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  Out of the Dust

  by Karen Hesse

  When Billie Jo is just fourteen she must endure heart-wrenching ordeals that no child should have to face. The quiet strength she displays while dealing with unspeakable loss is as surprising as it is inspiring. Written in free verse, this award-winning story is set in the heart of the Great Depression. It chronicles Oklahoma's staggering dust storms, and the environmental--and emotional--turmoil they leave in... (more)
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  Magic Tree House: Book 17

  Tonight on the Titanic

  by Salvatore Murdocca, Mary Pope Osborne

  The Magic Tree House whisks Jack and Annie away to the decks of that ill-fated ship, the Titanic . There they must help two children find their way to a lifeboat--all while they are in danger of becoming victims of that tragic night themselves.
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  Something Upstairs

  by Avi

  FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. When he moves from Los Angeles to Providence, Rhode Island, Kenny discovers that his new house is haunted by the spirit of a black slave boy who asks Kenny to return with him to the early 19th century and prevent his murder by slave traders.
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  The Lambs of London

  by Peter Ackroyd

  From the author of Chatterton and Shakespeare: A Biography comes a gripping novel set in London that re-imagines an infamous 19th-century Shakespeare forgery. Charles and Mary Lamb, who will in time achieve lasting fame as the authors of Tales from Shakespeare for Children, are still living at home, caring for their dotty and maddening parents. Reading Shakespeare is the siblings’ favorite reprieve, and they are... (more)
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  Everworld: Book 1

  Search for Senna

  by K. A. Applegate

  David's life was pretty normal. School. Friends. Girlfriend. Actually, Senna was probably the oddest aspect of his life. She was beautiful. Smart. But there was something very different about her. Something strange. And on the day it began, everything happened so quickly. One moment, Senna was with him. The next, she was swallowed up by the earth. Her screams echoing from far, far away. David... (more)
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  Magic Tree House: Book 13

  Vacation Under the Volcano

  by Salvatore Murdocca, Mary Pope Osborne

  In their first adventure as Master Librarians, Jack and Annie go to the city of Pompeii to bring back an ancient story that is in danger of being lost forever. Little do they know they are saving the myth of Hercules! But before they can find it, the town's volcano erupts in a mighty explosion. Just when things look hopeless, Jack and Annie get some unexpected help from a certain mythic hero - and the rest,... (more)
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  The Embers of Heaven

  by Alma Alexander

  Alma Alexander is the author of 'The Secrets of Jin-Shei. She was born in Yugoslavia, grew up in South Africa and New Zealand, and now lives with her husband in Washington state, USA.
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  True Grit

  by Charles Portis

  Charles Portis has been acclaimed as one of America’s foremost comic writers. True Grit is his most famous novel. First published in 1968, and the basis for the movie of the same name starring John Wayne (for which he won his only Academy Award), it tells the story of Mattie Ross, a fourteen-year-old girl from Dardanelle, Arkansas, who sets out in the winter of eighteen seventy-something to avenge the murder of... (more)
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  the red necklace series: Book 1

  The Red Necklace

  by Sally Gardner

  Clever and head-turningly attractive, fourteen-year-old Yann is an orphan who has been raised in Paris by Têtu, a dwarf with secrets he has yet to reveal to the gypsy boy. It's the winter of 1789, and the duo have been working for a vain magician named Topolain. On the night when Topolain's vanity brings his own death, Yann's life truly begins. That's the night he meets shy Sido, an heiress with an ice-cold ... (more)
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  The Seamstress

  A Memoir of Survival

  by Sara Tuvel Bernstein, Edgar M. Bronfman

  "From its opening pages, in which she recounts her own premature birth, triggered by terrifying rumors of an incipient pogrom, Bernstein's tale is clearly not a typical memoir of the Holocaust. She was born into a large family in rural Romania...and grew up feisty and willing to fight back physically against anti-Semitism from other schoolchildren. She defied her father's orders to turn down a scholarship that... (more)
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  Everworld: Book 11

  Mystify The Magician

  by K. A. Applegate

  David, Christopher, April, Jalil and Senna managed to escape Neptune¹s deadly clutches and have washed ashore...in Eire. It¹s ancient Ireland, complete with giants, leprechauns, a band of gods and goddesses and druids. Senna chooses this haunting location to unleash a power-hungry scheme that gets everyone in far more danger than Senna had ever imagined.
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  Everworld: Book 7

  Gateway to the Gods

  by K. A. Applegate

  The mighty Greek gods of Everworld may be the powerful allies that David, Christopher, Jalil, and April need. The kids' know-how combined with the prowess of the ancient gods make for a formidable team. But will they stand a chance against the deadly and alien Ka-Anor, who has grown even more powerful?
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  Everworld: Book 9

  Inside The Illusion

  by K. A. Applegate

  Jalil, David, April and Chris continue on their quest in this fantasy series that expertly interweaves mythology from all over the world with a suspense-filled and action-packed plot.
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  Everworld: Book 12

  Entertain the End

  by K. A. Applegate

  Finally, the answers to all the mysteries start to fall into place in the last volume of K.A. Applegate¹s best-selling young adult series. David, April, Christopher, and Jalil will now learn the truth.
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  Everworld: Book 10

  Understand the Unknown

  by K. A. Applegate

  This powerful fantasy series moves closer to its dramatic conclusion. David, Christopher, April and Jalil have escaped Merlin once, but they must help Senna evade capture once and for all. Now they must encounter the intervention of the gods - the question is, in whose favour will the gods work - theirs, or Merlin's.?
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  Everworld: Book 3

  Enter The Enchanted

  by K. A. Applegate

  There is a place where mythology is reality. Where wild imaginations are ordinary. In a parallel universe called Everworld, a group of friends discover the ultimate adventure.
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  Report from Ground Zero

  by Dennis Smith

  September 11th changed the face of America, but it also revealed the true face of heroism. The men of the New York Fire Department fought with courage and endurance to save others. This is their story, told by a veteran firefighter.
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  A Widow's Walk

  A Memoir of 9/11

  by Marian Fontana

  On September 11, I dropped my son off at his second full day of kindergarten. The sky was so blue it looked as if it had been ironed. I crossed the street, ordered coffee, and sat to wait for my husband to meet me. It was our eighth wedding anniversary and Dave and I were about to begin a new chapter in our seventeen years together. Sipping coffee, I watched as a line of thick black smoke crept across the sky from... (more)
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  Magic Tree House: Book 20

  Dingoes at Dinnertime

  by Mary Pope Osborne, Salvatore Murdocca

  Jack and Annie are whisked down under to the land of Australia, where they save a baby kangaroo, a koala, and other animals from a raging wildfire.
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  Magic Tree House: Book 18

  Buffalo Before Breakfast

  by Salvatore Murdocca, Mary Pope Osborne

  The Magic Tree House carries Jack and Annie back to the Old West, where they roam the Great Plains with a Lakota boy.