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Author
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Wednesday books edition.
Physical Desc
vii, 390 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The story of 17-year-old Cassandra and her family, who live in not-so-genteel poverty in a ramshackle old English castle. Over six turbulent months, she fills three diaries with sharply funny yet poignant entries and manages to find herself hopelessly in love. By the time she pens her final entry, she has "captured the castle" and the heart of the reader.
2) Skeleton Key
Author
Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 3
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the third book in the number one bestselling Alex Rider series by Anthony Horowitz, teenage spy Alex faces his most dangerous challenge yet. Teaming up with the CIA, Alex must go to a remote Caribbean island called Skeleton Key, where the insane general Sarov is hatching explosive plans to re-write history.
4) That summer
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
During the summer of her divorced father's remarriage and her sister's wedding, fifteen-year-old Haven comes into her own by letting go of the myths of the past.
Author
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Red Robin, Wonder Girl, Kid Flash, and the other Teen Titans investigate the mysterious organization N.O.W.H.E.R.E., who are capturing young metahumans and either corrupting or destroying them.
Author
Series
Publisher
Ten Speed Press
Pub. Date
c2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
127 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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Description
A collection of artworks inspired by the lives and achievements of fifty famous women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, from the ancient world to the present, profiles each notable individual.
Author
Series
Tiger saga volume 5
Physical Desc
814 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Stranded in a time and place he never wished for, Kishan Rajaram struggles to forget the girl he loves and the brother who stole her away as he fulfills his divine role-that of assisting the beautiful, yet extremely irritable, goddess Durga. When the wily shaman Phet appears and tells Kishan that Kelsey needs him, he jumps at the chance to see her again, but in saving Kelsey, he discovers that the curse he thought was over is just beginning. As time...
Author
Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Targeted by a hitman and under threat of his past being exposed by the media, Alex reluctantly turns to MI6. But their help doesn't come cheap: they need Alex to spy on the activities at a GM crop plant. There he spots Desmond McCain, a high profile charity organiser, who realises that Alex is on to him and the real plans for the money he's raising. Kidnapped and whisked off to Africa, Alex learns the full horror of McCain's plot: to create an epic...
10) The Program
Author
Series
The Program. Main series volume 1
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st Simon Pulse hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
405 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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Description
In this “gripping tale for lovers of dystopian romance” ( Kirkus Reviews ), true feelings are forbidden, teen suicide is an epidemic, and the only solution is The Program. Sloane knows better than to cry in front of anyone. With suicide now an international epidemic, one outburst could land her in The Program, the only proven course of treatment. Sloane’s parents have already lost one child; Sloane knows they’ll do anything to keep her alive....
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
264 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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Description
Tired of being singled out at her mostly-white private school as someone who needs support, high school junior Jade would rather participate in the school's amazing Study Abroad program than join Women to Women, a mentorship program for at-risk girls.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
355 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
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Description
"The story of Jordan Romero, who at the age of 13 became the youngest person ever to reach the summit of Mount Everest. At age 15, he reached the summits of the world's 7 highest mountains"--
13) Circus dreams
Publisher
TaylorMade Productions
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 video disc (82 min.) sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Circus dreams captures charismatic teen performers on a voyage of artistic and personal self-discovery as they fight to save the only traveling youth circus in the US from closing forever.
14) Princess Academy
Author
Series
Princess Academy trilogy volume 1
Language
English
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Description
While attending a strict academy for potential princesses with the other girls from her mountain village, fourteen-year-old Miri discovers unexpected talents and connections to her homeland.
15) Enclave
Author
Series
Razorland volume 1
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
262 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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Description
In a post -apocalyptic future, fifteen-year-old Deuce, a loyal Huntress, brings back meat while avoiding the Freaks outside her enclave, but when she is partnered with the mysterious outsider, Fade, she begins to see that the strict ways of the elders may be wrong -- and dangerous.
16) Burn for burn
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed,
Physical Desc
356 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Three teenaged girls living on Jar Island band together to enact revenge on the people that have hurt them"--
18) The Round House
Author
Language
English
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Description
"One Sunday in the spring of 1988, a woman living on a reservation in North Dakota is attacked. The details of the crime are slow to surface because Geraldine Coutts is traumatized and reluctant to relive or reveal what happened, either to the police or to her husband, Bazil, and thirteen-year-old son, Joe. In one day, Joe's life is irrevocably transformed. He tries to heal his mother, but she will not leave her bed and slips into an abyss of solitude....
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
c1969
Physical Desc
[52] p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
A young Indian boy carves an Indian figure in a small canoe and sends him off on a long, adventurous journey through the Great Lakes to the sea.[How Paddle-to-the-Sea came to be -- Paddle starts on his journey -- Paddle meets a sawmill -- The largest lake in the world -- Life in a northern marsh -- Adrift again -- The shipwreck -- Down Lake Michigan -- Paddle returns to the north -- Forest fire -- Paddle reaches Lake Erie -- Paddle takes a great fall...
20) Scarlet
Author
Series
Lunar chronicles volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Scarlet Benoit and Wolf, a street fighter who may have information about her missing grandmother, join forces with Cinder as they try to stay one step ahead of the vicious Lunar Queen Levana in this story inspired by Little Red Riding Hood.
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