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1) Fracture
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When seventeen-year old Biz wakes up from surgery after helping catch a kidnapper, she thinks she's lost her ability to flicker-travel back in time eighteen hours-but she soon discovers her ability is stronger than ever. And so are the mind-blowing headaches.But flickering isn't the only thing giving Biz headaches. Her newly shaved head brings out the bullies, her boyfriend Cameron is getting a little too chummy with a girl from the kidnap support...
2) Faded
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Even the best intentions have consequences.Biz didn't think life could get worse after the tragic events that surrounded her last flicker, but when she accidentally flickers on her eighteenth birthday after a pre-party celebration-she's forced to face the consequences of her actions in a way she never imagined.As her life falls apart, she turns to the one person who promised to protect her, only to have her trust shattered-again.And when an anonymous...
3) Quintessence
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IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
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A 2021 NCTE Charlotte Huck Award Honor Book
A Bank Street Best Book of 2021
Quintessence is an extraordinary story from Jess Redman about friendship, self-discovery, interconnectedness, and the inexplicable elements that make you you.
Three months ago, twelve-year-old Alma moved to the town of Four Points. Her panic attacks started a week later, and they haven't stopped-even though she's told her parents that they have. She's homesick and friendless...
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IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
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A YALSA 2015 Best Fiction for Young Adults Pick
Two years ago, fifteen-year-old Jamie Henry breathed a sigh of relief when a judge sentenced his older sister to juvenile detention for burning down their neighbor's fancy horse barn. The whole town did. Because Crazy Cate Henry used to be a nice girl. Until she did a lot of bad things. Like drinking. And stealing. And lying. Like playing weird mind games in the woods with other children. Like making...
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A tale of tough choices, true friendship, and the courage to follow your heart. As autumn leaves paint the landscape, 11-year-old Sofia faces a crossroads. An opportunity to visit Acadia National Park presents a thrilling chance to explore the carriage trails with her horse, Sundance. Her mother's boyfriend invites her to bring a friend to ride his sister's horse. The catch? Sofia must choose between her best friends, Olivia and Anika. While Sofia...
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In the heart of Vienna, twelve-year-old Sarah Ann Reisende wanders into a mysterious shop where snow globes double as portals to other worlds. After breaking the globe tethered to Earth, she discovers a cryptic note scribbled on the back of a photograph. The note links her father, who left before her third birthday, to a place called Elohi. Could this be a chance to find her father at last?Unable to return home, Sarah follows the lead into the world...
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A young girl and her father share an early morning horseback ride around their city in “My Daddy Is a Cowboy”, a picture book celebration of "just-us time," perfect for fans of “My Papi Has a Motocycle”.
Tall. High as the clouds.
Strong as a horse's back.
Like a cowboy.
In the early hours before dawn, a young girl and her father greet their horses and ride together through the waking city streets. As they trot along, Daddy tells cowboy...
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A school social issues story about an extraordinarily large boy who struggles with bullying and low self-esteem. However, when a giant monster shows him the importance of being different, he learns to be proud of his unique qualities.I hated school. I hated everything about it. Mostly I hated Corban Barkley because he convinced my entire class I looked like an overgrown circus monkey-or something like that. Life was pretty miserable for me at Red...
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What does it mean to be smart? Does being smart mean that you have all the answers and you never make mistakes? People can be smart in many different ways. Everyone is good at something and everyone has something to share with the world.
"What Does It Mean to Be Smart?" focuses on all the ways we show our strengths and passions each day. Being smart isn't the same for everyone. Everyone is smart in some way and everyone has strengths and talents...
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A hip-hop sci-fi saga. Rasheed and Curtis meet for a gunfight bent on revenge and payback. What they find once they arrive is a twisted tale of time travel, truth, and triumph. Journey with them as they meet in the past, present, and future, facing crisis after crisis.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 11
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Lucy lives on the twenty-fourth floor. Owen lives in the basement. It's fitting, then, that they meet in the middle -- stuck between two floors of a New York City apartment building, on an elevator rendered useless by a citywide blackout. After they're rescued, Lucy and Owen spend the night wandering the darkened streets and marveling at the rare appearance of stars above Manhattan. But once the power is back, so is reality. Lucy soon moves abroad...
