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"It's been a year since the shocking death of August Moriarty, and Jamie and Charlotte haven't spoken. Jamie is going through the motions at Sherringford, trying to finish his senior year without incident, with a nice girlfriend he can't seem to fall for. Charlotte is on the run, from Lucien Moriarty and from her own mistakes. No one has seen her since that fateful night on the lawn in Sussex--and Charlotte wants it that way. She knows she isn't safe...
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As daughters of the outgoing president, Ingrid and Winnie Lopez decide to play pranks on the incoming president's daughters, Zora and Skylar Williams. Zora and Skylar play tit for tat and soon the harmless games get out of control and threaten international diplomacy.
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"Inside a small Yorkshire parsonage, Charlotte, Branwell, Emily, and Anne Brontë have invented a game called Glass Town, where their toy soldiers fight Napoleon and no one dies. This make-believe land helps the four escape from a harsh reality: Charlotte and Emily are being sent away to a dangerous boarding school, a school they might not return from. But on this Beastliest Day, the day Anne and Branwell walk their sisters to the train station,...
10) Words with wings
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Gabby daydreams to tune out her parents' arguments, but when her parents divorce and she begins a new school, daydreaming gets her into trouble. Her mother scolds her for it, her teacher keeps telling her to pay attention, and the other kids tease her...until she finds a friend who also daydreams and her teacher decides to work a daydreaming-writing session into every school day. With a notebook "thick with daydreams," Gabby grows more confident about...
11) The gathering
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Sixteen-year-old Maya suspects there may be a relationship between her paw-print birthmark, her connection with wild animals, and strange events occurring in her tiny Vancouver Island community, where a medical research facility harbors big secrets.
13) Insurgent
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"As war surges in the dystopian society around her, sixteen-year-old Divergent Tris Prior must continue trying to save those she loves--and herself--while grappling with haunting questions of grief and forgiveness, identity and loyalty, politics and love"-- Provided by publisher.
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Dogs in the Dead of Night
Jack and Annie must find a rare flower to save one of their best friends! So when the magic tree house whisks them back in time to the Swiss Alps, they're confused. How can they find a flower buried under ice and snow? When they find an ancient monastery where monks and St. Bernards live, Annie offers to train a young dog named Barry. Then Barry runs away from the monastery, and Jack and Annie have a new task—find...
Jack and Annie must find a rare flower to save one of their best friends! So when the magic tree house whisks them back in time to the Swiss Alps, they're confused. How can they find a flower buried under ice and snow? When they find an ancient monastery where monks and St. Bernards live, Annie offers to train a young dog named Barry. Then Barry runs away from the monastery, and Jack and Annie have a new task—find...
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When ten-year-old Cici's parents separate and her grandmother moves in, she thinks things can't get any worse. But when she wakes up one morning with fairy wings and the ability to see people around her as they really are, things get really strange. Cici wishes life could go back to normal, but giving up her powers would mean losing the ability to believe in fairies.
18) The outsiders
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The struggle of three brothers to stay together after their parents' death and their quest for identity among the conflicting values of their adolescent society.
The struggle of three brothers to stay together after their parent's death and their quest for identity among the conflicting values of their adolescent society.
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Before they were the Boxcar Children, Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny Alden lived with their parents at Fair Meadow Farm. Newbery-Award winning author Patricia MacLachlan pays loving tribute to the classic novel by Gertrude Chandler Warner in this story of the Alden children's origins and the challenges they faced before their boxcar adventures.
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The Ingalls family packs up their covered wagon and travels from the big woods of Wisconsin to a new home in Kansas Territory, where wide open land stretches as far as the eye can see. On the prairie, they build a house, meet neighboring Indians, build a well, and fight a prairie fire.