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#MurderTrending
Gretchen McNeil
Dee Guerrera awakes to find herself imprisoned at Alcatraz 2.0 in a reality TV show. Although wrongly accused, Dee is surrounded by other convicted murderers and must fight to survive against over-the-top serial killers and bad ratings on the show痴 social media presence. Dee bands together with a group called the Death Row Breakfast Club and she must find a way to prove her innocence before her time alive is...
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1919: The Year the Changed America
Martin W. Sandler
This book is all about American in the year 1919, discussing transformative events, people, setbacks, and triumphs that changed America and still affect the country today....
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Absolutely Truly
Heather Vogel Frederick
After serving in Afghanistan and returning home with an injury, Truly's father has a hard time finding a job. He moves his reluctant family to New Hampshire to take over a struggling bookshop. Although she feels alone and left out, Truly finds a mysterious letter in a first edition copy of Charlotte's Web and makes new friends as she tries to solve the clues to discover the letter's writer.
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Accidental Genius Of Weasel High
Rick Detorie
In this hybrid novel/graphic novel, Larkin Pace faces many perils his freshman year: his parents, the bossy older sister, a bully, girl troubles, and a weird best friend.But he faces them with hilarious drawings and a sense of humor.
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After Ever After
Jordan Sonnenblick
Jeffrey Alper, an eighth grade cancer survivor, has learned a lot about life, but there's a lot that's brand-new, such as how to fight for himself and for the people he loves.This is a hopeful and sometimes funny story about what happens when you stop surviving and start living again.
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The Afterlife of Holly Chase
Cynthia Hand
On Christmas Eve five years ago, seventeen-year-old Holly Chase was visited by three Ghosts who showed her how selfish and spoiled she'd become. They tried to convince her to mend her ways. She didn't. And then she died. Now she's stuck working for the top-secret company Project Scrooge - as their latest Ghost of Christmas Past. So far, Holly's afterlife has been miserable. But this year's Scrooge is
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Agony House
Cherie Priest
Seventeen-year-old Denise Farber, her mom, and her stepfather are moving back to New Orleans, into the Argonne house, which is over 100 years old, which her mother plans to turn into a bed-and-breakfast. Denise finds a mysterious old comic book in the attic that may explain the ghosts that she is seeing and hearing in the "Agony"...
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Al Capone Does My Shirts
Gennifer Choldenko
In 1935, Moose Flanagan and his family move to Alcatraz Island where his father has found work in the prison housing such notorious criminals as Al Capone.Moose must balance the responsibilities of caring for his autistic sister while coping with the free-spirited warden's daughter.This is the first of a three book series.
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All American Boys
Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely
Rashad is falsely accused of stealing a bag of chips from a convenience store. The police officer takes Rashad out of the store, handcuffs him, gets him to the ground, and, when he thinks Rashad is resisting arrest, beats him. Rashad is seriously injured and must spend days in the hospital.
Quinn witnesses the police officer beating Rashad, but he has decided to keep quiet about what he saw. Quinn's father died fighting in Afghanistan and...
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All the Crooked Saints
Maggie Stiefvater
When people come to Bicho Raro, it is in search of a miracle. The Soria family is famous for granting miracles, but they are never what people expect. When Pete and Tony unexpectedly meet up on their way to Bicho Raro, the Soria cousins (Daniel, Beatriz, and Joaquin) lead them on an unexpected journey of magic, storytelling, love, and music. Lovers of Zusak's The Book Thief and McNeal's Far Far Away will enjoy this fantasy novel with magical realism.
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All's Faire in Middle School
Victoria Jamieson
The author of Roller Girl brings another graphic novel about Impy, a girl who dreams of being a squire at the Renaissance Festival where both her parents work. While this may be a big accomplishment, she must also survive her first year of middle school after years of being homeschooled. Neither challenge will be easy, but there are laughs along the...
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Almost American Girl
Robin Ha
Chun thinks that she and her mother are bound for an average spring break trip to the US from South Korea. When they get there, she finds out that her mother is getting married and they are moving to Alabama. How will she fit in when she struggles to speak the language? How will art help her fit in and find new friends?...
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Amal Unbound
Aisha Saeed
Amal has a passion for learning and love for her family, but her hopes for a bright future disappear when she is forced into indentured servitude in Pakistan. Can she recover her...
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Amazon Adventure: How Tiny Fish are Saving the World's Largest Rainforest
Sy Montgomery
The Amazon is a vital part of the world's ecosystem providing a fifth of the world's oxygen. 2.7 million acres a year are being destroyed by human beings. The solution - piabas, or tiny fish. Learn how residents of the Amazon are using piabas to protect the rainforest and stop its...
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Amelia Lost: The Life And Disappearance Of Amelia Earhart
Candace Fleming
This fascinating biography alternates between the story of Amelia Earhart's life and the days surrounding her disappearance.Through photos, sidebars, maps, and letters, the author gives readers a compelling glimpse at the life of a legend.
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Americanized: Rebel without a Green Card
Sara Saedi
At thirteen Sara Saedi uncovered a terrible family secret: she was breaking the law simply by living in the United States. Only two years old when her parents fled Iran, she didn't learn of her undocumented status until her older sister wanted to apply for an after-school job but couldn't because she didn't have a Social Security number. Fear of deportation kept Sara up at night, but it didn't keep her from being a teenager.
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An Elephant In The Garden
Michael Morpurgo
Based on a true story, a family flees for safety and takes an orphaned zoo elephant with them.The setting is WWII and Dresden, Germany is being bombed.
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Annie Sullivan And The Trials Of Helen Keller
Joseph Lambert
This biographical graphic novel tells the story of Annie Sullivan's difficult childhood and her first years working to help Helen Keller communicate and make sense of a world she could neither see nor hear.
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Anything But Typical
Nora Raleigh Baskin
Jason, an autistic teenager with a talent for creative writing, struggles to find acceptance in his middle school community.
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The Apocalypse of Elena Mendoza
Shaun David Hutchinson
Sixteen-year-old Elena Mendoza is the product of a virgin birth.This can be scientifically explained (it's called parthenogenesis), but what can't be explained is how Elena is able to heal Freddie, the girl she's had a crush on for years, from a gunshot wound in a Starbucks parking lot. Or why the boy who shot Freddie, David Combs, disappeared from the same parking lot minutes later after getting sucked up into the clouds.
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The Apothecary
Maile Meloy
Janie Scott's family has just moved from Los Angeles to London where she meets Benjamin Burrows, the son of a mysterious apothecary.When Ben's father is kidnapped, Janie and Ben must use the apothecary's magical book, The Pharmacopoeia, to find him and save the world.
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The Art of Losing
Lizzy Mason
At a party, Harley, 17, walks in on her boyfriend, Mike, and her younger sister, Audrey, kissing. Furious, she leaves the party without her sister. A drunken Mike drives Audrey home and has an accident that leaves Audrey in a coma. Harley, devasted by her sister's betrayal, is now further devasted by the critical condition her sister is in.
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Aru Shah and the End of Time
Roshani Chokshi
Aru Shah is a great storyteller. When some of her more popular classmates catch on that her "stories" about fancy vacations and her being royalty are lies, she is placed in a problematic situation. In order to impress her classmates, Aru lights an ancient lamp and unintentionally frees an ancient demon bent on destroying the world. Aru must find the reincarnations of the legendary Pandava brothers, travel through the Kingdom of Death, and...
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The Astonishing Color of After
Emily X.R. Pan
Leigh Chen Sanders is absolutely certain about one thing. When her mother died by suicide, she turned into a bird. Leigh who is half Asian and half white travels to Taiwan to meet the maternal grandparents that she has never met. It is there that she is determined to follow her mother's clues and memories to find her mother, the bird. Leigh uncovers family secrets and creates a relationship with her...
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Aurora Rising
Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
Told in separate voices, eighteen-year-old Tyler Jones, top graduate of Aurora Academy, and a group of misfits and troublemakers embark on their first mission with Auri, a stowaway from the distant...
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Backfield Boys
John Feinstein
Jason Roddin and Tom Jefferson are a perfect pair- best friends and football players. Jason is a blazing-fast wide-receiver, while his best friend Tom has all the skills a standout quarterback needs. After summer football camp at an elite sports-focused boarding school, the boys are thrilled to be invited back with full-ride scholarships, but they're shocked when the team's coaching staff makes Tom, a black kid, a receiver and Jason, a white...
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Becoming Kareem: Growing Up On and Off the Court
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
This memoir details the life of basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Born Lew Alcindor in New York city to strict parents, he grew up facing racism, prejudice, and the challenges of high school. Under the influence of a number of athletic coaches and life coaches, Lew eventually converted to Islam and assumed a new name, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Read and discover how he became a legend on the court and off the court as...
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The Belles
Dhonielle Clayton
Camellia Beauregard is a Belle. Belles are revered because they control Beauty. In the world of Orleans, people are born gray and damaged. Only a Belle can give them beauty. Camellia desperately wants to be the queen's favorite. Unfortunately life at court is not as simple as Camellia thought. She has to manage the intrique and secrets behind the court...
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The Benefits of Being an Octopus
Ann Braden
Zoey wishes she had eight arms like an octopus. Because if she did, she would be able to balance her responsibilities at home caring for her younger brother and sister, doing her schoolwork, and laying low around her mother痴 boyfriend Lenny. She tries to be invisible at school, but a teacher recognizes her potential and encourages her to participate on the debate team. With the help of her newly found debate skills, she summons the courage to...
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Best Friends
Shannon Hale and LeUyen Pham
Sixth grade is supposed to be perfect. Shannon desperately wants a spot in the in-crowd called The Group. But the rules are always changing, and Shannon has to always try to keep up. She never knows which TV shows are cool, what songs to listen to, and which boys she's allowed to talk to. Who makes these rules anyway? And does Shannon have to follow them? Or should she follow her...
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The Best Man
Richard Peck
Archer is surrounded by the men in his life: his single father, a spunky grandfather, his worldly Uncle Paul, and the first male teacher at his school who is former military. This new teacher as well as the arrival of wheelchair bound student from England turn Archer's world upside down.
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Between Shades of Gray
Ruta Sepetys
Set during World War II, Soviet officers force Lina and her family into a labor camp in Siberia.They face great hardship, struggling to survive the horrifying conditions.
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Beyond the Bright Sea
Lauren Wolk
Twelve-year-old Crow has lived her entire life on a small island off the coast of Massachusetts. Abandoned and set adrift in a small boat when she was just hours old, Crow was rescued by Osh, the man who found and raised her, and Miss Maggie their fierce neighbor. Crow has always wanted to know more about her past, and information from a nearby island begins to offer some clues. Crow's search will lead her to understand the true meaning of
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Beyond Words: What Elephants and Whales Think and Feel
Carl Safina
Dive into the worlds of elephants in Kenya and whales in the Pacific Northwest to discover how these animals communicate, play, fight, and live. You値l discover the personalities of these animals and how different and similar they are to human...
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Bird
Angela Johnson
BIRD is told from three points of view:a runaway, a young heart transplant recipient, and a boy who has just lost a brother.The threesome find one another as they search for love and connections.
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A Black Hole Is Not A Hole
Carolyn Cinaami DeCristofano
What is a black hole? Where do they come from? How do we know they exist? Will Earth fall into one? This book is an excellent introduction to an extremely complex scientific concept as it takes readers on a ride through the galaxies - ours and others.Fall into this book and learn about the phenomenon known as a black hole.
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Blended
Sharon Draper
Isabella's parents are divorced. She lives part of the week with her African American dad and his new girlfriend (soon to be wife) and her son in a fancy mini-mansion. The other part of the week is with her white mother in the house she grew up in and her new boyfriend. Her life is a blend of races and places.
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Blizzard Of Glass: The Halifax Explosion Of 1917
Sally M Walker
On December 6, 1917, two ships collided in Halifax Harbor.With one ship loaded with munitions and one with medical supplies, the resulting blast flattened two towns and killed nearly 2,000 people.With a blizzard hitting the very next day, relief efforts were almost paralyzed.This book contains many illustrations, firsthand accounts, and other primary sources from this unbelievable tragedy.
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Bluefish
Pat Schmatz
One fish, Two fish, Bluefish - everyone has been labeled, at some time.Travis' label is his secret.When Mr. McQueen, a clever teacher and Velveeta, a sassy girl with a secret of her own enter his life, Travis starts to see that he might be more than his label.Despite a hard past and present life, what he thought was impossible becomes worth trying for.
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Bob
Wendy Mass and Rebecca Stead
It's been five years since Livy and her family have visited Livy's grandmother in Australia. Now that she's back, Livy has the feeling she's forgotten something really, really important about Gran's house. Bob, a short, greenish creature dressed in a chicken suit, didn't forget Livy, or her promise.
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Book of Dust: La Belle Savage
Phillip Pullman
Malcolm Polstead is the kind of boy who notices everything but is not much noticed himself. He makes the perfect spy. As people pass through his parent's inn, he overhears all the latest news and gossip, but soon he is caught up in intrigue himself. A girl- just a baby- named Lyra is in danger, and Malcolm has to brave a savage flood and deadly assassins to try to bring her to safety and save the world. Prequel to the Golden
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Booked
Kwame Alexander
Nick loves soccer but is facing a number of problems off the field including problems at home, a bully at school, and a girl out of reach. Nick's friend Coby and The Mac, a rapping librarian, provide humor and inspiration through his struggles.
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Bootleg: Murder, Moonshine, And The Lawlessness Of Prohibition
Karen Blumenthal
When Congress passed the 18th Amendment, prohibiting the manufacture and sale of alcohol, supporters were convinced it would create a stronger, more moral nation.Instead, corruption and lawlessness erupted.This is a fast-paced, gripping account with vivid photos from the period.
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Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam
Elizabeth Partridge
Learn more about America's war in Vietnam through the experiences of eight people who were there - six American soldiers, one American military nurse, and one Vietnamese refugee. From dense jungles and terrifying firefights to chaotic helicopter rescues and harrowing escapes, each individual's experiences illuminates a different aspect of the...
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Born to Fly: The First Women's Air Race Across America
Steve Sheinkin
Tells the story of the first women's air race across the U.S. in the 1929 Air Derby. Features the first women who dared to fly, including: Amelia Earhart, Marvel Crosson, Louise Thaden and Elinor Smith. Through this novel, these women's passion for flying comes through their inspiriting and daring stories of their race across the...
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Boy At War: A Novel Of Pearl Harbor
Harry Mazer
Fourteen-year-old Adam is caught in the midst of the attack on December 7, 1941. Also, A Boy No More and Heroes Don't Run: A Novel of the Pacific War.
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The Boy on the Wooden Box: How the Impossible Became Possible on Schindler's List
Leon Leyson
This is a remarkable memoir of a family's survival of the Holocaust, thanks to Oskar Schindler's repeated interventions. It is told in the voice of Leon Leyson, the youngest member of Schindler's list, who offers his account of day-to-day existence in the factory.
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The Boy Who Dared
Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Awaiting his execution in jail, a German teenager recalls Hitler's rise to power and the courage he found to stand up against the Nazi regime.
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The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club
Phillip M. Hoose
Danish brothers, Knud and Jens Pedersen, stood up to their Nazi occupiers at the onset of World War II. The two teens started a new group, The Churchill Club, which committed countless acts of vandalism and sabotage, infuriating the Nazis. Eventually captured and imprisoned, their efforts helped spark a nationwide resistance movement.
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Brave
Svetlana Chmakova
In his daydreams, Jensen is the biggest hero that ever was, saving the world and his friends on a daily basis. But his middle school reality is VERY different - school is hard, getting along with friends is hard, and even finding a partner for the class project is a huge problem when you always get picked...
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Call Down the Hawk
Maggie Stiefvater
The dreamers walk among us . . . and so do the dreamed. Those who dream cannot stop dreaming - they can only try to control it. Those who are dreamed cannot have their own lives - they will sleep forever if their dreamers die.And then there are those who are drawn to the dreamers. To use them. To trap them. To kill them before their dreams destroy us all.Ronan Lynch is a dreamer. He can pull both curiosities and catastrophes out of his dreams...
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The Call
Peadar O Guilin
Ireland has been under siege for the past twenty-five years from the Sidhe, a race of very angry magical beings. No one can come in to Ireland, no one can go out, and every teenager gets "the call" to the land of the Sidhe where they are hunted for twenty-four hours. Most of the teenagers die horrific deaths during "the call" and their mangled bodies are returned back to Ireland, and the lucky few who survive are left changed. Nessa, who
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CANDY BOMBER: THE STORY OF THE BERLIN AIRLIFT'S 鼎HOCOLATE PILOT.
Michael O. Tunnell
This is the true story of Gail Halvorsen, an American pilot and real-life hero, who parachuted small bags of candy over the war-torn city of Berlin, giving hope to children and families during the aftermath of World War...
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The Capybara Conspiracy
Erica S. Perl
Talented playwright Olive Henry gets no respect in her sports-obsessed middle school, so she hatches a plan. She schemes with her best friend to steal Cappy, the school's live capybara mascot, and then heroically return the beloved mascot to earn fame and rewards. However, when an animal rights activist and an undercover athlete get involved, things get out of control in this humorous play.
