AIRBORN Kenneth Opel

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AIRBORN Kenneth Opel Matt, a young cabin boy
aboard an airship, and Kate a wealthy young girl
traveling with her chaperone, team up to search
for the existence of mysterious winged creatures
reportedly living hundreds of feet above the
Earths surface
THE AMAZING MAURICE AND HIS EDUCATED RODENTS
Terry Pratchett A talking cat, intelligent rats,
and a strange boy cooperate in a Pied Piper scam
until they try to con the wrong town and are
confronted by a deadly evil rat king.
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THE AMULET OF SAMARKAND Jonathan
Stroud Nathaniel, a young magicians apprentice,
becomes caught in a web of magical espionage,
murder, and rebellion, after he summons the
djinni Bartimaeus and instructs him to steal the
Amulet of Samarkand from the powerful magician
Simon Loveland.
AS FAR AS THE EYE CAN REACH Lewis and Clarks
Westward Quest Elizabeth Cody Kimmel An account
of the journey across the unexplored territory
west of the Mississippi River undertaken by
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark in the early
eighteen hundreds by order of President Jefferson.
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BUNNICULA STRIKES AGAIN! James Howe When
Bunnicula the rabbit starts acting strangely, the
Monroe dogs and cat renew their suspicions that
he is a vampire.
CARPE JUGULUM (A Discworld Novel) Terry
Pratchett King Verence unwittingly invites
trouble when he opens the doors of the castle to
Uberwalds undead, the Magpyrs, to celebrate the
birth of his daughter.
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FEET OF CLAY (A Discworld Novel) Terry
Pratchett As autumn comes to Ankh-Morpork,
Commander Sir Samuel Viomes and the City Watch
have to track down a murderer who cant be seen.
THE FIFTH ELEPHANT (A Discworld Novel) Terry
Pratchett Commander Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork
constabulary, solves the mystery of an attempted
assassination and a theft that leads to a chase
from the halls of Discworld royalty to the fat
mines of Uberwald.
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HOGFATHER (A Discworld Novel) Terry
Pratchett When Hogfather, the Santa Claus of
Discworld, disappears and death decides to take
his place, Deaths granddaughter, Susan, seeks to
set everything straight before her universes
myth system is completely torn asunder.
INTERESTING TIMES (A Discworld Novel) Terry
Pratchett Rincewind the Wizard sic is forced to
volunteer as a Great Wizard for the endangered
Empire of Hong, Sung, Fang, Tang, and McSweeney.
He and his unusual friends, are given a mission
where they must either defend or destroy the
forbidden city of Hunghung. Unfortunately, the
instructions arent very clear.
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BECOMING NAOMI LEON Pam Munoz Ryan When Naomis
absent mother resurfaces to claim her, Naomi runs
away to Mexico with her great-grandmother and
younger brother in search of her father.
101 WAYS TO BUG YOUR TEACHER Lee Wardlaw Steve
comes up with a new list in an attempt to thwart
his parents plan to have him skip eighth grade,
but he has bigger problems when his friends
disapprove and Mrs. Pierce threatens to keep him
from the Invention Convention.
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FAIR WEATHER Richard Peck In 1893, Rosie and
her family travel from their farm to Chicago to
attend the Worlds Columbian Exposition, where
they encounter Buffalo Bill and Lillian Russell.
FOUR-STORY MISTAKE Elizabeth Enright A Melendy
Quartet Book. The Melendy family moves to a house
in the country where a secret room, a cupola, a
stable, and a brook provide Mona, Rush, Randy,
and Oliver with adventures far different from the
city life to which they are accustomed.
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LAST HOLIDAY CONCERT Andrew Clements When his
music teacher puts him in charge of the holiday
concert, popular sixth grader Hart Evans must use
all of his leadership skills to unite the other
students.
LITTLE WOMEN Louisa May Alcott The original
1868 edition of Little Women is reproduced with
notes and illustrations in the margins. This
volume does not include Little Women, Part II
commonly found in modern versions.
