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El Deafo

by Cece Bell

Published: 2014-09-02

Paperback: 248 pages

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A 2015 Newbery Honor Book Going to school and making new friends can be tough. But going to school and making new friends while wearing a bulky hearing aid strapped to your chest? That requires superpowers! In this funny, poignant graphic novel memoir, author/illustrator Cece Bell chronicl...

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A Snicker of Magic

by Natalie Lloyd

Published: 2015-04-28

Paperback: 320 pages

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Natalie Lloyd's SPINDIDDLY debut novel, now in paperback!Midnight Gulch used to be a magical place, a town where people could sing up thunderstorms and dance up sunflowers. But that was long ago, before a curse drove the magic away. Twelve-year-old Felicity knows all about things like that...

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* * * * * Addictive,
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The Crossover

by Kwame Alexander

Published: 2014-03-18

Hardcover: 240 pages

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2015 Newbery Medal Winner 2015 Coretta Scott King Honor Award Winner "With a bolt of lightning on my kicks . . .The court is SIZZLING. My sweat is DRIZZLING. Stop all that quivering. Cuz tonight I’m delivering," announces dread-locked, 12-year old Josh Bell. He and his twin brother Jord...

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The Summer I Saved the World . . . in 65 Days

by Michele Weber Hurwitz

Published: 2015-04-14

Paperback: 272 pages

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It's summertime, and thirteen-year-old Nina Ross is feeling kind of lost. Her beloved grandma died last year; her parents work all the time; her brother's busy; and her best friend is into clothes, makeup, and boys. While Nina doesn't know what "her thing" is yet, it's definitely not shopp...

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Abigail Adams: A Biography

by Phyllis Lee Levin

Published: 2013-10-29

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Wife of one president and mother of another, Abigail Adams was an extraordinary woman living at an extraordinary time in American history. A tireless letter writer and diarist, her penetrating and often caustic impressions of most of the major persons of her day--including Ben Franklin, Ge...

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Just Kids from the Bronx: Telling It the Way It Was: An Oral History

by Arlene Alda

Published: 2015-03-03

Hardcover: 336 pages

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"A down-to-earth, inspiring book about the American promise fulfilled." -President Bill Clinton"Fascinating . . . . Made me wish I had been born in the Bronx." -Barbara WaltersA touching and provocative collection of memories that evoke the history of one of America's most influential boro...

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Back Channel

by Stephen L. Carter

Published: 2015-05-26

Paperback: 464 pages

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October 1962. The Soviet Union has smuggled missiles into Cuba. Kennedy and Khrushchev are in the midst of a military face-off that could lead to nuclear conflagration. The only way for the two leaders to negotiate safely is to open a “back channel” by way of a clandestine emissary. Th...

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Laguna Heat

by T. Jefferson Parker

Published: 1993-08-15

Mass Market Paperback: 336 pages

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Laguna...Where every day the sun makes a promise the nighttime breaks, while the super-rich live out expensive fantasies in posh beach houses and drown their memories in Cuervo Gold margaritas...Laguna...Where trouble has swept in like a Santa Ana wind, blowing the cover off a world of tor...

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Carrying Albert Home: The Somewhat True Story of A Man, His Wife, and Her Alligator

by Homer Hickam

Published: 2015-10-13

Hardcover: 432 pages

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Big Fish meets The Notebook in this emotionally evocative story about a man, a woman, and an alligator that is a moving tribute to love, from the New York Times bestselling author of the award-winning memoir Rocket Boys—the basis of the movie October Sky.Elsie Lavender and Homer Hickam (...

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The Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw: One Woman's Fight to Save the World's Most Beautiful Bird

by Bruce Barcott

Published: 2009-01-13

Paperback: 313 pages

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Caring for orphaned animals at her own zoo in the tropical country of Belize, Sharon Matola became one of Central America’s greatest wildlife defenders. And when powerful outside forces conspired with the local government to build a dam that would flood the nesting ground of the only sca...