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16741) Hooper
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From Geoff Herbach, the critically acclaimed author of the Stupid Fast series, comes a compelling new YA novel about basketball, prejudice, privilege, and family, perfect for fans of Jordan Sonnenblick, Andrew Smith, and Matt de la Peña. For Adam Reed, basketball is a passport. Adam's basketball skills have taken him from an orphanage in Poland to a loving adoptive mother in Minnesota. When he's tapped to play on a select AAU team along with some...
16742) The Orphan's Dilemma
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Synopsis - A teenager must decide if he wants to start his new life without the memories of his difficult life waiting for adoption.After Dinner Conversation is a growing series of short stories across genres to draw out deeper discussions with friends and family. Each story is an accessible example of an abstract ethical or philosophical idea and is accompanied by suggested discussion questions.Podcast discussions of this short story, and others,...
16743) Algonquin Sunset
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Anokì and his sister Pangì Mahingan have grown up, and now face a decision that will change their lives forever. Twelve years after Mahingan was wounded battling for his life against the Haudenosaunee warrior known as Ö:nenhste Erhar (Corn Dog), we rejoin his family and learn what fate held for him. Now, his children, Anokì and Pangì Mahingan, along with their twin cousins Makwa and Wàbek, are grown and have adult responsibilities. Still living...
16744) Sleeping Beauty's Spindle
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Hidden for generations, Sleeping Beauty's cursed spindle resurfaces... In 1894 Vermont, Briar Rose is determined to keep her orphaned siblings together. She's set her sights on marrying an ambitious young man to take them out of the cotton mills and back to the Old Country. Trouble is, he no longer cares for her. Childhood chum Henry Prince would like to step in, but sweet as he is, can't offer what her family needs. When a peddler gives Briar...
16745) Let Me Live
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The one person he trusted destroyed everything. Trusting again won't be easy.
Eighteen-year-old Marshall's bright future shattered the day his once friend and lover opened fire on their campus, killing twelve and leaving Marshall with a shoulder wound and devastating guilt over the part he played in the massacre. The press may have dubbed him a hero, but Marshall has nowhere to turn, no one to help him through the anxiety and depression closing...
16746) Tempest
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It seems I've only been scratching the surface of my power.
My friend Chloe has started having blackouts, her bloodlust is becoming more than she can handle. Dead bodies covered in bite marks are piling up and everyone is looking to the vampires.
Reece and I have to find proof that Chloe isn't out killing humans during her blackouts, but the evidence is pretty damning. It doesn't help that Chloe also thinks she's responsible.
Meanwhile, I've got...
16747) Even If the Sky Falls
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One midsummer night. Two strangers. Three rules: No real names. No baggage. No phones. A whirlwind twenty-four-hour romance about discovering what it means to feel alive in the face of one of life's greatest dangers: love. Who would you be if you had one night to be anyone you want? Volunteering in New Orleans was supposed to be a change, an escape from the total mess Julie left at home and from her brother's losing battle with PTSD. But building...
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A collection of five historical fiction adventure stories. Young heroines find themselves at turning points in history. Faced with colossal problems, they use math to find real-world solutions. How will their quick thinking and problem-solving direct the course of history?
A master of young adult historical fiction, adventure, and mystery writing, Tom Durwood gives a fresh look at some of history's pivotal moments-from a mathematical perspective!...
16749) Sweet Legacy
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The stunning conclusion of Tera Lynn Childs's Greek mythology–based Sweet Venom trilogy is perfect for teen fans of Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson series. The girls cannot hesitate as they seek the location of the lost door between the realms, even as monsters and the gods of Olympus descend on San Francisco in battle-ready droves. Greer must use her second sight to step up and prevent anything from stopping her sisters' mission, even though a god...
16750) Some Kind of Comfort
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Stuck in the darkness of her mind - can Charley break free and find her true voice?Aspiring singer-songwriter Charley is a smart, intuitive and talented sixteen-year-old. But she has thought tangles, that's what she calls them. She thinks she has them under control, but when they get in the way once too often, her hopes of going to music college are threatened and she becomes increasingly overwhelmed.Balanced on the edge, she is thrown into a tailspin...
