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1) Ender's game
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From New York Times bestselling author Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game—adapted to film in 2013 starring Asa Butterfield and Harrison Ford—is the classic Hugo and Nebula award-winning science fiction novel of a young boy's recruitment into the midst of an interstellar war.
In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses
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"New York Times bestselling author Grady Hendrix takes on the haunted house in a hilarious and terrifying new novel that explores the way your past-and your family-can haunt you like nothing else.... Louise's parents have passed away, and she's returning to the small Southern town where she grew up to get their house ready to sell. It means she'll have to spend time with her younger brother-and their old grudges make that a terrifying prospect. But...
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Obscure French royalty, exiled to England in the aftermath of the revolution, Princess Elise searches for her long-lost brother and is distracted from her mission by the devastatingly charming Mr. Killian Crewes, a "Royal Fixer" who, unbeknownst to her, has been sent to thwart her.
5) Liar!
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"Even though Luna and her brother Cullen seem like complete opposites, they're identical in two ways: they'll never let injustice stand and they always have each other's back. Fern Michaels blends mystery, drama and a touch of romance for the third in her Lost & Found series, as the siblings set out to unravel a cold case connected to a mysterious armoire."--
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"When former teacher Paula Eden adopts Faith and Trevor, she is astounded by their natural intelligence and decides to homeschool them to nurture their brilliance. But as the years go on, Faith and Trevor itch for more independence. When Faith sets her sights on a handsome young man visiting from out of town, Paula grows increasingly desperate to preserve her small family and her plans for the children to carry on her legacy. Luckily, she has a cohort...
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Viking quest volume 1
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c2003
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IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
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199 pages: illustrations ; 18 cm.
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Thirteen-year-old Bree asks God for protection when she and her brother Devin are captured and taken from their home on the Irish coast by Viking raiders in the late tenth century.
9) Shatterproof
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IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
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Targeted by Interpol after a series of spectacular heists, a reluctant Amy and Dan are ordered by Vesper One to steal the world's largest diamond, a demand that is challenged by their efforts to rescue the Cahill hostages and stop a Vesper mole.
11) Little Paula
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2023.
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"Faith Eden's brief foray into motherhood is marked by tragedy. Distraught that her baby was ripped away from her, she is determined to get little Paula back from the wealthy family who adopted her. Her brother, Trevor, is also anxious to get the baby back and will do anything necessary to do so. But when the dark truth comes to light, this twisted family will stop at nothing to keep outsiders out and secrets in -- no matter the cost."--
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In July 1944, as the Red Army drives the Nazis out of Poland, sixteen-year-old Maria Kamińska must work with a captured Ukrainian nationalist to find her brother, who is a special operations agent and leader of a Polish Resistance squad, when he disappears while on a mission.
13) Simply the best
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[2024]
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368 pages ; 24 cm.
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Brett and Rory should never have met, and they absolutely, positively should never have had to deal with the consequences of one stupid, drunken night, one disastrous lie, one career in jeopardy, one missing football player, and a very dead body.
14) Summer of Lies
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The summer is the hottest yet in the Brittany coastal town of Morranez, but when a new case lands on the desk of the Toussaints detective agency, there can be no time to relax. As wild fires bear down on the town, the alert goes out for a missing girl.
Nineteen-year-old Briony Moorcroft has seemingly been taken from her sleepy Welsh village and brought to France. Her parents are baffled and scared – Briony needs her life-saving medicine or this...
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[2022]
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435 pages ; 22 cm.
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"When Zach, a white boy from Philly, moves to a racially divided town, he befriends Black siblings Capri and Justin, but when the police murder one of their friends, the town erupts into an all-out war, with Capri, Justin, and Zach caught in the middle."--
16) Being Baxters
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[2023]
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290 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
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Each of the Baxter children experiences trouble at school, and when Principal Bond announces a new Character Awards initiative competition breaks out between the siblings until they remember what being a Baxter really means.
17) Sense of play
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Joy and Chip, who is blind, are siblings who enjoy a day full of play and imagination, sharing food and toys, and creating new games to play.
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2023.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm.
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In this tale inspired by the life of author Toni Morrison, young Toni sets out on a quest for gold with her siblings, but when things do not go as planned, she realizes that finding the perfect ending is all about how you tell the story. Includes biographical note.
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Long road home volume 3
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"As May settles into family life, she has so much to be grateful for. Yes, there are plenty of challenges as she continues to heal from the demons of her past, but her loving husband and sweet children are the greatest earthly gift she could ask for. And having Oba in their home is almost more precious than she could have imagined ... at least, if it weren't for his ongoing anger and hardness of heart. May's children are steadily growing older, and...
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Lemonade war series volume 6
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IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
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"Evan and Jessie Treski have waged a lemonade war, sought justice in a class trial, unmasked a bell thief, and created a professional magic show. Yet for all their skills and talents, both find themselves being singled out this summer for reasons beyond their control. Natural-born leader Evan, who is always good at making new friends , discovers he is at the mercy of a bully on the summer school playground, and is pressured to act in a way he never...
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