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Children's Summer Reading
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The Book Thief by Markus Zusak Staff Pick "It's just a small story really, about among other things: a girl, some words, an accordionist, some fanatical Germans, a Jewish fist-fighter, and quite a lot of thievery..." Take your time reading this beautifully written book with an innovative... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover 
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Incantation (06 Edition) by Alice Hoffman Publisher Comments From a New York Times bestselling author comes a journey of loss and rebirth with a startling premise inspired by historical fact. Estrella is a Marrano: one of the Spanish Jews living double lives when those who refused conversion risked everything.... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $9.00 Used - Hardcover
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Emily of New Moon by L. M. Montgomery Publisher Comments Emily Starr never knew what it was to be lonely — until her beloved father died. Now Emily's an orphan, and her mother's snobbish relatives are taking her to live with them at New Moon Farm. She's sure she won't be happy Emily deals with stiff... (read more) List Price $5.99 Your price: $4.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Sold by Patricia Mccormick Publisher Comments Lakshmi is a thirteen-year-old girl who lives with her family in a small hut in a mountain village in Nepal. Her life is made up of simple pleasures like going to school and spending time with her loving ama and baby brother. But these happy times are... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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An Abundance of Katherines by John Green Publisher Comments When it comes to relationships, Colin Singleton's type happens to be girls named Katherine. And when it comes to girls named Katherine, Colin is always getting dumped. Nineteen times, to be exact. He's also a washed-up child prodigy with ten thousand... (read more) Your price: $16.99 New - Hardcover
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Manga Shakespeare: Hamlet by William Shakespeare and Richard Appignanesi and Emma Vieceli Publisher Comments In this quintessential Shakespearean tragedy, a young prince's halting pursuit of revenge for the murder of his father unfolds in a series of highly charged confrontations that have held audiences spellbound for nearly four centuries. Those fateful... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price: $5.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Pox Party (The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, #01) by M. T. Anderson Staff Pick I'll say right out that The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing is disturbing on a number of levels: it makes historical America seem shockingly contemporary (or, perhaps, futuristic); it explores theories of scientific experimentation and whether the... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $10.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Girls by Lori Lansens Publisher Comments One of the world's oldest living craniopagus conjoined twins at the approach of her thirtieth birthday, bookish Rose Darlen attempts to pen her autobiography while remembering the joys and challenges of her life with sister Ruby, with whom she shares... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Estrella's Quinceanera by Malin Alegria Publisher Comments For as long as Estrella Alvarez can remember, her mother has been planning to throw her an elaborate quinceañera for her fifteenth birthday -- complete with a mariachi band, cheesy decorations, and a hideous dress. Just thinking about her... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $6.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Knights of the Hill Country by Tim Tharp Publisher Comments In a small Oklahoma town, one star linebacker must decide what kind of man he wants to be--both on and off the field. Welcome to Kennisaw--where Friday night high school football ranks right up there with God and country, and sometimes even comes in... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $13.50 Used - Hardcover
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A Brief Chapter in My Impossible Life by Dana Reinhardt Publisher Comments Simones starting her junior year in high school. Her moms a lawyer for the ACLU, her dads a political cartoonist, so shes grown up standing outside the organic food coop asking people to sign petitions for worthy causes. Shes got a terrific younger... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Clay by David Almond Publisher Comments Fourteen-year-old Davie and his best friend, Geordie, are altar boys at their local Catholic Church. They're full of mischief, but that all changes when Stephen Rose comes to town. Father O'Mahoney thinks it would be a good idea for Davie and Geordie to... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Over a Thousand Hills I Walk with You by Hanna Jansen Publisher Comments Jeanne and her family, who are Tutsis living in Rwanda during a time of civil war, flee their home in hopes of evading Hutu soldiers as political events threaten to overtake them.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Hardcover
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Trigger by Susan Vaught Publisher Comments Jersey Hatch can't remember if he rammed the car into his parents' house. He can't remember why his best friend won't speak to him. He can't remember the right words to have a real conversation... (read more) Your price: $16.25 New - Hardcover
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Tallulah Falls by Christine Fletcher Publisher Comments When Tallulah Addy sets out on an impulsive cross-country trip to rescue her best friend, she doesn't anticipate getting stranded in rural Tennessee. Nor does she guess that rescuing a dog will land her a job in the local veterinarian's office.... (read more) List Price $7.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Love Curse of the Rumbaughs by Jack Gantos Publisher Comments In his third book for young adults, Gantos scripts a completely original drama. With gothic flavor and black humor, he depicts a group of people bound together by love, compulsion . . . and a passion for taxidermy.... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson Publisher Comments Alone in the world, teen-aged Hattie is driven to prove up on her uncle's homesteading claim. For years, sixteen-year-old Hattie's been shuttled between relatives. Tired of being Hattie Here-and-There, she courageously leaves Iowa to prove up on her late... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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Just Listen by Sarah Dessen Publisher Comments When Annabel, the youngest of three beautiful sisters, has a bitter falling out with her best friend—the popular and exciting Sophie—she suddenly finds herself isolated and friendless. but then she meets Owen—a loner, passionate about... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Foreshadowing by Marcus Sedgwick Publisher Comments It is 1915 and the First World War has only just begun. 17 year old Sasha is a well-to-do, sheltered-English girl. Just as her brother Thomas longs to be a doctor, she wants to nurse, yet girls of her class don't do that kind of work. But as the war... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Decoding of Lana Morris by Laura McNeal and Tom McNeal Publisher Comments Sixteen-year-old Lana Morris wishes her life were different, that she were somewhere else, someone else. Her foster mother wants her gone, she's stuck taking care of the other kids in the house, she longs to become closer to her foster father, and the... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $2.50 Used - Hardcover
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