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For 16 years, the Promising Generation has been training the children of the CIA's best agents to prepare them to be the next generation of highly qualified agents. Over the years, they have accepted any mission the CIA assigned them, but when the CIA asks for their help, and issues a BOLO (Be on the Lookout) for a teenage girl Peter Carlyle recognizes, he opts to start his own investigation instead. If he gets caught, he could be jeopardizing his...
16752) Total Constant Order
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Fin can't stop counting. She's always heard a voice inside her head, ordering her to listen, but ever since she's moved to the Sunshine State and her parents split up, numbers thump like a metronome, rhythmically keeping things in control. When a new doctor introduces terms such as "clinical depression" and "OCD" and offers a prescription for medication, the chemical effects make Fin feel even more messed up. Until she meets Thayer, a doodling, rule-bending...
16753) Yolk's on Me
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Perfect for fans of The Field Guide to the North American Teenager and Dork Diaries.
Mauve's a little needy. But could you blame her? She's the daughter of an actress and a circus clown – craving attention is in her blood. Unfortunately, her attempt to dazzle the popular kids ends in pity and disaster. She has never been one to give up, so when she gets invited to an influencer-star studded birthday party, she knows this is her big break. The only...
16754) The Merit Birds
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Cam is finally settling into his new life in Laos when tragedy strikes and he's wrongfully accused of murder. Eighteen-year-old Cam Scott is angry. He's angry about his absent dad, he's angry about being angry, and he's angry that he has had to give up his Ottawa basketball team to follow his mom to her new job in Vientiane, Laos. However, Cam's anger begins to melt under the Southeast Asian sun as he finds friendship with his neighbour, Somchai,...
16755) 17 Marigold Lane
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n a town like Flintlock, Prudence Penderhaus was a freak. A weirdo. A loser of epic proportions.
That was until one word changed her life, and the town of Flintlock, forever.
When a moment of long-awaited courage brings her to the porch of the town-dubbed spook house, uncovering an odd boy no one knew existed is only the beginning.
My name is Prudence Penderhaus. I've never done anything remarkable. Never even bothered to look up. Until the day...
16756) Frivolous Fox Diligent Dog
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A Mythical Paradox
When a giant fox terrorizes the city of Thebes, a skeptical wanderer decides, to help so that the Regent can pay for his adventures in gold. But will he manage to catch the uncatchable beast, when the only man who knows anything is a grumpy old man who transforms people that bother him, when the Oracle tells of his involvement despite Tryx not believing in such things and when the dead bodies keep piling up with every passing day?
This...
16757) Eddie's Choice
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When growing hatred and division unleashed by a recent election reach his high school, senior Eddie Barajas takes a stand against racism. Now, white supremacists are targeting him, and old fears rise up to haunt him, challenging all of his coping skills. What are the right choices to make, and can Eddie make them? In this stand-alone sequel to Shut Up, in which he was a victim of sexual abuse as a young boy, Eddie experiences his first love and learns...
16758) Monelli & Me
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Who can you trust when those you love most let you down?Fifteen-year-old Kate Norton has been living a happy family fantasy. Her mum has been keeping secrets. Now the father Kate never knew she had is coming to Perth. He wants to take Kate back to Brisbane with him because his mother has cancer and wants to get to know her only granddaughter before it's too late. Kate is on an emotional roller coaster. Everything she believed about herself and her...
16759) Looking Mirror
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An enchanting tale of love, friendship, hatred, and redemption, The Looking Mirror is a masterpiece of fantasy literature. Walking into the Universe storyline centers around realms of elves of the dark and light of the White Rowen lineage and the Black Spruce lineage in the lines of the cosmos of elemental magic, setting sail to the mysterious lands of Sitnalta of the Dwarven folk and the City of Atlantica of Merfolk in walking the globe in ancient...
16760) The Pixie Queen
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In the small town of Caseville strange things have occurred...
From the time Jane Hensley was little, she knew she was different. Instead of hanging out with friends, she was often in the woods, alone, chanting magical words that filled her with power and effected the environment around her. A sudden summer storm on a perfectly sunny day. Monster waves crashing into the shores of Lake Huron. Strange things happening in nature with no rhyme or reason....
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