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"Calista, Zoe, Holly, and Denise were inseparable best friends when they spent their summers together at sleepaway camp. But after an unexplained tragedy forced the camp to close, the girls drifted apart. Years later, reunited at their beloved camp counselor Violet's funeral, the four former best friends quickly realize how much they've changed over the years. But despite their differences, they agree on one thing--Violet's so-called accidental death...
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Kronos chronicles volume 2
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IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
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Thirteen-year-old Petra, her tin spider Astrophil, and their Roma friends Neel and Tomik are surprised by revelations about Dee, Kit, and Petra's father as they face Prince Rodolfo of Bohemia, who will do anything to possess a powerful object, the Celestial Globe.
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IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
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On the ruined planet Earth, where people are confined to megacities and resources are scarce, Deedra endures a bleak existence. One day she comes across a beautiful boy named Rose struggling to cross the river-- a boy with a secretive past and special abilities, who is somehow able to find comfort and life from their dying planet. When the Magistrate's son is murdered, and Rose becomes the prime suspect, Deedra struggles to save him. Little do they...
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Nampeshiweisit volume 1
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2023.
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"A young, Indigenous woman enters a colonizer-run dragon academy after bonding with a hatchling--and quickly finds herself at odds with the 'approved' way of doing things--in the first book of a brilliant new fantasy series. The remote island of Masquapaug has not seen a dragon in many generations--until fifteen-year-old Anequs finds a dragon's egg and bonds with its hatchling. Her people are delighted, for all remember the tales of the days when...
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Page Street Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
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IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
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"Nishat doesnt want to lose her family, but she also doesnt want to hide who she is, and it only gets harder once a childhood friend walks back into her life. Flvìa is beautiful and charismatic, and Nishat falls for her instantly. But when a school competition invites students to create their own businesses, both Flvìa and Nishat decide to showcase their talent as henna artists. In a fight to prove who is the best, their lives become more tangled,...
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Shadow children volume 3
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IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
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Thirteen-year-old Nina is imprisoned by the Population Police, who give her the option of helping them identify illegal "third-born" children, or facing death.
11) Girls Night
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Gossip queen ALEX longs to be seen. Cheerleader TULSI is sick of cutting people on her sharp heart. New kid CLEMENTINE can't escape the violence inside. And wallflower SUNJU is tired of keeping quiet. When a twist of fate brings this unlikely quartet together, sparks and punches fly. They call it 'Girls Night,' an underground fight club that's girls only. Soon every girl at Sterling High is showing up to class with bruised knuckles and split lips....
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No one has ever accused Sage Cunningham of being easily distracted. She has a plan, and she won't be swayed. She'll spend the summer interning in her mentor's lab in Amsterdam, and then she'll be ready for college. All she needs to do to pay for the summer abroad is agree to serve as the au pair for Dr. Reese's three-year-old. Sage has it all down to a science, but she doesn't anticipate the surprise arrival of Dr. Reese's teenage son. Ryland is...
13) Blood circus
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"At the end of the twenty-first century, climate change and famine almost ended humanity--until the discovery of the Klujns, a barbaric, humanoid species with strangely colored eyes and even stranger abilities. Their crystal claws and bones fertilize barren soil, and their tender meat is a super-protein. Klujns are both humans' saviors and natural-born enemies, meant to be hunted and used. When sixteen-year-old Ava finds herself on the wrong side...
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"Bliss Adair, 16, ace knitter and math wiz, discovers that some secrets are meant to share while others are not. Her involvement in the dilemmas of friends is well intentioned--but is that enough? And does the first rule of knitting--don't look too far ahead--always apply to life?"-- Provided by publisher.
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IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 15
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Publisher Annotation: Cassandra McMurtrey has the best parents a girl could ask for; they've given Cass a life she wouldn't trade for the world. She has everything she needs-but she has questions, too. Like, to know who she is. Where she came from. Questions her adoptive parents can't answer, no matter how much they love her. But eighteen years ago, someone wrote Cass a series of letters. And they may just hold the answers Cass has been searching...
18) The bluest eye
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IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A PARADE BEST BOOK OF ALL TIME • From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner—a powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity that asks questions about race, class, and gender with characteristic subtlety and grace.
In Morrison’s acclaimed first novel, Pecola Breedlove—an 11-year-old Black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed...
In Morrison’s acclaimed first novel, Pecola Breedlove—an 11-year-old Black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed...
19) The blood gift
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"After discovering the depth of betrayal, treachery, and violence perpetrated against her by Mareen's Tribunal Council and exposing her illegal blood-gift to save her Praetorian squad, Ikenna becomes a fugitive with a colossal bounty on her head. Yet, somehow, that's the least of her worries. Her grandfather's longtime allies refuse to offer help, and the Blood Emperor's Warlord is tracking her. She's also struggling to control the enormous power...
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2010
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IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
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"Emma can't wait to audition for her school play. She already knows exactly what part she wants: the enchanted princess! She'll wear a beautiful blue gown and sparkly tiara, and everyone will admire her as she glides gracefully across the stage. But when she's cast as the cackling, warty old witch instead, Emma can't believe it! She's ready to quit the play. Can Emma learn that the show must go on?"--p. [4] of cover.