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Caraval
Stephanie Garber
Scarlett has never left the tiny island where she and her beloved sister, Tella, live with their powerful, and cruel, father. Now Scarlett's father has arranged a marriage for her, and Scarlett thinks her dreams of seeing Caraval, the far-away, once-a-year performance where the audience participates in the show, are over.But this year, Scarlett's long-dreamt of invitation finally arrives.
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Charlie Joe Jackson's Guide To Not Reading
Tom Greenwald
Charlie Joe Jackson hates to read. He hates to read so much he'll do whatever it takes to NOT read. Charlie Joe's perfect record of not reading is at stake as he enters middle school. Will he finally be forced to read a book or will his streak continue?Also, Charlie Joe Jackson's Guide To Extra Credit.
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Chasing King's Killer
James L. Swanson
This is a three-part, illustrated history of Martin Luther King Jr. during the Civil Rights Movement which culminates in a moment-by-moment description of the actions of his murderer before, during, and after the...
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Chasing Lincoln's Killer
James L Swanson
This is a biographical account of John Wilkes Booth's plot to kill the president and Booth's twelve days on the run following Lincoln's assassination.
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Children of Blood and Bone
Tomi Adeyemi
Zelie remembers when her land was filled with magic. Everything changed the night magic disappeared- banished along with all maji by an evil king. Zelie must outwit the crown prince and find a way to return both magic and hope to her...
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The Chimpanzees I Love: Saving Their World And Ours
Jane Goodall
Imagine a curiosity and passion that compels you to live in a community of chimpanzees.Dr. Goodall tells of her discoveries about chimpanzees, her love for them, and her campaign for the protection of these amazing animals.
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City Of Ember
Jeanne DuPrau
The year is 241.Lina trades jobs on Assignment Day to be a Messenger and finds part of an ancient message she feels sure will help save her decaying city.The first in The Books of Ember series.
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The City Of Ember: The Graphic Novel
Dallas Middaugh
This graphic novel reintroduces us to Ember, the doomed city of darkness that was built to ensure that humans would continue to exist on Earth.On Assignment Day, 12-year-olds leave school and receive their lifetime job assignments.Lina becomes a messenger, and her friend Doon ends up in the Pipeworks beneath the city.They unearth an evil plot from the government to steal
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Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice
Phillip M Hoose
In 1955, Claudette Colvin refused to give up her seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama and played an important, but little known, role in the Civil Rights Movement.
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Click'd
Tamara Ireland Stone
At CodeGirls summer camp Allie creates an app that pairs up friends and send them on scavenger hunt together. As her app gets more and more popular, and Allie collects more and more information about her friends, a glitch in the sytem threatens to expose everyone's data and send Allie's dreams crashing...
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Code Orange
Caroline B Cooney
While conducting research for a school paper on smallpox, Mitty finds an envelope containing 100-year-old smallpox scabs and fears that he has infected himself and all of New York City.
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Code Talkers: A Novel About The Navajo Marines Of World War Two
Joseph Bruchac
After being taught in a boarding school run by whites that Navajo is a useless language, Ned Begay is recruited by the Marines to become a Code Talker, sending urgent messages during World War II in his native tongue.
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Compound
S.A. Bodeen
Fifteen-year-old Eli has spent the last six years with his family in a massive underground shelter his father built, knowing that nuclear war has destroyed the world he knows, including his grandmother and twin brother who couldn't reach the compound in time.With nine years to go before the air outside will be safe to breathe, Eli is starting to have doubts about his father's motives, explanations, and sanity.
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Confetti Girl
Diana Lopez
Lina Flores loves sports and science, has an obsession with socks, and might have a crush on classmate Luis.Lina, with the help of her friend Vanessa, is trying to survive the drama of middle school, as well as help her father cope with the recent loss of her mother.
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Counting By 7s
Holly Goldberg Sloan
By the age of 12 Willow Chance has suffered more loss than most people experience in a lifetime.Now at her new school she is accused of cheating because no one has ever finished the state proficiency test in just 17 minutes, let alone received a perfect score. Her reward is behavioral counseling with an ineffectual counselor, but the bond she forms there with an unlikely cast of characters is heartfelt and transformative.Willow's story is one of renewal; her life is rebuilt and a unique family is created along the way.
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Courage Has No Color: The True Story Of The Triple Nickles, America's First Black Paratroopers
Tanya Lee Stone
What's it like to jump out of an airplane? Imagine. These are the opening sentences which chronicle the courage and persistence of the Triple Nickles, the African Americans who pushed through military boundaries in the 555 Parachute Infantry Battalion.
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Crossover
Kwame Alexander
Twin brothers Josh and Jordan love basketball and their ex-pro playing dad. Told in verse by Josh, play-by-play basketball action is interspersed with the details of how he and brother are growing up in different ways and at different speeds.
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Crown of Feathers
Nicki Pau Preto
This exciting Mulan retelling follows Veronyka, sixteen, leaves her controlling sister and disguises herself as a boy to join a secret group of warriors who ride phoenixes into...
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The Cruel Prince
Holly Black
When Jude was seven years old, her parents were murdered and she and her two sisters were stolen away to live in the High Court of Faerie. Ten years later, Jude wants only to fit in- to truly belong, but most of the fey despise humans. To earn her spot in Faerie, Jude must defy the son of the High King. Her deception threatens to destroy the Courts of Faerie, as well as Jude and her...
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Crush
Svetlana Chmakova
From the author of Awkward and Brave, this graphic novel delivers the story of Jorge, a big but shy middle school boy who develops a crush on a girl. Jorge doesn't have an issue dealing with bullies in school but finding the courage to talk to Jazmine is the toughest challenge he faces.
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Darius the Great is Not Okay
Adib Khorram
Darius Kellner, a clinically-depressed Fraction Persian, travels to Iran with his family to meet his grandparents. Darius never feels like he fits in - not in school with the Soulless Minions of Orthodoxy, not in his family with his Ubermensch father, not with his non-Fractional Persian relatives - until he meets his grandparents' neighbor, Sohrab. Darius might only be in Iran for a few weeks, but his friendship with Sohrab will leave a
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Dear Ally, How Do You Write a Book?
Ally Carter
Filled with practical tips and helpful advice, Dear Ally is a treasure for aspiring writers at any stage of their careers. It offers a behind-the-scenes look at how books get made, from idea to publication, and gives you insight into the writing processes of some of the biggest and most talented YA authors writing...
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Dear Martin
Nic Stone
Justyce McAllister struggles to deal with the state of race relations in today's world. He is almost arrested by a white cop one night when he prevents his drunk ex-girlfriend from driving her car. By writing letters to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., he looks for answers to the tough situations.
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Define Normal
Julie Anne Peters
The outstanding student, Antonia, is matched up with the unusual and mysterious punker, Jazz, for a peer-counseling program.As the counseling sessions progress, the two girls discover that they have many things in common.
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Discovering Wes Moore
Wes Moore
Two kids named Wes Moore were born blocks apart and within a year of each other. Both grew up fatherless in similar Baltimore neighborhoods and had difficult childhoods; both ran into trouble with the police. How did one grow up to be a Rhodes Scholar and business leader, while the other ended up a convicted murderer serving a life sentence?
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Does My Head Look Big In This?
Randa Abdel-Fattah
16-year-old Ama, an Australian-born Muslim Palestinian, decides she is ready to wear the hijab, or head covering, as a sign of her deep faith. Ama copes with misconceptions and discrimination in a humorous way as she defends her decision to herself and others.
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Doll Bones
Holly Black
Zach, Poppy, and Alice have been playing make-believe games together for years, creating worlds of characters with their action figures and dolls.They take turns leading this continually changing game, but ruling over all is the Great Queen, a creepy bone china doll. Just when it looks like the three might be growing up and leaving the game behind.
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Down The Rabbit Hole
Peter Abrahams
Ingrid lands the starring role in Alice in Wonderland while becoming caught up in the murder investigation of an eccentric neighbor. The first book in the series, An Echo Falls Mystery.
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Downsiders
Neal Shusterman
Talon lives Downside, underneath New York City.When he accidentally meets Lindsay, a Topsider from above ground, their worlds inevitably collide.
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Drama
Raina Telgemeier
In this graphic novel Callie loves musical theater, but she isn't much of a singer, so she works as a set designer for the school drama club. Her second year on stage crew is filled with drama, on and off the set, as various relationships start and end, and others never quite get going.
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Drawing From Memory
Allen Say
This graphic novel chronicles Allen Say's journey as an artist, from his childhood in World War II Japan to his apprenticeship under Noro Shinpei, Japan's leading cartoonist.Using watercolor paintings, original cartoons, photographs and maps, the memoir looks at Say's strained relationship with a father who did not understand his son's art and the difficult path that led to Say's success.
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Dread Nation
Justina Ireland
During the American Civil War, the divided nation stops fighting when the dead rise again on the battlefield of Gettysburg. In this new, more dangerous America, the safety of all depends on the dangerous work of the few. Jane, like other black young men and women, is required to go to combat school to learn how to put down the dead. As her graduation from combat school approaches, Jane is wrapped up in the middle of a conspiracy and instead...
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The Dreadful Tale of Prosper Redding
Alexandra Bracken
Prosper Redding's life is pretty mediocre until he finds out that a demon lives inside of him. Literally. Prosper's ancestor made a deal with a demon (and then promptly broke the contract) to ensure prosperity for his family. The demon, Alastor, has awakened and is seeking revenge. With only a few days to break the curse, Prosper turns to his estranged uncle and niece for help. Will Prosper break the curse or will Alastor get the revenge he
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Dream On, Amber
Emma Shevah
Hilarious narrator Amber is a half-Japanese and half-Italian girl who is starting middle school. Amber and her younger sister have been raised by their single mother. When her sister starts asking questions about their dad, Amber devises a plan to find him and make him a part of their lives
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Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina & New Orleans
Don Brown
On August 29, 2005, the levees in New Orleans broke under the surging water and heavy winds of Hurricane Katrina. The hurricane took the lives of over 1400 people and caused property damage of over $100 billion. This graphic novel tells stories of, heroism, courage, incompetence, and racism.
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Dry
Neal Shusterman
A lengthy California drought, dubbed The Tap Out, escalates to catastrophic proportions, turning Alyssa's quiet suburban street into a warzone, and she is forced to make impossible choices if she and her brother are to...
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Dumplin'
Julie Murphy
Willowdean "Dumplin'" Dixson is the daughter of a former beauty queen winner. Dumplin' doesn't have a super model body but she decides to enter the Miss Clover City beauty pageant to show her mom and others she has what it takes to win. This novel was recently made into a Netflix...
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Eavesdropping on Elephants
Patricia Newman
An insight into how elephants communicate in hopes to save the species! Scientists are working to discover the secrets of elephant communication and sharing with readers through QR codes with elephant...
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The Eighth Day
Dianne K. Salerni
When thirteen-year-old Jax wakes up in a world without any people, he doesn't know what to think. He soon finds out that there is a secret eighth day between Wednesday and Thursday, and some people are Transitioners, able to live in all eight days. In this amazing new world going back all the way to the time of King Arthur, he meets Evangeline, a teenage girl who exists only on this special day. Jax has to try to save Evangeline and maybe even the whole world.
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El Deafo
Cece Bell
The author recounts in graphic novel format her experiences with hearing loss at a young age, including using a bulky hearing aid, learning how to lip read, and determining her "superpower."
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The Elephant Scientist
Caitlin O'Connell
American scientist Caitlin O'Connell studied African elephants in the wild and made many amazing discoveries about the lives of elephants and how they communicate.
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Endangered
Eliot Schrefer
This is the story of a girl and an ape in one of the worst wars the modern world has known. Sophie's journey to escape the violence in the Congo while protecting her bonobo charge is certainly exciting, but more than that, it charts her evolution from an inexperienced and naive girl to a responsible and courageous young woman.
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The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora
Pablo Cartaya
Arturo Zamora is like most of 13 year old boys. He has two quirky best friends (one who likes to pretend he is Pitt Bull and one who likes to point out how ridiculous that is), a crush on a girl named Carmen, and a summer job washing dishes at his family's restaurant. It all seems like this will be a pretty regular summer, until a slick developer named Wilfrido Pipo comes into Arturo's Miami neighborhood with talk about a new apartment complex....
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Er Vets: Life In An Animal Emergency Room
Donna M Jackson
Pet lovers will enjoy this real-life look into the daily world of veterinarians.
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Eruption: Volcanoes And The Science Of Saving Lives
Elizabeth Rusch
More than one billion people live in deadly volcanic danger zones. When one of these volcanoes starts to act up, it is up to the international volcano crisis team to get up close and personal with these awakening giants and determine if the smoke and seismic activity indicate an imminent deadly eruption.
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Escape from Syria
Kullab, Samya
In this graphic story, a fictionalized account of the current events surrounding the refugee crisis in Syria, Amina's family is forced to flee the country after their home in Aleppo is...
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Esperanza Rising
Pam Munoz Ryan
After her father is murdered, Esperanza Ortega is forced to flee her beloved El Rancho de las Rosas in Mexico to a migrant camp in California.
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Etiquette And Espionage
Gail Carringer
Sophronia is far from a proper Victorian young lady.She would rather take apart machinery, climb, and generally cause trouble than learn to curtsy.When her mother sends her off to Mademoiselle Geraldine's Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality to learn how to be a proper lady, she is shocked to learn that the school is actually a floating airship where young girls are taught the skills of espionage
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Every Falling Star
Sungju Lee
Sungju grew up in Pyongyang, North Korea going to a great school, studying martial arts, and training to be a great military leader. When his father does something to displease the government, Sungju, his mother, and father are sent to the countryside where people are publicly executed for crimes against the state and children and adults are starving to death. By the time Sungju is twelve, he is on his own after both his father and mother...
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Eye of the Storm: NASA, Drones, and the Race to Crack the Hurricane Code
Amy Cherrix
Predicting weather is not easy, but when you are dealing with potentially deadly storms like hurricanes, scientists are under a lot of pressure to get predictions right. Learn how meteorologists are using high tech tools like drones to study and predict when and how strong hurricanes will be in order to help save...
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Facing The Lion: Growing Up Maasai On The African Savanna
Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton
This memoir of a young Maasai boy tells the story of Lekuton who grows up as part of a nomadic tribe in Kenya.The story sheds light on the Massai culture and life on the savanna.Lekuton comes from a family of nomadic cow-herders, and Kenyan law required each family to send one child to school.Lekuton was the chosen child
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Falling Over Sideways
Jordan Sonnenblick
Claire thinks her life is cursed. Her friends have moved up in dance while she was left behind. At school she is surrounded by mean girls and a boy who seems to be out to make her life difficult, and she is always compared to her perfect older brother. Claire's life suddenly changes over breakfast; her father falls over at the kitchen table with a stroke
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The False Prince
Jennifer Nielsen
In a kingdom ravaged by civil war, a nobleman of the court seeks to find an impersonator to play the role of the king's long-lost son in order to unify the people.He enlists a group of four orphans, including Sage, who must compete for the part.Can Sage win the part and pull off the role as a prince?
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Fantasy League
Mike Lupica
Charlie loves playing football, but his real gift is playing fantasy football. As a student of the game, he has a knack for choosing players and watching his team win. When his best friend's grandfather, owner of the new LA Bulldogs NFL team, hears Charlie's podcast and gets a peek at Charlie's skills on the sidelines of a real NFL game, he hires Charlie to consult. But this is the National Football League, and Charlie's decisions become real instead of fantasy.
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Far Far Away
Tom McNeal
This is the story of a boy, a girl, and a ghost.In the land of Never Better, Jeremy Johnson Johnson is a smart, sensitive 15 year old who hears voices, particularly the voice of Jacob Grimm- one half of the famed fairy-tale Brothers Grimm.Grimm tries to protect Jacob and his good friend Ginger from harm, but it seems that no matter what he does danger is headed their way
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Far From the Tree
Robin Benway
This is the story of three siblings who were all raised by different families. Grace is dealing with a serious loss in her life and as a result, wants to connect with the brother and sister she knows are out there somewhere. Maya was adopted by a family with whom she never truly feels a part. Joaquin has serious trust issues but lives with a loving foster family, and at seventeen, they want to adopt him. These three lives collide and...
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Fault Lines in the Constitution: The Framers, Their Fights, and the Flaws that Affect Us Today
Cynthia Levinson
Many of the political issues we struggle with today have their roots in the US Constitution. Learn more about the creation of this historic document and examine how contemporary problems were first introduced and created by the Constitution and what can be done to fix...
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The Fellowship Of The Ring
JRR Tolkien
In the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Frodo, a hobbit, must journey to the barren wasteland of Mordor to destroy the one ring that could rule them all. A fellowship is formed to aid him on this dangerous journey. The first in The Lord of the Rings series.
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Fever 1793
Laurie Halse Anderson
Against the 1793 yellow fever outbreak in Philadelphia, a teenage Matilda struggles to keep herself and those she loves alive.
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The Field Guide to the North American Teenager
Ben Philippe
A hilarious YA realistic novel about a witty Black French Canadian teen who moves to Austin, Texas, and experiences the joys, clich駸, and awkward humiliations of the American high school experience - including falling in love. Perfect for fans of Nicola Yoon, When Dimple Met Rishi, and John...
