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Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
2008 - Selection(s) Jaded, aloof James is tired of almost everything in his life. His perspective shifts when he attempts to connect with a co-worker and makes a... |
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Town Boy
2008 - Selection(s) The move from a small village to a growing Malaysian town offers Mat a chance to experience a wider world filled with exaggerated yet totally... |
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Spanking Shakespeare
2008 - Selection(s) With humor and pathos, Shakespeare Shapiro chronicles the absurd events his senior year and his obsession with sex. |
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I Love You, Beth Cooper
2008 - Selection(s) In this offbeat, bawdy romance, Denis declares his love for a high school cheerleader in his valedictory speech—and lives with the consequences. |
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What They Found: Love on 145th Street
2008 - Selection(s) From beauty shops and meat pies to war, drugs, and love between dying dogs, these fifteen interconnected stories explore life in Harlem with humor and... |
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E.E. Cummings: A Poet's Life
2008 - Selection(s) This well-rounded portrait skillfully examines the culture in which poet e. e. cummings lived as he developed his craft. |
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Repossessed
2008 - Selection(s) Even after escaping from hell, adolescence is a wild ride for this demon! A 2008 Printz Honor book. |
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My Mother the Cheerleader
2008 - Selection(s) Thirteen-year-old Louise is thrust into an ugly confrontation due to her mother’s activism against the 1960s integration of New Orleans schools. |
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Dragon's Keep
2008 - Selection(s) Princess Rosalind’s atrocity—a dragon’s claw where her finger should be—makes her beautiful to Lord Faul, the fierce dragon who enslaves her in exchange for her... |
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Dramarama
2008 - Selection(s) When friends Demi and Sarah both attend theater camp, their bond is tested when Demi meets his dream man and Sarah discovers that she may... |
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Story of a Girl
2008 - Selection(s) When Deanna’s dad catches her having sex with an older guy, the consequences are greater than she ever could have imagined. |
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This Is What I Did
2008 - Selection(s) Logan, whose family has moved to a new neighborhood where he is bullied, won’t talk about a disturbing incident from his past until encouraged by... |
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Coal Black Horse
2008 - Selection(s) Carried by a mysterious horse, 14-year-old Robey Childs journeys to find his father in the grisly aftermath of the Battle of Gettysburg. |
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The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain
2008 - Selection(s) Through spare text and bold, powerful illustrations, Sis tells of his life in communist Czechoslovakia, especially his yearning for freedom, his attraction to Western pop... |
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How It Happened in Peach Hill
2008 - Selection(s) Annie gathers information for her mother’s séances by playing the village idiot. Then she meets Sammy, and now all she wants is to be a... |
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Unwind
2008 - Selection(s) This is a future world where teens are “unwound”—their body parts are harvested for use by others. Conor, Risa, and Lev will go to extreme... |
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The Re-Gifters
2008 - Selection(s) Panels that explode with martial arts power energize this graphic novel about Dixie, who almost lets her killer crush on a boy in her hapkido... |
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The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl
2008 - Selection(s) Fanboy, a comic-book nerd and perennial target of the Jock Jerks, finally takes charge of his destiny (with a little help from Goth Girl). |
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Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac
2008 - Selection(s) After falling down some steps, Naomi can’t remember the past four years of her life. Now she must discover who she really is. |
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Touching Snow
2008 - Selection(s) Thirteen-year-old Karina, a member of a large immigrant family from Haiti, deals with growing up in an abusive and dysfunctional home dominated by her horrifying... |
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Tamar: A Novel of Espionage, Passion, and Betrayal
2008 - Selection(s) This sweeping thriller moves between World War II and the present day as 15-year-old Tamar uncovers her grandfather’s hidden past as a spy in the... |
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Born on a Blue Day: A Memoir: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant
2008 - Selection(s) Recounting his long struggle to emotionally connect with others, Tammet vividly describes his childhood and adolescence as an austistic savant. |
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Bone by Bone by Bone
2008 - Selection(s) David’s interracial friendship with Malcolm is forbidden by David’s father, a small-town doctor who threatens to shoot any black person who comes into their house. |
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Peak
2008 - Selection(s) His name is Peak and his destination is Everest. But is this avid climber ready to fulfill his father’s dream? |
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Looking for JJ
2008 - Selection(s) Recently released murderer JJ, a British teen whose childhood crime stirred a media frenzy, fears that her past will be discovered despite her new identity. |
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Boy Toy
2008 - Selection(s) Josh’s middle school teacher taught him more than history. Five years later, her release from jail forces him to confront the past in this frank... |
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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
2008 - Selection(s) A former child soldier in Sierra Leone recalls the heart-wrenching experiences that transformed him from an innocent 12-year-old into a cold-blooded killer. A 2008 Alex... |
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For Now
2008 - Selection(s) Sarcastic Jes and her blended family are back, and their lives are shaken up again when her mother announces that she is pregnant. This follow-up... |
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Red Glass
2008 - Selection(s) Fear has ruled the life of 16-year-old Sophie until dehydrated, speechless Pablo, a 6-year-old survivor of an illegal border crossing, is brought to her home. |
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian
2008 - Selection(s) Junior leaves the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white high school, where the only other Native American is the school mascot. Is he choosing... |
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Mister Pip
2008 - Selection(s) In the midst of guerrilla warfare, 14-year-old Matilda attends school to hear Mr. Watts, the only white inhabitant on her Pacific island, read from Dickens’... |
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Notes from the Midnight Driver
2008 - Selection(s) Alex’s drunken joyride in his mother’s car lands him with 100 hours of community service mentoring a cantakerous elderly man. |
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Beige
2008 - Selection(s) Prim, proper Katy relaxes into a new identity when she is forced to live in L.A. with her father, a punk rocker and recovering addict. |
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Buried
2008 - Selection(s) As her obsessive-compulsive disorder spirals out of control, Claudine finds herself buried under home and school duties after her alcoholic mother appears to have abandoned... |
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Tough Boy Sonatas
2008 - Selection(s) Poems about boys growing up poor and black vividly show the constant threats of ghetto life, as well as the positive relationships that help sustain... |
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Notes for a War Story
2008 - Selection(s) Three young men struggle to survive the aftermath of war. The senseless violence of their underground crime ring comes through powerfully in this graphic novel’s... |
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What the Moon Saw
2008 - Selection(s) Fourteen-year-old Clara spends the summer in a tiny Mexican village with grandparents she has never met, discovering a sense of belonging previously unknown to her. |
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Flight
2008 - Selection(s) Just as a cop’s bullet stops his wild shooting spree, Zits, an orphan who is half Native American, finds himself transported through space and time... |
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Alabama Moon
2008 - Selection(s) Moon, having lived in isolation in Alabama’s deep woods until his father’s death, sets out for Alaska and discovers how little he knows about the... |
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Freak Show
2008 - Selection(s) Cultures collide when teen drag queen Billy moves from the northeast to a staid Florida community, where he is determined to disrupt the status quo. |
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One Whole and Perfect Day
2008 - Selection(s) Lily, the sensible one in her quirky Australian family, longs to fit in with her classmates even while belittling their shallow interests. Then grandpa goes... |
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Wildwood Dancing
2008 - Selection(s) Jena combats dark forces to protect all she holds dear, including her beloved Other Kingdom, in this magical steeped in fairy-tale lore. |
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The Deep: The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss
2008 - Selection(s) Amazing photographs and essays by scientists introduce the strange, beautiful, and sometimes terrifying deep-sea creatures that live in the largest, most mysterious ecosystem on the... |
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Leonardo's Shadow: Or, My Astonishing Life as Leonardo da Vinci's Servant
2008 - Selection(s) Young Giacomo, servant to Leonardo da Vinci, seeks to understand his past while caring for and contending with the brilliant, cantankerous artist in fifteenth-century Milan. |
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The Restless Dead: Ten Original Stories of the Supernatural
2008 - Selection(s) These original short stories feature a celebrated cast of young adult authors and invite readers to question whether the dead really do rest in peace. |
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Twisted
2008 - Selection(s) Tyler begins his senior year transformed on the outside, going from geeky video gamer to buff hottie, but he still struggles internally with problems at... |
