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Weed inspires her. Acid shows her another dimension. Ecstasy releases her. Nitrous fills her with bliss. Cocaine makes her fabulous. Mushrooms make everything magical. Special K numbs her. Crystal meth makes her mean. Sixteen-year-old Samantha, raver extraordinaire, puts the "high" in high school.
A '90s time capsule buried inside a coming-of-age memoir set against the neon backdrop of the San Francisco Bay Area's rave scene, Raver Girl chronicles...
44782) Teresa of the New World
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From the bestselling author of An Obsession with Butterflies comes a magical story of America in the time of the conquistadors.
In 1528, the real-life conquistador Cabeza de Vaca shipwrecked in the New World where he lived for eight years as a slave, trader, and shaman. In this lyrical weaving of history and myth, the adventurer takes his young daughter Teresa from her home in Texas to walk westward into the setting sun, their travels accompanied...
44783) I Will See You Again
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When the author learns of the death of her brother overseas, she embarks on a journey to bring him home. Through memories and dreams of all they shared together and through her Dene traditions, she finds comfort and strength. The lyrical art and story leave readers with a universal message of hope and love.
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In the mid-1950s, a young Black teenager named, Mary White, traveled north from Virginia to work for Wendy Sanford's family as a live-in domestic worker for their summer vacation by a remote New England beach. Mary was fifteen, Wendy was twelve. As the Black "help" and the privileged white daughter, they were not, slated for friendship, but Wendy's parents kept bringing Mary back each summer and when Wendy and Mary, now adults, found themselves both...
44785) Nissa's Place
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A thirteen-year-old girl in Depression-era Louisiana grapples with her mother moving to Chicago, her father remarrying, and finding where she belongs.
Ever since Nissa Bergen's father Ivar remarried, Nissa has felt like a stranger in her own home, clinging to her memories of her free-spirited mother, Heirah Rae, who moved to Chicago to escape the conformity of small-town Louisiana. To make matters worse, Nissa's not ready for the physical changes...
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Knopf
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c2010
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Here is the beloved, bestselling author of I Feel Bad About My Neck at her funniest, wisest, and best, taking a hilarious look at the past and bemoaning the vicissitudes of modern life—and recalling with her signature clarity and wisdom everything she hasn’t (yet) forgotten.
In these pages she takes us from her first job in the mailroom at Newsweek to the six stages of email,...
In these pages she takes us from her first job in the mailroom at Newsweek to the six stages of email,...
44787) Hollywood Park: a memoir
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"HOLLYWOOD PARK is a remarkable memoir of a tumultuous life. Mikel Jollett was born into one of the country's most infamous cults, and subjected to a childhood filled with poverty, addiction, and emotional abuse. Yet, ultimately, his is a story of fierce love and family loyalty told in a raw, poetic voice that signals the emergence of a uniquely gifted writer. We were never young. We were just too afraid of ourselves. No one told us who we were or...
44789) How to catch a Mamasaurus
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The How to Catch Kids try to trap the Mamasaurus, a one-of-a-kind creature whose love, kindness, and awesomeness have no limits.
44790) What should Danny do?
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Elon Books
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2017.
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English
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"Danny is a real-life superhero in training, learning about his most important super power of all: 'the power to choose.' In this book, YOU decide how the story will end by making choices for Danny. You'll have a blast trying to reach all nine endings!"--
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"One of the most prominent voices of her generation debuts with an extraordinarily powerful memoir: the story of a childhood defined by the ever looming absence of her incarcerated father and the path we must take to both honor and overcome our origins. For as long as she could remember, Ashley has put her father on a pedestal. Despite having only vague memories of seeing him face-to-face, she believes he's the only person in the entire world who...
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Tyndale House
Pub. Date
c2010
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IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 10
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Alex and his dad were in a car accident so horrific that the coroner was called to the scene for Alex. For two months his body lingered in a coma-- while his spirit spent time in Heaven with Jesus and came back with astonishing revelations about what he had seen, heard, and experienced.
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"As she grows up in a generation that is busier and more distracted than ever, your tween girl will love the fun vibe and practical ideas in Grace, Not Perfection for Young Readers by bestselling author, creator of the Simplified Planner, and organizational expert Emily Ley"--
44795) Breaking through
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IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
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Having come from Mexico to California ten years ago, fourteen-year-old Francisco is still working in the fields but fighting to improve his life and complete his education.
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IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
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Twins Astrid and Apollo are excited to be going to the Hmong July Fourth Soccer Festival, but when they are told to babysit their baby sister, Eliana, it looks like they will miss the particular match their father is interested in--especially as they cannot figure out what the "yummy milk" Eliana demands is, and are forced to spend their money on buying different treats to keep her from throwing a tantrum.
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IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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It is the end of May 1940, the British government has put out a call for fishing boats to help rescue the British soldiers trapped at Dunkerque and Aiden is the son of a fisherman with access to his father's dory--his parents forbid him to go, but Aiden has already lost one brother to the war, and his other brother is somewhere over there with the British Expeditionary Force; so despite his fear of the ocean, he and his best friend Sally set out to...
44798) Cracking the bell
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IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 7
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While recovering from a game-related concussion, football star Isaiah wonders what his life would be like without the game.
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Wanting to understand how her path is tied to her mother tongue, Anne, a young, multiracial American woman, travels through China, the country of her mother's birth. Along the way, she tries on different roles-seeker, teacher, student, girlfriend, artist, and daughter-and continually asks herself: Why do I feel called to make this journey?
Whether witnessing a Tibetan sky burial, teaching English at a university in Chengdu, visiting her grandmother...
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Soraya M.'s husband, Ghorban-Ali, couldn't afford to marry another woman. Rather than returning Soraya's dowry, as custom required before taking a second wife, he plotted with four friends and a counterfeit mullah to dispose of her. Together, they accused Soraya of adultery. Her only crime was cooking for a friend's widowed husband. Exhausted by a lifetime of abuse and hardship, Soraya said nothing, and the makeshift tribunal took her silence as a...
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