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63) Seeds of change
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Rhyming text illustrates how small acts become powerful seeds that improves oneself and the community.
65) Big-Sister Blues
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Amy is depressed after her mother announces that she is pregnant and they need to cancel their trip to Milan, and after Amy and her friends take Charlotte's bratty little brother, Patrick, to the circus she is even more convinced that a younger sibling is the last thing she wants.
66) Runway Rose
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When Amy's mother gets a job working behind the scenes at a fashion event, Amy looks forward to honing her design skills, but when a talent scout persuades Amy to be a runway model, she starts to turn into a fashion monster and endanger her friendship with the English Roses.
68) Being Binah
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Binah, tired of being "the nice one" in her group of friends, decides to get tough after being taken for granted once too often, but her new persona is not fitting in well with the English Roses, nor is it pleasing to Ben, the boy who liked her fine just as she was.
69) The New Girl
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Nicole is excited about her friend from New York, Leslie, joining the English Roses, but once the other girls meet Leslie, they realize she is snooty and everyone but Nicole agrees they don't want to be her friend.
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"Bestselling author Laurie Halse Anderson is known for the unflinching way she writes about, and advocates for, survivors of sexual assault. Now, inspired by her fans and enraged by how little in our culture has changed since her groundbreaking novel Speak was first published twenty years ago, she has written a poetry memoir that is as vulnerable as it is rallying, as timely as it is timeless. In free verse, Anderson shares reflections, rants, and...
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A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy about her struggles as a former child actor--including eating disorders, addiction, and a complicated relationship with her overbearing mother--and how she retook control of her life.
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"From the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of All the Missing Girls, a suspenseful new novel about an idyllic town in Maine dealing with the suspicious death of one of their own--and her best "summer" friend, who is trying to uncover the truth ... before fingers point her way"--
Littleport, Maine is an ideal vacation enclave for the wealthy, whose summer homes line the coastline; and a simple harbor community for the year-round residents...
73) The Noel Diary
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"Jason Chercher is not doing well in love or life. Just two weeks after his wife leaves him he receives a phone call that his estranged mother has passed away, days before Christmas--leaving her home and all her belongings to him. Frankly, he would like to see everything just burned. But curiosity about his past and anxiety about his future fuels him to make the drive from Salt Lake City to her home in Medford, Oregon. Maybe cleaning out her house...
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When Jennifer Doudna was in sixth grade, she came home one day to find that her dad had left a paperback titled The Double Helix on her bed. She put it aside, thinking it was one of those detective tales she loved. When she read it on a rainy Saturday, she discovered she was right, in a way. As she sped through the pages, she became enthralled by the intense drama behind the competition to discover the code of life. Even though her high school counselor...
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"A president who governed a divided country has much to teach us in a twenty-first-century moment of polarization and political crisis. Abraham Lincoln was president when implacable secessionists gave no quarter in a clash of visions inextricably bound up with money, power, race, identity, and faith. He was hated and hailed, excoriated and revered. In Lincoln we can see the possibilities of the presidency as well as its limitations. At once familiar...
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The author follows in the footsteps of America's most essential explorers, thinkers, and innovators to offer a new perspective on how the most powerful nation on Earth came together.
Illuminates the men who toiled fearlessly to discover, connect, and bond the citizenry and geography of the U.S.A. from its beginnings and ponders whether the historic work of uniting the States has succeeded, and to what degree.
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Written in the candid, high-spirited voice that is Warren's trademark, This Fight Is Our Fight tells eye-opening stories about her battles in the Senate and vividly describes the experiences of hard-working Americans who have too often been given the short end of the stick. Elizabeth Warren has had enough of phony promises and a government that no longer serves its people--she won't sit down, she won't be silenced, and she will fight back.
80) Florida
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In her thrilling new book, Lauren Groff brings the reader into a physical world that is at once domestic and wild-a place where the hazards of the natural world lie waiting to pounce, yet the greatest threats and mysteries are still of an emotional, psychological nature. A family retreat can be derailed by a prowling panther, or by a sexual secret. Among those navigating this place are a resourceful pair of abandoned sisters; a lonely boy, grown up;...