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Cursebreaker series volume 1
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Eighteen for the three hundred twenty-seventh time, Prince Rhen despairs of breaking the curse that turns him into a beast at the end of each day until feisty Harper enters his life.
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Fifth Grade
OBD Books for Fourth and Fifth Grade - YOUTH
Reads You May Have Missed - Middle School
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"A collection of ten short stories that all take place in the same day about kids walking home from school"--
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Adapted from the beloved literary classic, this film is the story of Buck, a big-hearted dog whose blissful domestic life is turned upside down when he is suddenly uprooted from his California home and transplanted to the exotic wilds of the Alaskan Yukon during the Gold Rush of the 1890s. As the newest rookie on a mail delivery dog sled team, and later its leader, Buck experiences the adventure of a lifetime, ultimately finding his true place in...
6) Heroine
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Abraham Lincoln Book Award 2021
OBD Sports Books (Brochure) - YOUTH
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OBD Sports Books (Brochure) - YOUTH
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"When a car crash sidelines Mickey just before softball season, she has to find a way to hold on to her spot as the catcher for a team expected to make a historic tournament run. Behind the plate is the only place shes ever felt comfortable, and the painkillers shes been prescribed can help her get there. The pills do more than take away pain; they make her feel good. With a new circle of friends, fellow injured athletes, others with just time...
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In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child -- not powerful, like her father, nor viciously alluring like her mother. Turning to the world of mortals for companionship, she discovers that she does possess power -- the power of witchcraft, which can transform rivals into monsters and menace the gods themselves. Threatened, Zeus banishes her to a deserted island, where she hones...
8) Pet
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Celebrating the Freedom to Read: Teens
GPLD Best Fantasy for Teens
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Celebrating the Freedom to Read: Teens
GPLD Best Fantasy for Teens
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Pet is here to hunt a monster. Are you brave enough to look? There are no monsters anymore, or so the children in Lucille are taught. Jam and her best friend, Redemption, have grown up with the lesson that the city is safe for everyone. But when Jam meets Pet, a creature who some might call monstrous but, in reality, is anything but, she must reconsider what she's been told. Pet has emerged from one of her mother's paintings to hunt a true monster--and...
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Bloomingdale Library Teen Audiobooks
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OBD YA Mysteries - YOUTH
Bloomingdale Library Teen Audiobooks
OBD Horror for MG/YA - YOUTH
OBD YA Mysteries - YOUTH
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"Echo Ridge is small-town America. Ellery's never been there, but she's heard all about it. Her aunt went missing there at age seventeen. And only five years ago, a homecoming queen put the town on the map when she was killed. Now Ellery has to move there to live with a grandmother she barely knows. The town is picture-perfect, but it's hiding secrets. And before school even begins for Ellery, someone has declared open season on homecoming, promising...
10) It's Trevor Noah: born a crime : stories from a South African childhood ; adapted for young readers
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2022 Caudill Award Nominees
Black Authors: Youth Biographies (SCPL-YS)
OBD Summer 2021 Book Talks - Youth
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Black Authors: Youth Biographies (SCPL-YS)
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"Trevor Noah, the funny guy who hosts The Daily Show on Comedy Central, shares his remarkable story of growing up in South Africa with a black South African mother and a white European father at a time when it was against the law for a mixed-race child to exist. But he did exist--and from the beginning, the often-misbehaved Trevor used his keen smarts and humor to navigate a harsh life under a racist government. This fascinating memoir blends drama,...
11) Wilder girls
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AMPL Dark Academia
Books on Tap: 2022
Checked Out Podcast GHPLD - Episode 2: How Do You Like Your Horror?
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Books on Tap: 2022
Checked Out Podcast GHPLD - Episode 2: How Do You Like Your Horror?
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It's been eighteen months since the Raxter School for Girls was put under quarantine. Since the Tox hit and pulled Hetty's life out from under her. It started slow. First the teachers died one by one. Then it began to infect the students, turning their bodies strange and foreign. Now, cut off from the rest of the world and left to fend for themselves on their island home, the girls don't dare wander outside the school's fence, where the Tox has made...
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"El Llamado de la Selva" de Jack London puede verse como una metáfora poderosa de crecimiento personal y auto-superación. La historia de Buck, un perro que es forzado a dejar su vida cómoda para enfrentar los desafíos de la vida en el Yukón, refleja la capacidad de adaptación y el despertar del verdadero potencial interior.
A medida que Buck enfrenta adversidades extremas, desarrolla habilidades y fortalezas que nunca había necesitado en su...
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2023 Read Widely: Sub-Saharan Africa
Absolutely Hilarious Reads
Around the World Book Club
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Absolutely Hilarious Reads
Around the World Book Club
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Noah's path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother, at the time such a union was punishable by five years in prison. As he struggles to find himself in a world where he was never supposed to exist, his mother is determined to save her son from the cycle of poverty, violence, and abuse that would ultimately threaten her own life. With an incisive...
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2021 Summer Top Picks for High Schoolers
2022 Abraham Lincoln Teen Book Awards
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2022 Abraham Lincoln Teen Book Awards
2022 Lincoln Award Nominees
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When Norris, a Black French Canadian, starts his junior year at an Austin, Texas, high school, he views his fellow students as clichés from "a bad 90s teen movie."
Norris Kaplan is clever, cynical, and quite possibly too smart for his own good. A Black French Canadian whose family just moved to Austin, Texas, Norris finds himself cataloging everyone he meets: the Cheerleaders, the Jocks, the Loners, and even the Manic Pixie Dream Girl. He's amusing...
15) Dig
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2022 Abraham Lincoln Teen Book Awards
2022 Lincoln Award Nominees
Family Drama - Young Adult
OBD Women's History Month (March) - YOUTH
2022 Lincoln Award Nominees
Family Drama - Young Adult
OBD Women's History Month (March) - YOUTH
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Five white teenage cousins who are struggling with the failures and racial ignorance of their dysfunctional parents and their wealthy grandparents, reunite for Easter.
16) The cruel prince
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Folk of the air volume 1
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English
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2022 Summer Top Picks for High Schoolers
A Court of Thorns and Roses Readalikes
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A Court of Thorns and Roses Readalikes
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Jude, seventeen and mortal, gets tangled in palace intrigues while trying to win a place in the treacherous High Court of Faerie, where she and her sisters have lived for a decade.
17) Truly devious
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Truly Devious volume 1
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English
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2024 FPPL Summer Reading YA Mysteries
Abraham Lincoln Book Award 2021
AMPL Dark Academia
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Abraham Lincoln Book Award 2021
AMPL Dark Academia
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When Stevie Bell, an amateur detective, begins her first year at a famous private school in Vermont, she sets a plan to solve the cold case involving the kidnapping of the founder's wife and daughter shortly after the school opened.
Ellingham Academy was founded by Albert Ellingham, who wanted to make a wonderful place full of riddles, twisting pathways, and gardens. Shortly after the school opened, his wife and daughter were kidnapped. The only...
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The Call Of The Wild is the story of Buck, a dog stolen from his home and thrust into the merciless life of the Arctic north to endure hardship, bitter cold, and the savage lawlessness of man and beast. White Fang is the adventure of an animal -- part dog, part wolf -- turned vicious by cruel abuse, then transformed by the patience and affection of one man.
20) Internment
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"Rebellions are built on hope. It's been one year since the census landed seventeen-year-old Layla Amin and her family on the registry. Five months since the attorney general argued that Korematsu v. United States established precedent for relocation of citizens during times of war. And one month since the president declared that "Muslims are a threat to America." And now, Layla and her parents are suddenly taken from their home and forced into an...
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