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1) Two roads
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In 1932, twelve-year-old Cal must stop being a hobo with his father and go to a Bureau of Indian Affairs boarding school, where he begins learning about his history and heritage as a Creek Indian.
2) King Zeno
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A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice and a Paris Review Staff Pick
A January Pick by Salon, Town and Country, Southern Living, and LA Magazine
New Orleans, 1918. The birth of jazz, the Spanish flu, an ax murderer on the loose. The lives of a traumatized cop, a conflicted Mafia matriarch, and a brilliant trumpeter converge-and the Crescent City gets the rich, dark, sweeping novel it so deserves.
From one of the most inventive writers...
4) Allies
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It is June 6, 1944, D-Day, and Dee Carpenter (true name Dietrich Zimmermann), an underage private in the United States Army, is headed for Omaha Beach, seeking revenge for his uncle, who was arrested by Nazis when Dee was a little boy; meanwhile, Samira Zidano, an eleven-year old French-Algerian girl is looking for the French resistance, desperate to deliver the message that the invasion is about to begin, and get their help in freeing her mother--this...
6) Grenade
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On April 1, 1945 with the battle of Okinawa beginning, fourteen-year-old native Okinawan Hideki, drafted into the Blood and Iron Student Corps, is handed two grenades and told to go kill American soldiers; small for his age Hideki does not really want to kill anyone, he just wants to find his family, and his struggle across the island will finally bring him face-to-face with Ray, a marine in his very first battle--and the choice he makes then will...
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VIZ Media, LLC
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[2015]
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volumes : illustrations ; 20 cm.
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"Middle school student Izuku Midoriya wants to be a hero more than anything, but he hasn't got an ounce of power in him. With no chance of ever getting into the prestigious U.A. High School for budding heroes, his life is looking more and more like a dead end. Then an encounter with All Might, the greatest hero of them all, gives him a chance to change his destiny"--Amazon.com.
10) One true way
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From the moment she met Samantha, star of the school basketball team, on her first day at Daniel Boone Middle School, Allison Drake felt she had found a friend, something she needs badly since her brother died and her father left--but as their friendshipgrows it begins to evolve into a deeper emotion, and in North Carolina in 1977, it is not easy to discover that you might be gay.
12) Anne of Avonlea
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Anne of Green Gables volume 2
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Anne returns to Avonlea to teach in her former school and discovers the pleasures and puzzles of growing up.
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Holiday House
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When fourteen-year-old Norvia moves from Beaver Island to Boyne City in 1914, she has to contend with a new school, a first crush, and a blended family, but she also must keep secret her parents' divorce and her Ojibwe heritage. Includes author's note.
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Goddess girls. Main series volume 22
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Aladdin
Pub. Date
[2017]
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271 pages ; 20 cm.
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When things start to go wrong after Nyx, goddess of the night, enrolls at Mount Olympus Academy, she has to determine who is responsible for a series of disasters while trying to change the other students' minds about nighttime.
15) The right fight
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World War II (Chris Lynch) volume 1
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When the draft board calls on the eve of World War II, Roman leaves behind a career in minor-league baseball to join the army, and finds himself driving a tank in the North African campaign.
16) Girl about town
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Girl about town volume 1
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Atheneum
Pub. Date
[2016]
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321 pages ; 22 cm
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"When fate brings Lulu and Freddie together in 1930s Hollywood, sparks fly--and gunshots follow"--
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Sparks & Bainbridge mysteries volume 1
Sparks and Bainbridge mystery volume 01
Sparks and Bainbridge mysteries volume 1
Sparks and Bainbridge mystery volume 01
Sparks and Bainbridge mysteries volume 1
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Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2019.
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320 pages ; 22 cm.
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20) The black kids
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With the Rodney King riots closing in on high school senior Ashley and her family, the privileged bubble she has enjoyed, protecting her from the difficult realities most black people face, begins to crumble.
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