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The silver sea
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Julia Golding |
When pirates raid a village in ninth-century Norway, eighteen-year-old Toki is captured as a prize, while Freydis, his younger sister, is taken to a friendly village where she and her African slave, … |
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King Lear
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Gareth Hinds |
Named one of the 10 best graphic novels of 2008 for youth by Booklist. This adaptation features loose, flowing page layouts, often without panel borders, and the setting is a melange of historical pe… |
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Nim's friends
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Danielle Denega |
Living on a nearly deserted island with her scientist father, eleven-year-old Nim finds friends in the animals she encounters and the imaginary friends she creates from characters from her favorite b… |
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Lexie
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Audrey Couloumbis |
When ten-year-old Lexie goes with her father to the beach for a week, she is surprised to find that he has invited his girlfriend and her two sons to join them for the entire week. |
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The London train
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Tessa Hadley |
After the death of his mother, Paul abandons his family to live life on the edge with his daughter from a previous marriage who is pregnant and living in a run-down council flat, while Cora rebels ag… |
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Eye of the storm
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Kate Messner |
Jaden's summer visit with her meteorologist father, who has just returned from spending four years in Russia conducting weather experiments not permitted in the United States, fills her with apprehen… |
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Starglass
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Phoebe North |
For all of her sixteen years, Terra has lived on a city within a spaceship that left Earth five hundred years ago seeking refuge, but as they finally approach the chosen planet, she is drawn into a s… |
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Her dark curiosity
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Megan Shepherd |
Back in London after escaping from her father's island and the secrets she left behind, Juliet Moreau strives to stop a killer while searching for a serum to cure her own worsening illness. |
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Bracelet of bones
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Kevin Crossley-Holland |
"One morning Solveig wakes to find her father, Viking mercenary Halfdan, has broken his promise to her by leaving to join the Viking Guard in Constantinople without her. Deciding to follow him, Solve… |
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Better than perfect
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Melissa Kantor |
Setting high ambitions for an Ivy League education and successful life, Juliet begins questioning her strict family rules in the face of her father's abandonment, her mother's instability, and her gr… |
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Coffin Road
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Peter May |
A man stands bewildered on a deserted beach on the Hebridean Isle of Harris. He cannot remember who he is. He is physically shaken, borderline hypothermic, and overwhelmed by fear and uncertainty. Th… |
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Anna's heaven
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Stian Hole |
After the death of her mother, Anna and her father imagine that Heaven might be a place where one can help in God's garden, visit with old friends, and take off one's socks whenever one pleases. |
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Hex Hall
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Rachel Hawkins |
After learning that she is capable of dangerous magic, Sophie Mercer goes to England with her father, friend Jenna, and Cal hoping to have her powers removed, but soon she learns that she is being hu… |
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The Princess Diaries
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Meg Cabot |
Fourteen-year-old Mia, who is trying to lead a normal life as a teenage girl in New York City, is shocked to learn that her father is the Prince of Genovia, a small European principality, and that sh… |
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Amber Brown is green with envy
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Paula Danziger |
Fourth-grader Amber Brown must make some important decisions when her mother and Max move their wedding date up and prepare to buy a house together, while her father makes some bad choices of his own. |
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Child X
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Lee Weatherly |
Thirteen-year-old Jules finds her predictable and, except for the friction between her parents, not unpleasant life completely turned upside down when her beloved father suddenly leaves home, refuses… |
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Hugging the Rock
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Susan Taylor Brown |
Rachel retreats into herself--away from the father who has always kept his distance, away from school, and away from her best friend. Rachel’s mom says that her dad is a rock, the good kind you can a… |
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Open season(A Joe Pickett Novel #1)
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C. J. Box |
The first Joe Pickett novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author C. J. Box.
Joe Pickett is the new game warden in Twelve Sleep, Wyoming, a town where nearly everyone hunts and the game warden—… |
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Interrupting chicken
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David Ezra Stein |
Little Red Chicken wants Papa to read her a bedtime story, but interrupts him almost as soon as he begins each tale. |
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