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Firestorm
2008 - Selection(s) Everything Jack thinks he knows about his world is wrong in this science fiction adventure set in the present day. |
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The Arrival
2008 - Selection(s) Without a single word, Tan’s extraordinary images express the loneliness, sadness, anxiety, and wonder of the immigration experience. |
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Revolution Is Not a Dinner Party
2008 - Selection(s) China’s Cultural Revolution drastically alters the lives of Ling and her family as political oppression and violence sweeps away their comfortable, middle-class existence. |
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The White Darkness
2008 - Selection(s) Battling an inscrutable villain in the frozen South Pole, Symone learns survival skills from her imaginary companion, the long-dead explorer Titus Oates. The 2008 Printz... |
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Jane Addams: Champion of Democracy
2008 - Selection(s) In a time when women had little control over their lives, Addams became a powerful force for good by helping the poor and disadvantaged and... |
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Book of a Thousand Days
2008 - Selection(s) Themes of friendship and loyalty elevate this fairy-tale romance, in which sensible, loyal maid Dashti serves a harsh sentence alongside Lady Saren, who has refused... |
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
2008 - Selection(s) Harry fights to the death with Lord Voldemort and his Death Eaters in the conclusion to this hugely popular series. |
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Thirteen Reasons Why
2008 - Selection(s) When Clay receives a package of cassette tapes that explain his classmate’s suicide, he is forced to consider how his own actions, and those of... |
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Dreamquake: Book Two of the Dreamhunter Duet
2008 - Selection(s) In the second volume of the Dreamhunter Duet, Laura searches for master dreams to reverse the effects of a government conspiracy, only to discover an... |
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The New Policeman
2008 - Selection(s) In search of the perfect gift for his mother, J. J., an Irish 15-year-old, must save the inhabitants of another world and solve an ancient... |
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Derby Girl
2008 - Selection(s) Bliss, a smart, athletic Texas teen, forges an identity apart from her beauty-pagent–obsessed mother by secretly joining a roller derby team. |
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Un Lun Dun
2008 - Selection(s) When it turns out her friend isn’t the Chosen One after all, 12-year-old Deeba steps in to save Un Lun Dun—a bizarre and fantastical alternate... |
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Malcolm X: A Graphic Biography
2008 - Selection(s) The events and controversies of Malcolm X’s life, culminating in his assassination, are presented with unblinking realism in a bold, graphic-novel format. |
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Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath
2008 - Selection(s) Most people know little about Plath’s biography apart from its tragic ending. Appropriately, this powerful portrait uses verse to shed light on the life of... |
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The Wednesday Wars
2008 - Selection(s) Overseen by his seventh-grade English teacher, Holling Hoodhood spends Wednesday afternoons reading Shakespeare, hunting rats, and learning the consequences of the Vietnam War. |
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Evolution, Me, and Other Freaks of Nature
2008 - Selection(s) Timely, explosive issues come to the fore when Mena Reece, shunned by her church’s fundamentalist Christians, finds a kindred spirit in her quirky, brilliant lab... |
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Strays
2008 - Selection(s) Trapped in the unwelcoming world of foster care, Ted relies upon his strong connection with animals as he struggles to determine his life’s direction. |
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One Good Punch
2008 - Selection(s) Seemingly straightlaced Mike has never been in trouble—until police find four joints in his locker, forcing him to choose whether or not to betray a... |
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I Am Rembrandt's Daughter
2008 - Selection(s) Cornelia, illegitimate daughter of the great artist Rembrandt, strives to escape her life of poverty and low social status. |
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Miss Spitfire: Reaching Helen Keller
2008 - Selection(s) New teacher Annie Sullivan struggles to unlock the mind of Helen Keller, a deaf and blind 6-year-old whose family is desperate to control her violent... |
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The Great Adventure: Theodore Roosevelt and the Rise of Modern America
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Beowulf
2008 - Selection(s) Hinds’ graphic novel captures the passion and violence of the original Anglo-Saxon saga through masterful illustrations and a respectfully adapted text. |
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My Swordhand is Singing
2008 - Selection(s) When the dead of Chust begin to rise from their graves, Peter and his father, Tomas, must face a soulless enemy and a terrifying destiny. |
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Mistik Lake
2008 - Selection(s) Seventeen-year-old Odella, an Icelandic Canadian, struggles to unlock the secrets behind her mother’s abandonment in this lyrical coming-of-age novel. |
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Red Spikes
2008 - Selection(s) In this collection of ten unsettling stories, a bogeyman, an angelic budgie, and souls in limbo are just some of the elements that will leave... |
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Converting Kate
2008 - Selection(s) Kate has only known a world where her church is the ultimate authority, but after her father's death she begins to question her allegiance. |
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A Swift Pure Cry
2008 - Selection(s) Coolbar, Ireland, is a village full of secrets, and Shell is not about to reveal hers until suspicion falls on the wrong person. |
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Hero
2008 - Selection(s) Thom is keeping two very big secrets from his father—that he is a superhero in training, and that he is gay. |
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American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China
2008 - Selection(s) On a quest to transform himself from a scrawny weakling into a kung-fu master, Polly drops out of Princeton and journeys to the legendary Shaolin... |
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Slam
2008 - Selection(s) Stunned by his girlfriend’s pregnancy, Sam seeks direction from his (possibly) imagined conversations with skater idol Tony Hawk. |
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The Invention of Hugo Cabret: A Novel
2008 - Selection(s) Combining words and black-and-white pictures inspired by silent films, Selznick reveals the connections between a Parisian orphan and an elderly toymaker. The The 2008 Caldecott... |
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Bloodsong
2008 - Selection(s) The heroic Sigurd slays a dragon, descends into the underworld, and rules over a tenuous peace in a post-Apocalyptic Britain peopled with genetic mutants. |
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Skulduggery Pleasant
2008 - Selection(s) When Stephanie inherits her uncle’s’ estate, she also inherits his best friend: a walking, talking, crime-fighting skeleton. |
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Such a Pretty Girl
2008 - Selection(s) Having lost all faith in the justice system, Meredith tries to save herself and others from her father, a child molester recently released from prison. |
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Before I Die
2008 - Selection(s) Tessa, who has terminal cancer, creates a list of ten things she wants to do in the months she has left to live. This fierce... |
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The Off Season
2008 - Selection(s) In this standalone sequel to Dairy Queen, female linebacker DJ struggles to balance school, romance, and family responsibilities as she starts her junior year. |
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The Long Road Home: A Story of War and Family
2008 - Selection(s) An investigative journalist contrasts the physical brutality of the Iraq War with homefront loved ones’ stress when an American platoon is trapped in a firefight. |
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
2008 - Selection(s) Two women born a generation apart witness the destruction of home and family in wartorn Kabul, testing the limits of their strength and courage. |
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Romeo and Juliet
2008 - Selection(s) Manga meets the bard! The classic, doomed love story gets a fresh look in this contemporary retelling set in Japan. |
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Grease Monkey: A Tale of Growing Up in Orbit
2007 - Selection(s) In this hilarious graphic novel, a teen spaceship mechanic learns to adjust to his crotchety new boss—who happens to be a gorilla. |
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Wintersmith
2007 - Selection(s) Waily, waily, waily! In this Discworld novel, witch-in-training Tiffany Aching accidentally attracts the attention of the Wintersmith, imperiling her family and requiring the expertise of... |
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La Linea
2007 - Selection(s) Mexican teen Miguel crosses la línea to join his parents in the United States, but the journey is full of danger and hardship. |
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Trigger
2007 - Selection(s) After blowing a hole in his head with a gun and suffering severe brain damage, Jersey Hatch sets out to discover why he did it. |
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American Born Chinese
2007 - Selection(s) Combining three different stories, one drawn from Chinese mythology, this graphic novel explores racism and self-hatred as a young boy struggles to come to terms... |
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The Lies of Locke Lamora
2007 - Selection(s) In this fantasy caper, professional thief Locke Lamora has long preyed on the nobles of Camorr; now, someone unexpected is preying on him. |
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5,000 Miles to Freedom: Ellen and William Craft's Flight From Slavery
2007 - Selection(s) In this true story, a couple goes to extraordinary lengths to escape slavery, eventually helping others by sharing their experiences. |
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Firebirds Rising: An Anthology of Original Science Fiction and Fantasy
2007 - Selection(s) Teens from different worlds and times populate these 16 short stories, which are as wildly inventive as they are relevant. |
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Dead Connection
