwellings, to find adventure, magic and terrible danger await anyone who ventures above ground.Fifteen years have passed since Mother Sun last sent her children to walk the world. When the eclipse comes, the people retreat to the caverns...
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Eyes Like Stars: Theatre Illuminata, Act I

Lisa Mantchev - Feiwel & Friends
Format: Hardcover

All her world's a stage.Bertie Shakespeare Smith is not an actress, yet she lives in a theater.She's not an orphan, but she has no parents.She knows every part, but she has no lines of her own.That is, until now.Enter Stage Right NATE. Dashing pirate. Will do anything to protect...
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The Worlds We Make

Megan Crewe - Hyperion Books for Children
Format: Hardcover

When Kaelyn and her friends reached Toronto with a vaccine for the virus that has ravaged the population, they thought their journey was over-but hope has eluded them once again. Now there is a dangerous group of survivors intent on tracking them down and stealing the cure no matter the costs.Forced...
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Utopia, Iowa

Brian Yansky - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover

Jack Bell has an unusual giftor curse, depending on your point of view. And hes not the only one. In Utopia, Iowa, anything can happen.For the most part, aspiring screenwriter Jack Bell is just your typical Midwestern kid. Hes got a crush on his hot best friend, Ash. Hes coping with a sudden...
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Overtaken

Mark H. Kruger - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

"After the mysterious pulses changed Nica Ashley's life forever, she was sure things could only get worse when Dana Fox returned. Her reappearance after having gone missing for months surely meant losing her friendship with Jackson but also that something more ominous is simmering...
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Now That You're Here

Amy K. Nichols - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Hardcover

"When street smart graffiti artist, Danny, is jolted into a parallel world, only Eevee, an alluring science geek has the know-how to get him home, but as he falls for her, his motives grow foggy"--
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The Cemetery Boys

Heather Brewer - HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover

Part Hitchcock, part Hinton, this first-ever stand-alone novel from Heather Brewer, New York Times bestselling author of the acclaimed Chronicles of Vladimir Tod series, uses classic horror elements to tell a darkly funny coming-of-age story about the dangerous power of belief and the cost...
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Walk on Earth a Stranger (Gold Seer Trilogy, 1)

Rae Carson - Greenwillow Books
Format: Hardcover

Gold is in my blood, in my breath, even in the flecks in my eyes.. Lee Westfall has a strong, loving family. She has a home she loves and a loyal steed. She has a best friend--who might want to be something more.. She also has a secret.. Lee can sense gold in the world around her. Veins...
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Stitching Snow

R.C. Lewis - Hyperion
Format: Print book

Princess Snow is missing.Her home planet is filled with violence and corruption at the hands of King Matthias and his wife as they attempt to punish her captors. The king will stop at nothing to get his beloved daughter back-but that's assuming she wants to return at all.Essie has grown...
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Guardian Angel House (Holocaust Remembrance Series for Young Readers)

Kathy Clark - Second Story Press; First Trade edition
Format: Paperback

Momma had always told Susan that there was no safe place for a Jew, especially in German occupied Hungary in 1944. Why then were twelve-year-old Susan and her little sister, Vera, being sent to a convent to be kept safe. Susan and her sister soon discover the true nature of courage, sheltered...
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Impact: The Story of the September 11 Terrorist Attacks

Matt Doeden - Capstone Press
Format: Print book

About the Author Matt Doeden is a freelance author and editor from Minnesota. He's written numerous children's books on sports, music, current events, the military, extreme survival, and much more. His books Sandy Koufax (Twenty-First Century Books, 2006) and Tom Brady:...
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Trapped

Michael Northrop - Scholastic Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

The day the blizzard started, no one knew that it was going to keep snowing for a week. That for those in its path, it would become not just a matter of keeping warm, but of staying alive. . . .Scotty and his friends Pete and Jason are among the last seven kids at their high school waiting...
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A Big Dose of Lucky

Marthe Jocelyn - Orca Book Publishers
Format: Print book

Malou has just turned sixteen - hardly old enough to be out in the world on her own - and all she knows for sure is that she's of mixed race and that she was left at an orphanage as a newborn. When the orphanage burns to the ground, she finds out that she may have been born in a small town...
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My Lady Jane

Cynthia Hand - Harpercollins
Format: Print book

The comical, fantastical, romantical, (not) entirely true story of Lady Jane Grey. In My Lady Jane, coauthors Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows have created a one-of-a-kind fantasy in the tradition of The Princess Bride, featuring a reluctant king, an even more reluctant queen,...
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Running Dry: The Global Water Crisis

