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Bud, Not Buddy
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Christopher Paul Curtis,Alberto Jimenez Rioja,aa,Reginald André Jackson |
It's 1936, in Flint, Michigan. Times may be hard, and ten-year-old Bud may be a motherless boy on the run, but Bud's got a few things going for him:
1. He has his own suitcase filled with his own i… |
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Live through this
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Debra Gwartney |
"Live Through This"--as emotionally wrenching and ultimately redemptive as David Sheff 's "Beautiful Boy"--follows Gwartney's frantic effort to recover her beautiful, intelligent daughters from their… |
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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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Pride & joy
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Brian K. Vaughan |
Meet Alex, Karolina, Gert, Chase, Molly, and Nico, a group of teenswhose lives are about to take an unexpected turn. When these six young friends discover their parents are all secretly super-powered… |
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Noah Barleywater runs away
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John Boyne |
When life at home becomes too difficult, eight-year-old Noah sets out to see the world and have an adventure, and in the forest he meets a toymaker who has a story and some advice to share. |
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Fix me
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Rune Michaels |
A sixteen-year-old girl endures a miserable life with her aunt and violent twin brother, but when memories of an even worse past resurface she runs away to a zoo, where she finds an unlikely sanctuar… |
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Wonderstruck
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Brian Selznick |
Expanding upon the genre-breaking form he invented in his trailblazing debut novel, The Invention of Hugo Cabret, Brian Selznick creates another awe-inspiring and multi-layered reading experience. Wo… |
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Blink and Caution
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Tim Wynne-Jones |
Blink, man, what were you thinking? Sneaking into the hotel for a hot breakfast? Hot scraps of someone else's breakfast, really. Couldn't you just feel that it was a wrong place/wrong time scenario? … |
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Dead Girl Moon
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Charlie Price |
Grace, a scheming runaway, JJ, her fostercare sister, and Mick, the son of a petty thief, become entangled in the investigation of a teen prostitute's murder in a small, corrupt Montana town. |
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Zombie Jim
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Mark Twain,W. Bill Czolgosz |
Adaptation of [Adventures of Huckleberry Finn](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL53908W/Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn).
THERE WARN’T NO HOME LIKE A RAFT, AFTER ALL.
THE MONSTERS CAIN’T GET YOU … |
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Dead wrong
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Patricia Stoltey |
"Newlywed Lynnette Foster's cop husband punches her in the face, but this first assault will be the last. She leaves him and boards a flight from Miami to Los Angeles. At the airport, a foul-mouthed … |
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Seconds
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Sylvia Taekema |
Jake does everything right when it comes to cross-country running. Determined to win, he pushes himself even more. But with the help of his coach, he begins to rediscover what he used to love about r… |
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Missing and murdered children
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Margaret O. Hyde |
Discusses missing and abducted children, abused children, and murder victims, and outlines ways to prevent and cope with these increasing problems. |
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Missing children
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Margaret O. Hyde |
Discusses missing children including those who run away or are abducted by strangers or parents and outlines ways to prevent and cope with this increasing problem. |
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Secret Seven Mystery
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Enid Blyton |
Usually, the grown-ups in the Secret Seven series play a regulatory role, and, at times, even forbid the children from getting involved in mysteries. However, it is Peter's and Janet's father who dro… |
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Marrying a Delacourt
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Sherryl Woods |
Once upon a time, Michael Delacourt's tempting kisses had sent Grace Foster's heartbeat ricocheting. Now, here she was on an isolated Texas ranch with the only man she'd ever loved...the man she coul… |
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The boy, the bird & the coffin maker
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Matilda Woods |
Alberto lives alone in the town of Allora, where fish fly out of the sea and the houses shine like jewels. He is a coffin maker and widower, spending his quiet days creating the final resting places … |
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Pop goes the circus!
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Kate Klise |
Bert the circus mouse has gone missing! The members of Sir Sidney s Circus figure he s nearby, sulking after an argument with his sister, Gert. Little do they know that he s been carried away by a ro… |
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The flight of the doves
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Walter Macken |
A twelve-year-old English boy and his seven-year-old sister run away from their abusive stepfather and set out to reach their grandmother in western Ireland, despite the publicity about their flight … |
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The Boxcar Children
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Dorothy Gregory,Gertrude Chandler Warner,Mike Dubisch,Shannon Eric Denton,L. Kate Deal |
Orphaned siblings Henry, Jessie, Benny, and Violet are determined not to be separated after the deaths of their parents. Fearing being sent away to live with their cruel, frightening grandfather, the… |
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