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First Generation: 36 Trailblazing Immigrants and Refugees Who Make America Great
Sandra Neil Wallace and Rich Wallace
Through illustrations and text, First Generation uncovers the lives of 36 immigrants to the United States and their impacts on society. Some of these individuals include Madeline Albright, Albert Einstein, and Dikembe Mutombo. These inspiring stories detail the contributions these people gifted America and show how these gifts made America a better...
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Fish In A Tree
Lynda Mullaly Hunt
Ally is smart, funny, and artistic.But she has kept a secret for all of her years in school: she can't read.A new teacher, Mr. Daniels, suspects Ally may be dyslexic and finds ways to help her to see that reading is a possibility.
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Flesh And Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire And Its Legacy
Albert Marrin
Hard-working immigrants looking for a better life, poor working conditions, and greedy factory bosses 窶" this is the story of the unimaginable disaster of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire of 1911.
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Focused
Alyson Gerber
When Clea recognizes that she has trouble focusing in school and her personal life, and finds out she has ADHD, she begins to navigate her life with her new diagnosis so she can find a way to...
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Foolish Hearts
Emma Mills
High school senior Claudia accidentally overhears the breakup between longtime couple Paige and Iris. Claudia and Iris are paired in English class for a project and the extremely unhappy Iris chooses to sabotage their grade because of her anger at Claudia. Their English teacher requires the two girls to audition for the school's Shakespeare play to make up for their poor performance on the project. Gideon, super talented and charismatic, has a
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For Black Girls Like Me
Mariama J. Lockington
Makeda is a black girl adopted by a white family. After the family moves from Maryland to New Mexico, lonely Makeda misses her best friend Lena, who is also an African American girl in a white family. In secret messages to Lena, Makeda grapples with the complexities of race and identity in order to discover her true self all while her family starts to fall...
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Found
Margaret Peterson Haddix
Thirteen years after a plane mysteriously lands in an airport with thirty-six baby passengers and no adults on board, the children from the flight begin to receive strange, unexplained letters.Jonah and Chip must work quickly to uncover the secrets of their past.This is the first in The Missing Book Series.
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The Fountains of Silence
Ruta Sepetys
Madrid, 1957. Eighteen-year-old Daniel Matheson has traveled to Spain hoping to connect with his mother痴 homeland through his photography. When he meets a young woman named Ana, he sees the harsh realities of the impact of the Spanish Civil War that still affect her family. Daniel finds himself facing difficult decisions as secrets from the past and danger collide, revealing a dark side of Spain hidden under the sunny shroud of relaxation and...
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Fourth Down And Inches
Carla Killough McClafferty
Nineteen players died as a result of injuries suffered during the 1905 football season, and public outrage almost got the game banned. However, football players, coaches, fans, and officials made changes to make the game safer. Now, football is coming under scrutiny again as scientists learn more about concussions and brain injuries sustained during football games and practices.
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Frankly in Love
David Yoon
Frank Li is a Korean American high school student with traditional Korean parents who are determined he will attend medical school and eventually date and marry a Korean girl. But he is dating his dream girl- Brit Means who is not Korean. In an attempt to hide his relationship with Brit from his parents, he pretends to date Joy Song, a Korean girl whose parents are family friends. Frank must find a way to balance a secret relationship, high...
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Frazzled: Everyday Disasters and Impending Doom
Booki Vivat
Does school make you feel frazzled? Enter the world of Abbie Wu. She is completely in the middle. She is the middle sibling. She is starting middle school. And she is completely frazzled. Everyone in her family has a talent and she is struggling to find her "thing" in this graphic
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Freedom Riders: John Lewis And Jim Zwerg On The Front Lines Of The Civil Rights Movement
Ann Bausum
The 1960s saw courageous young people risking great personal danger as they participated in the freedom rides during the Civil Rights Movement.
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Funny Girl
Betsy Bird
This collection of short stories by female authors captures hilarious about family, teenagers, and what it means to be a girl. Book features stories by: Cece Bell, Sophie Blackall, Libba Bray, Shannon Hale, Lisa Graff, Raina Telgemeier, and many...
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Furthermore
Tahereh Mafi
Alice has never fit in at her home of Ferenwood. She lacks both magic and color which are so important in her land. When her beloved father goes missing, it seems that she has nothing left. Alice must embark on a wild adventure to the land of Furthermore to rescue her father. She must first find herself in order to find her father.
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Game Changer
Tommy Greenwald
Teddy finds himself in a coma after a horrific hazing incident during football practice at a summer camp for the Walthorne Wildcats. This novel is told in different points of view including his parents, his coach, the coach's daughter, teammates, and even Teddy's thoughts in the hospital. Each perspective tries to put together what led to his injury through text messages, newspaper articles, dialogue, and an online forum.
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Garvey's Choice
Nikki Grimes
Meet Garvey, an overweight kid who loves science fiction and astronomy. In this novel told in verse, Garvey has the opportunity to join chorus and a hidden talent is revealed. This just might be what it takes to save his strained relationship with his father.
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Geekerella
Ashley Poston
Elle Wittmer, queen of the Starfield fandom, enters a cosplay contest for her favorite character. Her stepmother and stepsisters, however, are not so supportive. Actor Darien Freeman loves cons and Starfield, but now that he's been cast as the hero in the first ever movie version, he's getting a lot of heat from the fans. Darien wonders if taking on this role was such a good idea, until a new friend shows him
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The Geography Of You And Me
Jennifer E Smith
In a high rise in New York City, Lucy lives on the 24th floor and Owen in the basement.A blackout in the city brings them together, but their geography changes when Lucy moves abroad and Owen moves out West.
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Ghost
Jason Reynolds
Ghost has been running away from trouble his whole life. He has been the one causing problems- and running away from them-until he meets Coach, an ex-Olympic Medalist with a past. Coach is determined to keep other teens from blowing their shots at greatness, and he'll do everything he can to help Ghost run for the right reasons.
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Ghosts
Raina Telgemeir
Catrina and her family are moving to the coast of Northern California because her little sister, Maya, is sick. While Cat is not happy about moving, her sister has cystic fibrosis and needs to be near the cool sea air. Soon after moving, they learn a secret about their new town-ghosts are everywhere. While her sister can't wait to meet a ghost, Cat isn't so sure. She has enough to worry about with her sister's health.
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The Gilded Wolves
Roshani Chokshi
Set in a darkly glamorous world, The Gilded Wolves is full of mystery, decadence and dangerous but thrilling adventure. Fans of Six of Crows and The Da Vinci Code will love this fantasy heist adventure...
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The Girl Who Drank the Moon
Kelly Barnhill
As the youngest baby in her village, Luna was left in the woods as a sacrifice to the witch. Luckily for Luna, Xan is a kind witch who rescues the sacrificed babies each year and places them in safe homes. Because of Luna's unique abilities, Xan keeps her and raises her with the help of a wise Swamp Monster and a Perfectly Tiny Dragon.
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Girls Who Code: Learn to Code and Change the World
Reshma Saujani
Do you have an idea for an app, game, or digital art project, but don't how to bring it to life? Get inspired by learning the basics of coding and how girls and women have created some amazing products, from robots that will help you with your homework to apps that will keep you safe. Learn how to code and change the...
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The Giver (Graphic Novel)
Lois Lowry and P. Craig Russell
In this new graphic novel edition, readers experience the haunting story of twelve-year-old Jonas and his seemingly ideal, if colorless, world of conformity and contentment, that truly brings The Giver to life.Witness Jonas's assignment as the Receiver of Memory, watch as he begins to understand the dark secrets behind his fragile community, and follow the explosion of color into his world like never before....
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The Glass Sentence
S.E. Grove
In the Great Disruption, time fragmented, stranding countries and continents in different time periods, some of them thousands of years apart. Eight years ago, Sophia's parents disappeared on a mission, leaving her uncle, Shadrack, to raise her. When Shadrack is kidnapped, Sophia and her friend, Theo, leave their home to search for him.
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Go: Kidd's Guide To Graphic Design
Chip Kidd
Graphic design is everywhere we look from the colors on a box of cereal to advertisements plastering the walls of buildings to the shapes of labels on toothpaste tubes and shampoo bottles. This book shows what designers consider every day such as form, color, typography, and scale.But the author relies far more on delicious full-page visuals of
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The Golden Compass
Phillip Pullman
This fantasy relates Lyra's adventures while preventing her best friend and other kidnapped children from becoming victims of experiments in the Far North.The first in His Dark Materials Trilogy.
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Good Enough
Paula Yoo
Patti tries to balance schoolwork, band, and boys while trying to please her Korean parents by getting into an Ivy League school.
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The Good Fight: How World War II Was Won
Stephen E. Ambrose
Ambrose presents a concise, readable chronicle of World War II through amazing photographs and research.
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Goodbye Stranger
Rebecca Stead
Best friends Emily, Bridge, and Tabitha find themselves starting middle school at different stages in their lives. Emily is discovering boys. Bridge is questioning her existence after miraculously being saved in an accident, and Tabitha is actively pursuing human rights activism. Told in alternating viewpoints, these characters and others show the challenges of adolescence and the perils of growing up.
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The Graveyard Book
Neil Gaiman
After losing his family, a toddler wanders into a graveyard, where he will be raised by the groundskeeper and the ghosts that dwell there.As he grows up, he learns that his family's killer is still out there looking for him.
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Greenglass House
Kate Milford
It's Christmas break and Milo and his parents are looking forward to a relaxing vacation at Greenglass House, their home and inn where they host benevolent smugglers.On the first night, however, they surprisingly receive guest after guest.As objects go missing, Milo and Meddy, the cook's daughter, must piece together the mystery and discover the truth of the Greenglass House.
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A Guide to the Other Side
Robert Imfeld
Baylor is not your typical thirteen year old. Baylor is a medium who can see and communicate with ghosts. This is a useful ability because his twin sister, Kristina, is a ghost. Kristina and Baylor have been working together to relay messages from other ghosts to their living loved ones for years with only a few problems (non-believers, insistent ghosts with embarrassing messages in odd locations, and irritating a great aunt), until a strange...
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Guitar Notes
Mary Amato
Two very different high school students, Tripp and Lyla, begin an unexpected friendship after discovering a common love of writing songs on the guitar.
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Guts
Raina Telgemeier
When Raina wakes up with a stomach ache, she later realizes that it is not going away. In this funny and entertaining true story, Raina gains courage to face her fears in the every day life of a middle school...
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Harbor Me
Jacqueline Woodson
Six kids find a place to talk with no adults listening and realize that it is a safe space to express their thoughts and feelings about anything. This connection helps give them courage to face their fears and their lives now and in the...
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Harry Potter A Journey Through a History of Magic
British Museum
Readers of Harry Potter are invited to journey through Hogwarts curriculum- Care of Magical Creatures, Herbology, Astronomy and more. Artifacts from J.K. Rowling and Jim Kay fill the book. Discover the truth behind the Philosopher's Stone, dragons, trolls, real-life wants, and what makes a mandrake
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The Hate U Give
Angie Thomas
Star feels stuck between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. When she witnesses the fatal shooting for her unarmed best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer, everything changes. Everyone wants to know what really went down last night and the only person alive who can answer that is...
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Hearts Unbroken
Cynthia Leitich Smith
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Cynthia Leitich Smith
At the end of her junior year, Louise Wolfe breaks up with her (very popular) first boyfriend after he makes a racist remark about her Native American heritage. When she starts her senior year, she decides to work for the school paper and begins covering the multicultural casting of the new school play and the racial hostilities it has...
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Hello, Universe
Erin Entrada Kelly
Winner of the 2017 Newberry Medal! When 11-year-old Virgil and his pet guinea pig, Gulliver, end up trapped in a well in the woods at the hands of a bully, time is of the essence to rescue them before it's too late. This disaster weaves together three other kids on a quest to find missing Virgil. Through luck, smarts, bravery, and a little help from the universe, a rescue is performed, a bully is put in his place, and friendship...
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Hereville How Mirka Got Her Sword
Barry Deutsch
Eleven-year-old Mirka Herschberg dreams of fighting dragons and spends her days honing her skills, even though there are no dragons in her Orthodox Jewish community, but when she accepts a challenge from a mysterious witch, Mirka just might win her dragon-fighting sword after all.
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Hero
Mike Lupica
In this fast-paced adventure story, fourteen year old Zach Harriman races to uncover the mystery behind his dad's death, while also learning to control his new superhero powers.Will he discover the truth and learn to trust himself in time to face his father's fiercest enemies or will he be too late?
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Hey, Kiddo
Jarrett Krosoczka
This graphic memoir is about growing up in a family facing drug addiction. Jarrett's mother is a drug addict and his father is a mystery. Raised by his grandparents, Jarrett is able to use art to rise above his circumstances and emerge a successful writer and...
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Hidden
Helen Frost
An accidental kidnapping from their childhood has left both Wren and Darra with deep scars. When the girls end up at the same summer camp as teenagers they instantly recognize each other, although they have never met. The girls spend the summer searching for answers from each other and within themselves.
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The Hive Detectives: Chronicle Of A Honey Bee Catastrophe
Loree Griffin Burns
In 2006, nearly 40 per cent of the honeybee population in the United States simply vanished.Bee scientists and beekeepers across the country have been working to understand a colony collapse disorder. 抉hotographs and scientific journals help tell the story.
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The Hobbit
JRR Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings, Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys his comfortable life.Bilbo is the last person anyone would expect to head off on an adventure, but this is exactly what happens when the wizard Gandalf and a company of dwarves arrive on his doorstep.The dwarves have a plan to return to their ancestral home and reclaim a stolen fortune from the dragon Smaug and
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The Honest Truth
Dan Gemenhart
Mark has suffered from cancer most of his life and resolves to take matters into his own hands after a round of failed treatment. He sets out with his dog, Beau, to achieve his life goal: climb Mount Rainer. Mark and his best friend, Jessie, tell the story in alternating chapters.
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Hope and Other Punchlines
Julie Buxbaum
What if a picture of you as a baby inspired hope in people across a nation? This is what happens to Abbi when a photo of her as a baby from September 11th was featured in media everywhere. This summer, though, Abbi takes on a summer job to take a break from her Baby Hope persona. Unfortunately for Abbi, though, Noah Stern wants to dig into just who else is in that famous Baby Hope picture....
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House Arrest
K.A. Holt
Timothy's family is in trouble. His father left, his little brother needs round-the-clock care and expensive medical supplies, his mother is working herself to exhaustion, and Timothy is on probation after stealing a stranger's wallet in an attempt to make things easier for his mom. As Timothy tries to do the right thing, he soon learns that sometimes the right thing is still wrong in this novel in...
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House Of The Scorpion
Nancy Farmer
Matt is the young clone of El Patron, the leader of a corrupt drug empire located between Mexico and the United States.El Patron has lived 140 years with the help of transplants from a series of clones.Gradually, Matt realizes his fate, but can he escape in time?
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How Many Guinea Pigs Can Fit on a Plane?: Answers to Your Most Clever Math Questions
Laura Overdeck
This is a nonfiction book that explores some of life's most interesting and hilarious questions through math! Have you ever wondered how much gum it would take to stick yourself to a wall? Or how many leaves are on a tree? Read this book to find...
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How To Build A Museum: Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture
Tonya Bolden
One hundred years in the making, the National Museum of African American History and Culture is finally open on the National Mall. This book chronicles the long and complicated process of the building's creation and depicts the history of African Americans from slavery to segregation to freedom.
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How We Roll
Natasha Friend
Quinn is a teen who loves her family, skateboarding, basketball, and her friends, but after she is diagnosed with a condition called alopecia which causes her to lose all of her hair, her friends abandon her. Jake was once a star football player, but because of a freak accidet - caused by his brothr - he loses both of his legs. Quinn and Jake meet and find the confidence to believe in themselves again, and maybe even
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Hundred Percent
Karen Romano Young
Everything in Christine Gouda's life is changing. As she starts middle school, she feels like she no longer fits in anywhere. Her childhood nickname of Tink (short for Tinker Bell) seems all wrong, and her best friend Jackie has become a part of the popular kids who only put up with Tink because of her friend. Tink spends the year figuring out who she really is- learning about herself, her true friends, the mystery of boys.
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The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins
America, now Panem, requires each of its twelve territories to select two children between the ages of 12 and 18 to participate in the Hunger Games.On television, these twenty-four kids will fight to the death, and only one will survive.The first book in the Hunger Games series.
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I am Fartacus
Mark Maciejewski
Chub is in trouble. His popular jock nemesis, the Arch, is running for student president. If Arch is elected, there is no way that Chub can continue to make Arch's life miserable with decaying fish in his locker, exploding toilets, and running Arch's dirty underwear up the flagpole. With a cadre of other misfits, Chub schemes and orchestrates embarrassing plots to make the Arch lose the election. In the process, Chub learns that there are...
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I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up For Education And Changed The World.
Malala Yousafzai with Patricia McCormick
Malala Yousafzai is an outspoken advocate for education for all children. In October of 2012, she nearly lost her life when she was shot at point-blank range on the way home from school because of her education advocacy. ﾂMalala tells her remarkable story of her crusade for education rights, recovery, and survival.