2007 - Selection(s) Murray enjoys listening to the voices of the dead—until a missing cheerleader begs him to help solve the mystery of her death. |
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Accidents of Nature
2007 - Selection(s) Jean has lived her life as the poster child for cerebral palsy until she meets Sara at a summer camp for teens with disabilities, where... |
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It's Kind of a Funny Story
2007 - Selection(s) Suicidal Craig, overwhelmed by academic pressures, ends up in the adult psych ward, where he encounters a hilarious cast of characters while moving toward recovery. |
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The Book Thief
2007 - Selection(s) Death colors (and narrates) Liesel Meminger's attempt to survive Hitler in a small German town. Orphaned and devastated, Liesel finds salvation through stolen books. |
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Kiki Strike: Inside the Shadow City
2007 - Selection(s) Beneath the streets of New York, menacing gangsters, killer princesses, and Girl Scouts gone bad embark upon a wild adventure. |
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Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott
2007 - Selection(s) Through photos and eyewitness acoounts, Freedman draws readers close to the dramatic 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott and the ordinary people who participated. |
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Alphabet of Dreams
2007 - Selection(s) Mitra sells her brother's ability to dream the future, leading them to Melchior, one of the three magi, as he seeks the birth of the... |
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A Brief Chapter in My Impossible Life
2007 - Selection(s) Encouraged by her supportive adoptive family, Simone reaches out to her birth mother and finds unexpected blessings—including a new appreciation for her Jewish heritage. |
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Devilish
2007 - Selection(s) Jane, the smartest girl at St. Teresa’s Preparatory School for Girls, has a fight on her hands when a cupcake-eating demon buys the soul of... |
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Rooftop
2007 - Selection(s) There are no easy answers for his family, or their African American community, after Clay witnesses the shooting of his cousin by a police officer. |
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Clay
2007 - Selection(s) In a novel steeped in religious symbolism, strange new kid Stephen convinces Davie to create a giant golem who will obey his command to kill... |
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Black Swan Green
2007 - Selection(s) In this darkly humorous novel, Jason’s stammering terrorizes him, making silence preferable to humiliation. |
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Letters to a Young Brother: MANifest Your Destiny
2007 - Selection(s) Through family stories, life experiences, and the words of some celebrity friends, actor Hill Harper provides guidance to young men facing difficult decisions. |
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The Braid
2007 - Selection(s) In tightly structured, braided poems, two sisters tell of their difficult separation when one leaves Scotland for a better life in Canada in the mid-1800s. |
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Just in Case
2007 - Selection(s) After David rescues his baby brother from a near-tragic occurrence, the 15-year-old struggles to reinvent himself and change his destiny. |
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The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume 1: The Pox Party
2007 - Selection(s) He was raised as an experiment and considered a piece of property. Now that revolution has come to America, will Octavian find freedom? |
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Dreamhunter: Book One of the Dreamhunter Duet
2007 - Selection(s) In a world where dreams can be harvested, 16-year-old Laura uses her dream-catching ability to expose intrigue and government corruption. |
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Skin
2007 - Selection(s) After his sister starves herself to death, 14-year-old Donnie reflects upon her illness and its devastating effects on the family. |
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The Killer's Tears
2007 - Selection(s) When murderer Angel Allegria kills young Paolo's parents, the killer and the orphan embark together on a journey of rebirth and redemption. |
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Dairy Queen
2007 - Selection(s) Running her family’s dairy farm and fulfilling others’ expectations makes D.J. feel like a cow, until she finds herself training the rival school’s quarterback. |
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Up before Daybreak: Cotton and People in America
2007 - Selection(s) Oral histories and archival photographs enrich the story of King Cotton, deepening readers’ understanding of the place of an iconic crop in American history. |
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The Love Curse of the Rumbaughs
2007 - Selection(s) Loving your mother is a blessing; loving her so much you feel the need to perform taxidermy on her is a curse. |
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The Foreshadowing
2007 - Selection(s) During World War I, Sasha poses as a nurse and travels to France to save her brother from the fate she has foreseen for him. |
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Samurai Shortstop
2007 - Selection(s) In 1890 Tokyo, 16-year-old Toyo uses traditional bushido training to improve his baseball game and comes to understand the place of Samurai values in Japanese... |
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Side Effects
2007 - Selection(s) Fourteen-year-old Izzy's life changes when she is diagnosed with lymphoma. |
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Blind Faith
2007 - Selection(s) Liz’s grieving mother joins a spiritualist church despite objections from her atheist father. With the help of her friend Nathan, Liz, who feels trapped in... |
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Tyrell
2007 - Selection(s) Homeless teen Tyrell resists the pressures of the streets to keep his family together and maintain a relationship with "good girl" Novisha. |
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Off Road
2007 - Selection(s) While off-roading, three self-described tough guys get stuck midstream in this hilarious graphic novel. |
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Last Chance in Texas: The Redemption of Criminal Youth
2007 - Selection(s) This heart-rending but ultimately hopeful look at a Texas program for violent teen offenders offers an unblinking view of the juvenile justice system. |
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What Happened to Cass McBride?
2007 - Selection(s) In this taut, psychologically rich thriller, Cass McBride and her tormentor, who has buried her alive, form a unique and surprising bond. |
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Swimming in the Monsoon Sea
2007 - Selection(s) Against the backdrop of a sultry Sri Lankan summer, 14-year-old Amrith makes discoveries about both his family's past and his own sexuality when his Canadian... |
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Surrender
2007 - Selection(s) As 20-year-old Gabriel lies dying, he remembers his miserable childhood and the influence of his mysterious companion, Finnigan. |
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Rebound
2007 - Selection(s) Most Polish guys go out for wrestling, but basketball is in Ray’s blood. He knows his game, but can he make the squad? |
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Storm Thief
2007 - Selection(s) After stealing a powerful device, street thieves Rail and Moa flee their city’s ruthless leaders with the help of a strange creature. |
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The Road of the Dead
2007 - Selection(s) Cole and his psychic brother Ruben journey to the ghostly moors of Dartmoor to discover the truth behind their sister's brutal murder. |
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Street Love
2007 - Selection(s) College-bound basketball star Damien, whose story is told in spoken word rhythms, defies the expectations of his family and friends when he falls hard for... |
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The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation
2007 - Selection(s) This concise graphic novel re-creation of the government’s official report conveys the horror of 9/11 and looks at how it happened. |
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The Year the Gypsies Came
2007 - Selection(s) Against the backdrop of anti-apartheid riots, a family of wanderers brings tragedy to a South African teen in this shattering story about lost innocence. |
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Doppelganger
2007 - Selection(s) After murdering a popular athlete and possessing his body, a shape-shifting killer becomes embroiled in his victim's troubled life. |
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Sold
2007 - Selection(s) In this startling, frank novel in free verse, a 13-year-old Nepalese girl is sold into prostitution by her stepfather after a monsoon leaves her family... |
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White Time
2007 - Selection(s) From a tale about a horny ant to one about a time travel internship, these ten mind-stretching stories are as bizarre as they are touching. |
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Winter's Bone: A Novel
2007 - Selection(s) To save home and family, 17-year-old Ree sets out on a perilous search for her missing father in their isolated and dangerous Ozark mountain community. |
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Ask Me No Questions
2007 - Selection(s) When their father is detained by U.S. Immigration, Nadira and Aisha must maintain an illusion of normality while they fight for his release. |
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Wait for Me
2007 - Selection(s) Mina lies about grades to fulfill the expectations of her Korean mother. She lies about boys and sex. Eventually, she lies so much she has... |
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Something Out of Nothing: Marie Curie and Radium
2007 - Selection(s) Marie Curie, the first woman to win the Nobel Prize, was also the first person to win it twice. This biography explores Curie’s achievements in... |
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Saint Iggy
2007 - Selection(s) Meth-damaged Iggy Corso faces many obstacles, including his expulsion from school, but he still yearns to make a difference. |
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Deogratias, a Tale of Rwanda
2007 - Selection(s) Deogratias, a Hutu boy, desperately clings to his humanity and his love for Benina, a Tutsi girl, in this unsettling graphic novel depicting the Rwandan... |
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Anahita's Woven Riddle
2007 - Selection(s) In early twentieth century Iran, a headstrong girl convinces her father that she will marry the suitor who can guess the riddle woven into her... |