Stuart A. Kallen - 21st Century
Format: Book

As the planet's human population explodes, so does the demand for water. About one out of every nine people in the world does not have access to safe drinking water, while one out of every five - almost 1.5 billion humans - lives in a region where water demand is outstripping supply....
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Traffick

Ellen Hopkins - Margaret K. McElderry Books
Format: Print book

Five teens victimized by sex trafficking try to find their way to a new life in this riveting companion to the New York Times bestselling Tricks from Ellen Hopkins, author of Crank.In her bestselling novel, Tricks, Ellen Hopkins introduced us to five memorable...
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Everything Leads to You

Nina LaCour - Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Format: Book

"I want you to do something with the place. Something epic." After being entrusted with her brother's Los Angeles apartment for the summer as a graduation gift, Emi Price isn't sure how to fulfill his one condition: that something great take place there while he's gone. Emi may be a talented...
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Kaplan AP Biology 2016

Mark Metz - Kaplan Publishing; Pap/Psc edition
Format: Print book

The Advanced Placement exam preparation guide that delivers 75 years of proven Kaplan experience and features strategies, practice, and review to help students prep for the AP Biology exam!Students spend the school year preparing for the AP Biology exam. Now it's time to reap the rewards:...
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City of Heavenly Fire

Cassandra Clare - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

Shadowhunters and demons square off for the final showdown in the spellbinding, seductive conclusion to the #1 New York Times bestselling Mortal Instruments series.Darkness has descended on the Shadowhunter world. Chaos and destruction overwhelm the Nephilim as Clary, Jace, Simon, and their...
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All the rage

Courtney Summers - Griffin
Format: Book

Named a "Best Book of 2015" by Bustle, Book Riot, Chicago Public Library, Quill and Quire, and the B&N Teen Blog!The sheriff's son, Kellan Turner, is not the golden boy everyone thinks he is, and Romy Grey knows that for a fact. Because no one wants to believe a girl from...
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Firewalker (The Worldwalker Trilogy, 2)

Josephine Angelini - Feiwel & Friends
Format: Hardcover

Im a Witch and Witches burn. . Lily is back in her own universe, and shes ready to relax with Rowan. True, she almost died in the Pyre that fueled their escape, and must hide her magic for the safety of the world, but compared to fighting the monstrous Woven and leading armies in the alternate...
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Charlie, Presumed Dead

Anne Heltzel - ‎Clarion Books; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

In Paris, family and friends gather to mourn the tragic passing of Charlie Price - young, handsome, charming, a world-traveler - who is presumed dead after an explosion. Authorities find only a bloodied jacket, IDd as Charlies. At the funeral, two teens who are perfect strangers,...

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Dont Fail Me Now

Una LaMarche - Razorbill
Format: Hardcover

From the author of Like No Other, the novel Entertainment Weekly calls "One of the most poignant and star-crossed love stories since The Fault in Our Stars": What if the last hope to save your family is the person who broke it up to begin with? . "Fans of John Green, Rainbow...
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Love Fortunes and Other Disasters

Kimberly Karalius - Swoon Reads
Format: Print book

Love is real in the town of Grimbaud and Fallon Dupree has dreamed of attending high school there for years. After all, generations of Dupree's have successfully followed the (100% accurate!) love fortunes from Zita's famous Love Charms Shop to happily marry their high school sweethearts....
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Quicksilver

R. J. Anderson - Carolrhoda Books
Format: Hardcover

Back home Tori was the girl who had everything a sixteen-year-old could want--popularity, money, beauty. Everything. Including a secret. That secret made her very valuable. Now she's left everything from her old life behind, including her real name and Alison, the only person who truly...
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It's About Love

Steven Camden - HarperCollinsChildren'sBooks
Format: Print book

Real life is messier than the movies. A bold, thought-provoking novel from the exceptionally talented, Steven Camden.He's Luke. She's Leia.Just like in Star Wars. Just like they're made for each other. Same film studies course, different backgrounds, different ends of town.Only...
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Run

Kody Keplinger - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover

Bo Dickinson is a girl with a wild reputation, a deadbeat dad, and a mama who's not exactly sober most of the time. Everyone in town knows the Dickinsons are a bad lot, but Bo doesn't care what anyone thinks. Agnes Atwood has never gone on a date, never even stayed out past ten, and never...
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The Toymaker's Apprentice

Sherri L Smith - G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

A gorgeously imagined Nutcracker retelling from award-winning author making her middle-grade debutStefan Drosselmeyer is a reluctant apprentice to his toymaker father until the day his world is turned upside down. His father is kidnapped and Stefan is enlisted by his mysterious cousin,...
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UnDivided