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I Am Princess X
Cherie Priest
In elementary school, best friends and outsiders, Libby and May, created and wrote comics starring Princess X, a heroine with blue hair, a pink dress, red Chuck Ts, and a big sword. Libby drew the graphics, and May wrote the dragon-slaying adventures. When Libby dies in a tragic car accident, May is devastated. Or did she?
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I Am Still Alive
Kate Alice Marshall
Still battered from the car crash that took her mother's life, Jess is sent to live in the remote Canadian wilderness with Carl, the father she barely remembers - and then he's murdered. This leaves Jess in the wilderness with no shelter and just her father's wolf-dog Bo. With brains and ingenuity compensating for her physical weakness, Jess finds shelter, makes fire, and feeds and protects herself and Bo. Winter is quickly approaching.
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I Will Always Write Back: How One Letter Changed Two Lives
Caitlin Alifirenka and Martin Ganda
In this true story of a pen-pal correspondence between an American girl and a Zimbabwean boy, a lifelong friendship forms. Told in alternating chapters, their six-year exchange is both humbling and inspiring.
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Illegal
Eoin Colfer
Ebo is alone. His brother, Kwame, has disappeared, and Ebo knows it can only be to attempt the dangerous journey to Europe, and a better life - the same journey their sister set out on months ago.
But Ebo refuses to be left behind in Ghana, so he sets out after Kwame and joins him on the quest to reach Europe. Ebo's epic journey takes him across the Sahara Desert to the dangerous streets of Tripoli, and finally out to the merciless sea.
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Imprisoned: The Betrayal Of Japanese Americans During World War II
Martin Sandler
After Japan's sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States was swept up in a whirlwind of fear and suspicion towards Japanese Americans leading to the imprisonment of Japanese Americans in internment camps. Learn about what life was like for Japanese Americans before, during internment, and after in this in-depth look at a troubling time in American history.
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In the Shadow of Liberty: The Hidden History of Slavery, Four Presidents, and Five Black Lives
Kenneth C. Davis
America's Founding Fathers fought for liberty and justice for all and were also owners of enslaved people. Learn more about five enslaved people who were essential to the founding of our nation, but who are often missing from history books and more about the history of enslaved people in...
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Ink Knows No Borders
Patrice Vecchione
A collection of poems from first and second generation young adult immigrants and refugees. Poems give hope, encourage readers to honor their identifies, and do not shy away from the difficulties of these journeys....
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Inquisitor's Apprentice
Chris Moriarty
Sacha Kessler lives in New York in 1896, but this New York is filled with magic.When police learn that Sacha can see witches, he's apprenticed to the department's Inquisitor.With their mission to stop magical crime, Sacha and his fellow apprentice Lily Astral must use their wits and powers to stop the murder of Thomas Edison!Also, The Watcher in the Shadow.
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Insect Superpowers
Kate Messner and Jillian Nickell
Written in a comic book style, Insect Superpowers explores 18 bugs that smash, zap, hypnotize, sting, and devour. Each bug is represented as a superhero or supervillain and you値l learn about the powers they individually...
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Inside of a Dog -- Young Readers Edition: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know
Alexandra Horowitz
Have you ever wondered what your dog is thinking? Learn why dogs smell so excessively, seem to predict your every move, and stare at you for for an awkward amount of time. This book explores the science behind the dog's perspective on the world.
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Inside Out And Back Again
Thanhla Lai
Ha and her family flee Vietnam and resettle in Alabama.There she struggles with grammar, customs, dress (she wears a flannel nightgown to school, for example), and also cruel rejection from mean classmates.Based on the author's experiences as a child refugee, this National Book Award and 2012 Newbery Honor winner is both humorous and heartbreaking.
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The Invention Of Hugo Cabret
Brian Selznick
When twelve-year-old Hugo, an orphan living and repairing clocks within the walls of a Paris train station in 1931, meets a mysterious toy seller and his goddaughter, his undercover life and his biggest secret are jeopardized.This novel in words and pictures is the winner of the 2008 Caldecott Medal.
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Invincible Microbe: Tuberculosis And The Never-ending Search For A Cure
Jim Murphy
This is the story of a killer that has been striking down people for thousands of years - tuberculosis.This nonfiction mystery looks at the history of the disease and its treatment throughout time, as well as the search to find the cause and cure.The scientific and historical information is filled with human drama as well as photographs that bring the story to life.
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Invisible Emmie
Terri Libenson
Emmie is a shy and artistic student while Katie is popular, outgoing and athletic. What happens when a note that Emmie wrote falls into the wrong hands? How does it impact Katie and what happens when these two girls' lives collide? This graphic novel compacts all of the humor, drama, and boredom of middle school into one important day for Katie and Emmie.
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The Iron Trial
Holly Black and Cassandra Clare
Callum Hunt has been warned his whole life to stay away from magic.When Call is called to attend the entrance exams for The Magisterium, a school of magic, he promises his father he will deliberately fail the test.Unfortunately, magic is in Call's blood, and he is selected to study with the greatest mage of all time
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It Ain't So Awful Falafel
Firoozeh Dumas
Zomorod is tired of being the new, weird, foreign girl at school where the only thing students know about Iran, her homeland, is that people ride camels there. Finding friends with similar goals and interests helps her start to feel like she belongs, but when Iran goes through a revolution and a group of protesters take Americans hostage, her family becomes targets in their community.
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It's Trevor Noah: Born a Crime
Trevor Noah
Trevor Noah is the host of The Daily Show on Comedy Central. This young adult version of his memoir details his life growing up half white and half black in South Africa where it was illegal for a mixed child to even exist. As a kid and now as an adult, he uses his humor and wit to survive the racism that prevails around...
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Jack Strong Takes A Stand
Tommy Greenwald and Melissa Mendes
Have you ever wanted to go on strike from your parents?Jack is fed up with the extracurricular overload his parents have heaped on him, so he goes on strike and refuses to leave the couch until his parents give in.
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Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte
In early 19th century England, an orphaned young woman accepts employment as a governess and soon finds herself in love with her employer, who has a terrible secret.
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The Journey That Saved Curious George
Louise Borden
This beautifully illustrated picture book tells the story of Margaret and H.A. Rey and their escape from Paris during World War II.
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Kakapo Rescue: Saving The World's Strangest Parrot
Sy Montgomery
The flightless Kakapo parrots had at one time numbered in the millions.They're most unusual because of their size (not the longest, but the heaviest parrot) and the fact that they bury their nests underground.Now 14 scientists are working to save the remaining 91 parrots, located on a small island off the coast of New Zealand.
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Keeping The Castle
Patrice Kindl
In the spirit of Jane Austen, Althea must marry a rich man in order to preserve her family's position in society. Whom will she choose-Lord Boring or Mr. Fredericks?
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King of the Bench: No Fear
Steve Moore
Steve is King of the Bench for his baseball team, and he doesn't mind. He especially doesn't mind being benched for every game after witnessing a gruesome bloody nose that was the result of a pitch gone bad. Will he overcome his phobia that prevents him from going up to bat, or is he destined to be the underdog
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Lalani of the Distant Sea
Erin Entrada Kelly
Lalani goes on a quest to find medicine that will save her dying mother. Venturing into the dangerous unknowns of Mount Isa, Lalani will try to navigate and survive what has killed countless men and boys in the past....
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The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic
Leigh Bardugo
This collection of six stories is full of magic and dark fairy tales. Travel to a spooky world of haunted towns, ghost-filled woods, talking beasts, and even gingerbread...
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Learning to Swear in America
Katie Kennedy
An asteroid is hurtling toward Earth, and it appears that it will destroy a decent portion of life on Earth. 17-year-old genius Russian physicists, Yuri, comes to America to work with NASA to divert the asteroid and save the planet. Yuri knows how to stop the asteroid; his work on antimatter will not only save the world, but also win him a Nobel prize. But it's not that simple. His NASA colleagues don't trust him, he's seen something he...
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Liar, Liar: The Theory, Practice, and Destructive Properties of Deception
Gary Paulsen
Kevin is assigned a project from his social studies teacher, and his partner is Katie.Since Kevin is a masterful teller of lies, he manufactures a disease for himself to avoid working with her.The first in The Theory, Practice, and Destructive Properties of Deception series.
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Life As We Knew It
Susan Beth Pfeffer
When a meteor hits the moon and knocks it off its axis, life on earth is altered forever.High-school student Miranda keeps a diary about how her family copes without electricity, food and gas shortages, and extreme weather changes.
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Life on Surtsey: Iceland's Upstart Island
Loree Griffin Burns
In 1963 a volcano erupted off the shore of Iceland, and, for many years, Surtsey was the newest piece of land on Earth. In this nonfiction book, visit the island with scientists who are studying how life colonizes new land, and discover what lengths the scientists go to to keep from contaminating the...
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The Lifters
Dave Eggers
When Gran and his family move to Carousel, he has no idea that the town is built atop a secret. Little does he suspect, as he walks his sister to school that mysterious forces lurk mere inches beneath his feet, tearing up the earth like mini-hurricanes and causing the town to slowly but surely sink.
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The Lightning Thief
Rick Riordan
After being kicked out of his sixth boarding school, twelve-year-old Percy Jackson travels to Camp Half Blood, where his real adventures finally begin.He discovers his true identity as the son of a Greek god and embarks on a quest in search of Zeus' most prized possession. The first in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series.
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The Limit
Kristen Landon
Matt's family has just spent their monthly debt limit.In this society, when you hit the limit, the government wants the family to surrender a child to work off that debt.Can Matt do it?
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Lincoln Through The Lens: How Photographpy Revealed And Shaped An Extraordinary Life
Martin W Sandler
This is a photo-biography which shows how innovative and important media was, especially photography during the presidency and life of Lincoln.This is one of several books in Sandler's Through the Lens series.
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Lincoln's Grave Robbers
Steve Sheinkin
A group of counterfeiters scheme to steal Abraham Lincoln's body from his tomb and ransom Lincoln's remains for money to free a master counterfeiter from jail. Secret Service agents learn of the plot, recruit an undercover agent to infiltrate the gang, and try to catch the criminals before they can rob Lincoln's grave.
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Little Women
Louisa M. Alcott
The March family endures trials and tribulations while their father is involved in the Civil War.
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Lockwood & Co.: The Screaming Staircase
Jonathan Stroud
Ghosts are now a deadly problem in London, and kids are the only people who can sense ghosts. These young ghost hunters have one job- destroy ghosts before they kill with their deadly touch. The three teenagers who work at Lockwood & Co, an independent psychic detective agency, risk their lives when they agree to spend the night in the most haunted house in all of England.
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A Long Walk To Water: Based On A True Story
Linda Sue Park
Told in alternating points of view, follow the stories of Salva, a Lost Boy in 1985 Sudan who spends six years seeking refuge, and Nya, a girl in 2008 Sudan who spends eight hours a day walking to and from a water source.These two stories merge and offer a message of hope.
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Long Way Down
Jason Reynolds
Life can change in just 60 seconds. Fifteen-year-old Will's life changed the minute his brother was shot and killed. It changed the minute he decided to get revenge and shoved a gun in the back waistband of his jeans. And it changed in the minute he spent riding the long way down from his seventh floor apartment, with mysterious and unlikely passengers joining him at each stop to reveal a piece to a bigger puzzle he didn't know even
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Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks
Jason Reynolds
This is a collection of ten short stories each with a different protagonist. Each story follows the experiences of a middle grade student after the dismissal bell rings. Some of their paths intersect but each will overcome obstacles (sometimes humorous and sometimes serious) they face on different...
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Lost in the Sun
Lisa Graff
During a hockey game, a player is killed in a freak accident after being hit with a puck by Trent. A few years later, Trent is still full of grief, and this grief has turned into an inner rage that he cannot shake. When he meets Fallon Little, a girl with a mysterious scar on her face, he begins to work through his guilt and anger and discovers a way to start over in middle school.
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Love and Gelato
Jenna Evans Welch
After her mother dies, Lina travels to Italy to live with her mother's old friend, whom she has never met. There she discovers her mother's journal and sets off on an adventure to unearth her mother's...
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The Love and Lies of Rukhsana Ali
Sabina Khan
Seventeen-year-old Rukhsana Ali is looking forward to going to Caltech and getting away from her conservative Muslim parents' expectation that she will marry, especially since she is in love with her girlfriend Ariana--but when her parents catch her kissing Ariana, they whisk Rukhsana off to Bangladesh and a world of tradition and arranged marriages, and she must find the courage to fight for the right to choose her own...
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Love, Hate and Other Filters
Samira Ahmed
Maya Aziz was born in America but is torn between worlds. Her parents expect her to be the perfect Indian daughter who attends college at home and then marries the proper Muslim boy, but Maya dreams of attending film school in New York. Also, she's in love with the not-so-perfect boy she has known her whole life. If that isn't enough drama, there is a terrorist attack close to home, and the prime suspect shares her last name. In an instant,
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Loving vs. Virginia: A Documentary Novel of the Landmark Civil Rights Case
Patricia Hruby Powell and Shadra Strickland
The story is based on the landmark civil rights case and told in verse. In 1955, in Caroline County, Virginia, amid segregation and prejudice, two teenagers fell in love. Their life together broke the law, but their determination would change it. Richard and Mildred Loving were at the heart of a Supreme Court case that legalized marriage between races, and a story of the devoted couple who faced discrimination, fought it, and...
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Lowriders in Space
Cathy Camper
Three friends want nothing more than to open up their own garage. Lupe Impala, El Chavo Flapjack, and Elirio Malaria decide to build a car to enter the Universal Car Competition and win the prize money they need to buy their own garage. When they use some interesting parts from a junkyard, their low rider really becomes out of this world in this graphic...
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Lu
Jason Reynolds
In the fourth and final book in the Track series, Lu faces hurdles both on and off the track. Being fourteen and albino, he tackles his issues headfirst. And as co-captain of the team, he must lead his team to victory despite what stands in the way.
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Lucky Broken Girl
Ruth Behar
It's 1960, and Ruthie has just emigrated from Castro's Cuba to New York. Just as she begins to gain confidence with her English and school, she is in a horrible car accident which lands her in a full-body cast. Ruthie is suddenly an observer of life and reliant on those around her for...
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The Magician's Elephant
Kate DiCamillo
Ten-year-old Peter goes to the market for fish and bread but spends it at the fortuneteller's tent instead. Seeking his long-lost sister, Peter is told, "You must follow the elephant. She will lead you there." Peter learns that his fate is tied to an elephant that inexplicably crashes through the roof of the opera house as a result of a magic trick gone wrong.
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Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish
Pablo Cartaya
Marcus, an enterprising 8th grader who earns extra cash protecting other students from bullies, gets suspended from school after he punches a bully who calls his younger brother a derogatory slur. Marcus's mom decides to use this time to regroup as a family by taking a trip to Puerto Rico to introduce her sons to her ex-husband's relatives. Marcus decides that he is going to use this trip as an opportunity to find his father who walked out on...
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Mascot
Antony John
Noah finds himself stuck in a wheelchair for months after being involved in a car accident that paralyzed him and killed his dad. He is tired of this new way of life and tired of people looking at him differently. With the help of his family, friends and community, Noah learns to face his fears that has kept him from moving forward in his...
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Matched
Ally Condie
Torn between loving her best friend Xander who was chosen by Society as her 窶徇atch,窶 or defying the government and opening her heart to Ky Markem, Cassia Reyes is forced to make the hardest decisions of her life 窶" believe in the government's system or follow her heart.The first book in the Matched Trilogy.
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Maybe He Just Likes You
Barbara Dee
It all starts when Callum asks Mila for a hug on the blacktop. While Mila didn稚 think much of it at first, the next day he asks for a hug for his birthday. Feeling uncomfortable, Mila doesn稚 get much sympathy from her friends who tell her this is what flirting looks like. The most awkward moments happen in her favorite class, band. Mila decides she must find a way to stand up for herself and end the...
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The Maze Runner
James Dasher
Fighting against a mysterious group named WICKED, Thomas and the other boys in the Glade must crack the secret code and find a way out of the moving maze before it's too late.The first book in the Maze Runner trilogy.
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Me and Miranda Mullaly
Jake Gerhardt
Middle school relationships are tough. Especially so when three boys with very different personalities fall for the same girl, who barely knows they exist. When Sam, the class clown; Chollie, the star athlete; and Duke, the intellectual all fall hard for Miranda Mullaly the chase for the girl unfolds with mix of laugh out loud and cringe worthy situations.
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Merci Su疵ez Changes Gears
Meg Medina
Merci and her brother are on scholarship to a prestigious private school and must do community service to cover their tuition. So, they don't really fit in with their new classmates. And, when she's paired with a Sunshine Buddy at her new school who is also the love interest of mean girl Edna Santos, Merci must look out. At home, Merci struggles with her live-in grandfather and his increasingly forgetful ways.
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The Mighty MarsRovers: The Incredible Adventures Of Spirit And Opportunity
Elizabeth Rusch
What's it like to explore Mars? Did life ever exist on Earth's red neighbor? This book follows the story of two robot vehicles, Spirit and Opportunity, sent to seek evidence on Mars of water that could have once supported life.
