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The adventurous deeds of Deadwood Jones
Helen Hemphill.
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228 p. ; 22 cm.
Thirteen-year-old Prometheus Jones and his eleven-year-old cousin Omer flee Tennessee and join a cattle drive that will eventually take them to Texas, where Prometheus hopes his father lives, and they find adventure and face challenges as African Americans in a land still recovering from the Civil War.
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Ash
Malinda Lo.
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264 p. ; 22 cm.
In this variation on the Cinderella story, Ash grows up believing in the fairy realm that the king and his philosophers have sought to suppress, until one day she must choose between a handsome fairy cursed to love her and the King's Huntress whom she loves.
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Assassin's apprentice
SR Vaught and JB Redmond.
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374 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Follows the intertwining adventures of Leyr Mab, high prince and heir to the throne, Aron Brailing, a farm boy with a destiny greater than he can imagine, and Dari Ross, a mysterious halfling with ties to a powerful race of shapeshifters long believed to be extinct.
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Bad apple
Laura Ruby.
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247 p. ; 22 cm.
Tola Riley, a high school junior, struggles to tell the truth when she and her art teacher are accused of having an affair.
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Before I fall
Lauren Oliver.
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470 p. ; 22 cm.
After she dies in a car crash, teenage Samantha relives the day of her death over and over again until, on the seventh day, she finally discovers a way to save herself.
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Believing in hope
Stephanie Perry Moore.
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172 p. ; 19 cm.
As family tensions and school unrest soar, eighth-grade triplet Yasmin relies on her faith and, through a new club at school, discovers that there is hope on the other side of every obstacle, even for those living in the projects.
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Bleach. Vol. 30, There is no heart without you
[story and art by Tite Kubo ; English adaptation, Lance Caselman ; translation, Joe Yamazaki].
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172 p. : chiefly ill. ; 19 cm.
Hot-tempered 15-year-old Ichigo Kurosaki, the hero of the popular fantasy-adventure "Bleach," becomes a Soul Reaper--but he isn't sure he wants the job. Can he keep his honor in a world where honor doesn't exist?
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Blessing's bead
Debby Dahl Edwardson.
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178 p. ; 22 cm.
In 1917, Aaluk leaves for Siberia while her sister Nutaaq remains in their Alaskan village and becomes one of the few survivors of an influenza epidemic, then in 1986, Nunaaq's great-granddaughter leaves her mother due to a different kind of sickness and returns to the village where they were born.
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Boilerplate : history's mechanical marvel
Paul Guinan and Anina Bennett.
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167 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 29 cm.
Meet Boilerplate, the world’s first robot soldier—not in a present-day military lab or a science-fiction movie, but in the past, during one of the most fascinating periods of U.S. history. Designed by Professor Archibald Campion in 1893 as a prototype, for the self-proclaimed purpose of “preventing the deaths of men in the conflicts of nations,” Boilerplate charged into combat alongside such notables as Teddy Roosevelt and Lawrence of Arabia. Campion and his robot also circled the planet with the U.S. Navy, trekked to the South Pole, made silent movies, and hobnobbed with the likes of Mark Twain and Nikola Tesla. nbsp; You say you’ve never heard of Boilerplate before? That’s because this book is the fanciful creation of a husbandand-wife team who have richly imagined these characters and inserted them into accurate retellings of history. This full-color chronicle is profusely illustrated with graphics mimicking period style, including photos, paintings, posters, cartoons, maps, and even stereoscope cards. Part Jules Verne and partZelig,it’s a great volume for a broad range of fans of science fiction, history, and robots.
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Borderline
Allan Stratton.
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298 p. ; 22 cm.
Despite the strained relationship between them, teenaged Sami Sabiri risks his life to uncover the truth when his father is implicated in a terrorist plot.
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Bound
Donna Jo Napoli.
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186 p. ; 20 cm.
In a novel based on Chinese Cinderella tales, fourteen-year-old stepchild Xing-Xing endures a life of neglect and servitude, as her stepmother cruelly mutilates her own child's feet so that she alone might marry well.
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The boy in the dress
David Walliams ; illustrated by Quentin Blake.
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231 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
"Dennis' life is boring and lonely. His mother left two years ago, his truck driver father is depressed, his brother is a bully and, worst of all, "no hugging" is one of their household rules. But one thing Dennis does have is soccer---he's the leading scorer on his team. Oh, and did we mention his secret passion for fashion?"--Jacket.
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