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The Whipping Boy
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Sid Fleischman |
***A shout comes echoing up the stairway. "Fetch the whipping boy!"***
**A young orphan named Jemmy rouses from his sleep.** "Ain't I already been whipped twice today? Gaw! What's the prince done… |
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Ghost boy
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Iain Lawrence |
Unhappy in a home seemingly devoid of love, a fourteen-year-old albino boy who thinks of himself as Harold the Ghost runs away to join the circus, where he works with the elephants and searches for a… |
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The lost island of Tamarind
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Nadia Aguiar |
Three children. Alone on the ocean waves, after a fierce storm throws their parents from the Pamela Jane into the icy waters below. Maya, Simon and Penny now face a wild rescue adventure that will le… |
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Hush little polar bear
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Jeff Mack |
A little girl invites her plush polar bear to dream of all of the places where sleeping bears go, from the high seas to a starry desert and back home. |
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Just take my heart
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Mary Higgins Clark |
After famous actress Natalie Raines is found in her home, dying from a gunshot wound, police immediately suspect her theatrical agent and jealous soon-to-be-ex-husband, Gregg Aldrich. But no charges … |
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The reckoning
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Michael Owen Carroll |
The conflict that has been simmering between the new superhumans and the Trutopians begins to boil over, threatening the world with extinction. |
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The Divide
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Elizabeth Kay |
While hiking on the Continental Divide of Costa Rica, a young boy with a heart condition falls into a magical otherworld full of fantastical creatures. |
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Novels (The Call of the Wild / White Fang)
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Jack London |
Two classic tales of dogs, one part wolf and one a Saint Bernard/Scotch shepherd mix that becomes leader of a wolf pack, as they have adventures in the Yukon wilderness with both humans and other ani… |
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Miss Wyoming
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Douglas Coupland |
Waking up in an L.A. hospital, John Johnson is amazed that it was the flu and not an overdose of five different drugs mixed with cognac that nearly killed him. As a producer of high-adrenaline action… |
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Razor Sharp
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Fern Michaels |
The fourteenth book in the Sisterhood series.
When it comes to repaying a debt, the women of the Sisterhood – Myra, Annie, Kathryn, Alexis, Yoko, Nikki, and Isabelle – never forget. And now one… |
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The Thief
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Megan Whalen Turner |
Gen flaunts his ingenuity as a thief and relishes the adventure which takes him to a remote temple of the gods where he will attempt to steal a precious stone. |
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The Thief Queen's Daughter (The Lost Journals of Ven Polypheme #2)
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Elizabeth Haydon |
On his first day on the job as Royal Reporter of the land of Serendair, King Vandemere sends young Charles Magnus Ven Polypheme--known as Ven--on a secret mission within the walls of the Gated City. … |
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Bink and Gollie
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Kate DiCamillo,Alison McGhee |
Two roller-skating best friends--one tiny, one tall--share three comical adventures involving outrageously bright socks, an impromptu trek to the Andes, and a most unlikely marvelous companion. |
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Iron river
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T. Jefferson Parker |
T. Jefferson Parker ranks among the very top tier of contemporary crime writers, and his new series has received some of the most effusive reviews of his already stellar career. In L.A. Outlaws, Park… |
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Executive intent
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Dale Brown |
The deadliest strike will come from outer spaceWhen America develops the most powerful defense system in history, will it be used to protect the nation—or will it be used to force universal dominatio… |
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Snakehead
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Anthony Horowitz |
What goes up must come down, and when we last saw Alex Rider, he was as up as can be—in outer space. When he crash lands off the coast of Australia, the Australian Secret Service recruits him to infi… |
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The class trip from the black lagoon
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Mike Thaler |
A young boy's imagined school trip makes the real trip look mundane. |
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Crocodile Tears
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Anthony Horowitz |
It's just another day in the life of an average kid. If you're Alex Rider, that is.A con artist has realized there is big money in charityu the bigger the disaster, the greater the money flow! So tha… |
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Roxie and the hooligans
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Phyllis Reynolds Naylor |
Roxie Warbler, the niece of a famous explorer, follows Uncle Dangerfoot's advice on how to survive any crisis when she becomes stranded on an island with a gang of school bullies and a pair of murder… |
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Tentacles
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Roland Smith |
After the mysterious disappearance of their parents, Marty and Grace go to live with their scientist uncle and accompany him on, what soon becomes, an increasingly dangerous expedition to New Zealand… |
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