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The Book Thief
by Markus Zusak  
Powells.com 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...
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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...
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The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume One: The Pox Party
by M. T. Anderson
Powells.com 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...
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American Born Chinese
by Gene Luen Yang
Powells.com Staff Pick For the winter holidays try American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Chang. This quirky book is a fabulous introduction to the new generation of graphic novels, and blends folklore with an exploration of racial stereotyping and the "right stuff" of America...
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Life as We Knew It
by Susan Beth Pfeffer Publisher Comments Miranda’s disbelief turns to fear in a split second when a meteor knocks the moon closer to the earth. How should her family prepare for the future when worldwide tsunamis wipe out the coasts, earthquakes rock the continents, and volcanic ash...
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The Highest Tide
by Jim Lynch Publisher Comments A mesmerizing, allegorical, and beautifully wrought first novel about one boy's wonder with the sea during the summer that will change his life, and the lives around him. One moonlit night, thirteen-year-old Miles O'Malley slips out of his house...
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Wintersmith: A Tiffany Aching Adventure
by Terry Pratchett
Powells.com Staff Pick In Wintersmith, Terry Pratchett brings back young witch Tiffany Aching and the Feegles, the captivating heroes of The Wee Free Men and A Hat Full of Sky. Blending Celtic mythology, irresistible adventure, and his own peculiar Discworld hilarity...
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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...
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City of Bones (Mortal Instruments #1)
by Cassandra Clare Publisher Comments When sixteen-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder — much less a murder committed by three teenagers covered with strange tattoos and brandishing bizarre weapons. Then the body...
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The Love Curse of the Rumbaughs
by Jack Gantos Publisher Comments On an unseasonably warm Easter Sunday, a young girl named Ivy discovers a chilling secret in the basement of the Rumbaugh pharmacy across the street from the hotel where she lives with her mother. The discovery reveals a disturbing side to the eccentric...
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Wait for Me
by An Na Synopsis Caught in the threads of secrets and lies, struggling for love and discovering a voice of her own, Mina finds herself torn between living her mother's dreams and living a life that's true in this tale from a National Book Award finalist and Printz Award...
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Just Listen
by Sarah Dessen Synopsis This multi-layered tale tells the story of a year in the life of a family coming to terms with the imperfections beneath its perfect fa ade. Viking Children's Books...
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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...
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The Braid
by Helen Frost Publisher Comments Two sisters, Jeannie and Sarah, tell their separate yet tightly interwoven stories in alternating narrative poems. Each sister – Jeannie, who leaves Scotland during the Highland Clearances with her father, mother, and the younger children, and...
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A Song for Summer
by Eva Ibbotson Publisher Comments Eighteen-year-old ellen never expected the Hallendorf school to be, well, quite so unusual. After all, her life back in england with her suffragette mother and liberated aunts certainly couldnt be called normal. but buried deep in the beautiful Austrian...
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Black Duck
by Janet Taylor Lisle Publisher Comments When Ruben and Jed find the dead body on the Rhode Island shore, they are certain it has something to do with smuggling liquor. It is the l920's, Prohibition is in full swing, and almost everyone in the shore community is involved. Suddenly, the boys...
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Swimming in the Monsoon Sea
by Shyam Selvadurai Publisher Comments Nominated for the Governor General's Literary Awards 2005, (Children's Literature, Text) The setting is Sri Lanka, 1980, and it is the season of monsoons. Fourteen-year-old Amrith is caught up in the life of the cheerful, well-to-do household in which he...
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An Abundance of Katherines
by John Green
Powells.com Staff Pick This new novel by Printz Award-winner John Green affirms my belief that he is the new Most Talented Young Adult Author Out There. I fell in love with Colin Singleton, an extraordinary guy learning how to do ordinary things (and while being entertained by...
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A True and Faithful Narrative
by Katherine Sturtevant Publisher Comments In Restoration London, sixteen-year-old Meg Moore is something of an anomaly. Unlike other girls her age, Meg pores over books. She spends long hours conversing with the famous authors and poets who visit her father’s bookstore, and even writes her...
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White Time
by Margo Lanagan Publisher Comments < p> Lose yourself in White Time < /p> < p> White Time is mind time, body time, soul time, heart time. < /p> < p> White Time is other worlds, other dimensions, other states of being. < /p> < p> White Time is out...
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