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MIDSUMMER NIGHTS DORK Carol Gorman Jerry
Flack, recently elected sixth-grade president,
organizes an Elizabethan festival at school but
accepts a challenge from a bully that may mean he
will once again be considered a dork.
MISSY VIOLET AND ME Barbara Hathaway During the
early 1900s, eleven-year-old Viney spends her
summer working for the local midwife and learns
firsthand about birth, death, and catchin
babies.
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MY FATHERS SUMMERS A DAUGHTERS MEMOIR Kathi
Appelt A series of prose poems describes the
authors life while she was growing up in
Houston, Texas, from her eleventh birthday in
1965 through her eighteenth in 1972, and beyond.
OUTCASTS OF 19 SCHUYLER PLACE E. L.
Konigsburg Twelve-year-old Margaret rose Kane
spearheads a campaign to preserve three towers
her great-uncles have been building in their
backyard for more than forty years.
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SHAKESPEARES DAUGHTER Peter Hassinger Susanna
Shakespeare yearns to travel to London like her
father, to experience the world of actors and
poets and to follow her own dream of singing, a
path followed only by men.
SILENT TO THE BONE E. L. Konigsburg When he is
wrongly accused of injuring his baby half sister,
Branwell loses his power of speech and only his
friend Connor is able to reach him and uncover
the truth about what really happened.
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SILK UMBRELLAS Carolyn Marsden Eleven-year-old
Noi worries that she will have to stop painting
the silk umbrellas her family sells at the market
near their Thai village and be forced to join her
older sister in difficult work at a local factory
instead.
TAYLOR FIVE Ann Halam Fourteen-year-old Taylor
is dealing with the fact that she is a clone
produced by the company that funds the Orangutan
Reserve which is her home on the island of
Borneo, when the Reserve is attacked and she
flees with her brother and the Reserves mascot.
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THINGS NOT SEEN Andrew Clement When
fifteen-year-old Bobby wakes up and finds himself
invisible, he and his parents and his new blind
friend Alicia try to find out what caused his
condition and how to revere it.
TRICKSTERS QUEEN (Sequel to Tricksters Choice)
Tamora Pierce Aly fails to foresee the dangers
that await as she uses her magic to safeguard
Dove and her younger siblings, despite knowing
that her thirteen-year-old charge might be queen
of the Copper Isles when the colonial rulers are
defeated.
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VOICE THAT CHALLENGED A NATION MARIAN ANDERSON
AND THE STRUGGLE FOR EQUAL RIGHTS Russell
Freedman The life of Marian Anderson and her 1936
concert on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
VOTE FOR LARRY Janet Tashijian Not yet eighteen
years old, Josh, a.k.a. Larry, comes out of
hiding and returns to public life, this time to
run for president as an advocate for issues of
concern to youth and to encourage voter turnout.
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VOYAGE OF ICE CHRONICLES OF COURAGE Michele
Torrey In 1851, fifteen-year-old Nick and his
older brother, longing to be whalers, sign on as
hands on the whaling ship Sea Hawk and find that
the journey is full of hardship and unexpected
dangers.
WORLDS AFIRE Paul B. Janeczko In this novel
written as a collection of eyewitness poems, the
excitement and anticipation of attending the
circus on July 6, 1944 in Hartford, Connecticut,
turns to horror when a fire engulfs the circus
tent, killing nearly 180 people, mostly women and
children.
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WORMWOOD G. P. Taylor In 1756, Dr. Blake and
fourteen-year-old Agetta struggle against dark
forces that seek an ancient, powerful book in
Blakes possession that would enable them to
carry out an evil plan.
STARFALL PHAETON AND THE CHARIOT OF THE SUN
Michael Cadnum Phaeton resolves to undertake a
long and dangerous journey to confront Apollo to
uncover the truth of whether or not the god of
the Sun is his father.