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The Girls
2007 - Selection(s) Ruby and Rose, conjoined twins, each reveal the secrets, struggles, and dreams of their remarkable lives. |
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Freedom Riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines of the Civil Rights Movement
2007 - Selection(s) Though Lewis and Zwerg were of different races, their lives became entwined as their activism helped end segregation. |
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Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
2007 - Selection(s) When Nick asks a total stranger in a New York punk club to be his girlfriend for five minutes, a chaotic night of music and... |
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Life as We Knew It
2007 - Selection(s) In her journal, 16-year-old Miranda records the catastrophes that occur after a meteor strikes the moon and alters its course, causing tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, and... |
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One Kingdom: Our Lives with Animals
2007 - Selection(s) Seamlessly incorporating the scientific process, this pictorial exploration of the human-animal bond blends myth and history while raising provocative questions. |
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An Abundance of Katherines
2007 - Selection(s) After the nineteenth girl named Katherine breaks his heart, Colin and his friend Hassan hit the road. Can a mathematical formula help a former child... |
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A True and Faithful Narrative
2007 - Selection(s) In seventeenth century London, women don’t write—except for Meg, who disobeys her father to pen the story of a young merchant kidnapped by pirates and... |
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The Trap
2007 - Selection(s) In the Alaskan wilderness, Grandfather Albert attempts to escape one of his own steel-jawed traps; back in their village, Johnny worries about his grandfather's safety... |
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Hattie Big Sky
2007 - Selection(s) In 1918, 16-year-old Hattie Brooks runs a 400-acre Montana farm, faces threats from wolves, and fights prejudice and loneliness. |
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Men of Salt: Crossing the Sahara on the Caravan of White Gold
2007 - Selection(s) On a 40-day odyssey through the Sahara on a camel caravan to the salt mines, an American journalist experiences the amazing resolve and fascinating traditions... |
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Monster Blood Tattoo: Foundling
2007 - Selection(s) An orphan, sent to become a lamplighter in distant High Vesting, encounters fantastical creatures as he aids a beautiful monster slayer. |
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Terrier
2007 - Selection(s) Raised in the slums, trained to the lawkeeping force, and armed with the ability to hear the voices of the dead, Beka Cooper is determined... |
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Robert E. Lee: Virginian Soldier, American Citizen
2007 - Selection(s) Dashing Robert E. Lee was Lincoln's choice to lead the Union, but Lee's devotion to Virginia changed the course of U.S. history. This fascinating biography... |
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Incantation
2007 - Selection(s) Secrets are dangerous during the Spanish Inquisition—especially if you are secretly Jewish. |
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Knights of the Hill Country
2007 - Selection(s) High school football star Hampton Green believes that his buddy Blaine started him toward a better future, but how far should he go out of... |
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The King of Attolia
2007 - Selection(s) Eugenides must convince his new queen, his court, and his subjects of his ability to rule, despite his disreputable past as a liar and a... |
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Kampung Boy
2007 - Selection(s) Mat’s Malaysian village comes alive in this graphic novel, showing a picture of life in a 1950s Muslim kampung. Western influences, however, threaten his familiar... |
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The Poet Slave of Cuba: A Biography of Juan Francisco Manzano
2007 - Selection(s) This beautifully illustrated collection of linked poems explores the life of Juan, a brutally treated slave who nonetheless sees the world in unique and lyrical... |
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Just Listen
2007 - Selection(s) Being nice, never complaining, and avoiding conflict no longer work for Annabel Green. Can she listen to her own voice and speak up? |
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King Dork
2007 - Selection(s) While creating outrageous album covers and trying to name his band, 14-year-old Tom grapples with his father’s death. |
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Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon
2007 - Selection(s) Suspenseful and packed with little-known facts, this exploration of the Apollo 11 mission captures the dedication of the people behind the scenes. |
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Over a Thousand Hills I Walk With You
2007 - Selection(s) Based on the experiences of the author's adopted daughter, a survivor of the Rwandan genocide, this story provides a heart-wrenching perspective on the horrors of... |
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Twice Told: Original Stories Inspired by Original Artwork
2007 - Selection(s) Pairs of authors respond to nine original drawings with strikingly divergent short stories. |
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The Rules of Survival
2007 - Selection(s) When Matthew and his younger sisters witness a man confronting an abusive parent, they think they may have found a hero who will save them... |
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Black Duck
2007 - Selection(s) While researching a newspaper article about a mysterious 1929 event, 14-year-old David uncovers secrets surrounding the deaths of three bootleggers on the rum-running vessel The... |
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Escape!: The Story of the Great Houdini
2007 - Selection(s) A spellbinding biography of the amazing Harry Houdini written by a fellow magician. |
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Come Back to Afghanistan: A California Teenager's Story
2006 - Selection(s) California teen Hyder describes three summers (2002-4) he spent with his father who had returned to the Afghanistan to help rebuild his country by serving... |
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Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two
2006 - Selection(s) After years of mistreatment at white run boarding schools, Ned Begay and other Navajo are enlisted by the Army to use their special talents to... |
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Gil's All Fright Diner
2006 - Selection(s) When Earl, a vampire, and his werewolf buddy Duke pull up to Rockwood's only diner in their out-of-gas pickup, they find themselves uniquely suited to... |
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Maritcha: A Nineteenth Century American Girl
2006 - Selection(s) Maritcha Lyons, born of a free African American family in New York in 1843, led an amazing life, one that was directly influenced by pivotal... |
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Where I Want to Be
2006 - Selection(s) Jane and Lily have always been close despite their differences. After Jane dies, both must come to terms with their troubled relationship. |
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Kipling's Choice
2006 - Selection(s) John Kipling, son of the famous writer, Rudyard Kipling, joins the British Army in World War I with help from his father. |
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Lessons in Taxidermy
2006 - Selection(s) Pushed around "like putty" by legions of doctors surgically attacking almost every body part at one time or another, Bee Lavender survived a childhood and... |
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Real Time
2006 - Selection(s) Thomas Wanninger feigns interest in gardening as his motivation for wanting to work on the kibbutz. This modern German teen really wants to discover whether... |
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Uglies
2006 - Selection(s) Tally can't wait for her 16th birthday - and the surgery that will transform her into a "pretty". Because if everyone is beautiful, everything is... |
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Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow
2006 - Selection(s) “I begin with the young…What material! With them I can make a new world.” Adolf Hitler exploited the idealism of millions of Germany’s young... |
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Boy Proof
2006 - Selection(s) Victoria Denton (Egg) hides behind her identity until she falls in love with an interesting new boy unlike all the others. Life becomes interesting when... |
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All Rivers Flow to the Sea
2006 - Selection(s) It’s always been Rose and Ivy, until that one fateful night when a blue truck slides into their car, and forever separates each sister into... |
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Bodies From the Ash: Life and Death in Ancient Pompeii
2006 - Selection(s) A clear, concise and intriguing explanation of the eruption of Vesuvius that destroyed Pompeii in AD 79 is presented in this thin volume. |
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Dark Sons
2006 - Selection(s) In a novel of free verse, Sam, a modern-day African-American teen copes with the break-up of his parents marriage and his changed relationship with his... |
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Under the Persimmon Tree
2006 - Selection(s) Najmah, an Afghan girl, who witnesses her mother's and brother's deaths in an air raid and her father's and older brother's conscription by the Taliban... |
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Fortune's Bones: The Manumission Requiem
2006 - Selection(s) A stunning mix of powerful poetry and history honoring Fortune, a slave, whose body was dissected and rendered after his death and his skeleton studied... |
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Daisy Kutter: The Last Train
2006 - Selection(s) Daisy Kutter is a reformed bandit in a strange wild west town where robots and cell phones are as common as corrupt poker games and... |
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A Certain Slant of Light
2006 - Selection(s) Helen has been a ghost gently and anonymously haunting various hosts for 130 years until the day when a boy in a classroom lets her... |
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Upstate
2006 - Selection(s) Natasha and Antonio, young lovers, communicate via letters for nine years during his incarceration for murdering his father. |
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LoveSick
2006 - Selection(s) Crippled in a drunk driving accident, Ted loses his basketball scholarship. Then a shocking offer to spy on a Manhattan princess brings another chance to... |
