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Kidnapping, mental torture, rescue and expanded intelligence is the basis of life for teenage heroine, Riv.  Though freed and kept in safety by a gentler alien race,  her Aruk kidnappers are after her and the other 149 children again.

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Looking for a traditional but modern fairy tale? Then this is the story for you.

The royal bear children find a mysterious egg one day. When the egg hatches, they discover the baby is a very rare dragon! 

The children raise the baby dragon named Pegasus. He becomes particularly close to the princess, until one day, the King decides the dragon is becoming too large to stay in the castle. The family finds a safe place in the wild to set the dragon free.  

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Button Nose the Sad Little Bear is the touching story of a toy bear who is very sad until he is adopted by a sweet young girl who loves him dearly.

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Lyric, a reluctant violinist, is transported by an eerie black cocoon into a strange world 50 years into the future with bewildering rules. In this new world, where Creepers run rampant in the darkness beneath city limits, Lyric’s ability to make music is treasured by the remaining population, but also feared at the same time by those in power.

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This book is about a race for clues answers and the truth. When Sophie and Robert Langdon discover a brutal murder at the Louvre in Paris, France, the hunt is on for clues. The clues are believed to lead to the hidden location of the Holy Grail. Along the way, they discover two rival secret societies called Opus Dei and The Priory of Sion. The cryptic clues lead them to the startling suspicion that Jesus Christ may have been involved with Mary Magdalene and the group Opus Dei. Will they find the real truth behind the mystery? 
 

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Sierra Rouge’s life will never be the same. After her mother dies, Sierra travels to South Africa to live with her father. There, she discovers sharks are being illegally finned and killed. Though some people are all for shark finning and others are completely against it, Sierra makes a plan to put a stop to it.

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Jett Oxford is the main character who was orphaned as a baby. As a teenager, avoiding social services, the cops and some bad guys keeps her busy, but she wants a future.  Life becomes even more interesting when she answers a help wanted sign in the window of a candy store. She has no idea that she is trapped in a time loop but the cunning she learned as an orphan will be the guiding light when she ends up in the past.

 

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This is a well-written book about a girl's determination to save her friends. The main character, Heart, is a slave who is torn between escaping and saving her own life or saving her new friends. Heart goes through a series of events, including abuse, murders, and trials, all with her friends and new boyfriend at heart. There is a mysterious secret about the glass ceiling, and with a few letters, the help of a boy, and a brave heart, Heart tries to figure it out.
 

The book Two for Joy is an amazing adventure seen through the eyes of a young girl named Jenna. It all starts when her great aunt, Tannie, falls off of a back porch step and breaks her ankle. After that, Jenna’s mom decides that Tannie needs to move in with them. However, this poses a problem when her aunt doesn’t want to go.

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The book, “We Know It Was You,” by Maggie Thrash, is about a girl and a boy named Virginia and Benny who belong to a mystery club at their boarding school. The two friends and outcasts look for mysteries to solve. When they witness a cheerleader, named Brittany, throw herself off of a bridge and into the river, Virginia and Benny are the only ones who can solve this mystery and the reasoning behind it.

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