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  Septimus Heap: Book 3

  Physik

  by Angie Sage

  When Silas Heap unSeals a forgotten room in the Palace, he releases the ghost of a Queen who lived five hundred years earlier. Queen Etheldredda is as awful in death as she was in life, and she's still up to no good. Her diabolical plan to give herself everlasting life requires Jenna's compliance, Septimus's disappearance, and the talents of her son, Marcellus Pye, a famous Alchemist and Physician. And if Queen... (more)
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  Septimus Heap: Book 4

  Queste

  by Angie Sage

  There's trouble at the Castle, and it's all because Merrin Meredith has returned with Darke plans for Septimus. More trouble awaits Septimus and Jenna in the form of Tertius Fume, the ghost of the very first Chief Hermetic Scribe, who is determined to send Septimus on a deadly Queste. But Septimus and Jenna have other plans—they are headed for the mysterious House of Foryx, a place where all Time meets and the... (more)
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  Where Things Come Back

  by John Corey Whaley

  Just when seventeen-year-old Cullen Witter thinks he understands everything about his small and painfully dull Arkansas town, it all disappears. . . . In the summer before Cullen's junior year, a nominally-depressed birdwatcher named John Barling thinks he spots the ivory-billed woodpecker--a species thought to be extinct since the 1940s--in Lily, Arkansas. His rediscovery of the so-called Lazarus Woodpecker... (more)
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  Me Talk Pretty One Day

  by David Sedaris

  A new collection from David Sedaris is cause for jubilation. His recent move to Paris has inspired hilarious pieces, including Me Talk Pretty One Day, about his attempts to learn French. His family is another inspiration. You Cant Kill the Rooster is a portrait of his brother who talks incessant hip-hop slang to his bewildered father. And no one hones a finer fury in response to such modern annoyances as... (more)
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  The Outsiders

  by S. E. Hinton

  The Outsiders shows how difficult life can be for regular people. This book is about two social classes in one town that have an extreme rivalry. On the West Side live the Socs, a.k.a. the upper class people who are filthy rich and can do whatever, but still have to live up to their parents' expectations. Everybody thinks that they are the lucky ones, with the expensive cars, big houses, and nice clothes. As you... (more)
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  Lucky

  A Memoir

  by Alice Sebold

  In a memoir hailed for its searing candor and wit, Alice Sebold reveals how her life was utterly transformed when, as an eighteen-year-old college freshman, she was brutally raped and beaten in a park near campus. What propels this chronicle of her recovery is Sebold's indomitable spirit - as she struggles for understanding ("After telling the hard facts to anyone, from lover to friend, I have changed in their... (more)
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  His Dark Materials Boxed Set

  The Golden Compass / The Subtle Knife / The Amber Spyglass

  by Philip Pullman

  Now, for the first time, the HIS DARK MATERIALS Trilogy is available in a trade paperback edition. All three books in the His Dark Materials trilogy-- THE GOLDEN COMPASS, THE SUBTLE KNIFE, and THE AMBER SPYGLASS--are available in a new complete boxed set featuring the trade paperbacks. New material is available in all three books: The Golden Compass and The Subtle Knife feature black-and-white ... (more)
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  Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.

  by Judy Blume

  Margaret Simon is the main character of this book. She is really wants to fit in with the girls at her new school. She is very kind and willing to do anything to fit in. Margaret hangs out with other girls who are not like Margaret. She is anxious to understand how to fit in.
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  The House on Mango Street

  by Sandra Cisneros

  Told in a series of vignettes stunning for their eloquence, The House on Mango Street is Sandra Cisneros's greatly admired novel of a young girl growing up in the Latino section of Chicago. Acclaimed by critics, beloved by children, their parents and grandparents, taught everywhere from inner-city grade schools to universities across the country, and translated all over the world, it has entered the canon of... (more)
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  Uglies: Book 3

  Specials

  by Scott Westerfeld

  "Special Circumstances": The words have sent chills down Tally's spine since her days as a repellent, rebellious ugly. Back then Specials were a sinister rumor --frighteningly beautiful, dangerously strong, and breathtakingly fast. Ordinary pretties might live their whole lives without meeting a Special. But Tally has never been ordinary. And now she has been turned into one of them: a superamped fighting machine,... (more)
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  Uglies: Book 1

  Uglies

  by Scott Westerfeld

  In a futuristic society all teenagers are expected to have cosmetic surgery on their sixteenth birthday so their facial features and body structure will conform to the accepted form of beauty in their society. This book has 425 pages and was published in 2005. There are five books in this series.
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  Uglies: Book 2

  Pretties

  by Scott Westerfeld

  Gorgeous. Popular. Perfect. Perfectly wrong. Tally has finally become pretty. Now her looks are beyond perfect, her clothes are awesome, her boyfriend is totally hot, and she's completely popular. It's everything she's ever wanted. But beneath all the fun—the nonstop parties, the high-tech luxury, the total freedom—is a nagging sense that something's wrong. Something important. Then a message from Tally's ugly... (more)
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  Jesus Land

  A Memoir

  by Julia Scheeres

  The memoir the New York Times Book Review called "heart-stopping and enraging" and about which Entertainment Weekly raved " Jesus Land will break your heart and mend it again" Sinners go to: HELL. Rightchuss go to: HEAVEN. The end is neer: REPENT. This here is: JESUS LAND. Julia Scheeres stumbles across these signs along the side of a cornfield while out biking with her adopted brother David.... (more)
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  Little Blue Envelope: Book 1

  13 Little Blue Envelopes

  by Maureen Johnson

  Inside little blue envelope 1 are $1,000 and instructions to buy a plane ticket. In envelope 2 are directions to a specific London flat. The note in envelope 3 tells Ginny: Find a starving artist. Because of envelope 4, Ginny and a playwright/thief/ bloke–about–town called Keith go to Scotland together, with somewhat disastrous–though utterly romantic–results. But will she ever see him again? This book... (more)