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Autobiography of My Dead Brother
2006 - Selection(s) Jesse examines his life and the lives of those around him in words and art. |
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Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea
2006 - Selection(s) Guy Delisle is a French Canadian animator who is sent to North Korea to oversee an outsourced animation project. He shares his experiences as a... |
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The Witch's Boy
2006 - Selection(s) A witch who knows little about the practicalities of daily life finds a hideously ugly baby boy in the woods and raises him as her... |
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Light Years: A Novel
2006 - Selection(s) Maya Laor comes to Virginia to escape the tragic bombing that killed her boyfriend and for which she feels responsible-- but even that may not... |
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A Wreath for Emmett Till
2006 - Selection(s) In a heartbreaking elegiac collection, a "heroic crown of sonnets", the death of 14-year-old Emmett Till is placed in historic and poetic context. |
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Heavy Metal and You
2006 - Selection(s) METAL HEAD NOT GOTH and Sam likes his life LOUD until a very different straightedge girl starts whispering to him. Melissa tempts Sammy away from... |
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Sandpiper
2006 - Selection(s) Two lonely teens, each with secrets that set them apart, meet and their lives are changed completely. |
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Looking for Alaska
2006 - Selection(s) Miles is looking for the Great Perhaps--and an Alabama boarding school offers the possibility of finding it, especially after he meets the captivating, unpredictable, and... |
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Red Kayak
2006 - Selection(s) Brady, JT and Digger don't call out to the people in the red kayak as it heads out on a stormy morning, and Brady will... |
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Skybreaker
2006 - Selection(s) Matt Cruise is following his dream as a first-year student at the Airship Academy when during a two-week navigation training stint, he is part of... |
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Guinea Pig Scientists: Bold Self-Experimenters in Science and Medicine
2006 - Selection(s) Extraordinary and often disturbing stories about ten people who cared so much about scientific exploration that they experimented upon themselves to test their theories. |
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Siberia: A Novel
2006 - Selection(s) Sloe, 13, treks through a cold dystopian wilderness full of thieves and outlaws in an attempt to find a safe haven for the DNA of... |
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Mimus
2006 - Selection(s) A Prince must play at being a jester as he strives to rescue his imprisoned father. |
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Japan 1945: A U.S. Marine's Photographs from Ground Zero
2006 - Selection(s) The absolute devastation of Ground Zero in Japan is portrayed with the camera's unflinching eye through a series of photographs taken shortly after the bombing... |
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Black Juice
2006 - Selection(s) Ten stories from Down Under explore the darkness and the light of the human spirit. |
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A Thief in the House of Memory
2006 - Selection(s) When a dead man is found in his family's house, Declan finds himself drawn into a vortex of memories and lies. |
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Inexcusable
2006 - Selection(s) High school senior and football star Keir Sarafina says, “I hate it when people I love condemn me,” but has Keir done something inexcusable to... |
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Revenge of the Witch
2006 - Selection(s) Thomas Ward is the seventh son of a seventh son and has an aptitude for the supernatural. Thomas becomes an apprentice to the Spook who... |
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A Room on Lorelei Street
2006 - Selection(s) A bed in a room. Doesn't seem like much. But when you are 17 and your alcoholic mother cannot even remember to pay rent and... |
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The Plot: The Secret Story of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion
2006 - Selection(s) A historical treatise on the publication of a false pamphlet and "Vampire-like fraud" called "the Protocols of the Elders of Zion" which fueled a huge... |
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Stripes of the Sidestep Wolf
2006 - Selection(s) Satchel O'Rye finishes work on possibly the very last job in his dying town. Social, religious, and economic forces are pushing for a whole new... |
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Ariel
2006 - Selection(s) Behind Shakepeare's Tempest is the mysterious figure of Ariel. This is her story, of dreams and lies and madness. |
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John Lennon: All I Want Is the Truth
2006 - Selection(s) A telling photo-biographical account of John Lennon, the man behind the myth who sought truth through music. Partridge traces Lennon's life from birth to his... |
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Magic or Madness
2006 - Selection(s) When fifteen-year-old Reason’s mother suffers a mental breakdown, Reason is sent to live with the grandmother they have evaded for years and she discovers that... |
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Twilight: A Novel
2006 - Selection(s) Bella's move to rainy Forks, Washington is the most boring move she will ever make, until she meets Edward, the vampire love of her life. |
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Every Man for Himself: Ten Short Stories About Being a Guy
2006 - Selection(s) Ten short stories that explore the issue of what it means to be a man. |
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Keeper
2006 - Selection(s) Holding the World Cup as he talks, El Gato, the great goalie, describes his early life in a remote South American village, the secret soccer... |
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Invisible Allies: Microbes That Shape Our Lives
2006 - Selection(s) A lively examination of the beneficial and necessary microbes in our systems, tracing a lunch of a cheese sandwich and a chocolate bar from beginning... |
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Invisible
2006 - Selection(s) 17-year-old Doug's teachers and parents think he is highly disturbed, and the kids at school find him creepy. Only his best friend Andy understands him... |
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Far Traveler
2006 - Selection(s) After the sudden death of her mother, Athelflaed of Mercia, sixteen-year-old Aelfwyn disguises herself as a bard to escape marriage to an older man who... |
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When I Was a Soldier: A Memoir
2006 - Selection(s) A non-fiction account of French immigrant and Israeli citizen Valerie Zenatti who enters into adulthood via compulsory army duty. Her life changes forever. |
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Absolutely Positively Not
2006 - Selection(s) Steven has noticed that his new health teacher, Mr. Bowman, is extremely handsome, but he still tries to convince himself that he's not gay in... |
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Runaways: Volume 1 HC
2006 - Selection(s) Six teenagers discover that their parents are super-villains, and after deciding to turn them in, fight for both their own survival and an end to... |
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Bang!
2006 - Selection(s) Mann, still mourning the senseless shooting of his younger brother, is left in the wilderness by his father in order to become a 'man.' |
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Ball Don't Lie
2006 - Selection(s) Sticky, 17, foster care victim and talented white basketball player overcomes his tough upbringing with the support of his girlfriend and the older hoopsters at... |
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Our Eleanor: A Scrapbook Look at Eleanor Roosevelt's Remarkable Life
2006 - Selection(s) This scrapbook-format biography of Eleanor Roosevelt covers her childhood, marriage, motherhood, and years as First Lady highlighting her accomplishments as an astute politician, writer, social... |
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The Minister's Daughter
2006 - Selection(s) The fates of Nell the healer's daughter and merrybegot and the minister's daughters, Grace and Patience, are intertwined when Grace accuses Nell and her grandmother... |
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Red Sea
2006 - Selection(s) Libby is a typical 14 year old. She says "down" when her stepfather says "up." If he suggests something, she is going to fight against... |
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The Diary of Pelly D. Greenwillow
2006 - Selection(s) While working on a demolition crew after the war, Toni V finds the diary of Pelly D buried in an empty water can. The... |
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Day of Tears: A Novel in Dialogue
2006 - Selection(s) After being sold in the largest slave auction in American history, Emma and Joe agonize whether to try to escape or remain chattel in this... |
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Peeps
2006 - Selection(s) College freshman Cal comes to NY, spends a night with a beautiful girl-- and becomes a carrier. Now everyone he kisses develops a craving for... |
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Zap
2006 - Selection(s) Dead bodies, a sarcastic performance artist, an English country manor, bored Russians, Richard III, scheming writers and artificial buttocks are just a few things found... |
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Criss Cross
2006 - Selection(s) Criss Cross is a radio show that Debbie and Hector and others listen to in the car. It also serves as a central metaphor for... |
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Understanding the Holy Land: Answering Questions About the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
2006 - Selection(s) Using a question and answer formation, the complexities of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are examined. |
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Flush
2006 - Selection(s) FLUSH, the story of what happens after Paine Underwood pulls the plug on the Coral Queen, gets arrested for this act, and how this spurs... |
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Stormwitch
2006 - Selection(s) Ruba, a teenager in Pass Christian, Mississippi, struggles to deal with civil rights and Hurricane Camille using the voodoo skills her Haitian grandmother taught her. |
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Spacer and Rat
2006 - Selection(s) Jack is all set to leave Freedom Station for a new job on Liberty when an Earthie Rat, Kit, and her bot who has named... |
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Are We There Yet?
