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  Holes: Book 1

  Holes

  by Louis Sachar

  Stanley Yelnats is sentenced to dig holes at Camp Green Lake detention center for allegedly stealing a pair of sneakers. His grandfather tells him it is because a curse of bad luck that's in the family, which all started because of his no-good, dirty, rotten, pig-stealing great-great-grandfather. Stanley starts to feel the effects of the curse as his punishment at Camp Green Lake continues. Will Stanley leave the... (more)
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  The Host: Book 1

  The Host

  by Stephenie Meyer

  The earth's been invaded by an alien species that take over the minds of their human hosts while leaving their bodies intact so that most of humanity has succumbed. Wanderer, the invading "soul" who has been given Melanie's body, knew about the challenges of living inside a human: the overwhelming emotions, and the too vivid memories. But there was one difficulty Wanderer didn't expect: the former... (more)
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  The Alchemist

  by Paulo Coelho

  Original title: "O Alquimista""My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer," the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky." Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams."The Alchemist is the magical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns... (more)
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  The Ranger's Apprentice: Book 7

  Erak's Ransom

  by John Flanagan

  What does it mean to earn the Silver Oakleaf? So few men have done so. For Will, a mere boy, that symbol of honor has long felt out of reach. Now, in the wake of Araluen’s uneasy truce with the raiding Skandians comes word that the Skandian leader has been captured by a dangerous desert tribe. The Rangers are sent to free him. But the desert is like nothing these warriors have seen before. Strangers in a strange... (more)
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  Dune Chronicles: Book 1

  Dune

  by Frank Herbert

  Here is the novel that will be forever considered a triumph of the imagination. Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, who would become the mysterious man known as Maud'dib. He would avenge the traitorous plot against his noble family--and would bring to fruition humankind's most ancient and unattainable dream. A stunning blend of adventure and mysticism, environmentalism... (more)
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  Stolen

  A Letter to My Captor

  by Lucy Christopher

  Gemma, 16, is on layover at Bangkok Airport, en route with her parents to a vacation in Vietnam. She steps away for just a second, to get a cup of coffee. Ty--rugged, tan, older, oddly familiar man pays for Gemma's drink, and drugs it. Before Gemma knows what's happening, Ty steals her away. The unknowing object of a long obsession, Gemma has been kidnapped by her stalker and brought to the desolate Australian... (more)
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  The Hard Pan Trilogy: Book 1

  The Higher Power of Lucky

  by Susan Patron

  Lucky, age ten, can't wait another day. The meanness gland in her heart and the crevices full of questions in her brain make running away from Hard Pan, California (population 43), the rock-bottom only choice she has. It's all Brigitte's fault -- for wanting to go back to France. Guardians are supposed to stay put and look after girls in their care! Instead Lucky is sure that she'll be abandoned to some orphanage... (more)
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  The English Patient

  by Michael Ondaatje

  With ravishing beauty and unsettling intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an Italian villa at the end of World War II. Hana, the exhausted nurse; the maimed thief, Caravaggio; the wary sapper, Kip: each is haunted by the riddle of the English patient, the nameless, burned man who lies in an upstairs room and whose memories of passion,... (more)
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  Desert Solitaire

  A Season in the Wilderness

  by Edward Abbey

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  Shabanu: Book 1

  Shabanu

  Daughter of the Wind

  by Suzanne Fisher Staples

  Life is both sweet and cruel to strong-willed young Shabanu, whose home is the windswept Cholistan Desert of Pakistan. The second daughter in a family with no sons, she’s been allowed freedoms forbidden to most Muslim girls. But when a tragic encounter with a wealthy and powerful landowner ruins the marriage plans of her older sister, Shabanu is called upon to sacrifice everything she’s dreamed of. Should she do... (more)
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  Dune Chronicles: Book 3

  Children of Dune

  by Frank Herbert

  The Children of Dune are twin siblings Leto and Ghanima Atreides, whose father, the Emperor Paul Muad’Dib, disappeared in the deserts of Arrakis. Like their father, they possess supernormal abilities—making them valuable to their aunt Alia, who rules the Empire. If Alia can obtain the secrets of the twins’ prophetic visions, her rule will be absolute. But the twins have their own plans for their destiny.
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  Damar: Book 1

  The Blue Sword

  by Robin McKinley

  Harry, bored with her sheltered life in the remote orange-growing colony of Daria, discovers magic in herself when she is kidnapped by a native king with mysterious powers.
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  The Sheltering Sky

  by Paul Bowles

  The story of three American travelers adrift in the cities and deserts of North Africa after World War II examines the way Americans apprehend an alien culture and the way their incomprehension destroys them.
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  Dune Chronicles: Book 2

  Dune Messiah

  by Frank Herbert

  Paul Atreides, genetically bred and trained to become the leader of his planet, is still subject to human frailties. The second book of the series.
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  Canyons

  by Gary Paulsen

  Two boys, separated by the canyons of time and two vastly different cultures, face the challenges by which they become men. Coyote Runs, an Apache boy, takes part in his first raid--the one that will usher him into manhood. He is to be a man for but a short time... More than a hundred years later, while camping near Dog Canyon, fifteen-year-old Brennan Cole becomes obsessed with a skull that he finds, pierced by... (more)
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  Bedouin Guide Nayir Sharqi and Forensic Scientist Katya Hijazi: Book 1

  Finding Nouf

  by Zoë Ferraris

  Also published as "Night of the Mi'raj."Zoë Ferraris’s electrifying debut of taut psychological suspense offers an unprecedented window into Saudi Arabia and the lives of men and women there. When sixteen-year-old Nouf goes missing, along with a truck and her favorite camel, her prominent family calls on Nayir al-Sharqi, a desert guide, to lead a search party. Ten days later, just as Nayir is about to... (more)
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  The Starcatchers: Book 3

  Peter and the Secret of Rundoon

  by Dave Barry, Ridley Pearson

  In this action-packed finale to the Starcatchers series, Peter and Molly find themselves in the dangerous land of Rundoon, ruled by an evil king who enjoys watching his pet snake consume those who displease him. But that's just the beginning of problems facing our heroes, who once again find themselves pitted against the evil shadow-creature Lord Ombra in a struggle to save themselves, not to mention the planet.... (more)
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  Camel Rider

  by Prue Mason

  Adam and his family live comfortably in a compound with other foreigners who work in the Middle East. When war breaks out and all foreigners try to escape, Adam runs away in an effort to save his dog, which has been left behind. Alone and without resources in the desert, Adam meets Walid, an abused camel boy who has run away from his cruel masters. Together they struggle to bridge wide gulfs between their cultures... (more)
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  Cactus Hotel (An Owlet Book)

  by Brenda Z. Guiberson

  It is another hot day in the desert. Birds and other animals scurry about looking for food. When they get tired, they stop to rest at a giant cactus. It is their hotel in the desert! Parents' Choice Award IRA-CBC Teachers' Choice An NSTA-CBC Outstanding Science Trade Book An NCTE Notable Trade Book in the Language Arts
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  The Devil's Highway

  A True Story

  by Luis Alberto Urrea

  In this work of grave beauty and searing powerone of the most widely praised pieces of investigative reporting to appear in recent years we follow 26 men who in May 2001 attempted to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona, through the deadly region known as the Devils Highway, a desert so harsh and desolate that even the Border Patrol is afraid to travel through it, a place that for hundreds... (more)