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Louisa May Alcott
This classic story chronicles the joys and troubles of the four March sisters -- Meg, Jo, Amy, and Beth -- as they grow into young ladies. |
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Holly Black
When 17-year-old Tana wakes up in the aftermath of a violent vampire attack, she travels to Coldtown, a quarantined city full of vampires, with her ex-boyfriend and a mysterious vampire boy in tow. |
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Edward Bloor
Paul, who lives in the shadow of his football-hero brother, fights for his right to play soccer despite his near-blindness. |
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| The Boy in the Striped Pajamas |
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John Boyne
Bored and lonely after his family moves from Berlin to a place called "Out-With" in 1942, Bruno, the son of a Nazi officer, befriends a boy in striped pajamas who lives behind a wire fence. |
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Ann Burg
In a poor village outside of Port-au-Prince, Serafina works hard to help her family, but when an earthquake hits, she must summon all her courage to find her father and get medicine for her brother. |
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Orson Scott Card
Andrew "Ender" Wiggin thinks he is playing computer games. But in reality he is being trained to be the military genius that the planet needs in its all-out war with an alien enemy. |
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Adrian Chamberlain
Fourteen-year-old Danny invents a fictitious friend in an effort to fit in at school, but his plan gets out of control, and he learns the truth wasn't so bad after all. |
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James Dasher
Sixteen-year-old Thomas wakes up with no memory in the middle of a maze and realizes he must work with the community in which he finds himself if he is to escape. |
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Carl Deuker
High-school senior point guard Jonas Dolan is on the fast track to a basketball career until an unthinkable choice puts his future on the line. |
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R.A. Dickey
Adapted for young readers from WHEREVER I WIND UP, this is the inspiring story of how knuckleballer R.A. Dickey became one of the game's best pitchers. |
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| Becoming Ben Franklin: How a Candle-Maker’s Son Helped Light the Flame of Liberty |
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Russell Freedman
This book contains the story of how a rebellious apprentice became an American icon through brilliance, hard work, and an endless supply of innovative ideas. |
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John Grogan
Twelve-year-old Sarah writes letters to her hero, TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD's Atticus Finch, for help understanding her mentally ill mother, her first real crush, and life in her small Texas town. |
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Karen Harrington
Twelve-year-old Sarah writes letters to her hero, TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD's Atticus Finch, for help understanding her mentally ill mother, her first real crush, and life in her small Texas town. |
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Todd Hasek-Lowry
An epic lunch period leads to a fateful showdown between Sam, a skinny seventh-grader, and his former best friend, now a popular athlete, who promised to beat up Sam at recess. |
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S.E. Hinton
Sixteen-year-old Mark and Bryon have been like brothers since childhood, but now, as their involvement with girls, gangs, and drugs increases, their relationship seems to gradually disintegrate. |
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Will Hobbs
Fifteen-year-old Nick and his half-brother, Ryan, meet and share an adventure in the Canadian Arctic, facing white water, wild animals, and fierce weather as Ryan documents the effects of climate change on caribou. |
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Jennifer Richard Jacobson
Abandoned by his mother in an Acadia National Park campground, eleven-year-old Jack tries to make his way back to Boston before anyone figures out what is going on, with only a small toy elephant for company. |
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| Mountains Beyond Mountains |
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Tracy Kidder
This young readers' adaptation of Tracy Kidder's book describes how in medical school Dr. Farmer found his life's calling, to diagnose and cure infectious diseases and to bring the lifesaving tools of modern medicine to those who need them most. |
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| Louisa May’s Battle: How the Civil War Led to Little Women |
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Kathleen Krull
Louisa May Alcott's experiences as a nurse for wounded Union soldiers during the Civil War influenced her outlook and inspired her to write her successful novel LITTLE WOMEN. |
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Louis L’Amour
Forty gunslingers corner Tell Sackett, and the whole Sackett clan comes to the rescue. |
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Josanne LaValley
Life has been hard for 14-year-old Mehrigul, a member of the Uyghur tribal group scorned by the Chinese communist regime, so when an American offers to buy all the baskets she can make in three weeks, Mehrigul strives for a better future for herself. |
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Tom McNeal
When Jeremy Johnson Johnson's strange ability to speak to the ghost of Jacob Grimm draws the interest of his classmate Ginger Boltinghouse, the two find themselves at the center of a series of disappearances in their hometown. |
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Maile Meloy
A fourteen-year-old American girl's life unexpectedly transforms when her family moves to London in 1952 and she is swept up in a race to save the world from nuclear war. |
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Marissa Meyer
In this futuristic take on Cinderella, plague ravages the overcrowded Earth and Cinder, a gifted cyborg, becomes involved with handsome Prince Kai and must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect the world. |
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Michael Northrop
Seven high-school students are stranded in their New England high school during a week-long blizzard that shuts down power and heat, freezes pipes, and leaves them wondering if they will survive. |
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Celia Rees
In 1659, fourteen-year-old Mary Newbury keeps a journal of her voyage from England to the New World and her experiences living as a witch in a community of Puritans near Salem, Massachusetts. |
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Rick Riordan
Demigod Percy Jackson, still with no memory, and his new friends from Camp Jupiter, Hazel and Frank, go on a quest to free Death, but their bigger task is to unite the Greek and Roman camps so the Prophecy of Seven can be fulfilled. |
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Neal Schusterman
In a future world where those between the ages of thirteen and eighteen can have their lives "unwound" and their body parts harvested for use by others, three teens go to extreme lengths to uphold their beliefs and, perhaps, save their own lives. |
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Karen Spafford-Fitz
Fourteen-year-old Simone becomes a key witness in a parental-abduction investigation. |
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Steve Sheinkin
This dramatic account of the 1875 attempt to steal the sixteenth president's body describes how a counterfeiting ring plotted to ransom Lincoln's body to secure the release of their imprisoned ringleader. |
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Tara Sullivan
Thirteen-year-old Habo, a Tanzanian albino boy, finds himself the ultimate outsider, hunted because of the color of his skin. |
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Mildred Taylor
Paul-Edward, son of a white plantation owner and a slave mother of African-Indian heritage, follows his dream of owning his own land through hard work and determination. |
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Marcia Vaughn
Irena Sendler, a Polish Catholic social worker, helped rescue nearly 2,500 Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II. |
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| 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea |
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Jules Verne
A French professor and his companions, trapped aboard the fantastic submarine NAUTILUS with the deranged Captain Nemo, come face to face with exotic ocean creatures and strange sights hidden from the world above. |
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Elizabeth Wein
In 1943, a British fighter plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France. When Verity is arrested by the Gestapo, she intricately weaves her confession by uncovering her past, how she became friends with the pilot, and why she left the pilot in the downed plane. |
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