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  Pictures of Hollis Woods

  by Patricia Reilly Giff

  Hollis Woods has been in so many foster homes she can hardly remember them all. When Hollis is sent to Josie, she’ll do everything in her power to make sure they stay together.
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  A Mango-Shaped Space

  by Wendy Mass

  Mia Winchell seems to be a typical teenager, but she's keeping a huge secret from everyone who knows her. Mia has synesthesia, the mingling of perceptions whereby a person can see sounds, smell colors, or taste shapes. When trouble in school forces Mia to reveal her condition, her friends and family can't relate to her, and she must look to herself to develop an understanding and appreciation for her gift. Spiced... (more)
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  Tiffany Aching series: Book 1

  The Wee Free Men

  by Terry Pratchett

  There's trouble on the Aching farm: monsters in the river, headless horsemen in the lane—and Tiffany Aching's little brother has been stolen by the Queen of Fairies. Getting him back will require all of Tiffany's strength and determination (as well as a sturdy skillet) and the help of the rowdy clan of fightin', stealin' tiny blue-skinned pictsies known as the Wee Free Men! Master storyteller and gifted comic... (more)
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  Mary Russell: Book 1

  The Beekeeper's Apprentice

  Or, On the Segregation of the Queen

  by Laurie R. King

  In 1915, long since retired from his crime-fighting days, Sherlock Holmes is engaged in a reclusive study of honeybees on the Sussex Downs. Never did the Victorian detective think to meet an intellect matching his own — until his acquaintance with Miss Mary Russell, a young twentieth-century lady whose mental acuity is equaled only by her penchant for deduction, disguises and danger. Under Holmes’ reluctant... (more)
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  The Breadwinner Trilogy: Book 1

  The Breadwinner

  by Deborah Ellis

  The Breadwinner brings to life an issue that has recently exploded in the international media — the reality of life under the Taliban. Young Parvana lives with her family in one room of a bombed-out apartment building in Kabul, Afghanistan. Because her dad has a foreign education, he is arrested by the Taliban, the religious group that controls the country. Since women cannot appear in public unless covered head... (more)
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  In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson

  by Bette Bao Lord

  Shirley Temple Wong sails from China to America with a heart full of dreams. Her new home is Brooklyn, New York. America is indeed a land full of wonders, but Shirley doesn't know any English, so it's hard to make friends. Then a miracle-baseball-happens. It is 1947, and Jackie Robinson, star of the Brooklyn Dodgers, is everyone's hero. Jackie Robinson is proving that a black man, the grandson of a slave, can make... (more)
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  Caddie Woodlawn

  Caddie Woodlawn

  by Carol Ryrie Brink

  Caddie Woodlawn is a real adventurer. She'd rather hunt than sew and plow than bake, and tries to beat her brother's dares every chance she gets. Caddie is friends with Indians, who scare most of the neighbors -- neighbors who, like her mother and sisters, don't understand her at all. Caddie is brave, and her story is special because it's based on the life and memories of Carol Ryrie Brink's grandmother, the real... (more)
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  Things Not Seen: Book 3

  Things That Are

  by Andrew Clements

  Alicia may be blind, but that doesn't mean she can't see what's happening right in front of her eyes. Like how her parents try to give her freedom. Or how Bobby—now Robert—has returned to figure out their relationship. Or even the invisible man, William, and just how dangerous he is to Alicia, to Robert, to their whole family—or so the police say. Or is Alicia wrong this time? If her normally sharp instincts are... (more)
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  Trylle Trilogy: Book 3

  Ascend

  by Amanda Hocking

  The final chapter in the Trylle Trilogy... With a war looming on the horizon, Wendy’s fate seems sealed. But everything she sacrificed might be in vain if she can’t save the ones she loves. Her whole life has been leading up to this, and it’s all coming to an end.
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  The Aviary

  by Kathleen O'Dell

  Twelve-year-old Clara Dooley has spent her whole life in the Glendoveer mansion, where her mother is a servant to the kind and elderly matron of the house. Clara has never known another home. In fact, she's confined to the grand estate due to a mysterious heart condition. But it's a comfortable life, and if it weren't for the creepy squawking birds in the aviary out back, a completely peaceful one... (more)
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  Stephanie Plum by the Numbers: Book 14