12) The Mango Tree
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From internationally renowned, award-winning artist Edel Rodriguez comes The Mango Tree, an enchanting wordless picture book and a moving, fantastical take on his childhood experience as an immigrant.
In a quiet village on a small island, two boys spend their days in a mango tree. High above the rest of the world, they play, take naps in the shade, and eat mangoes together. But after a huge storm sweeps one boy out into unknown waters, he finds...
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Annemarie Riley Guertin's heartwarming picture book Finding Mr. Trunks highlights the positive impact of social media and brings people together to help #FindMrTrunks.
Somewhere between the security checkpoint and Gate 2 is where it happened. The grip around my neck loosened. Oh, no! Libby? Libbyyyyy! When Libby accidentally drops her beloved stuffed elephant, Mr. Trunks, at the airport, he must figure out how to reconnect with her before they're...
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Violet's life is about to change to more powerful. When she is hiking through Misty Falls she stumbles upon a ring. When she tells her parents they find the owner and uncover a story of how it became magical. She uses it to her advantage, but when an accident happens she must rethink keeping it.Her life is turned upside down. The ring can do good and bad. It all must come to an end.Review"Absolutely amazing..highly recommended." -Mai, Goodreads
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"Dawn's Cozy Horror Corner: a queer Chinese diaspora horror short stories anthology" is a horror anthology which contains five stories featuring supernatural elements and young Chinese diaspora protagonists whose identities clash with the environment around them.
In "Bottle of Shame", a girl who can pull out people's shame must grapple with the gruesome consequences of the truth she reveals. In "The Girl with No Face", a girl slowly loses her...
16) Miracle's Song
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Darkness has a way of bringing things to life. Things forgotten. Things from our past. This becomes all too apparent for Miracle Jenkins. All she wants is a normal life filled with friends, family, and the occasional red Slurpee. But a life-changing event involving the police turns her world upside-down. Miracle's only retreat is music, which takes her soul on adventures of the past while she still has to confront the truths of today. But even music...
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Finish the fifth grade: Check!Start summer break: Check!Spend summer break with Tom and Gina: Wait! What?!When eleven-year-old Ryan Ericksen learns he'll be spending three months helping his aunt and uncle on their chicken farm, he thinks his whole summer break is ruined.No more playing video games or having super-soaker fights with his older brother. Nope. He'll be stuck on the eastern plains of Colorado with five hundred stupid, crummy chickens.Little...
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IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
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For a brave warthog like Boris, adventure is always just around the corner!
This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line called Branches, which is aimed at newly independent readers. With easy-to-read text, high-interest content, fast-paced plots, and illustrations on every page, these books will boost reading confidence and stamina. Branches books help readers grow!Boris is having a sleepover! He's camping in the backyard with Frederick...
19) On Location
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In the second book in Jen Calonita's six-book Secrets of My Hollywood Life series, it seems like this is going to be the summer of dreams come true for Hollywood celebrity princess Kaitlin Burke. The media loves her (again), super-cute and funny Austin Meyers is finally her boyfriend, and she's starring in a blockbuster movie by her all-time favorite director Hutch Adams. What could be sweeter? But life on set is not nearly as perfect as the designer...
20) Tilted Sky
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Is it too much to ask for an ordinary, boring life? All Bai Jian has ever wanted is a warm bed to sleep in, a safe place to return to at the end of the day, enough food to fill his belly, and a dad who's not just going to abandon him on a whim.
From author Yao Emei and translator Kelly Zhang comes a heart-rending, emotional middle grade novel about a sixth-grade boy in China searching for a home and a family – and whose resourcefulness and generous...
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