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Miles Morales: Spider-Man
Jason Reynolds
Miles Morales attends a private boarding high school in NYC on scholarship. Things are going well until he get suspended, and he uncovers a secret about Brooklyn Visions Academy. His nightmares haunt him because he has a sense he needs to do something about it. Why? Because he's SPIDER
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Mind Games
Shana Silver
Arden is your typical teen ager. She goes to school, she sees her friends, and she has a part-time job, but what's different about Arden, is she sells memories. Offering her peers the chance to relive, create, or delete a memory goes great until a bug in the system threatens to erase somethign far more precious than just Arden's...
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Miss E.
Brian Herberger
Being the new kid in town is a way of life for Bets, but moving to California in 1967 is different. Her father leaves for the war in Vietnam, her history teacher gives an assignment that has the whole school searching for clues, and the town's most mysterious resident shares a secret with Bets that has been hidden away for decades. When a peaceful protest spins out of control, Bets is forced to reconsider how she feels about the war her father...
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Mockingbird
Kathryn Erskine
Imagine having to go to the dictionary to understand emotions and always struggling to make friends.Caitlin's confusion and discomfort come from having Asperger's Syndrome and are made even worse when her brother is killed and her father is overwhelmed with grief.
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A Monster Calls: A Novel
Patrick Ness
Thirteen-year-old Conor awakens one night to find a monster outside his bedroom window, but not the one from the recurring nightmare that began when his mother became ill.An ancient, wild creature wants him to face truth and loss.
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More Deadly Than War: The Hidden History of the Spanish Flu and the First World War
Kenneth C. Davis
The Spanish flu was the worst disease outbreak in modern history. This dramatic narrative, told through the stories and voices of people caught in the outbreak, explore how the epidemic was intertwined with the horrors of World War I and how it could happen...
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More Than We Can Tell
Brigid Kemmerer
Rev was adopted but receives a letter from his abusive father. Emma's parents are always fighting and she created a computer game that has resulted in her being constantly harrassed my trolls. Rev and Emma meet and instantly find safety and connection in their friendship as they the fears they face threaten their...
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Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War
Steve Sheinkin
One idealistic man revealed government secrets about America's involvement in Vietnam. He leaked 7,000 pages of evidence to the press, fueling public dissatisfaction with American foreign policy.
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Ms. Bixby's Last Day
John David Anderson
This is the story of three boys, one teacher, and a day none of them will ever forget. Ms. Bixby is one of those teachers that who sees something in her students that they don't even see in themselves. When Ms. Bixby tells the class that she won't be able to finish the school year, Topher, Brand, and Steve come up with a crazy plan to give her the last day she deserves.
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My Family Divided: One Girl's Journey of Home, Loss, and Hope
Diane Guerrero
At age 14, Diane Guerrero came home from her high school in Boston to find her parents missing. She soon discovers that her undocumented immigrant parents have been detained and will be sent back to their home country of Colombia. This coming-of-age memoir is the true story of how a teenager grows up in America and copes with deported parents.
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My Jasper June
Snyder, Laurel
At the end of the school year, Leah feels lostuntil she meets Jasper, who is not like anyone she has ever met. The two girls create a hideaway for themselves to escape to during the summer but as the end of the summer draws near, so do the realities they are forced to...
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My Life In Dog Years
Gary Paulsen
The author describes some of the dogs that were special to him during his life.
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The Nameless City
Faith Erin Hicks
Every time it is invaded, the City gets a new name, but to the natives it is the Nameless City. They survive by not getting involved--but now the fate of the City rests in the hands of Rat, a native, and Kaidu, one of the Dao, the latest occupiers. The two must somehow work together if the City is to survive in this action-packed graphic novel about unlikely friendships and revolution.
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The Nazi Hunters: How A Team Of Spies And Survivors Captured The World's Most Notorious Nazi
Neal Bascomb
In 1945, at the end of World War II, Adolf Eichmann, the head of operations for the Nazis' Final Solution, walked into the mountains of Germany and vanished from view. Sixteen years later, an elite team of spies captured him at a bus stop in Argentina and smuggled him to Israel, resulting in one of the century's most important trials.
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Nevermore: The Trials of Morrigan Crow
Jessica Townsend
For lovers of Harry Potter! Morrigan Crow is cursed; fated to die at midnight on her 11th birthday. When a mysterious yet quirky man named Jupiter North whisks her away right before her death, she is introduced to a whole new world where her life may not be as cursed as she once thought, especially if she gets accepted into the city's most prestigious organization: The Wundrous
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The Night Diary
Veera Hiranandani
Nisha, a half-Muslim, half-Hindu girl is torn when her family is forced to leave the new country of Pakistan after India splits from British rule in 1947. In this historical fiction account, Nisha and her family travel miles and miles on foot in search for a place to...
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Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story
Nora Raleigh Baskin
This story follows four diverse students in the days prior to the tragic events that occurred on September 11, 2001. The lives of these four kids from different ethnicities will intersect a few short days after the 9/11 tragedy.
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No Fixed Address
Susin Nielsen
Felix痴 mom Astrid cannot seem to hold down a job and after they are evicted from their apartment, they move into a van. Felix must adjust to living in a van with no fixed address. He has a gift a knowledge of trivia- and plans to win a cash prize on his favorite show WhoWhatWhereWhen. Can his gift land him the money to help his mom get back on her...
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Norse Mythology
Neil Gaiman
Neil Gaiman presents some of the most classic Norse myths in his unique and witty style. If you've ever wondered how Thor got his hammer or want to learn more about Loki and Ragnarok, this is the perfect book for...
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Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
Erika L. Sanchez
When Julia's older sister, Olga, the perfect Mexican daughter, is tragically killed in a traffic accident, Julia is left to pick up the pieces of her broken family. Julia's mom begins to focus on all the ways that Julia is not perfect, and Julia begins to uncover the secrets Olga was keeping from her...
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Now Entering Addamsville
Francesca Zappia
When Zora Novak is framed for a crime she didn稚 commit, she must track down the true culprit and clear her name before it痴 too late. But in a small town obsessed with ghosts, getting people to believe the truth might prove to be...
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Nowhere Boy
Katherine Marsh
Two boys arrive in Belgium from very different backgrounds. Ahmed, a refugee from Syria whose father disappears on the journey to Europe, avoids the refugee camp by sneaking into an unused basement of a house to hide out. Max moves to a rental home in Belgium with his Washington DC family because his father accepts a job there. Together they find ways to overcome hardship in two challenging situations.
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Nyxia
Scott Reintgen
Emmett is recruited by the new corporate giant, Babel Company, to earn more than enough money to take care of his family forever. He joins nine other teens from all over the world to compete for the opportunity to travel to the planet Eden to mine the new substance Nyxia. The only problem is, Emmett begins to care about his competitors which makes winning all the more harder. See how Emmett fares in the first book of this...
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The Octopus Scientist: Exploring the Mind of a Mollusk
Sy Montgomery and Keith Ellenbogen
Octopuses are amazing and unworldly creatures. They have three hearts, blue blood, suckers than can taste and feel, and tongues that can drill through shells. They change the color and texture of their skin, fit through impossibly tiny openings, jet quickly away from predators, and are highly intelligent animals with unique personalities
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On the Come Up
Angie Thomas
Sixteen-year-old Bri wants to be one of the greatest rappers of all time. Or at least win her first battle. As the daughter of an underground hip hop legend who died right before he hit big, Bri's got massive shoes to fill. But it's hard to get your come up when you're labeled a hoodlum at school, and your fridge at home is empty after your mom loses her job. So Bri pours her anger and frustration into her first song.
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The One And Only Ivan
Katherine Applegate
Spectators come to see Ivan, a silverback gorilla, and other animals housed behind the glass walls in the Big Top Mall. He is content until Ruby, a baby elephant from Africa, joins the group. Ivan is now determined to find her a way out of this caged existence. This is loosely based on a true story.
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One For The Murphys
Lynda Mullaly Hunt
When she enters the foster care system, Carley Conners never imagines that she'll find a place to call home -that is until she meets the Murphys.Blindsided by their love, Carley finally feels like she has found a place to belong when her mother comes to take her back and she is forced to make the biggest decision of her life.
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One of Us Is Lying
Karen M. McManus
Five high school students are in Monday after school detention. The students: Bronwyn, the smart one, Addy, the pretty one, Nate, the sketchy one, Cooper, the athlete, and Simon, the outcast. One of them doesn't make it out of detention alive and the four survivors are all suspects.
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Operatic
Kyo Maclear
Charlie is tasked with finding the perfect song for her music class, where she learns about a different genre of music each week. However, with the end of the school year closing in, and her mind wandering to her curiosity about her classmates, she is worried she won't be able to complete the assignment. Then, she learns about opera and the singer Maria Callas, who Charlie comes to admire. In this graphic novel, Charlie explores how Maria's...
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Orphan Island
Laurel Snyder
Nine children live with no adults on a mysterious island. Everything on the island is perfect, until one thing changes. Every year, a boat appears carrying one young child to join the island and takes the eldest one away never to be seen again. This year when the boat appears, Jinny's decision changes
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Other Words for Home
Jasmine Warga
Sent with her mother to the safety of a relative's home in Cincinnati when her Syrian hometown is overshadowed by violence, Jude worries about the family members who were left behind as she adjusts to a new life with unexpected...
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Outcasts United: The Story Of A Refugee Soccer Team That Changed A Town
Warren St. John
Just a few miles from Atlanta, the city of Clarkston became a settlement for families of refugees from war-torn countries.Soccer coach Luma Mufleh formed the Fugees, a soccer team consisting of boys from various countries and backgrounds.This inspiring book explores the array of challenges the team faced on and off the field and how determination prevailed.
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Outrun the Moon
Cynthia Leitich Smith
Stacey Lee
In 1906, Mercy Wong has everything going against her when she's admitted to an exclusive boarding school for young women: she's poor, she's the daughter of Chinese immigrants, and she isn't really supposed to be there. Despite this, she perseveres until, suddenly, San Francisco is hit with an historic earthquake and Mercy's entire world...
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Paper Things
Jennifer Richard Jacobson
Ari and Gage were placed in foster care after their mother's death. When Gage decides he wants to move out and live on his own, he insists his sister come with him. Without a job or a plan, these siblings find themselves homeless and bouncing from place to place. Ari is trying hard to gain acceptance into an elite middle school but, without the stability of a home, her chance is dwindling.
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Parkland Speaks
Sarah Lerner
This book is a collection of written and visual works created by the survivors of the Valentine's Day shootings at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018. The works range from poems and eyewitness accounts to drawings and...
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Pashmina
Nidhi Chanani
In this graphic novel, Priyanka Das is a part of two cultures, but she has so many questions about her Indian heritage and the identity of her father, of whom she has no memories. When Priyanka discovers a magical pashmina, she hopes to finally discover the answers to the missing pieces of her...
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Patient Zero
Marilee Peters
More people have died in disease epidemics than in wars or other disasters. This story looks at the scientists who put the pieces of epidemic puzzles together. Patient Zero takes a closer look at seven diseases, from the Great Plague to Ebola, that have shaped our world and how epidemiologists continue to fight the battle against disease.
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Patina
Jason Reynolds
Patina "Patty" Jones is one of the fastest runners on her track team. She is also one of the newest: new on track, new at school, and living in a new home with her sister, Maddy. In this sequel to Ghost, learn about one of the other newbies on the track team and see why Patty runs and why all of these new things might not always be better.
Sequel to
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Pax
Jon Klassen
Peter is forced to abandon his pet fox, Pax, in the woods when his dad enlists in the military. The next day, Peter realizes that he has to find his best friend Pax, and he embarks on a long journey to find his pet. War is coming, Peter is injured, and Pax is struggling to learn how to survive on his own in the wild in this book told from the point of view of both Peter and Pax. This book looks at how war affects all of those it touches. Spoiler: no beloved pets die.
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Payback Time
Carl Deuker
In pursuit of a killer story, Mitch is determined to find out the truth about a new football player, Angel, at his high school. As he starts asking tough questions, everyone's lips seemed to be sealed about the player's true identity. Mitch will do whatever it takes to find out who Angel is and what he has done. The truth will surprise everyone!
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Peak
Roland Smith
Trouble with the law forces Peak Marcello to join his estranged father on a climbing adventure to the top of Mount Everest.As the story unfolds, Peak discovers his father's true intentions and begins to realize how much danger awaits him as he climbs to the top of the mountain.
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Pet
Akwaeke Emezi
In the city of Lucille, all of the monsters are gone. When Jam accidentally trips onto one of her mother's paintings, a drop of her blood spills on the painting and Pet, a creature of horns and claws and colors, comes to life. He tells Jam he痴 there to hunt a monster lurking in Lucille. And that monster is in her best friend痴 home.
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Phineas Gage
John Fleischman
This is the gruesome, true account of an accident that happened to a railroad foreman in Vermont in 1848.A 13-pound iron rod shot through his brain. He survived but became a textbook case in brain science.
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Picture Us in the Light
Kelly Loy Gilbert
High school artist Danny Cheng discovers a box in a closet that confirms his suspicions that his parents are keeping dark secrets from him. He begins a journey to uncover what they are hiding. Along the way, Danny wrestles with his true feelings for his best friend, Harry Wong.
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Piecing Me Together
Renee Watson
Jade believes that getting a good education is the best way to get out of her poor neighborhood, and her mom thinks that she needs to take advantage of every opportunity that comes her way. So, Jade rides the bus across the city to the private school she attends on scholarship. Even though Jade feels like an outsider in her school of mostly white and wealthy students, she doesn't feel like she is singled out as someone who needs help and...
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The Plot to Kill Hitler: Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Spy, Unlikely Hero
Patricia McCormick
During the years of Adolf Hitler's reign, there were many conspiracies to plot his death. In this narrative nonfiction, read about about Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a pastor and pacifist who became an unlikely hero during World War II and took part in a plot to kill Hitler.
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The Poet X
Elizabeth Acevedo
Xiomara Batista feels both unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has had to fight for everything.
But Xiomara has so much to say, and she pours all her frustration and passion onto the pages of a leather notebook, reciting the words to herself like poetic prayers, especially after she starts to care for a boy in her biology class named Aman who her family can never know about.
With...
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The Poison Eaters: Fighting Danger and Fraud in our Food and Drugs
Gail Jarrow
In 1900, chemicals used in embalming fluids (formaldehyde), cleaning supplies (borax), and acne medications (salicylic acid) were routinely added to food that Americans ate from cans and jars. Often products weren't safe because unregulated, unethical companies added these and other chemicals to trick consumers into buying spoiled food or harmful medicines. Chemist Harvey Washington Wiley recognized these dangers and began a relentless...
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Popular: Vintage Wisdom For A Modern Geek
Maya Van Wagenen
Maya is a real, middle school, geek girl living in Texas in 2012.Her goal is to become popular, and she accomplishes that in a most unconventional way 窶" she follows the advice of a 1950s guidebook for teens.This is a charming and funny memoir of how Maya finds her way and gains attention and admirers along the way.
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The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, And The Fight For Civil Rights
Steve Sheinkin
As WWII escalates overseas, African American sailors at Port Chicago were under pressure to load bombs faster and faster onto waiting ships, until a horrific explosion killed hundreds.In the days that followed, 50 men refused to work under such unsafe conditions and were charged with mutiny.Interviews, court records, and other primary sources are woven into this little known story of a segregated military.
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Posted
John David Anderson
Imagine if cell phones are banned at schools. That's what happens at Branton Middle School in Posted. Without their phones, students start writing post it notes to one another and leaving them in all kinds of places- lockers, desks, binders. At first, the notes are fun and cute, but when Rose, a new student at Branton enters the picture, the notes begin to take an ugly turn. Frost and his friends have to find a way to do the right thing in
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The President Has Been Shot! The Assassination Of John F. Kennedy
James L Swanson
This fast-paced book takes readers through the assassination of President Kennedy by switching between Lee Harvey Oswald's preparations and actions and those of the president, the Secret Service, and the first lady. Photographs, video stills, and diagrams help readers get a clear picture of what happened on November 22, 1963.
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Pride
Ibi Zoboi
Zuri Benitez has pride. Brooklyn pride, family pride, and pride in her Afro-Latino roots. But pride might not be enough to save her rapidly gentrifying neighborhood from becoming unrecognizable. When the wealthy Darcy family moves in across the street, Zuri wants nothing to do with their two teenage sons. She especially can't stand the judgmental and arrogant Darius.
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Pride And Prejudice
Jane Austen
In this comedy of manners, Elizabeth Bennet, a spirited heroine, doesn't always agree with her opinionated beau, Mr. Darcy.
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Primates: The Fearless Science Of Jane Goodall, Diane Fossey And Birute Galdika
Jim Ottaviani and Maris Wicks
This graphic novel follows the careers of three women who pioneered field research in primatology. Jane Goodall is famous for her work with chimpanzees, Diane Fossey worked with gorillas, and Birut Galdikas documented the lives of African orangutans.
