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Teenager(s)

As once said by Ken Glickman , "Signs are to eyes what words are to ears ."

Minds and Signs written by Rebecca Rose Orton helps you understand about how your mind really works, how it tends to categorizes things in different ways, and also shows descriptions of various ways that the mind accomplishes this task.  Take for example how you think of a chair.  The chair has four legs, two arm rests, and a back rest. Then you think of variations that take it farther away from the prototype.

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For nearly his entire life, it’s just been Gwilym and his siblings, and he’s perfectly content with that. Recently, his stepmother joined the family, and he is content about that as well. But there’s a missing piece that he can’t refute: his mother. His mother abandoned him when he was just a baby to play in her jazz band. Although Gwilym tries not to overthink it, the underlying resentment and curiosity has been bubbling for a while now.

 

Gwendolyn Gray lives in The City devoid of imagination and color. Her school is designed to prepare children for adult life, and children learn by staring into marble-like machines called Lambents, which control their brains, stripping them of all individual ideas, creativity, and free-thinking. 

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Magic Tree House meets Whatever After in this fast-paced adventure set in the ancient land of the Mayans! Bubba and Squirt are siblings who seem perfectly normal, but they’re anything but. In truth, they have a magical shovel that transports them to places from the past. This time, they’re brought to an excavation site in the ancient city of Altun Ha that unearths rare artifacts. But there’s something odd going on in the sweat-slick jungles of Belize.

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Four girls. Three scandals. Two murders. One city. And millions of secrets…

Delilah Rollins is the newest influencer to hit Los Angeles. Despite her overprotective parents and humble origins, she’s managed to edge her way into the competitive realm of online fame. And there are two girls qualified to teach her the tricks of the trade: Fiona Jacobs and Jasmine Walters-Diaz, long-standing influencers with millions of followers.

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What do you do when your entire life changes in an instant? Soon-to-be adult Claudine Henry has her entire life planned out. First: go on a wild summer road trip with her best friend Saz. Second: attend Columbia in the fall. Third: make a splash in California as a popular novelist. But all that is thrown out the window when her parents drop a bomb. They are getting a divorce.

 

City of Devils is a mystery and fantasy book set in a world where monsters roam freely among humans. In this book, a human detective is tasked with finding a mummy by the mummy’s wife. He must find out where this mummy is and if he is even alive. He must gather evidence, study clues, and sneak around if he is to solve his hardest case yet. The detective’s search takes him around Los Angeles as he uncovers mysteries, secrets, and crimes in the City of Devils. 

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Infinity: The World of Darkness by Tejas Mathai is a fiction book full of fun characters and suspense.  Following up the second book in the series, Jack and Anne’s children, Neil and Nicole, become part of the Infinity Corps.  The Infinity Corps are a group that is formed from people across the galaxy.  When Tarvin, one of the enemies of the Infinity Corps, comes back with allies, the Infinity Corps are called into action.  They must protect Earth from Tarvin’s attacks while also keeping the Infinity Diamonds safe.  Will the Infinity Corps succ

Chaant and Ky'el are two brothers from the small, walled city of Almarra.

When their city comes under the attack by a Demon Lord and his army, they must find a way to protect their home.

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What would you do if you could foresee the future? Arnetta and the Mirror of Destiny is a fiction novel that takes place in the year 1985, where Arnetta lives with her grandparents in a small textile mill town in South Carolina. Even though her family died when she was young, Arnetta tries to maintain an upbeat facade in school and around her crush, Craig. But one rainy day, everything changes. Arnetta wanders into a store full of antiques and notices a particularly elegant mirror.

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