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The Giver by Lois Lowry Publisher Comments Winner of the Newbery Medal and named as an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, Lowry's unforgettable tale introduces 12-year-old Jonas, who is singled out by his community to be trained by The Giver.... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Mass Market
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Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli Publisher Comments Three stars in one beautiful boxed set: Stargirl + Love, Stargirl + a Stargirl Journal (free!). Jerry Spinellis novel Stargirl, published in 2000, became an instant bestseller, beloved for its nonconformist heroine with a heart of gold. With over 1.4... (read more) List Price $8.99 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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In My Hands by Irene Gut Opdyke Publisher Comments IRENE GUT WAS just 17 in 1939, when the Germans and Russians devoured her native Poland. Just a girl, really. But a girl who saw evil and chose to defy it. “No matter how many Holocaust stories one has read, this one is a must, for its impact is so... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Mass Market
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A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray Publisher Comments A gorgeous romantic fantasy by a debut author! Everybody thinks Cate Cahill and her sisters are eccentric. Too pretty, too reclusive, and far too educated for their own good. But the truth is even worse: they're witches. And if their secret is discovered... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Silent Boy by Lois Lowry Publisher Comments Precocious Katy Thatcher comes to realize what a gentle, silent boy did for his family. He meant to help, not harm. It didnt turn out that way. “The author balances humor and generosity with the obstacles and injustice of Katys world to depict a... (read more) List Price $6.50 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Dr. Franklin's Island by Ann Halam Publisher Comments This ALA Best Book for Young Adults finds three young survivors of a plane crash on a tropical island stumbling into the hands of Dr. Franklin, who is eager to use them in his genetic engineering experiments.... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $1.95 Used - Mass Market
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The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares Publisher Comments LENA, CARMEN, BRIDGET, and Tibby have been through a lot together. But even after traveling across the world to keep these four very different friends connected, the pants remain strong, uncuffed—and remarkably flattering. Relive the magic of... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $1.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Forgotten Fire by Adam Bagdasarian Publisher Comments In 1915 Vahan Kenderian is living a life of privilege as the youngest son of a wealthy Armenian family in Turkey. This secure world is shattered when some family members are whisked away while others are murdered before his eyes. Vahan loses his home and... (read more) Your price: $7.99 New - Mass Market
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Heaven Eyes (00 Edition) by David Almond Publisher Comments Erin Law and her friends are Damaged Children. At least that is the label given to them by Maureen, the woman who runs the orphanage that they live in. Damaged, Beyond Repair because they have no parents to takecare of them. But Erin knows that if they... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $5.00 Used - Trade Paper
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When Zachary Beaver Came To Town (99 Edition) by Kimberly Willis Holt Publisher Comments This National Book Award Winner for Young People's Literature tells the story of two boys who during the summer of 1971 meet the star of a sideshow act that comes to their small Texas town: 600-pound Zachary, the fattest boy in the world. An "School... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $5.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry Publisher Comments Living with a twisted leg in a world where the weak are cast aside, Kira fears for her future until she is spared. A gifted weaver, Kira is given a task that no other community member can do.... (read more) List Price $7.50 Your price: $5.50 Used - Mass Market
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Harmony by Rita Murphy Synopsis Harmony McLean has been different from the moment she was discovered. When a falling star struck his chicken coop, Felix McGillicuddy never expected to find a baby girl miraculously left behind. He names her after the harmony of spheres in honor of her... (read more) List Price $5.99 Your price: $4.50 Used - Mass Market
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Zipped by Laura Mcneal Publisher Comments When 15-year-old Mick Nichols opens the wrong e-mail, he learns a terrible secret: His stepmother is having an affair with a man named Alexander Selkirk. Mick is stunned. Should he tell his father, confront his stepmother, or keep it all to himself? And... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Gospel According to Larry (Laurel Leaf Books) by Janet Tashjian Publisher Comments Josh Swensen is not your average 17-year-old. At the age of two, he was figuring out algebraic equations with colored magnetic numbers. He is a prodigy who only wants to make the world a better place. Joshs wish comes true when his virtual alter ego... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Secret Heart by David Almond Publisher Comments Joe Maloney is out of place in this world. His mother wants him to be a man, and he cant be that yet. His only friend, Stanny Mole, wants to teach him how to kill, and Joe cant learn that. Joes mind is always somewhere else: on the weird creatures he... (read more) List Price $5.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Mass Market
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Kit's Wilderness by David Almond Publisher Comments The Watson family moves to Stoneygate, an old coal-mining town, to care for Kit’s recently widowed grandfather. When Kit meets John Askew, another boy whose family had both worked and died in the mines, Askew invites Kit to join him in playing a... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $1.95 Used - Mass Market
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Acceleration by Graham Mcnamee Publisher Comments The Bourne Identity meets I Am the Cheese in this taut thriller Even though Micah's a star pitcher, his older sister Lindsey is the real deal--a runner so good, she has a shot at the Olympics. The two of them urge each other on, and are each other's best... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $2.95 Used - Mass Market
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Lord of the Nutcracker Men by Iain Lawrence Publisher Comments Ten-year-old Johnny eagerly plays at war with the army of nutcracker soldiers his toymaker father whittles for him. He demolishes imaginary foes. But in 1914 Germany looms as the real enemy of Europe, and all too soon Johnnys father is swept up in the... (read more) List Price $5.99 Your price: $2.00 Used - Mass Market
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The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier Publisher Comments IN 1974, AFTER SUFFERING rejections from seven major publishers, The Chocolate War made its debut. An uncompromising portrait of conformity and corruption, it quickly became a bestselling—and provocative—classic for young adults... (read more) List Price $8.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Memories of Summer by Ruth White Publisher Comments Newbery Honor Winner Ruth White gives readers an unforgettable story of one girl’s experience growing up with a sister that develops schizophrenia. It’s 1955 when 13-year-old Lyric moves with her father and older sister, Summer, from a small... (read more) List Price $5.99 Your price: $2.95 Used - Mass Market
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