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The Prince and the Dressmaker
Jen Wang
When Prince Sebastian confides in his dressmaker friend Frances that he loves to masquerade at night as the fashionable Lady Crystallia, Frances must decide if Sebastian's secret is worth a lifetime of living in the...
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Pumpkinheads
Rainbow Rowell
Deja and Josiah are best friends.during the fall when they work at what they call "the best pumpkin patch in the whole world!" When they are seniors and working their last shift, they decide to make it the best shift ever.and an...
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Pure Grit: How American World War IINurses Survived Battle And Prison Camp In The Pacific
Mary Cronk Farrell
In 1941 Army and Navy nurses serving in the Philippines suddenly found themselves in a war zone treating injured and dying soldiers in makeshift hospitals in the jungle. Soon, things got worse as the nurses were captured and kept as prisoners of war in deplorable conditions, battling disease and starvation while still treating and helping anyone
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Qb 1
Mike Lupica
Peyton and Eli Manning meet Wyatt and Jake Cullen.Jake is a freshman quarterback in Texas where high stakes football is not just a game.Jake must live up to his older brother Wyatt's championship legacy and the pressure of his father, a former NFL quarterback.
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The Queen of Blood
Sarah Durst
Set in the magical world of Renthia, everything has a spirit: the willow tree, the streams, the wind.
But the spirits that reside within this land want to rid it of all humans. One woman has the magical power to prevent the spirits from destroying every man, woman, and child. But queens are still just human, and no matter how strong or good, the threat of danger always looms.
With the position so precarious, young women are chosen to train as...
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Quiet Power: The Secret Strengths of Introverted Kids
Susan Cain
A guide for kids and teens about the power of being an introvert in extracurriculars, with friends, in the classroom, and at...
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Raft
Stephanie A Bodeen
Fifteen- year-old Robie is flying home to a small atoll in Hawaii after visiting her aunt in Honolulu.The plane crashes into the Pacific, and now she must survive in a raft with an unconscious co-pilot, circling sharks, and a bag of Skittles.
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Rain, Reign
Ann M Martin
Rose obsesses over homonyms- her name is a homonym- but has trouble following the rules that adults, including her father, set for her.Her dog Rain (Reign) gets lost during a terrible storm, and Rain's fate is now in Rose's hands.
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Rated
Melissa Grey
In the future, society functions around a rating system that assigns a number to each student, one that changes with each grade, each assignment, and each action. When a frightening message shows up on the school doors, six students are left to question all they have ever known about society, each other, and...
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Raymie Nightingale
Kate DiCamillo
Raymie is determined to win the Little Miss Central Tire competition in order to attract the attention of her father who has just left the family for another woman. In the quest to win, Raymie meets two competitors also struggling with home issues and this new friendship changes all of them by providing new perspectives.
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Rayne & Delilah's Midnite Matinee
Jeff Zentner
Every Friday night, best friends Delia and Josie become Rayne Ravenscroft and Delilah Darkwood, hosts of the campy creature feature show Midnite Matinee on the local cable station TV Six. But as their senior comes to a close, they have some decision to make about their futures and their friendship is tested as both also have some things in their personal lives they are...
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Real Friends
Shannon Hale and LeUyen Pham
Shannon and Adrienne have been best friends since kindergarten. But one day, Adrienne starts hanging out with the Group- full of popular girls. Can their friendship survive the trials of middle school?
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Red Kayak
Priscilla Cummings
Brady knows that his friends are responsible for a mean prank that results in an accidental tragedy.Plagued by this guilty secret, Brady struggles with the truth and its consequences.
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The Red Pencil
Andrea Davis Pinkney
In this novel told in verse, Amira's Sudanese village is attacked by the Janjaweed militia. Her family loses everything and is forced to walk to a refugee camp. Amira's dreams of attending school are crushed unless she can find a way out of the camp in a country full of conflict.
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Refugee
Alan Gratz
Three children find themselves on harrowing journeys in search of safety. All will face unimaginable dangers -- from drownings to bombings to betrayals. But there is always the hope of tomorrow. And although Josef, Isabel, and Mahmoud are separated by countries and time, their stories are...
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Remaking the John: The Invention and Reinvention of the Toilet
Francesca Davis DiPiazza
Through this nonfiction book, learn about the ancient history of sanitation and the consequences that came from discarding toilet water right in the streets! Take a look at what it's like for the two million people around the world who still do not have access to toilets.
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The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise
Dan Gemeinhart
For five years Coyote and her dad, Rodeo, have lived on the road in an old school bus, criss-crossing the nation.
It's also how long ago Coyote lost her mom and two sisters in a car crash. Coyote hasn't been home in all that time, but when she learns that the park in her old neighborhood is being demolished - the very same park where she, her mom, and her sisters buried a treasured memory box - she devises an elaborate plan to get her dad to drive
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The Rest of the Story
Sarah Dessen
Emma Saylor痴 mother died when she was twelve and she was never close with her mom痴 side of the family. At sixteen, she finds herself spending the summer with her mother痴 family who all live and work around a popular lake that attracts tourists. While awkward at first, Emma discovers she has a great deal in common with these relatives she hasn稚 seen since she was very young. She also reconnects with Roo, a childhood friend who helps her see...
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The Rithmatist
Brandon Sanderson and Ben McSweeny
Joel, an underachieving scholarship student, desperately wishes he was chosen to be one of the elite Rithmatists that keeps their country safe from the dangerous chalklings. When Rithmatic students begin disappearing from his school, Joel is recruited to help the investigation.
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Roller Girl
Victoria Jamieson
In this modern graphic novel, Astrid's best friend Nicole is putting ballet and boys ahead of their friendship. When Astrid witnesses the thrill of roller derby, she enrolls in roller derby camp causing her to drift even further apart from Nicole. At first the challenges of the sport outweigh the fun, but that soon changes when Astrid finds she actually has some skills in this tough game.
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Rooftoppers
Katherine Rundell
When a ship sinks, one-year-old Sophie is found floating in a cello case in the English Channel. She is saved by a passenger, Charles Maxwell. Sophie spends her first twelve years with Charles as he reads Shakespeare aloud to her, feeds her meals on an open atlas, and lets her wear pants.
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The Running Dream
Wendelin Van Draanen
Track star Jessica loses a leg in a terrible car accident.Her road to recovery is a long one, but she can't give up her dream of running again.
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Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor's Story
Caren Stelson
Sachiko Yasui was just six years old when the atomic bomb was dropped on her hometown of Nagasaki. This true story begins with the day of the bombing and follows as Sachiko loses family and friends to the bombing and subsequent radiation sickness. Labeled as hibakusha, bomb survivor, Sachiko spends much of her life feeling like she doesn't fit in anywhere
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Saints and Misfits
S.K. Ali
Fifteen-year-old Janna Yusuf, a Flannery O'Connor-obsessed book nerd and the daughter of the only divorced mother at their mosque, tries to make sense of the events that follow when her best friend's cousin--a holy star in the Muslim community--attempts to assault her at the end of sophomore year and find a way to be less of a misfit in her own...
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Salt to the Sea
Ruta Sepetys
In 1945, a young Lithuanian nurse, a Polish teenager, and Florian, a young Prussian, are desperately trying to reach the Wilhelm Gustloff, a ship that offers a hope at freedom. Told in alternating points of view, these characters come to rely on one another for survival as the Soviets advance. What these characters do not know is that the fate of the Wilhelm Gustloff is one of the greatest tragedies in maritime history.
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Save Me a Seat
Sarah Weeks and Gita Varadarajan
Over the course of one week, John, a special needs student, and Ravi, the new boy who just moved to the United States from India, take on the class bully Dillon. Ravi assumes that because Dillon is also Indian that they will become fast friends. Ravi and John forge through cultural differences and stand up for themselves in tough circumstances.
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Savvy
Ingrid Law
When Beaumont family members turn thirteen, they receive their savvy or magical gift unique to each one of them. Mibs' thirteenth birthday arrives when her father is out of town and becomes ill. Mibs, her savvy, and a cast of characters hit the road to save him. Also, the companion novel Scumble.
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Scorpio Races
Maggie Stiefvator
The Scorpio Races take place every November on the small island of Thisby.This is no usual race.In the Scorpio Races, the riders are mounted on Capaille Uisce, beautiful, bloodthirsty water horses.Sean Kendrick, the returning champion, is a man of few words but has a unique understanding of these creatures.Puck Connolly is the first girl to enter the competition. She has to win or her family loses everything
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Scythe
Neal Shusterman
In a world where humanity has conquered death and a group called Scythes are the only ones allowed to kill people in order to curb overpopulation, Citra Terranova and Rowan Damisch must cope with their newfound and terrible responsibilities as apprentices in...
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Sea Otter Heroes: The Predators That Saved an Ecosystem
Patricia Newman
Sea otters are more than just cuddly marine mammals; they are necessary parts of keeping the ecosystem of Elkhorn Slough healthy. Read about how scientists made an astonishing discovery of how the sea otters, as top predators in their ecosystem, helped keep the seagrass healthy in an unusual environment in this real-life example of a food...
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The Season of Styx Malone
Kekla Magoon
The lives of Caleb and his older brother Bobby change when cool kid Styx Malone moves into the neighborhood. Styx has a plan- the Great Escalator Trade- exchanging small things for something bigger and better. Caleb and Bobby discover that Styx has a lot of secrets and these secrets could completely upend their...
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The Secret of the Yellow Death: A True Story of Medical Sleuthing
Suzanne Jurmain
Fever, chills, headaches, vomiting blood, and liver failure are all symptoms of the deadly disease yellow fever. In this story, follow Walter Reed and his team of doctors as they travel to Cuba in 1900 to run lab reports, use soldiers as test subjects, and experience inevitable challenges and triumphs in an effort to unlock the secret of what once was an unsolved medical mystery.
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Secret Subway: The Fascinating Tale Of An Amazing Feat Of Engineering
Martin W Sandler
It's the 1860s and New York City's streets are swarming with immigrants and made deadly by hundreds of horse-drawn carriages leaving the streets with tons of manure.A brilliant engineer, Alfred Beach, tackles the problem by working secretly at night more than twenty feet underground, with dim lighting and inclaustrophobic conditions, storing the dirt in a basement
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See You At Harry's
Johanna Knowles
Fern feels invisible in her family.She has a grumpy older sister stuck working at the family restaurant; older brother, Holden, is struggling with school bullies and his own identity; and adorable, three-year-old Charlie is always the center of attention.Unexpected tragedy strikes and the fragile bond holding the family together is stretched almost to the breaking point.
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See You in the Cosmos
Jack Cheng
Alex's biggest goal in life is to launch his golden iPod into space on a rocket he built. With just his dog as his companion, he travels from Colorado to New Mexico to Las Vegas to Los Angeles. Along the way, his goals change and he meets interesting people who shape his perspectives of himself, his family, and the world. Told in transcripted recordings, this is a perfect book for fans of
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Seraphina
Rachel Hartman
Fantasy lovers take note! Four decades of peace have done little to ease the mistrust between humans and dragons in the kingdom of Goredd.A treaty is about to be renewed, but rebels are unhappy with the treaty and would love to have it abolished.Seraphina is a half-dragon, half-human music teacher and has good reason to fear both sides.She keeps her identity a secret and struggles to fit in both worlds
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Shadowshaper
Daniel Jos Older
In book one of The Shadowshaper Cypher series, Sierra Santiago's dreams of a relaxing summer vanish when she starts to see her artwork come to life amidst another haunting power. Through the guidance of attractive and mysterious Robbie, Sierra learns that she comes from a line of Shadowshapers who are currently...
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Sheets
Brenna Thummler
Thirteen-year-old Marjorie Glatt lost her mom to cancer and her father is battling depression. She alone must save the family's laundry business from the ruthless Mr. Saubertuck who wants to turn it into a day spa. With the help of Wendall, a ghost who died young, Marjorie may be able to save her family and the business and make things right for Wendall.
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Shooting Kabul
N.H Senzai
Fadi is starting school in California, thousands of miles away from his home in Kabul.Fadi can't even think about adjusting to life in America, since his six-year-old sister is still in Kabul after being lost as the family fled Afghanistan.Fadi learns how to maneuver through middle school in America in the midst of September 11th and still hold out hope that his family can be reunited.
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Short
Holly Goldberg Sloan
Julia is very short for her age. She reluctantly lands a part as a munchkin in a production of The Wizard of Oz. Unsure at first about her performing abilities, she's helped along by the rest of the cast who see what she has not yet realized about herself: Julia makes a big impression for such a small...
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Shug
Jenny Han
A twelve-year-old girl learns about friendship, first loves, and self-worth in a small town in the South.
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The Sixty-eight Rooms
Marianne Malone
When Ruthie and her best friend Jack visit the Chicago's Art Institute on a class field trip, they discover the Thorne Room which houses 68 miniature rooms representing different time periods.A found key allows them to shrink and visit these rooms and time periods, and the adventures begin.
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Skinful of Shadows
Frances Hardinge
Makepeace knows that she is supposed to hide her gift. She shares the unique hereditary gift with those of her father's family- the capacity to be possessed by ghosts. As she realized that her family wants her to become merely a vessel for these ghostly ancestors, Makepeace flees across war-torn England where she accumulates her own crew of outcasts and one extremely angry dead
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Skink No Surrender
Carl Hiaasen
When Richard's cousin Malley disappears, he sets out to save her from an online predator with the help of Skink, Florida's one-eyed rogue ex-governor.
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Small As An Elephant
Jennifer Richard Jacobson
Jack's mom has always been unpredictable. Now she has left him all alone in the backwoods of Maine. With only a small souvenir elephant to keep him company, Jack is on his own to find his way home before the authorities realize that he has been abandoned.
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Small Persons With Wings
Ellen Booraem
For generations, the Turpin family has been providing sanctuary for Parvi, known in some circles as fairies.In return for this protection, these Small Persons with Wings gave the family a magical moonstone.Trouble begins when the Parvi want their moonstone back, but the Turpins can't find it.As the Parvi become more and more angry, this clever fantasy becomes more hilarious.
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Smile
Raina Telgemeier
This graphic novel is based on the author's real experience of losing her two front teeth when she was twelve years old.Her painful recovery involves extensive dental work while she survives middle school and finds out what real friends are.
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Sneaker Century: A History of Athletic Shoes
Amber Keyser
The history of sneakers is anything but boring. Learn about the feud between brothers that lead to the creation of rival sneaker companies, how endorsement deals put sneakers on the map, what it really costs to manufacture a sneaker, and how companies use teenagers to make shoes cool (and then make them too expensive for teenagers to keep up with the trend they started).
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Snow in Love
Melissa de la Cruz, Aimee Friedman, Nic Stone, and Kasie West
A collection of four short stories about romance and love in...
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Snow Like Ashes
Sara Raasch
Ever since she was a baby, Meira has been a refugee. One of the six free Winterians, Meira has lived a life training to be a warrior, running from Spring's armies, and searching for the locket that will restore magic to Winter. When the group receives news about the location of the locket, Meira goes after it, knowing that if she is caught, it would mean torture, enslavement, and death.
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Snow White: A Graphic Novel
Matt Phelan
This graphic novel retelling of Snow White places the story in New York City right at the time of the stock market crash. With a new take on familiar characters, the unique storytelling and beautiful illustrations will hook you from the very first page.
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Soccerland
Beth Choat
The cover says it all!Flora is such a good soccer player that she has been invited to the International Sports Academy to compete for a chance to play for the U.S. Girls' Soccer Team.It's her first time away from home, but she works hard to make new friends as well as trying to become the best soccer player that she can be.
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Song for a Whale
Lynne Kelly
Iris is a 12 year old girl who is smart, deaf, and tired of her parents and classmates not listening to her. When she learns about a whale that can't be heardor understood by other whales, she finds a connection and understanding with the animal that takes her on the adventure of a life time....
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Space Case
Stuart Gibbs
It is early in the morning and Dash has clogged one of the few space toilets on Moon Base Alpha after a very disagreeable freeze-dried dinner. While he is trying to fix the broken toilet, Dash overhears the moon base's doctor telling someone that he is going to share a big, world-changing secret in the morning. Dash never learns what the secret is; the next morning the doctor is found dead on the surface of the moon. The adults say it was an...
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Speak: The Graphic Novel
Laurie Halse Anderson
This graphic novel was published 20 years after Laurie Halse Anderson published her ground-breaking novel, Speak. This graphic version retells this story in text and pictures. High school student Melinda is at a party over the summer and calls the cops because of something that happens. Once school begins, no one will speak to her and she stops speaking all together.
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Speed of Life
Carol Weston
When Sofia loses her mother, she discovers she has no one to talk to about the stuff going on in her life. After her friend convinces her to go see Miss Kate, the famous advice columnist for Fifteen Magazine, Sofia starts to write to her and is grateful for Miss Kate's responses. When Sofia realizes her father is dating Miss Kate in real life and that Miss Kate has a teenage daughter her age, Sofia finds herself in a truly awkward
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Spin
Lamar Giles
Two enemies are forced to work together to solve the mystery of their friend, famous DJ ParSec, after she is found dead on her turntables and her fanbase demands...
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Squirm
Carl Hiaasen
Fans of Carl Hiaasen will feel right at home when they read this book. In this humorous story, Billy travels across the country to see his father, who he hasn't seen since he was four-years-old. On his travels, he encounters nature in some unexpected...
