Fiction

Revenge on Rairarubia
W. Royce Adams
Book 4 in the on-going fantasy/adventures series, The Rairarubia Tales for ages 9 and up.
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The Hollowing
Robert Holdstock
A NOVEL IN THE WORLD FANTASY AWARD-WINNING MYTHAGO CYCLERyhope Wood, Mythago Wood, is the great forest steeped in mystery, whose heart contains secrets that change all who come there.Alex Bradley is a damaged and visionary child. Little does he know that the distorted creations of his mind are alive inside nearby Ryhope Wood. When the forest claims him, his father goes in pursuit, along with a scientific expedition looking for the secret of "mythago-genesis"...But inside Ryhope, Alex has created a hundred forms of the Trickster-all of them seeking their maker, and all of them deadly.
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Trick of the Mind
Judy Waite
Wanting to make Matt fall for her, Erin teaches him magic to lure him away from his interest in Kirsty, but when Kirsty is found dead and Erin realizes that Matt is to blame, Erin must put aside her feelings and make the right decision in order to see that there is justice for Kirsty.
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Sign of the Raven
Julie Hearn
Mind the gap. Something odd is going on in the basement of an old house in London. An inexplicable gap has formed, a gap in time that links the present to the past. And twelve-year-old Tom, who discovers the gap while on a visit to his grandmother, is torn between both worlds. Lured by a mysterious voice, Tom leaps into the early eighteenth century, to a time when circus "freaks" like the Bendy Man and the Gorilla Woman appeared at Bartholomew Fair. The voice he hears belongs to Astra, a tiny changeling child, whose limbs are no bigger than a man's thumb. She has called him into the past, because she is convinced that Tom is the only one who can help her and her friends from danger. Doctors are paying a high price for unusual bodies to dissect, and Astra and her friends are prime subjects. But Tom is dealing with difficulties of his own. His mum has cancer and is constantly fighting with his gran. And then he discovers a dark secret in his family's past...a secret that pulls the strands of time together and might just close the gap forever.
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Dread Locks:Dark Fusion
Combining elements from classical myths, fairy tales, and legends, fourteen-year-old Parker Bear learns the hard way that life isn't always what it seems to be after befriending the beautiful new girl in school who, through a series of strange events, reveals herself as something Parker could have never imagined.
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We Beat the Street
Rameck Hunt, Sharon M. Draper, George Jenkins, Sampson Davis
Sampson, George, and Rameck could easily have followed their childhood friends into drugdealing, gangs, and prison. Like their peers, they came from poor, single-parent homes in urban neighborhoods where survival, not scholastic success, was the priority. When the three boys met in a magnet high school in Newark, they recognized each other as kindred spirits who wanted to overcome the incredible odds against them and reach for opportunity. They made a friendship pact, deciding together to take on the biggest challenge of their lives: attending college and then medical school. Along the way they made mistakes and faced disappointments, but by working hard, finding the right mentors, separating themselves from negative influences, and supporting each other, they achieved their goals—and more.In We Beat the Street, award-winning YA author and teacher Sharon Draper brings the doctors' childhood, teenage, and young-adult anecdotes vividly to life. Brief “conversations” with the doctors at the end of each chapter provide context and advice in a friendly, nonintrusive way. Youngsters will be captivated by the men's honest accounts of the street life that threatened to swallow them up, and how they helped each other succeed beyond their wildest expectations.
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Click Here
Denise Vega
When her personal diary--filled with secret crushes, fears, and kissing practice--somehow makes its way to the Internet, for all to see, seventh grader Erin Swift--using humor and ingenuity--must find a way to overcome this latest obstacle. Original.
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The Callahan Cousins #1:Summer Begins
Elizabeth Doyle Carey
Four girl cousins spend summer vacation together with their grandmother on Gull Island.
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Revenge of the Wannabees
Lisi Harrison
Weeks before Christmas. Alicia and Olivia are on their way to Manhattan so the Teen People editors can do a story on them about winning the Octavian Country Day uniform design contest. When Massie finally processes that the girls who hijacked her victory are also modeling for Teen People, she is livid. It should have been her. 'Ehmagod, what will everyone think when they find out it wasn't me who was asked to model? I will be SO over.' Massie decides it's time to get revenge. This snake can not lay idle in the weeds for one more second. Kristen and Dylan throw out terrible 'revenge' suggestions and Massie vetoes them all. She will think of something! But first she has to go home and exfoliate. The social minefields of Westchester County's most privileged middle school girls drive the page-turning action of this addictive series, set in New York City's most elite suburban county. The Clique . . . the only thing harder than getting in is staying in.
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Lowji Discovers America
Candace Fleming
When Lowji and his family move from India to suburban Illinois, he thinks things will be better, but he still can't have a pet, he misses his best friend, and it seems he'll never meet anyone his own age.