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"Natasha: I'm a girl who believes in science and facts. Not fate. Not destiny. Or dreams that will never come true. I'm definitely not the kind of girl who meets a cute boy on a crowded New York City street and falls in love with him. Not when my family is twelve hours away from being deported to Jamaica. Falling in love with him won't be my story. Daniel: I've always been the good son, the good student, living up to my parents' high expectations....
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Princess in Black volume 1
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English
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Princess Magnolia is having hot chocolate and scones with Duchess Wigtower when ... Brring! Brring! The monster alarm! A big blue monster is threatening the goats! Stopping monsters is no job for dainty Princess Magnolia. But luckily Princess Magnolia has a secret -- she's also the Princess in Black, and stopping monsters is the perfect job for her! Can the princess sneak away, transform into her alter ego, and defeat the monster before the nosy duchess...
3) Grizzwold
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English
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Grizzwold, a huge bear, searches for a home. (I Can Read).
4) Forever
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The bed is brass, covered with a patchwork quilt, and "nice and firm," Michael says, "in case you're interested." Katherine is interested. Katherine and Michael are ready -- for each other, for love. Katherine is ready for her first time. They are both ready for this to be forever. They are perfect together, inseparable. Until the summer separates them, and Katherine meets Theo. But she and Michael are truly in love. That means forever. Right? Is...
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Jenna Fox chronicles volume 1
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English
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In the not-too-distant future, when biotechnological advances have made synthetic bodies and brains possible but illegal, a seventeen-year-old girl, recovering from a serious accident and suffering from memory lapses, learns a startling secret about her existence.
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"Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed. Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger. Protesters...
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"Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood - but secretly, she pours her dreams and frustrations onto the pages of her notebook like prayers. When she is invited to join her school's slam poetry club, Xiomara doesn't know how she could ever attend without her religious mami finding out. But even so, in the face of a world that may not want to hear her, Xiomara refuses to be silent."--taken from back cover.
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9) Hot dog girl
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Elouise (Lou) Parker is determined to have the absolute best, most impossibly epic summer of her life. There are just a few things standing in her way: She's landed a job at Magic Castle Playland... as a giant dancing hot dog and her crush, the dreamy Diving Pirate Nick, already has a girlfriend, who is literally the Princess of the park. But Lou's never liked anyone, guy or otherwise, this much before, and now she wants a chance at her own happily...
10) Nat the gnat
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
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[2014]
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English
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A skill-building reader starring Worm finds him taking a turn caring for a class pet gnat that accidentally escapes from its tank.
11) Flamer
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Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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Medfield Self Discovery Stories for Teens - Graphic Memoirs
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Medfield Self Discovery Stories for Teens - Graphic Memoirs
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"It's the summer between middle school and high school, and Aiden Navarro is away at camp. Everyone's going through changes--but for Aiden, the stakes feel higher. As he navigates friendships, deals with bullies, and spends time with Elias (a boy he can't stop thinking about), he finds himself on a path of self-discovery and acceptance."--Page 4 of cover
12) Head over heels
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Geek girl (Holly Smale) volume 5
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HarperCollins Children's Books
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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Harriet Manners knows almost every fact there is. She knows duck-billed platypuses don't have stomachs. She knows that fourteen squirrels were once detained as spies. She knows only one flag in the world features a building. And for once, Harriet knows exactly how her life should go. She's got it ALL planned out. So when love is in the air, Harriet is determined to Make Things Happen! If only everyone else would stick to the script ... Has GEEK GIRL...
13) The phantom twin
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First Second
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"Isabel and Jane are the Extraordinary Peabody Sisters, conjoined twins in a traveling carnival freak show--until an ambitious surgeon tries to separate them and fails, causing Jane's death. Isabel has lost an arm and a leg but gained a ghostly companion: her dead twin is now her phantom limb. Haunted, altered, and alone for the first time, can Isabel build a new life that's truly her own?"--Provided by publisher.
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Purrmaids volume 14
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Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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At Kittentail Cover Library, Angel helps count votes for a poster, but after the winner is announced, Angel finds uncounted ballots.
15) Unstoppable
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Nature of Grace volume 3
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Coleman & Stott
Pub. Date
©2013.
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English
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After everything that has happened, Grace moves to the Everglades to live with her grandmother, Birdee, and hang out with old man Rex, Birdee's friend with benefits. Grace quickly befriends Dylan, Rex's nephew, and Dylan's girlfriend, Sadie, who is a die-hard teen activist. Sadie spends her time leading protests against the roadside zoos that run rampant in Florida with a total disregard for animals or the flimsy law. One day while out in the marshes...
16) Helping
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Random House
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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While Mama Bear is away, Papa thinks he can handle everything. The cubs offer to help out when Papa learns that he bit of more than he can chew.
19) The tin soldier
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EDC Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"Tom is delighted when he receives a box of tin soldiers for his birthday. But he has no idea they come to life while he's asleep! It's not long before one little soldier lands in big trouble in this lively retelling of a classic tale by Hand Christian Andersen."--Back cover
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Vampress girls volume 2
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Kensington Pub
Pub. Date
c2008
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English
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As the Spirits of the Underworld converge upon London to take over the royal dynasty, placing the ancient book that holds the secrets of the vampires at risk, Passion, Raven, Sweet, and Page must battle against the Witches of Cazador.
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