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Stargazing
Jen Wang
Moon and Christine, two Chinese American children, become best friends despite their differences after Moon moves next door. The confident, artistic Moon and the more reserved Christine begin doing everything together, from listening to K-Pop to painting their toenails, and even share their biggest secrets, including that Moon sometimes has visions of celestial beings...or does she?...
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Stargirl
Jerry Spinelli
Sixteen-year-old Leo tells the story of Stargirl Caraway, the free spirit who enrolls at Mica High School, not exactly the hotbed of non-conformity. Also, Love, Stargirl.
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The Stars Beneath Our Feet
David Barclay Moore
Lolly Rachpaul is still reeling from his older brother's death in a gang-related shooting. The only thing that calms his mind is building a fantastical Lego city at the community center. There is pressure to join a "crew" as his brother did, and when Lolly and his friend are beaten up and robbed, this seems like the safe choice. What will Lolly decide to
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Stepsister
Jennifer Donnelly
Isabelle is one of Cinderella's stepsisters who cuts off her toes to fit her foot into the glass slipperthat isn't hers. When the prince recognizes her deceit, she turns away in shame only to learn what all ugly stepsisters do--that it takes more than heartache to break a...
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Still a Work in Progress
Jo Knowles
At school, Noah is just a normal 7th grader trying his best to figure out middle school girls, keep up with his homework, and hang out with his two best friends. But at home, his family has a big secret. The Thing They Don't Talk About is always there, and now it looks like it could happen again.
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The Storm Runner
J.C. Cercantes
From the Rick Riordan Presents series, The Storm Runner is an adventure based on Maya mythology. Zane, who walks with a cane, lives in New Mexico and loves exploring the dormant volcano near his home. A new girl at school tells Zane the volcano is a gateway to a new world in which he will have to use his skills to survive the evil Maya god imprisoned in the volcano. A trip through the underworld, meeting various gods and goddesses, and...
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The Strange Case Of Origami Yoda
Tom Angleberger
Dwight dons a puppet on his finger- an origami Yoda. His classmates soon realize that the strange advice Origami Yoda provides will help them solve their middle school problems. The first in the Origami Yoda series.
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Strange the Dreamer
Laini Taylor
Since he was five years old, Lazlo Strange has been obsessed with the mythic lost city of Weep. As an orphan and a junior librarian, he knows it would take someone much bolder than he to go searching for the city. Lazlo could never expect that soon he would not only be in the lost city but his dreams would be taken over by a blue-skinned goddess, moths, and a citadel of murdered...
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Summer And Bird
Katherine Catmull
Sisters Summer and Bird wake up one morning to find their parents missing. A message leads the girls to the forest, where they are sucked into the magical and dangerous world of Down. While searching for their parents, the sisters go on separate quests to find the bird queen, vanquish the bird-swallowing Puppeteer, and guide the birds to their true home.
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Summer Before Boys
Nora Raleigh Baskin
Julia and Eliza are lifelong friends who have shared everything until one develops her first real crush. The girls find themselves drifting apart until Eliza does something drastic to win back her best friend.
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The Summer I Turned Pretty
Jenny Han
Belly spends every summer at her mom's best friend's beach house.Susannah's sons, Conrad and Jeremiah, are always there and have been like brothers to her.But that all changes the summer Belly turns pretty.
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Summer Of The Mariposa
Guadalupe Garcia McCall
When Odilia and her four sisters find a dead body in their swimming hole, they begin a journey across the Mexican border.They have two goals- to return the drowned man to his family and to visit their Abuelita's house and find the father who abandoned the family years ago.In mythical style, the girls must, with the help of the ancient Llorona, defeat winged witches, chupacabras, and vicious half-human owls.
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Summerlost
Allie Condie
It's Cedar's first summer since her dad and younger brother died in a car accident. Although she's apprehensive about moving to a new home in her parents' hometown, Cedar quickly makes a caring friend, gets a summer job, and uncovers a mystery about a local Hollywood star. This is a sweet and tender coming of age story that explores the impacts of grief and guilt.
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Sunny
Jason Reynolds
Sunny is the third book in Jason Reynold's Track series. All the runners on this elite track team have a shot at the Junior Olympics yet Sunny doesn't want to run. It's his dad who wants him to run and win the mile just like his mom did. But Sunny's real passion is dance. Coach finds a way for Sunny to combine his real passion and success on the track team.
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Sunny Side Up
Jennifer L. Holm
This graphic novel is set in 1976, and Sunny Lewin will be spending the summer with her grandfather in Florida. At first Sunny is excited. After all this is Florida, the home of Disney World, but reality sets in as she realizes she'll be sleeping on a squeaky sofa bed in a community with a lot of old people!
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The Surrender Tree: Poems Of Cuba's Struggle For Freedom
Margarita Engle
Follow Rosa, a healer, who nurses runaway slaves and Cuban deserters in caves and other secret hideaways. As her fame grows, Rosa's enemies relentlessly hunt her down, attempting to break the Cuban spirit of resistance.
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Surviving the City
Tasha Spillett
Two indigenous teens, Miikwan and Dez, find strength in their friendship with one another. But when her grandmother becomes sick, Dez runs away to avoid being sent to a group home. Miikwan is devastated by the loss of her friend and is determined to find...
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The Swap
Megan Shull
After a magical moment in the school's clinic, Jack and Ellie switch bodies and begin living each other's lives.Both experience what it's like to live life as the opposite sex, and soon they both just want to swap back.
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Swing
Kwame Alexander
Told in poetry, Swing is the story of two friends, Walt and Noah, and their journey to figure out how to survive high school, make the baseball team, and woo the girls of their dreams. Walt works on a podcast on love and Noah tries to find a way to tell his best friend, Sam, that he's in love with her.
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Taking Flight From War Orphan To Star Ballerina
Michaela DePrince
The memoir of Michaela DePrince, who lived the first few years of her live in war-torn Sierra Leone until being adopted by an American Family. Now seventeen, she is one of the premiere ballerinas in the United States.
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The Tapir Scientist: Saving South America's Largest Mammal
Sy Montgomery and Nic Bishop
The lowland tapir is an animal that looks like a hippopotamus with a short elephant trunk.It is an important but not-well-understood part of the ecosystem of Brazil's Pantanal, the world's largest tropical wetlands.
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TBH, This is so Awkward
Lisa Greenwald
Told entirely in text messages, emails, and notes, best friends Prianka, Gabby, and Cecily find their friendship tested by busily planning a spring fair, bullying, and...
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Temple Grandin: How The Girl Who Loved Cows Embraced Autism And Changed The World
Sy Montgomery and Temple Grandin
This biography explores the life and mind of Temple Grandin, a brilliant autistic woman who revolutionized the livestock industry.
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Ten Days a Madwoman: The Daring Life and Turbulent Times of the Original "Girl" Reporter, Nellie Bly
Deborah Noyes
Nellie Bly lived in a time where few women worked, let alone worked as journalists. Nellie skyrocketed to fame when she spent ten days undercover in an asylum for mentally ill women to expose the horrifying treatment of these patients.
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Terezin: Voices From The Holocaust
Ruth Thomson
Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany turned the small town of Terezin, Czechoslovakia, into a ghetto, and then into a transit camp for thousands of Jewish people. It was a show camp, where inmates were forced to use their artistic talents to fool the world about the truth of gas chambers and horrific living conditions for imprisoned Jews. Secretly, these artists also created images of
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Terrible Typhoid Mary: A True Story of the Deadliest Cook in America
Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Once investigators identified Mary Mallon as unknowingly spreading typhoid, she was quarantined and tested against her will. What happens when a person's reputation has been forever damaged? Can the health department go too far when protecting the public? How was an immigrant woman treated differently than other carriers who infected far more people?
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Tesla's Attic
Neal Shusterman and Eric Elfan
Nick's father relocates him and his younger brother across the country after a mysterious house fire burns down their home and kills Nick's mother. Nick chooses the attic for his bedroom, and hosts a yard sale to sell all of the junk that had been left up there by the previous owner. Nick and his new school friends soon discover that the antique items each have extraordinary properties
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There's Something About Sweetie
Sandhya Menon
Told in two voices, disappointed-in-love Ashish Patel and self-proclaimed fat athlete Sweetie Nair begin to find their true selves while dating under...
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They Call me Guero
David Bowles
Guero is a 12 year old Mexican American who writes poetry about his life, his family, and his rambunctious group of friends. Through his poems we discover a funny, fun-loving 7th grader who is figuring out the world around...
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They Called Us Enemy
Takei, George
In 1942, during World War II, President Roosevelt ordered that any person of Japanese decent be taken to relocation centers where the people lived under armed guards for years. They Called Us Enemy is Takei's firsthand account of those years behind barbed wire, the joys and terrors of growing up under legalized racism, his mother's hard choices, his father's faith in democracy, and the way those experiences planted the seeds for his...
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They Lost Their Heads!: What Happened to Washington's Teeth, Einstein's Brain, and Other Famous Body Parts
Carlyn Beccia
This is a nonfiction account of some of history's most famously deceased people and the fates of their wonderfully creepy body...
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The Thickety: A Path Begins
J.A. White
When Kara was five years old, she witnessed her mother being executed as a witch. It has beenseven years, and Kara, her little brother, and her father have struggled to survive in their small isolated community that hates nothing more than witches and magic.
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The Thing About Jellyfish
Ali Benjamin
After her best friend dies in a drowning accident, Suzy is convinced that the true cause of the tragedy must have been a rare jellyfish sting. Retreating into a silent world of imagination, she crafts a plan to prove her theory. Suzy's heartfelt journey helps her reach out to new friends and begin to find her voice.
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Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words
Randall. Munroe
Have you ever tried to learn about some incredible thing, only to be frustrated by incomprehensible jargon? This author uses line drawings and only the ten hundred most common words to provide simple explanations for some of the most interesting stuff there is.
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Things Not Seen
Andrew Clements
Moving to a new town, Daniel knows he'll find super friends but he never imagines he'll have friends with super powers! Being around kids who can fly and become invisible, Daniel feels powerless, until one day when he learns that his friends mysteriously lose their powers when they turn thirteen.Racing against the calendar, Daniel realizes
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This Kid Can Fly: It's About Ability (Not Disability)
Aaron Philip and Tonya Bolden
Aaron Philip, creator of the Tumblr blog Aaronverse, has done many impressive things in the first fourteen years of his life. In this memoir, Aaron shares his journey from diagnosis with cerebral palsy- from moving with his mom to New York City, to poverty and homelessness, and to the amazing things he has been able to accomplish as a teenager.
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This Land Is Our Land: A History of American Immigration
Linda Barret Osborne
On one hand, the United States is the great melting pot that welcomes all immigrants to find freedom and achieve the American Dream. On the other hand, the United States has frequently limited immigration by certain groups and the populous has been unwelcoming and even fearful of immigrants. This book traces the legal and popular responses to immigrants from various groups to the United States starting in the...
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Threads
Ami Polonsky
Yuming is a Chinese girl being forced to work at a textile factory in China. One brave day, she sneaks a note pleading for help in a purse she is sewing. This purse makes its way to the United States, and Clara finds the note in the purse at a department store in Illinois. Clara is suffering the loss of her sister but is determined to help this enslaved girl in...
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Three Dark Crowns
Kendare Blake
On the island of Fennbirn, triplet sisters who each wield a coveted magic skill and claim an equal right to the throne must fight to the death when they turn sixteen for the title of Queen...
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Through My Eyes
Ruby Bridges
Ruby Bridges tells the moving story of her year in first grade at the all-white William Frantz Public School in New Orleans in 1960.
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Ties That Bind, Ties That Break
Lensey Namioka
In China in 1911, Ailin resists tradition and pressure from her family by refusing to have her feet bound to make her more attractive for her future husband.Her act of defiance alters her life forever.
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Tight
Torrey Maldonado
Bryan is growing up in New York City and loves comic books and superheroes. When his mother introduces him to Mike, Bryan abandons his favorite pastimes and starts taking risks such as skipping school and hopping subway turnstiles. He knows what he is doing is wrong but he痴 in a tight spot trying to balance his friendship with Mike and the decision to do the right...
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To Kill a Mockingbird: A Graphic Novel
Harper Lee and Fred Fordham
A beloved and acclaimed novel is reborn for a new age as a gorgeous graphic novel. Scout, Jem, Boo Radley, Atticus Finch, and the small town of Maycomb, Alabama, are all captured in vivid and moving illustrations by artist Fred...
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To Night Owl from Dogfish
Holly Goldberg Sloan and Meg Wolitzer
Avery Bloom, who's bookish, intense, and afraid of many things, particularly deep water, lives in New York City. Bett Devlin, who's fearless, outgoing, and loves all animals as well as the ocean, lives in California. What they have in common is that they are both twelve years old, and are both being raised by single, gay dads. When their dads fall in love, Bett and Avery are sent, against their will, to the same sleepaway camp. T
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Touching Spirit Bear
Ben Mikaelson
Cole, in order to avoid going to prison, agrees to participate in a sentencing alternative based on the Native American Circle Justice, and he is sent to a remote Alaskan Island.
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Trash
Andy Mulligan
Three boys live with hundreds of other families beside a city's mountainous garbage dumpsite.Their days are spent picking through trash for something to use, something to sell, or something to eat.One day their lives change forever after one of them finds a bag that contains a wallet, a key, and a map.
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Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson
An innkeeper and his son find a map on the body of a deceased guest.The map promises a pirate's fortune and many adventures follow.
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Truce: The Day The Soldiers Stopped Fighting.
Jim Murphy
This is a close-up view of the Great War, World War I, and the extraordinary story of the December 25, 1914 truce between German and British soldiers as they laid down their weapons and met in No Man's Land to celebrate Christmas.
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Truly Devious: A Mystery
Maureen Johnson
Stevie Bell is obsessed with true crime stories and jumps at the chance to attend Ellingham Academy, a private school for talented students where one of the greatest unsolved crimes of American history happened. When Stevie gets to campus and starts looking into the unsolved kidnapping and murder, Truly Devious returns and someone else at school dies. Is it a coincide or has the dark past of Ellingham Academy...
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The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle
Leslie Connor
Mason Buttle is the largest kid in the 7th grade, and he's also the sweetest. Mason's best friend Benny died under mysterious circumstances 15 months before this story takes place, and Mason is learning how to move on without him while balancing bullies, his broken family, and new friendships. Get your tissues out when you pick up this...
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Turtles All the Way Down
John Green
High school sophomore Aza suffers from health-related thought spirals. When the billionaire father of a guy she knew from her past goes missing, Aza's best friend Daisy is determined to get the $300,000 reward. Aza tries to control her OCD and anxiety demons to help solve the mystery but sometimes the spirals go all the way
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The Twistrose Key
Tone Almhjell
When Lin stumbles across a strange key that leads her to a portal in her cellar, she opens up a gate to the magical world of Sylver, a land of eternal winter inhabited by every dead animal ever loved by a child. Lin is reunited with Rufus, the much-loved vole who used to be her best friend. Together, Lin and Rufus must find the missing Winter Prince and work together to save this enchanted world.
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Two Can Keep a Secret
Karen M. McManus
While true-crime aficionado Ellery and her twin brother are staying with their grandmother in a Vermont community known for murdering homecoming queens, a new friend goes missing and Ellery may be...
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Uglies
Scott Westerfeld
Tally resists the mandatory operation that every 16-year-old must endure to change all teens into new pretties. Adventure is the result in this futuristic novel.
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The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl: Squirrel Meets World
Shannon Hale
Doreen Green is anything but an average 14-year-old girl; she's Squirrel Girl. With a magnificent squirrel tail and proportional squirrel strength and speed, Doreen decides to stop troublemakers in her new home in the suburbs of New Jersey. When a real-life Super Villian starts trapping squirrels, agitating dogs, and declares Squirrel Girl his archenemy, Doreen is forced to step up and become the super hero her new hometown needs in this...
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Undefeated: Jim thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team
Steve Sheinkin
Jim Thorpe: Super athlete, Olympic gold medalist, Native American
Pop Warner: Indomitable coach, football mastermind, Ivy League grad
Before these men became legends, they met in 1907 at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania, where they forged one of the winningest teams in American football history. Called "the team that invented football," they took on the best opponents of their day, defeating much more well-known...
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Under a War-Torn Sky
Laura Elliott
Take a look at Nazi-occupied Europe through the eyes and experiences of Henry Forester, a young flier shot down during World War II. Also, A Troubled...
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Under The Mesquite
Guadalupe Garcia Mccall
When her mom is diagnosed with cancer, Lupita struggles to maintain her life as a Mexican-American high school student and budding actress, while also caring for her younger siblings. Written in verse, this is an unforgettable story about family bonds, the healing power of words, and the strength it takes to face overwhelming loss.
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The Underneath
Kathi Appelt
Set in the bayou, the Underneath is the place below the front porch where Gar-Face chains up Ranger, a hound dog who befriends a cat and her kittens. It's safe for this family in the Underneath, but when one kitten ventures out, it alters all their fates.