Neal Shusterman - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

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Basher: Rocks & Minerals: A Gem of a Book

Dan Green - Kingfisher
Format: Paperback

Simon Basher is back with another zany primer to science! Following his 3 successful titles on the basics of chemistry, physics, and biology, BASHER SCIENCE: ROCKS AND MINERALS is an in-depth look at the ground beneath our feet. Like his other titles, Basher presents these topics through...
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Monument 14: Savage Drift

Emmy Laybourne - Feiwel and Friends, 2014.
Format: Print book

In Monument 14: Savage Drift, the stunningly fierce conclusion to the Monument 14 trilogy, author Emmy Laybourne ups the stakes even higher for a group of kids who have continually survived the unthinkable. Can they do so one last time?
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Blood Will Tell

April Henry - Henry Holt & Company
Format: Hardcover

When a woman's body is found in a Portland park, suspicion falls on an awkward kid who lives only a few blocks away, a teen who collects knives, loves first-person shooter video games, and obsessively doodles violent scenes in his school notebooks. Nick Walker goes from being a member...
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Video Games, Violence, and Crime

Patricia D. Netzley - Referencepoint Press
Format: Book

Although polls have shown that more than half of Americans believe there is a link between violent video games and violent behavior, experts disagree on whether such a link exists or, if it does, to what degree. This book examines the ways in which video games might impact crime, particularly...
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Winger

Andrew Smith - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

A teen at boarding school grapples with life, love, and rugby in a heartbreakingly funny novel.Ryan Dean West is a fourteen-year-old junior at a boarding school for rich kids. He's living in Opportunity Hall, the dorm for troublemakers, and rooming with the biggest bully on the rugby...
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Horrors of History: Massacre of the Miners: A Novel

T. Neill Anderson - Charlesbridge
Format: Hardcover

The fourth book in the Horrors of History historical fiction series follows several characters in Colorado in 1914, just before and during the Ludlow Massacre, which was an attack by the Colorado National Guard and Colorado Fuel & Iron Company camp guards on a tent colony of 1,200 striking...
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Tether

Anna Jarzab - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover

Tether, the sequel to Tandem, continues the captivating tale of rebellion and romance that spans parallel worlds.Everything repeats.Sasha expected things to go back to normal once she got back on Earth. But now that she knows parallel worlds are real, and that an alternate version of herself...
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Girls Like Us

Gail Giles - Candlewick Press
Format: Print book

A 2015 Schneider Family Book Award WinnerWith gentle humor and unflinching realism, Gail Giles tells the gritty, ultimately hopeful story of two special ed teenagers entering the adult world. We understand stuff. We just learn it slow. And most of what we understand is that people what...
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An Inheritance of Ashes

Leah Bobet - Clarion Books
Format: Print book

The strange war down south - with its rumors of gods and monsters - is over. And while sixteen-year-old Hallie and her sister wait to see who will return from the distant battlefield, they struggle to maintain their family farm. When Hallie hires a veteran to help them, the war comes home...
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Blood Promise

Richelle Mead - Razorbill
Format: Paperback

The recent Strigoi attack at St. Vladimir's Academy was the deadliest ever in the school's history, claiming the lives of Moroi students, teachers, and guardians alike. Even worse, the Strigoi took some of their victims with them . . . including Dimitri.He'd rather die than...
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The summer I turned pretty

Jenny Han - Simon & Schuster BFYR
Format: Paperback

Belly spends the summer she turns sixteen at the beach just like every other summer of her life, but this time things are very different.
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Flirty Dancing: Book 1 of The Ladybirds

Jenny McLachlan - Feiwel & Friends
Format: eBook

Bea Hogg is shy, but she has a fiery core that she doesn't let many see. When the national dance competition Starwars comes to her school looking for talent, she wants to sign up. It's just her luck that her best friend Kat ditches her and agrees to enter with school super-witch...
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Terrorist: Gavrilo Princip, the Assassin Who Ignited World War I

Henrik Rehr - Graphic Universe
Format: Print book

This much we know On June 28, 1914, a young man stood on a street corner in Sarajevo, aimed a pistol into a stalled car carrying the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, and pulled the trigger. Within a few minutes, the archduke was dead, and Europe would not know peace again for five years....
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Viola in Reel Life (Viola series Book 1)

Adriana Trigiani - HarperTeen
Format: Audiobook

Im marooned.Abandoned.Left to rot in boarding school . . . Viola doesnt want to go to boarding school, but somehow she ends up at an all-girls school in South Bend, Indiana, far, far away from her home in Brooklyn, New York. Now Viola is stuck for a whole year in the sherbet-colored sweater...
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Vanishing Girls

