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4) Fallen
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Fallen novels (Lauren Kate) volume 1
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English
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Suspected in the death of her boyfriend, seventeen-year-old Luce is sent to a Savannah, Georgia, reform school where she meets two intriguing boys and learns the truth about the strange shadows that have always haunted her.
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Magic tree house. Original series volume 7
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English
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The magic tree house transports Jack and Annie on a mission to the Ice Age where they encounter Cro-Magnons, cave bears, sabertooth tigers, and woolly mammoths.
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After her first trip to a beauty parlor Junie decides she wants to work there, and she practices on her bunny slippers, her dog, and herself with disastrous results. Junie B. Jones believes she has a calling to become a barber and, after practicing on various stuffed animals, decides to move on to a human subject -- herself. What's the bestest job ever? A beauty shop guy, that's what! And Junie B. Jones is going to be one when she grows up. But first...
9) Old school
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Diary of a wimpy kid volume 10
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English
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Life was better in the old days. Or was it? That's the question Greg Heffley is asking as his town voluntarily unplugs and goes electronics-free. But modern life has its conveniences, and Greg isn't cut out for an old-fashioned world. With tension building inside and outside the Heffley home, will Greg find a way to survive? Or is going 'old school' just too hard for a kid like Greg?
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A nineteenth-entury science fiction tale of an electric submarine, its eccentric captain, and undersea world, which anticipated many of the scientific achievements of the twentieth century.
An American frigate tracks down a ship-sinking submarine commanded by the mysterious Captain Nemo.
13) Wonder
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August Pullman was born with a facial deformity that, up until now, prevented him from going to a mainstream school. Starting 5th grade at Beecher Prep, he wants nothing more than to be treated as an ordinary kid -- but his classmates can't get past Auggie's extraordinary face. Wonder begins from Auggie's point of view, but soon switches to include his classmates, his sister, her boyfriend, and others. These perspectives converge in a portrait of...
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Chronicles of Narnia volume 2
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English
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Just in time for the 50th anniversary of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe comes the only picture-book adaptation of the most popular and best-selling title in The Chronicles of Narnia. Younger readers can now take the first of many trips to Narnia in a brand-new edition of the story that has enchanted millions. Beautifully evocative art by renowned British illustrator Christian Birmingham complements this carefully abridged text of one of the...
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Chronicles of Narnia volume 3
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English
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A boy and a talking horse share an adventurous and dangerous journey to Narnia to warn of invading barbarians. Sequel to "The Silver Chair."
16) Blubber
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Jill goes along with the rest of the fifth-grade class in tormenting a classmate and then finds out what it's like when she, too, becomes a target.
17) Hatchet
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After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the Canadian wilderness, learning to survive with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce. Includes an introduction and sidebar commentary by the author.
18) Shiloh
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Shiloh quartet volume 3
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English
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When he finds a lost beagle in the hills behind his West Virginia home, Marty tries to hide it from his family and the dog's real owner, a mean-spirited man known to shoot deer out of season and to mistreat his dogs.
20) Among the hidden
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Shadow children volume 1
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English
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In a future where the Population Police enforce the law limiting a family to only two children, Luke has lived all his twelve years in isolation and fear on his family's farm, until another "third" convinces him that the government is wrong.