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61) Winkle and Aster
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Fourteen-year-old Periwinkle Dalisay is the youngest sophomore in the third highest performing high school in her state. Being moderately exceptional while attending classes with the other students feels joyless, but she is more interested in learning the joys of painting than trying to fit in. When she returns home, Periwinkle is caught in a fire along with her precocious sister, Aster, and neither is sure that they survived. Amidst their confusion,...
62) Luke
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The Academy: Ghost Bird series in a different look at the very beginning. Read Introductions with a whole new perspective--the boys'.
Luke Taylor can't seem to ever relate to his brother, North. They're like night and day: North is rigid and intense where Luke is playful and a dreamer, his head often in the clouds. Being around each other too long can be difficult. The Academy and Luke's friends helped to bring them together, and Luke will be forever...
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Penguin Press
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2018.
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English
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"A classic memoir of self-invention in a strange land : Ian Buruma's unflinching account of his amazing journey into the heart of Tokyo's underground culture as a young man in the 1970's When Ian Buruma arrived in Tokyo in 1975, Japan was little more than an idea in his mind, a fantasy of a distant land. A sensitive misfit in the world of his upper middleclass youth, what he longed for wasn't so much the exotic as the raw, unfiltered humanity he had...
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Set in the village of Beckham, nestled in the English countryside, where foxhunting has been a way of life for hundreds of years, a rare black fox is spotted shortly before the opening of the hunt season. The Beckhamshire County Hunt Club seizes on the opportunity to exploit a long history of sinister legends concerning black foxes in order to generate interest in the hunt and raise money for a sport that a growing segment of the population regard...
65) Not my problem
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A teen girl, Aideen, makes a journey from self-protectively tough to ready and willing to face her main problem: her single mother's alcoholism.
Aideen's best (and only) friend is pulling away. Her mother's drinking problem is a constant concern. She's running out of diseases to fake so she can skip PE. When she sees her nemesis, overachiever Meabh Kowalski, in the midst of a full-blown meltdown, she sees a problem that-- unlike her own disaster...
66) Sweet nightmare
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Calder Academy volume 1
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English
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"Most schools are about being the best. This school? It's about being the worst. Calder Academy is where the rogue paranormals go. The ones who break the rules or lose control. And when that happens for vamps, werewolves, witches, and dark fae? It gets pretty freaking scary. I should know. Because I'm trapped here. Look, every seventeen-year-old girl thinks their mom is a tyrant. But mine just happens to run Calder Academy, which paints a giant target...
67) Lockdown
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Some days it's just easier not to go to school at all. Adam has been slacking off lately, but today he stuck around to see his girlfriend. When Josh, who has been bullied mercilessly, brings a gun to school, the building is locked down and Adam is forced to risk everything to save himself and to find Zoe before Josh does. Calling on reserves he didn't know he had, Adam could end up a hero - or a victim.
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At seventeen, Christa Pierce has the perfect life. She's rich, pretty, the smartest in her senior class, and a star of the high school cross-country team. She has everything. She is everything. A winner. But it's all a lie. The pretty face is a mask she wears to hide family secrets that shine like bruises. A disguise to cover what her father's cruelty has stolen from her, including the mother she never knew. Now Christa is ready to break free from...
69) The fascination
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"Twin sisters Keziah and Tilly Lovell are identical in every way, except that Tilly hasn't grown a single inch since she was five. Coerced into promoting their father's quack elixir as they tour the country fairgrounds, at the age of fifteen the girls are sold to a mysterious Italian known as 'Captain'. Theo is an orphan, raised by his grandfather, Lord Seabrook, a man who has a dark interest in anatomical freaks and other curiosities ... particularly...
70) Crooked Crown
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A princess of fire, a court of snakes, and a destiny written in blood.
Once at home on the battlefield, eighteen-year-old Sondra has grown weary of waging war in the name of peace. Disillusioned by the kingdom she's been trained since birth to kill for, Sondra longs for a world free of death and broken hearts.