Lauren Oliver - Harper
Format: Print book

New York Times bestselling author Lauren Oliver delivers a gripping story perfect for fans of We Were Liars and I Was Here, about two sisters inexorably altered by a terrible accident.Dara and Nick used to be inseparable, but that was before the accident that left Dara's beautiful face...
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Love, Lucas

Chantele Sedgwick - Sky Pony Press
Format: Hardcover

A 2015 Whitney Award Nominee!A powerful story of loss, second chances, and first love, reminiscent of Sarah Dessen and John Green.When Oakley Nelson loses her older brother, Lucas, to cancer, she thinks she'll never recover. Between her parents' arguing and the battle she's...
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Trouble

Non Pratt - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

In this dazzling debut novel, a pregnant teen learns the meaning of friendship - from the boy who pretends to be her baby's father.When the entire high school finds out that Hannah Shepard is pregnant via her ex-best friend, she has a full-on meltdown in her backyard. The one witness...
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The Disappearance of Emily H.

Barrie Summy - Delacorte Press
Format: Print book

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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Anne & Henry

Dawn Ius - Simon Pulse
Format: Hardcover

In this wonderfully creative retelling of the infamous - and torrid - love affair between Anne Boleyn and King Henry VIII, history collides with the present when a sizzling romance ignites in a modern-day high school.Henry Tudor's life has been mapped out since the day he was born:...
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Minders

Michele Jaffe - Penguin Group USA
Format: Hardcover

"A dark, dangerous and twisty near-future mystery from the incomparable Michelle Jaffe. Don't miss this book!"--Melissa de la Cruz, New York Times Bestselling Author of Blue BloodsQ: If the boy you love commits a crime, would you turn him in?Sadie Ames is a type-A teenager...
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The Edge of the Shadows

Elizabeth George - Viking Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

The first fire may have been an accident, but what about the second? And the third - the one that killed someone. Becca King and her friends wonder if one of the newcomers to the island is to blame. Perhaps it's Isis Martin's brother, Aidan, just home from a school for troubled...
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Jane Goodall

Carol Hand - Rosen Publishing
Format:  Print book : Biography : Juvenile audience : English : First editionView all editions and formats

One of the most influential (and well-known scientific minds of the past century, Jane Goodall rose to fame through her lifelong study of chimpanzees in Tanzania. This captivating volume, delving into her life and work, focuses on the writing of this great scientist: her findings, books...
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This way home

Wes Moore
Format: Print book

Elijah, seventeen, has always been sure of just one thing--basketball--and believes it will be his way out of West Baltimore, but when gang violence knocks him down, helping a veteran repair his rickety home helps Elijah see what really matters.
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Project Paper Doll The Trials

Stacey Kade - Disney-Hyperion
Format: Hardcover

After being on the run, Ariane Tucker finds herself back where she started-under Dr. Jacobs's cruel control. Now she must participate in the upcoming trials: a deadly competition pitting her against other alien hybrids, each representing a rival corporation.But Ariane is no one's...
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Episode II Attack of the Clones 1 (Star Wars)

Henry Gilroy - Spotlight
Format: Library Binding

In volume one of Star Wars Episode II Attack of the Clones, there is unrest in the Galactic Senate. Several thousand solar systems have declared their intentions to leave the Republic. This separatist movement, under the leadership of the mysterious Count Dooku, has made it difficult for the limited...
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I Kill the Mockingbird

Paul Acampora - Roaring Brook Press
Format: Print book

When Lucy, Elena, and Michael receive their summer reading list, they are excited to see "To Kill A Mockingbird" included. But not everyone in their class shares the same enthusiasm. So they hatch a plot to get the entire town talking about the well-known Harper Lee classic. They...
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Insanity

Susan Vaught - Bloomsbury U.S.A. Children's Books
Format: Hardcover

Never, Kentucky is not your average scenic small town. It is a crossways, a place where the dead and the living can find no peace. Not that Forest, an 18-year-old foster kid who works the graveyard shift at Lincoln Hospital, knew this when she applied for the job. Lincoln is a huge state...
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Beautiful Girl: A Novel

Fleur Philips - SparkPress
Format: Print book

Seventeen-year-old Melanie Kennicut is beautiful. Her entire life revolves around this beauty because her overly controlling mother has been dragging her to casting calls and auditions since she was four years old. According to Joanne Kennicut, Melanie was born to follow in her footsteps....
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Love-shy

Lili Wilkinson - Allen & Unwin
Format: Paperback

Penny is aschoolgirl investigative journalist in search of a story.A boy at her school who is painfully love-shy is surely the perfect subject for a feature articlewhat could go wrongPenny Drummond aspires to be a prize-winningjournalist. In the meantime, shes honing her skills on the East...
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Tiny Pretty Things