2006 - Selection(s) Brothers Elijah and Danny travel through Italy together even though they feel that they have nothing in common. Then they meet Julia. |
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Poison
2006 - Selection(s) When Poison's sister is kidnapped by Phaeries, Poison is determined to get her back but she doesn't realize that she is part of a much... |
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Wrecked
2006 - Selection(s) Anna, 16, develops post-traumatic stress disorder after being in a car accident where she feels responsible for killing her brother's girlfriend and seriously injuring her... |
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Just Like That
2006 - Selection(s) Could 18-year-old Hanna have prevented the deaths of two teens? Her realization that life can change in an instant causes her to revaluate her life... |
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Good Brother, Bad Brother: The Story of Edwin Booth and John Wilkes Booth
2006 - Selection(s) Biography of two brothers, Edwin Booth and John Wilkes Booth, both famous actors, and the tragedy of John Wilkes Booth's assassination of Abraham Lincoln. |
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An Innocent Soldier
2006 - Selection(s) Conscripted in place of his farmer's son, farm hand Adam joins Napoleon’s march on Russia in 1811 and first serves, then becomes friends with a... |
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Black and White
2006 - Selection(s) For best friends and co-players on their High School basketball team, Marcus (AKA Black) and Eddie (AKA White), life looks good. Then an armed robbery... |
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Valiant: A Modern Tale of Faerie
2006 - Selection(s) After catching her boyfriend cheating on her with her mother, Valerie runs away from home and slides into a seductively magical world full of betrayal... |
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Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie: A Novel
2006 - Selection(s) In a series of humorous diary entries, 9th grader Scott offers a list of "do's" and "don'ts" to his unborn sibling on surviving freshman year... |
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I Am the Messenger
2006 - Selection(s) Aimless, amiable 19-year-old cab driver, Ed Kennedy, foils a bank robber and then begins to receive mysterious messages assigning him to intervene in the lives... |
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Anansi Boys
2006 - Selection(s) Everyone's parents are annoying-- even when they're dead. Oh, and gods. |
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
2006 - Selection(s) In book 6 Harry is more contrary and less trusting yet a leader. Harry wants revenge against he who shall not be named and goes... |
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Growing Up in Slavery: Stories of Young Slaves as Told By Themselves
2006 - Selection(s) An intense collection of ten American slave narratives. This collection is sobering and brutal, but it also speaks to the triumph of the spirit and... |
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Stained
2006 - Selection(s) Why did Gabe suddenly disappear? Can Jocelyn put the pieces together and make it safe for his return or are they all forever stained? |
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Superman: Birthright
2006 - Selection(s) The origin of Superman is updated in this graphic novel. |
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Rebel Angels
2006 - Selection(s) Gemma's act of breaking the runes has given to magic to all. Does she have the strength and power to bind the magic and restore... |
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The Highest Tide: A Novel
2006 - Selection(s) Miles O’Malley discovers peculiar sea life in a cove of Puget Sound. |
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Let Me Play: The Story of Title IX: The Law That Changed the Future of Girls in America
2006 - Selection(s) A few years ago opportunities for women in sports not to mention most professions conducted by men were extremely limited. In 1972, congress passed a... |
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As Simple as Snow
2006 - Selection(s) High school student Anastasia (Anna) Cayne disappears, leaving behind her neatly placed dress lying near a hole in the ice. |
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Eyes of the Emperor
2006 - Selection(s) Lying about his age, 16 year-old Eddy Okubo joins the U.S. Army in Honolulu in 1941, just before the bombing of Pearl Harbor. He wants... |
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The Forbidden Schoolhouse: The True and Dramatic Story of Prudence Crandall and Her Students
2006 - Selection(s) Inspiring true story of Prudence Crandall, a white woman who opened a school for African-American girls in Canterbury, Connecticut in 1833 despite vicious opposition from... |
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13 Little Blue Envelopes
2006 - Selection(s) The 13 blue envelopes Ginny receives from her Aunt Peg will take her through Europe and change her life. |
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Full Service
2006 - Selection(s) When 16-year-old farm boy Paul Sutton takes a job at the full-service Shell station in town, he sees the town and its inhabitants through new... |
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The Lightning Thief: Percy Jackson and the Olympians
2006 - Selection(s) After dyslexic teen Percy Jackson vaporizes his Algebra teacher and is attacked by the Minotaur, he discovers that he is not who he thought he... |
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Luna: A Novel
2005 - Selection(s) Luna, like her namesake the moon, can only come out at night. What happens when she decides to become a presence in the daylight too... |
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Airborn
2005 - Selection(s) Matt Cruse is more at home in the air than anywhere on land. He pursues his dream of someday serving as captain on an airship... |
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Mable Riley: A Reliable Record of Humdrum, Peril, and Romance
2005 - Selection(s) Mabel Riley dreams of grand adventures when she and her sister move away from their home and board with a farm family in turn-of-the-century Ontario. |
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One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies
2005 - Selection(s) After her mother dies of cancer, Ruby is forced to move to "Cali-phony-a" to live with her father, the famous movie star, Whip Logan. |
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Al Capone Does My Shirts: a Novel
2005 - Selection(s) Twelve year old Moose Flanagan is dismayed and more than just a little wary when his family moves to Alcatraz Island because of his father's... |
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Sunshine
2005 - Selection(s) A band of vampires chain Sunshine to the wall of an abandoned ballroom and leave her to be devoured by the ballroom's other inhabitant, a... |
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So Yesterday
2005 - Selection(s) When Hunter Braque, a Cool Hunter, meets Jen Jones, an Innovator, the pair unwittingly fall into a secret scheme to rock the foundations of a... |
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A Hat Full Of Sky
2005 - Selection(s) When Tiffany Aching leaves the Chalk and her Wee Free Men to become a witch-in-training, she does not know that she will soon need their... |
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Under the Wolf, Under the Dog
2005 - Selection(s) Gifted and talented high school student Steve Nugent reveals how he ended up in a teen facility after his mother dies of cancer and his... |
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Bird
2005 - Selection(s) Thirteen-year-old Bird runs away from her home in Ohio in hopes of retrieving her departed stepfather, Cecil. |
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Can't Get There from Here
2005 - Selection(s) A homeless teen, Maybe, and her tribe of fellow street urchins try to survive the natural and human elements of a winter on the street... |
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Daniel Half Human and the Good Nazi
2005 - Selection(s) When Daniel tells his parents that they cannot forbid him from joining the Hitler Jugend (HJ), they tell him the truth - that he is... |
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An Earthly Knight
2005 - Selection(s) In 1162, Jenny finds herself in the role of elder daughter when her older sister runs away with an dangerous suitor -- but what happens... |
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Fray
2005 - Selection(s) In the distant future, Fray is a thief making a living in the slum that was once Manhattan. One day her destiny catches up with... |
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Predator's Gold: a Novel
2005 - Selection(s) In a futuristic world where wheeled cities devour other cities, lovers Hester and Tom are pursued by a terrorist group as they shelter on a... |
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Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood
2005 - Selection(s) Sammy Santos dreams of getting away from the barrio to college but when Juliana Rios, the girl he loves, is tragically killed his grief nearly... |
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A Fast and Brutal Wing
2005 - Selection(s) Emmet and Niki may or may not be a brother and sister pair of shape shifters implicated in the disappearance of a local celebrity who... |
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Chanda's Secrets
2005 - Selection(s) Sixteen-year-old Chanda loves school and dreams of a scholarship and a life beyond her family's poverty. But her Mama is tired all the time... |
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Splintering
2005 - Selection(s) A family faces the aftermath of a brutal attack by a violent stranger. |
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A Dream of Freedom: The Civil Rights Movement from 1954 to 1968
2005 - Selection(s) This handsome volume summarizes and explains the key years of the Civil rights Movement, bringing in major players as well as lesser known heroes and... |
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See You Down The Road: A Novel
2005 - Selection(s) Bridget is a sixteen year-old Traveler, part of a family of roaming con artists, who is not sure she wants to stay in the life... |
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The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights
2005 - Selection(s) A biography of the great singer Marian Anderson and her role in bringing the injustice of segregation in the arts to national awareness. |
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Promises to Keep: How Jackie Robinson Changed America
2005 - Selection(s) Jackie Robinson's daughter weaves interesting narrative about her father's baseball career, family life and political activism with beautiful photographs and handwritten correspondence to create an... |
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So B. It: a novel
2005 - Selection(s) Twelve-year-old Heidi--whose mother's severe mental disability limits her to only being able to articulate 23 words, sounds, or short phrases--embarks on a journey to discover... |
