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Quick view Endgame by Nancy Garden The award-winning author of "Annie on my Mind" once again goes out on a limb, this time to show readers the cruelty of bullying and the devastating effectsit can have. View Details
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Quick view Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell This unusual fictional account, in good part autobiographical, narrates without self-pity and often with humor the adventures of a penniless British writer among the down-and-out of two great cities. In the tales of both cities we learn some sobering... View Details
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Quick view Flash Burnout by L K Madigan Winner of the 2010 William C. Morris Award. Madigan captures her photo-prone protagonist with balanced wit and seriousness as he navigates crucial moments in his adolescence. In a tangle of life and death, love and loyalty, 15-year-old Blake emerges... View Details
Quick view Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer Oskar Schell is an inventor, Francophile, tambourine player, Shakespearean actor, jeweler, pacifist. He is nine years old. And he is on an urgent, secret search through the five boroughs of New York to find the lock that fits a mysterious key belonging... View Details
Quick view Life of Pi by Yann Martel Pi Patel is an unusual boy. The son of a zookeeper, he has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior, a fervent love of stories, and practices not only his native Hinduism, but also Christianity and Islam. When Pi is sixteen, his family emigrates... View Details
Quick view Life as We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer When a meteor hits the Moon, Miranda must learn to survive the unimaginable. Told in journal entries, this heart-pounding story chronicles Miranda's struggle to hold on to the most important resource of all--hope--in an increasingly desperate and... View Details