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Almond, David |
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Clay |
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The developing relationship between teenager Davie and a mysterious
new boy in town morphs into something darker and more sinister when
Davie learns firsthand of the boy's supernatural powers. |
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Bausum, Ann |
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Freedom Riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines of the
Civil Rights Movement |
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Freedom Riders compares and contrasts the childhoods of John Lewis
and James Zwerg in a way that helps young readers understand the
segregated experience of our nation's past. |
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Fisher, Catherine |
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Day of the Scarab: Book Three of the Oracle Prophecies |
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As she works to return peace to Two Lands, Mirany travels through
the Gates of the Underworld. |
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Jones, Traci L. |
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Standing Against the Wind |
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As she tries to escape her poor Chicago neighborhood by winning a
scholarship to a prestigious boarding school, shy and studious
eighth-grader Patrice discovers that she has more options in life
than she previously realized. |
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Marcus, Leonard S. (editor & compiler) |
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Wand in the Word: Conversations with Writers of Fantasy |
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Interviews with 13 American and English authors of fantasy fiction
discussing their lives, literary influences, work routines and their
beliefs about the place of fantasy in literature and our lives. |
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Pratchett, Terry |
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Wintersmith |
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When witch-in-training Tiffany Aching accidentally interrupts the
Dance of the Seasons and awakens the interest of the elemental
spirit of Winter, she requires the help of the Wee Free Men to put
the seasons aright. |
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Reeve, Philip |
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Larklight: Arousing Tale of Dauntless Pluck in the Farthest Reaches
of Space |
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In an alternate Victorian England, young Arthur and his sister
Myrtle, residents of Larklight, a floating house in one of Her
Majesty's outer space territories, uncover a spidery plot to destroy
the solar system. |
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Revkin, Andrew C. |
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North Pole Was Here: Puzzles and Perils at the Top of the World |
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An environmental reporter recounts his expedition to the North Pole
where he followed oceanographers as they drilled through nine feet
of ice to dive into the frigid waters and delved into the mysteries
of climate modeling and global warming. |
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Roy, Jennifer |
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Yellow Star |
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From 1939, when Syvia is four and a half years old, to 1945 when she
has just turned ten, a Jewish girl and her family struggle to
survive in Poland's Lodz ghetto during the Nazi occupation. |
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Sachar, Louis |
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Small Steps |
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Three years after being released from Camp Green Lake, Armpit is
trying hard to keep his life on track, but when his old pal X-Ray
shows up with a tempting plan to make some easy money scalping
concert tickets, Armpit reluctantly goes along. |
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Yang, Gene Luen |
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American Born Chinese |
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Alternates three interrelated stories about the problems of young
Chinese Americans trying to participate in the popular culture.
Presented in comic book format. |
