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A New York Times Notable Book of 2015: From the writer of the hugely acclaimed Love, Nina comes a sharply funny debut novel about a gloriously eccentric family.
Soon after her parents' separation, nine-year-old Lizzie Vogel moves with her siblings and newly single mother to a tiny village in the English countryside, where the new neighbors are horrified by their unorthodox ways and fatherless household. Lizzie's theatrical mother...
Soon after her parents' separation, nine-year-old Lizzie Vogel moves with her siblings and newly single mother to a tiny village in the English countryside, where the new neighbors are horrified by their unorthodox ways and fatherless household. Lizzie's theatrical mother...
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The Singleton family's fortunes seem unaffected by the Great Depression, and Perri--along with the other girls at Atlanta's elite Washington Seminary--lives a carefree life of tea dances with college boys, matinees at the cinema, and debut parties. But when tragedies strike, Perri is confronted with a world far different from the one she has always known. At the insistence of her parents, Mary "Dobbs" Dillard, the daughter of an itinerant preacher,...
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2020.
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IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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From age six through her high school valedictory speech, believing she and her mother are wizards helps young Echo cope with poverty, hunger, her mother's drug abuse, and much more.
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English
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The story of 17-year-old Cassandra and her family, who live in not-so-genteel poverty in a ramshackle old English castle. Over six turbulent months, she fills three diaries with sharply funny yet poignant entries and manages to find herself hopelessly in love. By the time she pens her final entry, she has captured the castle and the heart of the reader.
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Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
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276 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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Gloria is a bored teenaged girl who meets a mysterious new boy, Uman Padeem, who is confident and charismatic--everything Gloria wishes to be--but when they disappear together for fifteen days she learns he is not all he seems, and soon truths about him and his secrets are revealed.
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Viz Media
Pub. Date
2010-.
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1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrated ; 20 cm
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English
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Homeless after her father skips town, leaving her to deal with debt collectors, high school student Nanami Momozono naively accepts when a man she helps offers her his home. Unknown to her, along with the house, which is actually a shrine, she inherited his duties as a local deity, and she is suddenly faced with responsibilities and dangers she does not understand.
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Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
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230 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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In 1966 New York City, seventeen-year-old Mae drops out of school to work as a typist for the artist Andy Warhol and, transcribing the recordings of conversations and experiences with his many famous friends, becomes obsessed with the tapes, grappling with the thin line between art and voyeurism.
9) Claymore
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Viz
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[2006]-
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volume : chiefly illustrated ; 20 cm
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English
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In a world where monsters called Yoma prey on humans and live among them in disguise, the Claymores, half human and half monster warriors, must fight the Yoma and their own savage impulses in order to survive.
10) Enclave
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2011
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IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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In a post-apocalyptic future, fifteen-year-old Deuce, a loyal Huntress, brings back meat while avoiding the Freaks outside her enclave, but when she is partnered with the mysterious outsider, Fade, she begins to see that the strict ways of the elders may be wrong--and dangerous.
11) Excel saga
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Viz
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c2003
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v. : chiefly ill. ; 19 cm.
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English
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The three young men who live next door to the secret headquarters of ACROSS are recruited by Dr. Kabapu and his secretary Matsuya for the Environmental Security Administration. Their mission is to protect Fukuoka, creating a bit of a conflict with Il Palazzo, Hyatt, and Excel, who plan to conquer Fukuoka.
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Truluv is a moving novel about three people who have lost the person they love most, and must find their way back to happiness. Arthur, a widower, meets Maddy, an angry and friendless teenage girl, while visiting his late wife at the cemetary, where he goes every day for lunch. Against all odds, the two strike up a friendship that pulls them out of a serious rut. They band together with Arthur's nosy neighbor Lucille, to create lives that are truly...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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Seventeen-year-old Jessica, adopted and raised in Pennsylvania, learns that she is descended from a royal line of Romanian vampires and that she is betrothed to a vampire prince, who poses as a foreign exchange student while courting her.
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