After bad intelligence sees Sondra's men blamed for an unspeakable crime against a defenseless town, she returns home to find her family's...
71) Vibes
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A high school girl can read minds-and doesn't like what she hears.
Nothing is beyond Kristi Carmichael's disdain-her hippie high school, her friend Jacob, her workaholic mom. Yet for all her attitude, Kristi has a vulnerable side. She can hear the thoughts of her fellow students-a power that's not as cool as it sounds, since she can hear them calling her fat and gross. She's hot for Gusty Peterson, one of the most popular guys in school, but of course,...
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Delinquent. Disruptive. Dysfunctional.Fifteen-year-old Darla Wallin knows what they say about her. Knows what they write in their files. The social workers and guidance counselors and probation officers. But they don't know her.Her mother, who supposedly knows her best, uses words like willful, wayward, and worthless.Darla used to think if someone would just give her a chance, she'd prove them all wrong. But no one ever does.Foster parents Shelly...
73) Alley Kid
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At almost fifteen, Jess exists alone in a life which has known few luxuries.
A desperate attempt one night to free herself from her past is only the beginning of a new roller coaster ride of abuse and betrayal. She is thrust among strangers who use her to cover up their own deep-rooted family tensions. Disillusioned by a welfare system that has failed her and full of hostility for a world that has abandoned her, Jess finds herself back on the streets...
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After being raised by the meanest fairies in the history of ever, Bryar Rose is now free to live her own life. For the first time, she's attending West Lake Prep, a regular high school. Well, mostly regular. Some students are actually hidden members of the Magicorum. In other words, they're really wizards, fairies, or shifters. Bry doesn't mind, though. She's thrilled to enjoy all the new experiences of being around normal kids her age, from locker...
75) All Mad Here
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She was starting to feel the defeat in her victories. Another day. Another day… Adrianna is taking matters into her own hands. If Alice wasn't going to help herself, then she was going to do it for her. After saving her from another holiday with her father, she was ready for Wonderland to come back into her life again and she was prepared. But the days keep passing and everything remains far too quiet. Alice is tired. She's done everything she could...
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Abandoned by her relatives on the brink of the summer holidays, orphan Brenda Jacobs finds herself travelling to a strange town to stay with strangers.
The thought that it might prove to be a more enjoyable time than she expected, is confused by finding the last person she wanted to see, travelling on the same train. And again when he offers to let her join with his friends for the summer.
But people she's never met start to cause her trouble,...
77) Class Of Life
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Aiden has always had the ability to motivate others but never himself. He is, tasked with teaching a class that he turns into a class to motivate others lost in life. Unexpectedly the class helps him as much as he helps them.
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Finding themselves amerced in public school, two fraternal-twins, Jake and Rosa lean on each other as well as their older brother, Ted, to help navigate the public education system. The odds became stacked against them when their mom fought the system attempting to prevent it continuing their home-schooled education. Unbeknownst to her, this was a system no one could win.
Fighting the system only garnered the teenagers worse-unwarranted attention,...
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Enter Wednesday: Child of Woe's World of Darkness. Unearth the secrets that lie beyond time's grasp in this spine-tingling tale of mystery and the supernatural. Join Wednesday and her sister Frigsday as they unlock the enigmatic power of a haunted clock, embarking on a chilling journey through the eerie depths of their town. With every tick of the clock, they unravel a web of curses, restless spirits, and forgotten treasures. But the path to discovery...
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David Langelier returns to Quebec after five years of exile. Honourably discharged from the Canadian Armed Forces, he becomes a miner in Abitibi, his homeland. At the bottom of a gold mine, he keeps his heart at the surface, with Nicole, with whom he is madly in love. Thugs interfere in their relationship, a native, Pijeense, an Ojibway from Lake Nipissing, comes to his aid. But misfortune strikes again: cancer threatens the young mother-daughter....
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