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The Key to the Golden Firebird
2005 - Selection(s) A year after their father dies from a heart attack in his prized 1967 Firebird, the three Gold sisters try to cope with their grief... |
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The Golem's Eye: The Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book Two
2005 - Selection(s) Nathaniel, a talented and ambitious 14-year-old governmental magician, again summons Bartimaeus, the sarcastic and irreverent djinni from The Amulet of Samarkand, to help him destroy... |
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The Blue Girl
2005 - Selection(s) Being temporarily blue-skinned hasn't helped brash, street-smart Imogene's status as her high school's social outcast, nor does it help her and her friends-- real, dead... |
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Curse Of The Blue Tattoo: Being an Account of the Misadventures of Jacky Faber, Midshipman and Fine Lady
2005 - Selection(s) Having her blown "grand Deception," Jacky Faber, ships' boy and aspiring fine lady, has been unceremoniously dropped off in Boston by the H.M.S. Dolphin crew... |
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No Laughter Here
2005 - Selection(s) When Victoria returns from as family visit to Nigeria, she is uncharacteristically distant from her best friend, Akilah. Soon Akilah learns that her friend... |
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Tending to Grace
2005 - Selection(s) Cornelia Thornhill, who refuses to speak because of her speech impediment, is left with her Great- Aunt Agatha when her mother and her boyfriend head... |
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How I Live Now
2005 - Selection(s) Fifteen-year-old Elizabeth (Daisy) finds her whole world turned upside down when she travels to England to stay with relatives, falls in love, and is caught... |
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The Garden
2005 - Selection(s) In an alternate Eden after the creation of the first human beings, Adam is tutored by God as Eve is left in the care of... |
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Margaux With An X
2005 - Selection(s) Margaux,"with an X", a beautiful ice queen, can have any boy she wants, and what she wants to do is tease. That is, until she... |
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Chief Sunrise, John McGraw, and Me
2005 - Selection(s) Escaping his abusive father, fifteen-year-old Hank Cobb joins Chief Sunrise, "immortal in the making," in a journey to meet John McGraw and try out for... |
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Dr. Ernest Drake's Dragonology: The Complete Book of Dragons
2005 - Selection(s) Dragonologists, both amateur and academic, will hail Dr. Drake’s lavishly illustrated rediscovered guide that includes a classification of dragons by habitat, anatomical drawings, helpful riddles... |
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Fleshmarket
2005 - Selection(s) A young Scottish boy, Robbie Anderson, tries to uncover the true nature of a head surgeon and learn about early nineteenth century medicine after he... |
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New Found Land: Lewis and Clark's Voyage of Discovery
2005 - Selection(s) Fourteen members of the Corps of Discovery tell the story of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. |
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The Unthinkable Thoughts of Jacob Green
2005 - Selection(s) Jacob Green tries to establish his identity in his seriously dysfunctional suburban Jewish family during the late seventies/early eighties. |
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Gothic: Ten Original Dark Tales
2005 - Selection(s) Ten gifted authors create short gothic tales that thrill and chill. |
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Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return
2005 - Selection(s) Marjane Satrapi continues where she left off in Persepolis, living in Vienna and enduring the hardships of being a Third World citizen in a Western... |
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George Washington, Spymaster: How the Americans Outspied the British and Won the Revolutionary War
2005 - Selection(s) Who knew our most famous Founding Father was a colonial James Bond? This book features Washington in a little known but incredibly important role as... |
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The Blue Mirror
2005 - Selection(s) The Blue Mirror serves as Maggy's escape from her alcoholic mother, and her entrance into the destructive, abusive life of Cole, an enigmatic and homeless... |
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Sky: A Novel in 3 Sets and an Encore
2005 - Selection(s) Sky is a 15-year old jazz musician who is forced to come to terms with his over-bearing father and struggles to find himself in 1958... |
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The Hollow Kingdom
2005 - Selection(s) Beautiful Kate agrees to marry the King of the Goblins in exchange for the safe return of her kidnapped sister. |
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The Year Of Secret Assignments
2005 - Selection(s) Best friends Lydia, Emily and Cassie's penpal project with boys from a rival school results in hilarious high school hijinks, including out of control pranks... |
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The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray
2005 - Selection(s) Possession, wych-kin, airships and Stitch-face all pose tremendous challenges to Thaniel and Cathaline as they fight to rid London of the evil Fraternity. |
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Bucking the Sarge
2005 - Selection(s) Fifteen year-old Luther T. Farrell has come to terms with the fact that his mother is a number one scam artist, preying on the weak... |
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Andy Warhol: Prince of Pop
2005 - Selection(s) This biography of Andy Warhol illuminates his life and times, highlighting his impact on art and culture. |
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Lizzie Bright and the Buckminister Boy
2005 - Selection(s) Turner's family moves to Phippsburg, Maine at a time when the town's white leaders are seeking to eliminate a nearby island community, originally founded by... |
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Fire-Eaters
2005 - Selection(s) It is 1962 and the whole world is holding its breath as the Cuban Missile Crisis intensifies. In Keely Bay, Bobby Burns is walking... |
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The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place
2005 - Selection(s) Rescued from summer camp bullies by her Old World-styled Granduncles, Margaret Rose Kane spends a transformative month lodging at their unusual home. |
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No Shame, No Fear
2005 - Selection(s) In 1662 Britain, as violent intolerance of Quakers mounts, a 15-year old Quaker girl and the well-educated son of a prosperous and respected Anglican businessman... |
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The Sea of Trolls
2005 - Selection(s) When the Northmen invade Great Britain in 793, 11-year-old Jack, who has been apprenticing with The Bard, and Lucy, his five year old sister, are... |
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Here in Harlem: Poems in Many Voices
2005 - Selection(s) The hopes, dreams, and disappointments of the iconic African American community are explored in verse and vintage photographs. |
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Behind You
2005 - Selection(s) Family, friends, and Ellie--the love of his life--deal with the tragic death of 15-year-old Jeremiah. |
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The Race to Save the Lord God Bird
2005 - Selection(s) The story of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker's demise is the centerpiece for a book about extinction and the pressures of mankind upon the Earth. |
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Donorboy
2005 - Selection(s) 14-year old Rosalind Butterfield's life is suddenly destroyed when her two lesbian parents die in a freak accident. Her genetic father, a casual, past... |
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It's a Bird
2005 - Selection(s) A comic writer named Steve is unable to accept the job of a lifetime, to write a Superman story, because the problems in his family's... |
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Sign of the Qin: Outlaws of Moonshadow Marsh, No. 1
2005 - Selection(s) Dangers abound in this magical epic martial arts fantasy that follows Prince Zong, the Starlord, and his mother Silver Lotus, the First Consort, after their... |
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Yossel, April 19, 1943: A Story of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
2005 - Selection(s) With rough pencil sketches, fifteen-year-old Yossel chronicles the horrifying events of the Holocaust in the Warsaw Ghetto, culminating in the ill-fated uprising. |
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Working Fire: The Making of an Accidental Fireman
2005 - Selection(s) A young rookie provides a behind-the-firehouse doors look at what is like to fight fire in a big city. |
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The Oracle Betrayed
2005 - Selection(s) The Archon sacrifices himself to the scorpion to bring rain to his drought-stricken land but not before warning shy Mirany, the new Bearer that treachery... |
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Bound
2005 - Selection(s) In this retelling of Chinese Cinderella tales, Xing Xing, 14, is resigned to a life of servitude to her ungrateful stepmother and sickly stepsister, until... |
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Prince Across the Water
2005 - Selection(s) Duncan MacDonald and his cousin Ewan are eager to answer the call to restore Prince Charlie to the Scottish throne, a quest that will lead... |
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The Realm of Possibility
2005 - Selection(s) This ambitious and romantic novel in verse presents twenty distinctive-yet-interwoven stories by twenty high school students who each share defining pieces of their lives in... |
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Godless
2005 - Selection(s) Sixteen-year-old Jason Bock, tired of the tedious "Teen Power Outreach" sessions he is forced to attend at his Catholic church, decides to create his own... |
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The Safe-Keeper's Secret
2005 - Selection(s) The foundling, Reed, is raised with the Safe-Keeper's own baby, Fiona. As the two grow older they must come to terms with who they are... |
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With Courage and Cloth: Winning the Fight for a Woman's Right to Vote
2005 - Selection(s) The long, arduous, and sometimes violent struggle for a woman's right to vote is told in an engaging narrative. The roots of the movement... |
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A Crack in the Line
2005 - Selection(s) Sixteen-year-old Alaric stumbles into a parallel universe in which his dead mother still lives and discovers that his room is occupied by Naia, a girl... |
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Montmorency: Thief, Liar, Gentleman?