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BLOOD SECRET Kathryn Lasky Fourteen-year-old
Jerry Luna, mute since her mothers
disappearance, is sent to her great-great aunt
Constanzas house where she discovers a truck
that draws her into the past.
BUTTER BATTLE BOOK Dr. Seuss Engaged in a
long-running battle, the Yooks and the Zooks
develop more and more sophisticated weaponry as
they attempt to outdo each other.
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DARK GROUND Gillian Cross The last thing Robert
remembers is being on an airplane with his
family, now he is struggling to stay alive on an
alien landscape where he must face the terrifying
truth about what happened to him.
DARK POND Joseph Bruchac After he feels a
mysterious pull drawing him toward a pond, Armie
looks to old Native American tales for guidance
about the monster lurking in the water.
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FLAME TREE Richard Lewis Just before the
September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, an
anti-American Muslim group gains power in Java
and twelve-year-old Isaac finds his world turned
upside down.
ALCHEMISTS CAT (4 Deptford Mice Series) Robin
Jarvis In 1664, Will Godwin, an alchemists
assistant, brings a mother cat and her three
newborn kittens back to Dr. Spittles apothecary
shop setting a chain of unforgettable events in
motion.
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GIFTS Ursula K. Le Guin When a young man in the
Uplands blinds himself rather than use his gift
of unmakinga violent talent shared by members
of his familyhe upsets the precarious balance of
power among rival, feuding families, each of
which has a strange and deadly talent of its own.
GIRL 15, CHARMING BUT INSANE Sue
Limb Fifteen-year-old Jess, living with her mum,
separated from her father in Cornwall, and with a
best friend who seems to do everything perfectly,
finds her own assets through humor.
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GOSPEL ACCORDING TO LARRY Janet
Tashijan Seventeen-year-old Josh, a
loner-philosopher who wants to make a difference
in the world, tries to maintain his secret
identity as the author of a web site that is
receiving national attention.
HOW MY PRIVATE, PERSONAL JOURNAL BECAME A
BESTSELLER Julia DeVillers A young woman
accidentally turns in a private story from her
journal instead of an English assignment and
becomes a best-selling author almost overnight.
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LOCOMOTION Jacqueline Woodson In a series of
poems, eleven-year-old Lonnie writes about his
life, after the death of his parents, separated
from his younger sister, living in a foster home,
and finding his poetic voice at school.
PEOPLE OF SPARKS Jeanne DuPrau Having escaped
to the Unknown Regions, Lina and the others seek
help from the village people of Sparks.
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PRINCESS NEPTUNE Quentin Dodd Middle-schooler
Theora and her brother Verbert find themselves
whisked from the shores of hometown Lake
Philodendron to an intergalactic beauty pageant
on Neptune.
THE CELERY STALKS AT MIDNIGHT James
Howe Chester the cat is more than ever convinced
that Bunnicula is a vampire when there is a
harvest of white vegetables on the morning after
the night that Bunnicula was probably wandering
through the neighborhood.
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COMPLETE POEMS Edgar Allen Poe Collection of
Poes Poetry.
LIZZIE BRIGHT AND THE BUCKMINSTER BOY Gary
Schmidt In 1911, Turner Buckminster hates his new
home of Phippsburg, Maine, but things improve
when he meets Lizzie Bright Griffin, a girl from
a poor, nearby island community founded by former
slaves that the town fathersand Turnerswant to
change into a tourist spot.
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MISTER MONDAY Garth Nix Arthurs life is saved
by a key shaped like the minute hand of a clock,
but bizarre creatures from another realm are
determined to take the key even if it means
killing him.
GRIM TUESDAY Garth Nix Arthur, having survived
an encounter with a strange house that nearly
killed him on Monday, has to return again when
his family and the entire world is threatened by
Grim Tuesday.
DROWNED WEDNESDAY Garth Nix Everyone is after
Arthur Penhaligon including strange pirates,
shadowy creatures, and Drowned Wednesday, whose
gluttony threatens both her world and Arthurs.