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The Lost Conspiracyby Hardinge, FrancesOn an island of sandy beaches, dense jungles, and slumbering volcanoes, colonists seek to apply archaic laws to a new land, bounty hunters stalk the living for... |
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When You Reach Meby Stead, RebeccaFour mysterious letters change Miranda’s world forever.By sixth grade, Miranda and her best friend, Sal, know how to navigate their New York City neighborhoo... |
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The Carbon Diaries 2015by Lloyd, SaciIt's the year 2015, a time when global warming has begun to ravage the environment. In response, the United Kingdom becomes the first country to mandate carbon... |
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Marcelo in the Real Worldby Stork, Francisco X.Marcelo Sandoval, a seventeen-year-old boy on the high-functioning end of the autistic spectrum, faces new challenges, including romance and injustice, when he... |
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Charles and EmmaThe Darwins' Leap of Faithby Heiligman, DeborahCharles Darwin and his wife, Emma, were deeply in love and very supportive of each other, but their opinions often clashed. Emma was extremely religious, and C... |
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Here Lies Arthurby Reeve, PhilipWhen her village is attacked and burned, Gwyna seeks protection from the bard Myrddin, who uses Gwyna in his plan to transform young Arthur into the heroic Kin... |
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The Graveyard Bookby Gaiman, Neil & McKean, DaveAfter the grisly murder of his entire family, a toddler wanders into a graveyard where the ghosts and other supernatural residents agree to raise him as one of... |
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Nationby Pratchett, TerryAfter a devastating tsunami destroys all that they have ever known, Mau, an island boy, and Daphne, an aristocratic English girl, together with a small band of... |
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Sunrise over Fallujahby Myers, Walter DeanIn 1920s Harlem, sixteen-year-old Mark Purvis, an aspiring jazz saxophonist, gets a summer job as an errand boy for the publishers of the groundbreaking Africa... |
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Rex Zero, King of Nothingby Wynne-Jones, TimIn sixth grade now, the wildly imaginative Rex Zero and his friends hatch a plan to replace Miss Garr, the substitute teacher from hell, and Rex takes on the p... |
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