2005 - Selection(s) Montmorency, a petty thief in Victorian England, is badly injured and then caught by the police, but his time recuperating in jail is the beginning... |
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Who Am I Without Him?: Short Stories about Girls and the Boys in Their Lives
2005 - Selection(s) Ten short stores focus on sometimes difficult male-female relationships as experienced by African American teen girls. |
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Rock Star, Susperstar
2005 - Selection(s) Sixteen year old bass players Peter learns bittersweet lessons of life, love and rock and roll during his sophomore and junior years of high school... |
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Saving Francesca
2005 - Selection(s) Teenaged Francesca is facing her classes, her friends, and the complications that arise from being one of thirty girls in a school with 750 guys... |
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Eagle Strike: An Alex Rider Adventure
2005 - Selection(s) Teenage British spy Alex Rider is back in an all new addicting adventure that includes a reunion with an old enemy, a celebrity madman, and... |
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The Schwa was Here
2005 - Selection(s) When Antsy Bonano realizes that his friend Calvin Schwa is functionally invisible, they decide to use this "Schwa Effect" to make some big bucks. ... |
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Wake Up Our Souls: A Celebration of Black American Artists
2005 - Selection(s) This book highlights influential and important Black American 20th-century artists, from those of the early part of the century, to important participants in the Harlem... |
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B for Buster
2005 - Selection(s) Kak, 16, illegally enlists in the Canadian Air Force in 1943 and experiences the horror of war as he battles his fear of flying in... |
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D-Day: The Greatest Invasion - A Peoples History
2005 - Selection(s) A visually stunning overview of the pivotal invasion of Europe that changed the course of World War II. |
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Nothing to Lose
2005 - Selection(s) What happened the night that Michael Daye joined the carny life? Now that his mother is on trial for murder, perhaps the real truth will... |
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The Teacher's Funeral: A Comedy in Three Parts
2005 - Selection(s) When mean ole Myrt Arbuckle hauls off and dies, fifteen year old Russell Culver thinks he is finally done with school forever until his older... |
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Private Peaceful
2005 - Selection(s) Tommy Peaceful and his older brother Charlie enlist in the British army and are sent to fight in the trenches in France after their noble... |
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Worlds Afire: The Hartford Circus Fire of 1944
2005 - Selection(s) On July 6, 1944, 167 people were killed and over 500 were injured when the circus they were attending in Hartford, Connecticut caught fire. ... |
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The Radioactive Boy Scout: The True Story of a Boy and His Backyard Nuclear Reactor
2005 - Selection(s) Science geek David Hahn's obsession with nuclear energy results in the unsupervised creation of a radioative device with the potential to spark an environmental disaster... |
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Doing It
2005 - Selection(s) Rude, crude, and obsessed with the needs of Mr. Knobby Knobster, high school students Jonathon and his mates Dino and Ben provide an unflinching inside... |
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Heck, Superhero
2005 - Selection(s) HECK, SUPERHERO reveals ninety-six critical hours in the life of a thirteen-year-old all-too-human kid who has channeled a lifetime of chronic neglect by his severely... |
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Double Helix
2005 - Selection(s) Haunted by too many unanswered questions, Eli Samuels finds they all seem to lead to world-famous transgeneticist Quincy Wyatt, a man whose eerie familiarity masks... |
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: A Novel
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September 11, 2001: Attack on New York City
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Pirates!
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A Great and Terrible Beauty
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Jake, Reinvented
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Heir Apparent
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Wonder When You'll Miss Me
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Bottled Up: A Novel
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The First Part Last
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Sweetblood
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Mortal Engines: A Novel
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Faerie Wars
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Uncommon Faith
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Zigzag
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Firebirds: An Anthology of Original Fantasy and Science Fiction
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Kissing Kate
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Boy Meets Boy
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Across the Nightingale Floor: Tales of the Otori, Book One
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
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Lucas
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Shutterbug Follies
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Locomotion
2004 - Selection(s) Normal false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ A verse novel in which 11-year-old Lonnie recovers from the trauma that results when his parents are killed in a fire. |
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Ben Franklin's Almanac: Being a True Account of the Good Gentleman's Life
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Out of Bounds: Seven Stories of Conflict and Hope
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The Usual Rules
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Olive's Ocean
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
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Staring Down the Dragon
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Burndive
2004 - Selection(s) Normal false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ Ryan Azarcon is drawn into an interstellar war when his famous family is targeted by assassins. |
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Sorcery & Cecelia, Or, The Enchanted Chocolate Pot: Being the Correspondence of Two Young Ladies of Quality Regarding Various Magical Scandals in London and the Country
2004 - Selection(s) Normal false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } /* Style Definitions */ Cousins Cecelia and Kate, who have grown up raucously in the country, correspond in lively letters during the course of Kate’s first season in London. |
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Fight On!: Mary Church Terrell's Battle for Integration
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Breath
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East
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A Stir of Bones
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God Went to Beauty School
2004 - Selection(s) Normal false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ Very funny, yet thoughtful, collection of poems presenting an alternative view of God. |
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Sophie
2004 - Selection(s) Normal false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ Adult Mattie recounts his strange childhood with his sister Sophie, his hostage. |
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Birdland
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Sword of the Rightful King: A Novel of King Arthur
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Friction: A Novel
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Cuba 15
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33 Snowfish
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Keeper of the Night
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Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
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White Midnight
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The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things
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Dragon and Thief: A Dragonback Adventure
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In Defense of Liberty: The Story of America's Bill of Rights
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The Interman
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The Amulet of Samarkand: Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book One
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The Canning Season
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The Tree of Life: A Book Depicting the Life of Charles Darwin: Naturalist, Geologist & Thinker
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Close to Shore: The Terrifying Shark Attacks of 1916
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Drift
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Keesha's House
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How Angel Peterson Got His Name: And Other Outrageous Tales About Extreme Sports
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Blankets: An Illustrated Novel
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Out of Order
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Dust
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Prep
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Acceleration
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Fat Kid Rules the World
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The River Between Us
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Purple Hibiscus
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Target
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Milkweed: A Novel
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The Meaning of Consuelo
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Bloody Jack: Being an Account of the Curious Adventures of Mary "Jacky" Faber, Ship's Boy
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True Confessions of a Heartless Girl
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Singing the Dogstar Blues
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Trickster's Choice
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The Goblin Wood
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Alice, I Think
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Inside Out
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Getting Away With Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till Case
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An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793
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A Northern Light
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Runaway Girl: The Artist Louise Bourgeois
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The Wee Free Men: A Story of Discworld
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Fairie-Ality: The Fashion Collection
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Buddha Boy
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Deep
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King of the Mild Frontier: An Ill-Advised Autobiography
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Inside the Alamo
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Revenge of the Whale: The True Story of the Whaleship Essex
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Search of the Moon King's Daughter
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Postcards from No Man's Land
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Three Clams and an Oyster
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The Lightkeeper's Daughter
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Better Than Running at Night
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Strangers and Beggars: Stories
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To Afghanistan and Back: A Graphic Travelogue
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The Hunting of the Last Dragon
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Things Not Seen
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Stetson
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Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
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My Heartbeat
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Hush
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The Gatekeepers: Inside the Admissions Process of a Premier College
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The Secret Life of Bees
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Gingerbread
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Motorcycle Ride on the Sea of Tranquility
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Left for Dead: A Young Man's Search for Justice for the USS Indianapolis
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Out of the Fire
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Girl in a Cage
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Before We Were Free
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Stoner & Spaz
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Mississippi Trial, 1955
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Kotuku
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19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East
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Coraline
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Ashes of Roses
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The Dollmage
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Seven Wild Sisters
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The Lovely Bones: A Novel
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This Land Was Made For You and Me: The Life & Songs of Woody Guthrie
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Pictures of Hollis Woods
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The Book of Fred: A Novel
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The Kite Rider
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Born Confused
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Shattered: Stories of Children and War
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Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850
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Shattering Glass
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Abarat
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Aimee
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Catalyst
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This Lullaby
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Seven for a Secret
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Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story About Brain Science
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Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest
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Hanging on to Max
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Big Mouth & Ugly Girl
2003 - Selection(s) Normal false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ What are the consequences when high school junior Matt Donaghy jokingly threatens to blow up the school during lunch one day? |
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Feed
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Parvana's Journey
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Green Arrow: Quiver
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Hole in My Life
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Bronx Masquerade
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Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale
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When My Name Was Keoko: A Novel of Korea in World War II
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The House of the Scorpion
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Cat in Glass and Other Tales of the Unnatural
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Lucy the Giant
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Meltdown: A Race Against Nuclear Disaster at Three Mile Island: A Reporter's Story
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Dr. Franklin's Island
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Year of the Hangman
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Fresh Girl
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America
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Overboard
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Surviving the Applewhites
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Fields of Fury: The American Civil War
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Hoot
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Remembrance
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What Happened to Lani Garver
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Son of the Mob
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Once Upon a Marigold
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The Game
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