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Ungifted
Gordon Korman
Donovan Curtis, legendary jokester and average eighth grade student, knows he has gone too far when his latest prank causes thousands of dollars worth of damage to the school gym. When an unexpected turn of events accidentally sends Donovan to the gifted school, he knows he's in way over his head.Told through various points of view, both Donovan and his new genius friends begin to
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The Unlikely Story of a Pig in the City
Jodi Kendall and Pascal Campion
Josie fits right into the middle of her large family. Everyone seems to forget she even exists. Until her big brother brings home a pink, squirmy bundly- a piglet named Hamlet rescued from a nearby farm. The minute Josie holds Hamlet, they're best friends. But whoever heard of keeping a pig in the city. Josie agrees to find him a new home, hoping that new home will end up with
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The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian Refugees
Don Brown
Beginning in 2011, refugees flee the violence and destruction in Syria, but as the amount of refugees increases and the conflict continues, surrounding countries become less and less willing to help Syrians. This graphic novel tells the true stories of what people and families will do and sacrifice in order to be safe and seek...
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The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street
Karina Yan Glaser
The Vanderbeeker family has always lived in the brownstone on 141st Street. Suddenly, their scary recluse of a landlord, Mr. Beiderman, has told them they have to move out. The five Vanderbeeker kids devise a plan to convince the curmudgeon of a landlord Beiderman to let them...
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A Very Large Expanse of the Sea
Tahereh Mafi
A year after 9/11, Muslim teenager Shirin has completely withdrawn from social life, until she meets Ocean James in her biology class and is tempted to actually let her guard down. This love story is about finding your passion, finding romance, and connecting with...
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Voces Sin Fronteras: The Stories of Our Youth
Latin American Youth Center
Sixteen youth from the Latin American Youth Center in Washington, D.C., come together to tell their stories that break down barriers and bring hope. This is a bilingual collection of stories, in both English and...
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Waiting For Normal
Leslie Connor
Wanting a normal life, Addie is forced to make it on her own when her mother neglects to live up to her responsibilities.
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Walk on Earth a Stranger
Rae Carson
Lee Westfall is an unusual young woman. She can shoot a gun better than most men, she doesn't want to get married, and she can sense gold. When her parents are murdered and her uncle takes over her family's homestead in Georgia, Lee knows she needs to leave before her uncle forces her to find gold for him. Deciding to follow her childhood friend, Jefferson, to the California gold rush, Lee dresses as a young man and joins a wagon train...
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The Walk On
John Feinstein
Newcomer Alex really wants the quarterback position on his new high school's football team; however, that position is currently filled by the coach's son.
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War Horse
Michael Morpurgo
In 1914, Joey, a beautiful stallion with a distinctive cross on his nose, is bought by the British army. He leaves his owners and his life on an English farm and becomes a cavalry horse. He is shipped to France and witnesses horrific battle after battle with the German cavalry, always hoping to be reunited with his beloved master,...
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The War That Saved My Life
Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
After suffering from neglect and abuse, Ada and her younger brother Jamie run away from London to escape the bombings of World War II. They are placed at a home in the country with a reluctant caretaker, who learns to love the children as she helps Ada learn how to walk, read, and write.
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The War To End All Wars: World War I
Russell Freedman
This is a highly-readable account of World War I - from the broad causes and consequences to the heartbreaking personal details of trench warfare. The technology, the battles, the leaders, and the soldiers are all included in a fascinating narrative that is accompanied by arresting photographs and helpful maps.
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Warcross
Marie Lu
What happens when a virtual reality game becomes reality? Bounty-hunter Emika Chen is struggling to make ends meet until she hacks the opening game for the Warcross Championships and glitches herself into the game. Instead of being arrested, the game's creator, Hideo Tanaka, makes her an incredible offer: to go undercover in the Warcross Championships to uncover a major security problem. Chen learns more information about the secrets of Warcross
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Watch Us Rise
Ren馥 Watson and Ellen Hagan
Frustrated by the way women are treated--even at their progressive New York City high school--two best friends start a Women's Rights Club, post their essays and poems online, and watch it go viral, attracting positive support as well as...
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Watsons Go To Birmingham - 1963
Christopher Curtis
The Watsons live in Flint, Michigan.They fix up the brown bomber and drive to visit Grandmother in Alabama to leave their brother Byron to live with her.
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The Way You Make Me Feel
Maurene Goo
Clara Shin doesn't take high school too seriously, and when she decides to reenact the pig's blood scene from the horror movie Carrie at the junior prom, her low-key plans for summer disappear. Stuck in her dad's Brazilian fusion food truck for the summer, Clara begins to question what she truly cares...
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We Are Displaced
Malala Yousafzai
Nobel Peace Prize winner and New York Times-bestselling author Malala Yousafzai introduces stories about the millions of people displaced worldwide, including Yemen, Iraq, the Congo, and...
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We Are Not Yet Equal: Understanding Our Racial Divide
Carol Anderson
This nonfiction book examines five moments in US history when America achieves milestones of progress towards full and equal black participation in democracy and the racist backlash that rolls back those...
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We Are Okay
Nina LaCour
Marin hasn't spoken to anyone from her old life since the day she left everything behind. No one knows the truth about those final weeks. Not even her best friend Mabel. But even thousands of miles away from the California coast, at college in New York, Marin still feels the pull of the life.
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We Are the Perfect Girl
Ariel Kaplan
Aphra and Bethany are best friends who would never let a boy get between them, until they did. When Aphra accidentaly starts a text relationship with Bethany's crush both a friendhip and a relationship is tested as they struggle to define what makes the perfect...
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We Will Not Be Silent: The White Rose Student Resistance Movement That Defied Adolf Hitler
Russell Freedman
Hans Scholl quickly became quickly disillusioned with the anti-Semitism of Hitler Youth shortly after joining. Together with his sister Sophie, these two college students formed an underground resistance movement in which many young people put their lives on the line to prevent the evils of Hitler and the Nazi party.
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Welcome to Mars: Making a Home on the Red Planet
Buzz Aldrin
Astronaut Buzz Aldrin walks readers through what it would be like to travel, colonize, and live on Mars. Included are experiments and activities to help explain the scientific concepts needed to travel to and colonize the red planet.
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Well That Was Awkward
Rachel Vail
Gracie likes A.J. A.J. likes Sophie, Gracie's best friend. So when A.J. starts texting Sophie, Sophie asks Gracie to help her write her responses. So.what's really happening is that it is Gracie who is crafting the replies to A.J. So who does A.J. really like- Sophie or Gracie? So
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We're Not from Here
Geoff Rodkey
Earth has been destroyed and what remains of humanity must find a new place to live. They thought they had found a place to start over on Choom, but when the beleaguered human refugees arrive, the mosquito-looking Zhuri refuse to let them on the planet. The Zhuri do not like the humans emotions and their history of wars. Lan Mifune and his family are given one chance to change the Zhuri痴 mind by trying to live, work, and go to school on Choom....
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We've Got A Job: 1963 Birmingham Children's March
Cynthia Levison
Young people succeeded where adults had failed.This is the little-known story of 4,000 black elementary-, middle-, and high school students who voluntarily went to jail in Birmingham, Alabama in 1963. These are the first-hand accounts, woven together, of four black children who boycotted school to participate in a march to protest segregation
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What If It's Us
Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera
Broadway-loving Arthur's interning in New York for the summer, but he can't stop him from missing his life in Georgia. Ben's an NYC native, reeling from a breakup that fractured his friend group. When they meet by chance, Arthur is sure the universe has spoken, but Ben isn't convinced. After several false starts, miscommunications, and second guesses, they have to wonder how much of a say does the universe really...
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What to Say Next
Julie Buxbaum
This is the story of an unlikely friendship. Kit has just lost her father in a terrible car accident. David is socially isolated and trying to fit in with the help of his older sister. When Kit returns to school after the tragedy, she sits at David's table at lunch hoping for a quiet place to just be. When David bluntly asks her questions about what happened, the two form an unusual friendship. And David may be just what Kit needs to get
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What Would She Do?
Kay Woodward
This book takes you through a brief history of 25 inspiring women with a new twist: at the end of each biography page, you will see current predicted advice from Cleopatra, Amelia Earhart, and many...
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When Dimple Met Rishi
Sandhya Menon
The Shah family chose to prearrange marriage for their daughter Dimple Shah and the Patel family's son Rishi after learning both high school graduates are attending the same web developer summer seminar. Dimple is unaware of this agreement while Rishi, a believer in tradition, sets out to charm Dimple and make her fall in love.
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When Friendship Followed Me Home
Paul Griffin
As a former foster kid, Ben Coffin tries not to get to close to anyone; too many people in his life have left him. While Ben spends most of his time with his science fiction books, he can't turn away when Flip, a scruffy abandoned mutt, needs his help. Ben's life changes when he meets Halley, or Rainbow Girl as he calls her. As Ben's life starts to come apart, he realizes that sometimes you have to risk your heart to truly live.
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When You Reach Me
Rebecca Stead
Sixth-grader Miranda lives in 1978 New York City with her mother and is never without her favorite book A Wrinkle in Time. When she starts to receive a series of notes that claim to want to save her life, Miranda begins to believe they are coming from someone who knows the future.This is the 2010 Newbery Medal winner.
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Where the Heart Is
Jo Knowles
As Rachel navigates her summer of taking care of her neighbor's farm animals and her parents constant fighting, she depends on her friend Micah. But Micah wants their friends to be "more" than just friends, and Rachel is not quite sure if she wants that, or what that even means. In this story, Rachel has to discover who she is and where her heart...
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Whichwood
Tahereh Mafi
Laylee is the girl responsible for scrubbing and burying all of the dead in her village, and it is slowly killing her. When two strangers show up and her doorstep to try to save her, the dead come to life in a way no one would have...
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White Bird: A Wonder Story
R. J. Palacio
From a character drawn from the author's collection of stories titled "Auggie & Me" comes Grandm鑽e's tale of her childhood in German-occupied France. As a young Jewish girl, Grandm鑽e, or Sara as she was then known, takes refuge with a boy that she and her classmates bully and ostracize, but whose family now becomes her salvation from the...
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The Whydah: A Pirate Ship Feared, Wrecked, and Found
Martin W. Sandler
The 1650s to the 1730s marked the golden age of piracy. Pirates like Blackbeard and Black Sam Bellamy ruled the waves, seeking not only treasure but also large and fast ships to carry it. The Whydah was just such a ship. Fillled to the brim with treasure, it sank off the coast of Cape Cod in 1717. For more than two hundred years, the wreck of the Whydah (and the riches that went down with it) eluded treasure seekers, until the ship was finally...
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Wild Bird
Wendenlin Van Drannen
3:47 a.m. That's when they come for Wren Clemmens. She's forced out of her house and into a waiting car, then a plane, and then taken on a forced march into the desert. After moving to a new town and feeling like she doesn't fit in, Wren turned to the wrong people and drugs and alcohol. Wren's parents have decided their only option is to send her to wilderness therapy camp. Eight weeks of survivalist camping in the desert. Eight weeks to turn
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Wilder Girls
Rory Power
The Raxter School for Girls has been put under quarantine as The Tox kills nearly all teachers on the island and infects and mutates the students. When one student goes missing, the desire to "just survive" changes into a drive to reveal the truth about their friend, the island, and The Tox itself....
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Wish Girl
Nikki Loftin
Peter doesn't fit in with his loud and obnoxious family, even after they move to the country because of the incident at his last school. He escapes to a tranquil, enchanting valley when he needs quiet. There, he forms a friendship with Annie who is also trying to escape, but for different reasons, as she dreads upcoming cancer treatments that could alter her life forever.
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Wishtree
Katherine Applegate
Fern is an old oak tree located in a neighborhood and tradition has it that each year people come and write wishes on strips of cloth and hang them from her branches hoping they will come true. She narrates the story about a young Muslim girl, new to the neighborhood, who makes a wish that she finds a friend. The next day the word LEAVE is carved in Fern's trunk. Will the girl's wish come true or is this the end of the
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Witch Born
Nicholas Bowling
In 1577, Alyce witnesses her mother captured and burned at the stake by witch hunters. Her mother leaves her with a message to find a mysterious man, and she finds herself in the middle of a battle between Queen Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots as her powers become increasingly difficult to...
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Witch Boy
Molly Knox Ostertag
In Aster's family, he is expected to grow as a shapeshifter, but all he really wants is to be a witch like the women in his family. When other boys his age start disappearing, Aster knows that his hidden abilities as a witch could save his family. This is a charming and fast-paced graphic...
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Witches! The Absolutely True Tale Of Disaster In Salem
Rosalyn Schanzer
The doctor tried every remedy, but nothing cured the young Puritans. He grimly announced the dire diagnosis: the girls were bewitched! And then the accusations began. The is the riveting, true story of the victims, accused witches, crooked officials, and mass hysteria that turned a mysterious illness affecting two children into a witch hunt that took over a dozen people's lives and ruined hundreds more.
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With the Fire on High
Elizabeth Acevedo
When Emoni became pregnant her freshman year in high school, she feels the pressure to choose between her new baby or her passion for cooking. With the love and encouragement of her family, Emoni discovers what it's like to be a young mother with a big...
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The Wizenard Series: Training Camp
Wesley King and Kobe Bryant
Basketball meets Hogwarts in author Kobe Bryant痴 The Wizenard Series. The West Bottom Badgers are the worst team in the league. They also live in the poorest neighborhood in the land of Dren. New coach Professor Wizenard arrives and the players start seeing magical visions. These visions begin to shape and change their lives on and off the court. Tryouts have never been so...
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Wolf Hollow
Lauren Wolk
Annabelle's life has been peaceful until a new student, Betty, moves to her small town. Betty is a cruel and dangerous bully who soon begins to target Toby, a reclusive World War I veteran, after he stands up for and protects Annabelle. When Betty disappears, the town suspects that Toby has kidnapped and possibly killed her. Annabelle decides to lie about what she knows, and there are dangerous consequences.
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Wonder
R. J. Palacio
August Pullman was born with a facial difference that, up until now, has prevented him from going to a mainstream school. Starting 5th grade at Beecher Prep, he wants nothing more than to be treated as an ordinary kid
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The Wonderling
Mira Bartok
Arthur, a shy, fox-like foundling with only one ear, lives in the Home for Wayward and Misbegotten Creatures. The evil Miss Carbunkle runs the institution, terrifying all of the part animal and part human charges who live there. This is the only home Arthur has ever known, but when he meets a young bird groundling named Tricket, they find the courage to leave the home and embark on an adventure that will show Arthur his true...
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Words In The Dust
Trent Reedy
Zulaikha is an Afghan girl who was born with a cleft palate.She suffers merciless teasing from others in her village.She is noticed by a soldier when American forces are traveling through her village, and he offers to arrange the surgery that will repair her birth defect.Zulaikha is caught between opportunity and tradition in her culture that young American readers will find shocking but hopeful.
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World Without Fish
Mark Kurlansky
This book reveals an environmental problem that is not easily seen- the problem in the world's oceans.Find out how climate, biology, economics, and fishing are endangering the world's waters and what kids can do about it.
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The Worst Class Trip Ever
Dave Barry
On a plane to Washington, D,C, Wyatt and Matt listen to a sketchy conversation between two men sitting behind them. They also notice that those men have aerial pictures of the White House. Convinced that they must be terrorists, Matt steals a strange device from one of the men in hopes of stopping an attack. Here begins a hilarious chase through the streets of D.C. as the bad guys attempt to retrieve the device from a group of bumbling eighth graders.
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Wrinkle In Time: The Graphic Novel
Hope Larson
This is the graphic novel version of the classic story of time travel, adventure, and growing up. A Wrinkle in Time introduces us to the wonderful and unforgettable characters of Meg and Charles Wallace Murry and their friend Calvin O'Keefe who along with the three Mrs.-Who, Whatsit, and Which-begin an adventure to fight off a dark force and save their father, along with our universe.
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Wundersmith: The Calling of Morrigan Crow
Jessica Townsend
Morrigan Crow and her best friend Hawthorne Swift are now proud scholars in the elite Wundrous Society, but life is far from perfect. Does Morrigan have what it takes to prove that she belongs in the Society? Morrigan is not sure what to expect when she steps on a train to the mystical Wunderground and begins classes with eight others, all of whom have unique magical skillsexcept her. She's been identified as a Wundersmith, but, what does that...
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You Bring the Distant Near
Mitali Perkins
This story follows four girls as they grapple with what it means to be American in the 1970s to the 2000s. Tara and Sonia are two sisters from India move from London. As the first generation to settle in the States, how can they achieve their dreams while also making their parents proud? Anna and Chantal are born Americans, but struggle with keeping their Bengali roots alive. A story told throughout the decades, get to know these women as they...
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You Go First
Erin Entrada Kelly
Charlotte Lockard and Ben Boxer are separated by more than a thousand miles. On the surface, their lives seem vastly different. Charlotte wants to be a geologist and keeps a rock collection in her room. Ben is obsessed with Harry Potter, presidential history, and recycling. But the two have more in common than they think.
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Zoo Scientists to the Rescue
Patricia Newman
This is a fabulous behind-the-scenes look at three different zoos and the work that their zoo scientists do to save animals on the endangered species...
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