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The Finest Hours (Young Readers Edition): The True Story of a Heroic Sea Rescue (True Rescue Series)
- ASIN: 1250044235
- ISBN: 1250044235
- Brand: Tougias Michael J
- Manufacturer: Square Fish
This adaptation for young readers of The Finest Hours: The True Story of the US Coast Guard's Most Daring Sea Rescue by Michael J. Tougias and Casey Sherman tells the story of the shipwreck of two oil tankers and the harrowing Coast Guard rescue when four men in a tiny lifeboat overcame insurmountable odds and saved more than 30 stranded sailors. N... [Read More]
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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
- ASIN: 0385751532
- ISBN: 0385751532
- Brand: Ember
- Manufacturer: David Fickling Books
“Powerful and unsettling. . . . As memorable an introduction to the subject as The Diary of Anne Frank.” —USA Today Berlin, 1942: When Bruno returns home from school one day, he discovers that his belongings are being packed in crates. His father has received a promotion and the family must move to a new house far, far away, where there is... [Read More]
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My Mother's Secret: A Novel Based on a True Holocaust Story
- ASIN: 0425274810
- ISBN: 0425274810
- Brand: Berkley Publishing Group
- Manufacturer: Berkley
Inspired by a true story, My Mother’s Secret is a captivating and ultimately uplifting tale intertwining the lives of two Jewish families in hiding from the Nazis, a fleeing German soldier, and the mother and daughter who save them all. Franciszka and her daughter, Helena, are simple, ordinary people...until 1939, when the Nazis invade their h... [Read More]
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Miss Mabel's School for Girls (The Network Series Book 1)
- ASIN: B00J6AF12C
- Manufacturer: Antebellum Publishing
*Winner of IAN 2015's Outstanding Fantasy Book*Never underestimate the power of a determined witch.Letum Wood is a forest of fog and deadfall, home to the quietly famous Miss Mabel’s School for Girls, a place where young witches learn the art of magic.Sixteen-year-old Bianca Monroe has inherited a deadly curse.Determined to break free before it k... [Read More]
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Middle School, The Worst Years of My Life
- UPC: 000316101699
- ASIN: 0316101699
- ISBN: 0316101699
- Brand: Little Brown and Company
- Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company
Discover the #1 bestselling middle-grade comic that inspired a major motion picture: Children's Choice Award winner James Patterson has never been more hilarious and heartwarming.Rafe Khatchadorian has enough problems at home without throwing his first year of middle school into the mix. Luckily, he's got an ace plan for the best year ever: to brea... [Read More]
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A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story
- ASIN: 0547577311
- ISBN: 0547577311
- Brand: Clarion Books
- Manufacturer: HMH Books for Young Readers
The New York Times bestseller A Long Walk to Water begins as two stories, told in alternating sections, about two eleven-year-olds in Sudan, a girl in 2008 and a boy in 1985. The girl, Nya, is fetching water from a pond that is two hours’ walk from her home: she makes two trips to the pond every day. The boy, Salva, becomes one of the "lost boys"... [Read More]
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Four Perfect Pebbles: A True Story of the Holocaust
- ASIN: 0062489968
- ISBN: 0062489968
- Brand: GREENWILLOW
- Manufacturer: Greenwillow Books
The twentieth-anniversary edition of Marion Blumenthal Lazan’s acclaimed Holocaust memoir features new material by the author, a reading group guide, a map, and additional photographs. “The writing is direct, devastating, with no rhetoric or exploitation. The truth is in what’s said and in what is left out.”—ALA Booklist (starred review) ... [Read More]
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The Book Thief
- ASIN: 0375842209
- ISBN: 9780375842207
- Brand: Alfred A. Knopf
- Manufacturer: Knopf Books for Young Readers
DON’T MISS BRIDGE OF CLAY, MARKUS ZUSAK’S FIRST NOVEL SINCE THE BOOK THIEF. The extraordinary #1 New York Times bestseller that is now a major motion picture, Markus Zusak's unforgettable story is about the ability of books to feed the soul. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read. When Death ... [Read More]
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Refugee
- ASIN: 0545880831
- ISBN: 9780545880831
- Manufacturer: Scholastic Press
A New York Times bestseller!JOSEF is a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany. With the threat of concentration camps looming, he and his family board a ship bound for the other side of the world . . .ISABEL is a Cuban girl in 1994. With riots and unrest plaguing her country, she and her family set out on a raft, hoping to find safety in America .... [Read More]
