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1421) The Search for Norwall
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Pebby the scruffy tinydog was accustomed to flying down cobblestone streets as the Chief Delivery Dog of the Octagon Bakery in the steampunk city of Norwall. But then, one afternoon, everything changed when she came unexpectedly through the Parallax Contingency with her friend Naji Najeem, and they found themselves in sunny Florida. Then, there happened a chance meeting with Phillip, the boy who would change everything.
Their two worlds collide in...
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Fran Singer is a regular 8th grader relishing her role in the school play, enjoying hanging out with her best friend and thinking of ways to steer clear of her annoying little brother... when suddenly, in a matter of seconds, everything changes. An unintentional tragic accident with major consequences shoots her out of her ordinary world into one racked with guilt, shame, and complete alienation. Starting over after all that isn't easy... but is it...
1424) Clearing Weather
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Young Nicholas Drury has his hands full between looking after his ailing uncle and tending to the family business, a Massachusetts shipyard. Since the recent end of the Revolutionary War, shipbuilding is in decline and everyone in the town of Brascombe is feeling the economic pinch. Just as Nicholas is on the verge of giving up and declaring bankruptcy, he notices footprints in his backyard that lead him to new friends, a dangerous secret, and a plan...
1425) Something in the Sky
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Dear Teen Reader,
Being a kid in the 21st century is hard in many ways and everyone has a story to tell. This is just one story about one person and it starts in 2008.
Lyle Kent is an average fifteen-year-old who is just starting high school when his whole life is turned upside down in a single day. He must use all his courage to help his family survive the loss of everything they once had, including their family or "tribe" as Lyle's Mom...
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Sam reached into her bag to pull out the manga from the series she had just started. However, she put it back in her bag after seeing a side glance from her father that very clearly stated, "Talk with people. You don't get to see them very often." Sighing for the second time in less than five minutes, she zipped her bag back up, and walked over to join the audience watching corn hole out in the yard.
Join Samantha, a teen stuck in her head, as...
1427) The Rules of Me
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Gabe keeps lists: why he's real, reasons he's not, and the rules that seem to dictate his strange existence. Danny says he's her imaginary friend and that's always been enough for the pair of them. But when, she enters high school and a world of stress, turbulent emotions, and surprising first crushes, he finds himself asking questions and wanting things he never has before. His search for answers about where he comes from and why he's here becomes...
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A great journey has begun to find a hero humanity doesn't even know they need yet.
A conflict is growing in the shadows of the Silo, home to mankind's resistance against enslaving cyborgs, as political turmoil and traitorous agendas are slowly making its once-great leader unfit to face an impending invasion.
The Spirit in the Wind, mankind's great protector, has issued the call for its hero. Some have heard it, but do they believe what...
1429) Into the Fire
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When a family works together to make a home and a life that works, the challenge of relationships and just getting along can be enough. The Allens live in the same household about half the year, with Dad making appearances when professional football season is off. Four teens and their mom work as a unit, until tragedy forces them Into the Fire.
1430) Promise Kept
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Perry Skky Jr. is at the point in his life where he has to decide if he is truly willing to keep his word to God. . .
Between managing his short time during the Christmas holidays, the pressure to win the college National Championship football game, and the demands of having a steady girl, Perry is feeling the burden of being torn in more directions than he can handle. And when a night out clubbing ends with his teammate, Saxon, in the hospital,...
1431) The View from a Kite
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I must admit that when I first started losing weight I was pleased. I dropped from a pudgy hundred and twenty-five down to one-eighteen in a month, and kept on going. One hundred and five, and my breasts disappeared. By the time they hauled me off to the Sanatorium, a feverish, weepy, ninety-pound weakling, I was out of love with elegant bones and scared that I was coming out through my skin. A teenager in the 1970s, Gwen is stuck in a tuberculosis...
1432) The Hidden Room: A Novel
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Could you survive in a cave...for a whole year?
That's the challenge facing fourteen-year-old Stepan. Set in Ukraine during the final months of World War II, THE HIDDEN ROOM is based on the true story of a Jewish family who escapes from the Nazis by taking refuge in a remote cave. Stepan adjusts to the hardships of living underground and the dangers of night-time adventures outside the cave. Food is scarce. Darkness, bone-chilling cold, and the fear...
1433) The Bully List
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Two boys get fed up being picked on and decide to come up with a list of things to get even with the bullies.Dealing with bullies isn't an easy thing to do. My parents tell me to ignore or avoid them. But it seems if you ignore them, it gets under their skin, and they want to bully you even more. And that makes it's even harder to avoid them. Does that make sense?My teachers seem to be too busy with other things when it comes to bullies. I guess they...
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In The Pompous Emperor and the Wise Old Man, the author explores the transformative power of truth and the fundamental principles that govern all of creation. Through the story of an affluent Emperor who meets a wise and humble man, the novel delves into the corrupt and lustful desires that often plague society and the importance of making positive impacts on the world. With a focus on authority and the influence of individuals on others, the story...
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Being a high school senior can be tough. Having to constantly face stress, anxiety, bullying, and peer pressure. To add to these challenges that teenagers face, Josh Notes has to face his sexuality and the internal struggles that come with it.
Josh knows living in Waco, Texas, being gay can be dangerous. Knowing this, he opts to keep his sexuality a secret to protect himself and his family. He thinks this is his life, permanently hiding who he is...
1436) While We Are Young
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A collection of poems and stories by and for young adults. While We Are Young tackles the hard topics, the new struggles, and shares the overriding courage and determination to find love and light amid the dark times. Young in years but wise in experience, these authors bring their worlds to vivid light through a variety of poems, stories, characters, and genres reaching out to other young adults in the much, needed expression of hope that says "you...
1437) The Space Between
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Just dumped by his girlfriend, Jace Antonakos has recorded a proclamation in a notebook his English teacher made him take on his winter vacation to the Mayan Riviera: I'm going to Mexico to get laid. The fact that he's only days away from turning 18 and still a virgin has Jace spooked, and he figures that Playa del Carmen's golden beaches draped with equally golden girls should increase his odds of success. On the other hand, the fact that he's travelling...
1438) The Sand Castle
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The Sand Castle is a story of a young boy in an underground world through the making of his sandcastle. He was hoping for treasure and an escape for his mother and his younger brother from their way of life at the time.
Tragedy and compassion filled this new world of mystery and challenge. A world of time and another dimension coexisting in the moment. A world harboring all the emotions of mankind.
In the end, Bobby did find his treasure.
May you...
1439) Children of the Air
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Two eagles awake to a rumble of thunder, or rather, a helicopter that hovers overhead. While mama eagle flees, papa defends their eggs but is eaten, or rather, captured, by the insectile monster, leaving mama to raise three eaglets by herself.
Mary feels a similar loss and stress, but abandonment is a different kind of monster. To worsen matters, her teenage daughter, Lissy, is surlier than most eaglets, so when Mary's father, Ed, dislocates a hip,...
1440) Die Schule und ich
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Schule nervt!, findet Sina. Franzvokabeln, öde Schullektüre, Referate halten. Wo bleibt da der Spaß am Lernen?! Als sich dann noch ein Lehrer abgrundtief unfair verhält und in der Schulmensa nur noch probiotisches Essen angeboten wird, hat Sina die Nase voll. Sie ergreift die Initiative und kämpft mutig für Gerechtigkeit und Pommes. Denn eins ist ja wohl klar: "Das Beste an der Schule, das sind wir!"
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