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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, a decent student. But he carries a heavy load. His mom was killed in a hit-and-run accident when he was ten, and grief drove his dad to drink. Charlie learned how to take care of himself--and his dad. Then, when Charlie is seventeen, he meets Howard Bowditch, a recluse with a big dog in a big house at the top of a big hill. In the backyard is a locked shed from which...
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Handmaid's tale volume 2
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English
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"In this brilliant sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, acclaimed author Margaret Atwood answers the questions that have tantalized readers for decades. When the van door slammed on Offred's future at the end of The Handmaid's Tale, readers had no way of telling what lay ahead for her--freedom, prison or death. With The Testaments, the wait is over. Margaret Atwood's sequel picks up the story more than fifteen years after Offred stepped into the unknown,...
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Castle Glower volume 3
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English
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"Castle Glower's towers have transported Princess Celie, her siblings, and her pet griffin, Rufus, to an unknown land. As they set out on a dangerous adventure to discover their whereabouts, they find an entire lost people, divided by the wishes of two wizards in a centuries-old quarrel over their beloved home--Castle Glower"--
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Lowcountry tales (Dorothea Benton Frank) volume 12
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English
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"Immerse yourself in the enchanting world of New York Times bestselling author Dorothea Benton Frank's Carolina Lowcountry in this evocative tale that returns at long last to her beloved Sullivan's Island. Beekeeper Holly McNee Kensen quietly lives in a world of her own on Sullivan's Island, tending her hives and working at the local island library. Holly calls her mother The Queen Bee because she's a demanding hulk of a woman. Her mother, a devoted...
5) Freewater
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Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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2022 Graded Reading Lists: Grades 4 & 5
2022-2023 Middle School TAB Nominations
Books You May Have Missed 2022: Combined
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2022-2023 Middle School TAB Nominations
Books You May Have Missed 2022: Combined
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Award-winning author Amina Luqman-Dawson pens a lyrical, accessible historical novel about two enslaved children's escape from a plantation and the many ways they find freedom. Under the cover of night, twelve-year-old Homer flees Southerland Plantation with his little sister Ada, unwillingly leaving their beloved mother behind. Much as he adores her and fears for her life, Homer knows there's no turning back, not with the overseer on their trail....
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Jump!, Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"In Wiley the Werewolf Frightens, beginning readers learn about the phonics concepts of two-syllable words and long vowel sounds in an exciting, fantastical setting. Follow along as Wiley the Werewolf and other scary creatures join the Moonlight Parade and try to frighten, all while incorporating various two-syllable words with a long vowel sound, in this fun decodable book. Vibrant illustrations and carefully leveled text will engage young readers...
7) Lovely War
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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10 Worth Trying: Young Adult Historical [High School Readers]
World War I Collection Spotlight - Books for Teens
World War I Collection Spotlight - Books for Teens
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The Greek goddess Aphrodite recounts two tales of tragic love during WWI to her husband, Hephaestus, and her lover, Ares, in a luxe Manhattan hotel room at the height of World War II. She seeks to answer the age-old question: "Why are Love and War eternally drawn to one another?" but her quest for a conclusion that will satisfy her jealous husband uncovers a multi-threaded tale of prejudice, trauma, and music revealing that War is no match for the...
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English
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2022-2023 Middle School TAB Nominations
2023 Graded Reading Lists: Grades 4 & 5
Books You May Have Missed 2022: Combined
Titles Worth Trying: Adventure [Grades 3-5]
2023 Graded Reading Lists: Grades 4 & 5
Books You May Have Missed 2022: Combined
Titles Worth Trying: Adventure [Grades 3-5]
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"A fun, unexpected, action-packed reimagining of a classic story." —Molly Knox Ostertag, author of The Witch Boy
Frozen meets The Wizard of Oz in this swashbuckling adventure perfect for fans of Amulet and The Okay Witch, from the acclaimed author of Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy.
Odette and Dillie are supposed to be enemies. Their kingdoms have been feuding since before they were born.
But when
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Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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Instead of the usual fairy tale, Abby finds herself in the middle of a book, Alice in Wonderland, with two of her friends, plus bossy Penny (who is definitely not a friend), and in order to get back to reality she must solve a curious riddle, find one of her friends who is missing, and somehow avoid getting her head cut off by the Red Queen--and figure out what she is going to tell the other girls if they ever get out of Wonderland.
11) Longitude: the true story of a lone genius who solved the greatest scientific problem of his time
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English
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Describes the forty-year effort of John Harrison to invent the chronometer, the first instrument able to keep accurate time for navigational purposes.
"Anyone alive in the eighteenth century would have known that "the longitude problem" was the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day -- and had been for centuries. Lacking the ability to measure their longitude, sailors throughout the great ages of exploration had been literally lost at sea as soon...
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Sesame Workshop
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Fairy tales and nursery rhymes come to life on Sesame Street! Mother Goose has rhymer's block--can Elmo find a way to save the day? Is Oscar really the Prince of Nice in disguise? How will Hansel and Gretel replace their too-tempting-to last cookie crumb trail? And who will help Jack Be Nimble with his eight-candlestick jump?
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
This two-disc set contains a cornucopia of frightfully fun Scooby-Doo adventures as Scooby-Doo and the gang are stalked through thirteen episodes by famous monsters, ghastly ghouls and other creatures of the night determined to stop the 'meddling kids' at every turn.
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Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The fun begins following the victory celebration in the Ewok village on Endor, at the end of Star Wars: Return of the Jedi. R2-D2 and C-3PO have gathered to regale Luke, Leia, Han, Chewbacca and the other Rebels with the tales of their adventures that led to the events of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace. An accidental kidnapping occurs while the droids are reminiscing, and suddenly you2re taken on a new journey that leads to the retelling of the entire...
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English
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"The classic boyhood adventure tale, updated with a new introduction by noted Mark Twain scholar R. Kent Rasmussen In recent years, neither the persistent effort to "clean up" the racial epithets in Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn nor its consistent use in the classroom have diminished, highlighting the novel's wide-ranging influence and its continued importance in American society. An incomparable adventure story, it is a vignette of...
18) Dread nation
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Series
Dread nation volume 1
Language
English
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10 Worth Trying: Young Adult Horror [High School Readers]
Black Lives Matter: Teen Stories
TAB 2019 : Thomas Jefferson
TAB Top Picks in E-Books or E-Audio
Black Lives Matter: Teen Stories
TAB 2019 : Thomas Jefferson
TAB Top Picks in E-Books or E-Audio
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When families go missing in Baltimore County, Jane McKeene, who is studying to become an Attendant, finds herself in the middle of a conspiracy that has her fighting for her life against powerful enemies.
Jane McKeene was born two days before the dead began to walk the battlefields of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania-- derailing the War Between the States and changing the nation forever. Now laws like the Native and Negro Education Act require certain children...
19) Rapunzel
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Publisher
Peachtree Publishers
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"The prisoner of an evil witch, Rapunzel lives all alone in a tall, dark tower. If she ever escapes, the witch will put a terrible curse her. But is Rapunzel frightened? Oh no, not she!"--
20) The therapist
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The multimillion-copy New York Times bestselling author B.A. Paris returns to her heartland of gripping psychological suspense in The Therapist--a powerful tale of a house that holds a shocking secret. When Alice and Leo move into a newly renovated house in The Circle, a gated community of exclusive houses, it is everything they've dreamed of. But appearances can be deceptive ... As Alice is getting to know her neighbours, she discovers a devastating...
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