Sona Charaipotra - Harper Teen
Format: Hardcover

Black Swan meets Pretty Little Liars in this soapy, drama-packed novel featuring diverse characters who will do anything to be the prima at their elite ballet school.Gigi, Bette, and June, three top students at an exclusive Manhattan ballet school, have seen their fair share of drama. Free-spirited...
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Alice in Rapture, Sort Of

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor - Atheneum Books for Young Readers; Reissue edition
Format: Paperback

According to Pamelas cousin in New Jersey, the worst thing that can happen to a girl is to start seventh grade without a boyfriend. So Alice is glad that she and Patrick are going together. But Patrick the boyfriend is a lot more complicated than Patrick the friend. Whats an appropriate...
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The World Within: A Novel of Emily Bront

Jane Eagland - Arthur A. Levine Books
Format: Print book

The most mysterious Bronte sister steps into the light in this must-read novel for fans of WUTHERING HEIGHTS and JANE EYRE.Emily Bronte loves her sisters, responsible Charlotte and quiet Anne, and her brother, tempestuous Branwell. She loves the moors that stretch all around the little...
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Biggie

Derek E. Sullivan - Aw Teen
Format: Hardcover

Henry "Biggie" Abbott is the son of one of Finch, Iowa's most famous athletes. His father was a baseball legend and his step-dad is a close second. At an obese 300 pounds though, Biggie himself prefers classroom success to sports. As a perfectionist, he doesn't understand...
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Tru Detective

Norah McClintock - Orca Book Publishers
Format: Print book

Truman s parents are out of town, and he has made plans with his girlfriend, Natalia. When she doesn t show up, he is angry. But when he finds out she has been murdered, Truman becomes the prime suspect. With no alibi, he must try to find the truth behind his girlfriend s violent death....
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The Palace of Glass: The Forbidden Library: Volume 3

Django Wexler - Kathy Dawson Books
Format: Print book

An action-packed middle-grade fantasy with classic writing, a resourceful heroine, a host of magical creatures, and no shortage of narrow escapes - for fans of Story Thieves, Inkheart, Coraline, and Harry Potter.For Alice, danger threatens from inside the library as well...
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Lying Out Loud: A Companion to The DUFF

Kody Keplinger - Scholastic Inc.
Format: Hardcover

A companion to Kody Keplingers debut novel, THE DUFF!Sonny Ardmore is an excellent liar. She lies about her dad being in prison. She lies about her mom kicking her out. And she lies about sneaking into her best friends house every night because she has nowhere else to go. Amy Rush might...
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Laughing at My Nightmare

Shane Burcaw - Square Fish
Format: Paperback

With acerbic wit and a hilarious voice, Shane Burcaws Laughing at My Nightmare describes the challenges he faces as a twenty-one-year-old with spinal muscular atrophy. From awkward handshakes to having a girlfriend and everything in between, Shane handles his situation with humor and a "you-only-live-once"...
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The Prom Goer's Interstellar Excursion

Chris McCoy - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Print book

Its Superbad meets Spaceballs in this hilarious extraterrestrial road trip! Just a few days before prom, Bennett pulls off something he never imagined possible his dream girl, Sophie, agrees to be his date. Moments afterward, however, he watches Sophie get abducted by aliens in the middle...
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Shadow of the Wolf

Tim Hall - David Fickling Books
Format: Hardcover

Forget everything you've ever heard about Robin Hood. Robin Loxley is seven years old when his parents disappear without a trace. Years later the great love of his life, Marian, is also taken from him. Driven by these mysteries, and this anguish, Robin follows a darkening path into...
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Rescuing Seneca Crane

Susan Runholt
Format: Print book

When Kari and Lucas first see Seneca Crane up on stage, playing the piano in front of hundreds of people, they are in awe. She is beautiful. She is amazingly talented. And she is only thirteen! But then they get to know her at the Edinburgh Arts Festival and realize that she envie
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The Winner's Crime

Marie Rutkoski - Listening Library
Format: Audio CD

Following your heart can be a crime A royal wedding is what most girls dream about. It means one celebration after another: balls, fireworks, and revelry until dawn. But to Kestrel it means living in a cage of her own making. As the wedding approaches, she aches to tell Arin the truth about...
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Hollow City

Ransom Riggs - Random House Inc
Format: Hardcover

September 3, 1940. Ten peculiar children flee an army of deadly monsters. And only one person can help them - but she's trapped in the body of a bird. The extraordinary journey that began in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children continues as Jacob Portman and his newfound friends...
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