  Fearless Fourteen

  by Janet Evanovich

  Personal vendettas, hidden treasure, and a monkey named Carl will send bounty hunter Stephanie Plum on her most explosive adventure yet. The Crime: Armed robbery to the tune of nine million dollars. Dom Rizzi robbed a bank, stashed the money, and did the time. His family couldn’t be more proud. He always was the smart one. The Cousin: Joe Morelli. Joe Morelli, Dom Rizzi, and Dom’s sister, Loretta, are cousins.... (more)
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  Temperance Brennan Novels: Book 13

  Spider Bones

  by Kathy Reichs

  Released as "Mortal Remains" in UK and Australia.John Lowery was declared dead in 1968 in Viet Nam - the victim of a Huey crash, his body buried long ago in North Carolina. Four decades later, Temperance Brennan is called to the scene of a drowning in Hemmingford, Quebec. The victim appears to have died while in the midst of a bizarre sexual practice. The corpse is later identified as John Lowery. But... (more)
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  Daughter of the Lioness: Book 2

  Trickster's Queen

  by Tamora Pierce

  Alianne's adventure continues. . . . No longer a slave, Alanna’s daughter is now spying as part of an underground rebellion against the colonial rulers of the Copper Isles. The people in the rebellion believe that a prophecy in which a new part-Raka queen will rise up to take the throne is about to be concur. Aly is busy keeping the potential teenage queen and her younger siblings safe, while also trying to keep... (more)
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  The Earth, My Butt, & Other Big Round Things

  by Carolyn Mackler

  The Earth, My Butt, & Other Big Round Things is a novel written by Carolyn Mackler and published on June 14, 2005.
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  Midnighters: Book 2

  Touching Darkness

  by Scott Westerfeld

  Bixby, Oklahoma, is full of secrets. Some come out at midnight. Some should stay hidden. As the Midnighters search for the truth about the Secret Hour, they uncover terrifying mysteries woven into the very fabric of Bixby’s history, and a conspiracy that touches the world of daylight. This time Jessica Day is not the only Midnighter in mortal danger, and if the group can’t find a way to come together, they could... (more)
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  Midnighters: Book 3

  Blue Noon

  by Scott Westerfeld

  The five teenage Midnighters of Bixby, Oklahoma, thought they understood the secret midnight hour—until one morning when time freezes in the middle of the day . The noise of school stops. Cheerleaders are frozen in midair. Everything is the haunted blue color of the midnight hour. As the Midnighters scramble for answers, they discover that the walls between the secret hour and real time are crumbling. Soon... (more)
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  Anne of Green Gables: Book 5

  Anne's House of Dreams

  by L. M. Montgomery

  Anne's House of Dreams chronicles Anne's early married life, as she and her childhood sweetheart Gilbert Blythe begin to build their life together in Four Winds Point. Gilbert takes over his uncle's medical practice while Anne makes their "house of dreams" a home. Anne like at Green Gables has found a ragtag group of friends.
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  Study Series: Book 3

  Fire Study

  by Maria V. Snyder

  The apprenticeship is over— now the real test has begun. When word that Yelena is a Soulfinder—able to capture and release souls—spreads like wildfire, people grow uneasy. Already Yelena's unusual abilities and past have set her apart. As the Council debates Yelena's fate, she receives a disturbing message: a plot is rising against her homeland, led by a murderous sorcerer she has defeated before.…... (more)
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  Wildthorn

  by Jane Eagland

  They strip her naked, of everything—undo her whalebone corset, hook by hook. Locked away in Wildthorn Hall—a madhouse—they take her identity. She is now called Lucy Childs. She has no one; she has nothing. But, she is still seventeen—still Louisa Cosgrove, isn't she? Who has done this unthinkable deed? Louisa must free herself, in more ways than one, and muster up the courage to be her true self, all the while... (more)
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  The Abhorsen Chronicles: Book 2

  Lirael

  Daughter of the Clayr

  by Garth Nix

  Who is Lirael?Lirael has never felt like a true daughter of the Clayr. Now, two years past the time when she should have received the Sight that is the Clayr's birthright, she feels alone, abandoned, unsure of who she is. Nevertheless, the fate of the Old Kingdom lies in her hands. With only her faithful companion, the Disreputable Dog; Lirael must undertake a desperate mission under the growing shadow... (more)