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  The Running Dream

  by Wendelin Van Draanen

  Jessica thinks her life is over when she loses a leg in a bus accident. She's not comforted by the news that she'll be able to walk with the help of a prosthetic leg. Who cares about walking when you live to run? As she struggles to cope with crutches and a first cyborg-like prosthetic, Jessica feels oddly both in the spotlight and invisible. People who don't know what to say, act like she's not there. Which she... (more)
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  Fairy Tales (Alex Flinn): Book 3

  Cloaked

  by Alex Flinn

  not a big fan of fairy tales? Check this book out and you might change your mind. this is an upbeat, edge of your seat book! it mixes romance with fun and emotion.
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  The Death of Joan of Arc

  A Lost Story from the Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel

  by Michael Scott

  Joan of Arc was not burned at the stake in Rouen, France in 1431. She was rescued from certain death by Scathach the Warrior. The truth about that day is revealed in the last will and testament of William of York, and it will leave you wondering: does Joan of Arc still walk the earth? Michael Scott’s first-ever exclusive ebook short story delves into the world of the bestselling series The Secrets of the Immortal... (more)
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  Lewis & Clark

  by Nick Bertozzi

  Two of America’s greatest explorers embark on the adventure that made their names—and sealed their fates.   In 1804, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark departed St. Louis, Missouri, for one of the greatest adventures this nation has ever known. Appointed and funded by President Jefferson himself, and led by a cadre of experts (including the famous Sacajawea), the expedition was considered a success almost before... (more)
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  Evolution: The Story of Life on Earth

  by Jay Hosler

  An accessible graphic introduction to evolution for the most science-phobic reader Illustrated by the brilliant duo Kevin Cannon and Zander Cannon, this volume is written by the noted comic author and professor of biology Jay Hosler. Evolution features the same characters introduced in the highly regarded The Stuff of Life: A Graphic Guide to Genetics and DNA , now here to explain the fundamentals of the... (more)
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  The Civil War

  Gettysburg and Other Eastern Battles, 1863-1865

  by Robert K. Krick, Robert O'Neill

  This volume charts the final two years of the Civil War as it occurred in the eastern United States. Many of the war's most pivotal battles were fought during this time, including the Battle of Gettysburg. The turning point of the war, Gettysburg ended with a Confederate defeat-and thousands of casualties on both sides. This time period also saw the surrender of Lee at Appomattox Court House, Lincoln's... (more)
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  The Civil War

  Sherman's Capture of Atlanta and Other Western Battles, 1863-1865

  by Joseph T. Glatthaar, Robert O'Neill

  This entry in the four-volume The Civil War: Essential Histories series was originally published in England under the title The American Civil War: The War in the West, 1863–1865 (2003), and additional back matter has been added to this edition. The first section, which takes up more than half the book, is an overview of battles fought south of Virginia and mostly west of Atlanta. Detailed information about the... (more)
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  Roots and Blues: A Celebration

  by Arnold Adoff

  Through poems and poetic prose pieces, acclaimed children's author Arnold Adoff celebrates that uniquely American form of music called the blues. In his signature “shaped speech” style, he creates a narrative of moments and joyous music, from the drums of the ancestors, the red dirt of the plantations, the current of the mighty Mississippi, and the shackles, blood, and tears of slavery. Each chop of the ax is a... (more)
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  Matched Trilogy: Book 1

  Matched

  by Ally Condie

  In the Society, Officials decide. Who you love. Where you work. When you die. Cassia has always trusted their choices. It’s barely any price to pay for a long life, the perfect job, the ideal mate. So when her best friend appears on the Matching screen, Cassia knows with complete certainty that he is the one . . . until she sees another face flash for an instant before the screen fades to black. Now... (more)
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  The Monstrumologist: Book 2

  The Curse of the Wendigo

  by Richard Yancey

  While attempting to disprove that Homo vampiris, the vampire, could exist, Dr. Warthrop is asked by his former fiance - to rescue her husband from the Wendigo, a creature that starves even as it gorges itself on human flesh, which has snatched him in the Canadian wilderness. Although Warthrop also considers the Wendigo to be fictitious, he relents and rescues her husband from death and starvation, and then sees... (more)
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  Drugs and Sports: Current Issues (Compact Research Series)

  by Peggy J. Parks

  The Current Issues subset of the Compact Research series presents different points of view on topics students may be researching for papers or debates. Brightened with colorful graphics and charts as well as the occasional photo, each volume opens with a broad overview followed by four chapters and sections of related quotes and statistics. Drugs and Sports looks at performance-enhancing substances and testing... (more)
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  The Floating Islands

  by Rachel Neumeier

  When Trei loses his family in a tragic disaster, he must search out distant relatives in a new land. The Floating Islands are unlike anything Trei has ever seen: stunning, majestic, and graced with kajurai, men who soar the skies with wings. Trei is instantly sky-mad, and desperate to be a kajurai himself.  The only one who fully understands his passion is Araene, his newfound cousin.  Prickly, sarcastic, and... (more)
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  Slog's Dad

  by David Almond

  Part story, part graphic novel - a tender slice of life and death from the creators of "The Savage". Do you believe there's life after death? Slog does. He reckons that the scruffy bloke sitting outside the pork shop is his dad come back to visit him for one last time - just like he'd said he would, just before he died. Slog's mate Davie isn't convinced. But how does this man know everything Slog's dad would know?... (more)
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  Hex Hall: Book 2

  Demonglass

  by Rachel Hawkins

  Also published as "Raising Demons" in the United KingdomSophie Mercer thought she was a witch, that was the whole reason she was sent to Hex Hall, a reform school for delinquent Prodigium. But that was before she discovered the family secret and that her hot crush, Archer Cross is an agent for The Eye, a group bent on wiping Prodigium off the face of the earth. Turns out, Sophie’s a demon, one of only... (more)
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  Genetic testing

  by Hal Marcovitz

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  Online social networking

  by Peggy J. Parks

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  Shadow Project: Book 2

  The Doomsday Box

  A Shadow Project Adventure

  by Herbie Brennan

  When the CIA created a program to research time travel in the 1940s, they never imagined it could lead to a global pandemic decades later. But after an undercover agent, code name Cobra, exploits the time-travel operation to send the black plague into the twenty-first century, the supernatural teen spies of the Shadow Project are recruited to go back in time to Cold War-era Russia and prevent this devastating... (more)
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  Soccerland

  by Beth Choat

  Gr 5-8–Flora Dupre loves soccer, and before her mom died of cancer, she made a promise that one day she was going to play for the U.S. Women's National Team. She dominates the team at her secondary school, but she is not being challenged, and she longs to play with more seasoned players than those in her little Maine town. She gets her chance when her coach tells her that she has been invited to Colorado for a... (more)
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  The Notorious Benedict Arnold

  A True Story of Adventure, Heroism & Treachery

  by Steve Sheinkin

  Most people know that Benedict Arnold was America’s first, most notorious traitor. Few know that he was also one of its greatest war heroes. This accessible biography introduces young readers to the real Arnold: reckless, heroic, and driven. Packed with first-person accounts, astonishing battle scenes, and surprising twists, this is a gripping and true adventure tale.
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  Bruiser

  The Impossible Hurts

  by Neal Shusterman

  Gr 8 Up–Tennyson, 16, is upset When his twin sister, Brontë, befriends their shy and withdrawn classmate Brewster “Bruiser” Rawlins, he is concerned that her relationship with this boy from the wrong side of the tracks will prove somehow dangerous. After he spies Bruiser changing in the locker room and notices that his back is covered in scars and welts, he becomes even more certain that the teen and his family... (more)