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Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two
- ASIN: 0142405965
- ISBN: 0142405965
- Brand: Speak
- Manufacturer: Speak
"Readers who choose the book for the attraction of Navajo code talking and the heat of battle will come away with more than they ever expected to find."—Booklist, starred review Throughout World War II, in the conflict fought against Japan, Navajo code talkers were a crucial part of the U.S. effort, sending messages back and forth in an unbreakab... [Read More]
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Charlotte's Web
- ASIN: 0061124958
- ISBN: 0061124958
- Brand: HarperCollins Publishers
- Manufacturer: HarperCollins
Don’t miss one of America’s top 100 most-loved novels, selected by PBS’s The Great American Read.This beloved book by E. B. White, author of Stuart Little and The Trumpet of the Swan, is a classic of children's literature that is "just about perfect." This paper-over-board edition includes a foreword by two-time Newbery winning author Kate D... [Read More]
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The Kite Runner
- ASIN: 159463193X
- ISBN: 9781594631931
- Brand: Riverhead Books
- Manufacturer: Riverhead Books
The #1 New York Times bestselling debut novel that introduced Khaled Hosseini to millions of readers the world over. The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father’s servant, caught in the tragic sweep of history, The Kite Runner transports readers to Afghanistan at a tense... [Read More]
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The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club (Bccb Blue Ribbon Nonfiction Book Award (Awards))
- ASIN: 0374300224
- ISBN: 0374300224
- Brand: Farrar Straus Giroux
- Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
A Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Honor WinnerAt the outset of World War II, Denmark did not resist German occupation. Deeply ashamed of his nation's leaders, fifteen-year-old Knud Pedersen resolved with his brother and a handful of schoolmates to take action against the Nazis if the adults would not. Naming their secret club after the fiery Br... [Read More]
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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children)
- ASIN: 1594746036
- ISBN: 9781594746031
- Brand: Quirk Books
- Manufacturer: Quirk Books
Read the #1 New York Times best-selling series before it continues in A Map of Days. Includes an excerpt from Hollow City and an interview with author Ransom Riggs A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of very curious photographs. It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Pec... [Read More]
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Between the World and Me
- ASIN: 0812993543
- ISBN: 0812993543
- Brand: Spiegel Grau
- Manufacturer: Spiegel & Grau
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Number the Stars
- UPC: 978054757709
- ASIN: 0547577095
- ISBN: 0547577095
- Brand: HMH Books for Young Readers
- Manufacturer: HMH Books for Young Readers
As the German troops begin their campaign to "relocate" all the Jews of Denmark, Annemarie Johansen’s family takes in Annemarie’s best friend, Ellen Rosen, and conceals her as part of the family.Through the eyes of ten-year-old Annemarie, we watch as the Danish Resistance smuggles almost the entire Jewish population of Denmark, nearly seven tho... [Read More]
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The One and Only Ivan
- ASIN: 0061992275
- ISBN: 0061992275
- Brand: HarperCollins
- Manufacturer: HarperCollins
Soon to be a major motion picture!Winner of the Newbery Medal and a #1 New York Times bestsellerThis unforgettable novel from renowned author Katherine Applegate celebrates the transformative power of unexpected friendship. Inspired by the true story of a captive gorilla known as Ivan, this illustrated book is told from the point of view of Ivan h... [Read More]
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Island of the Blue Dolphins
- ASIN: 0547328613
- ISBN: 0545289599
- Brand: HMH Books for Young Readers
- Manufacturer: HMH Books for Young Readers
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Out of My Mind
- ASIN: 1416971718
- ISBN: 1416971718
- Brand: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
- Manufacturer: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Over 1.5 million people have read the #1 New York Times bestseller Out of My Mind and discovered the brilliant mind of Melody Brooks. Out of My Mind spent two years on the New York Times bestseller list! “If there’s one book teens and parents (and everyone else) should read this year, Out of My Mind should be it.” —Denver Post “A gutsy, c... [Read More]
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Dune
- ASIN: B00B7NPRY8
- Manufacturer: Ace
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