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MaxHelsing and the Thirteenth Curse is a book full of action, mystery and (my personal favorite), fantasy. This story tells of an young twelve year old boy named Max Helsing.  He comes from a family bloodline of monster hunters, making him one of them.  However, Max has a softer side towards the monsters that did not wish to harm him.

This story follows a ninja detective, Randi Rhodes, as she moves from New York City to a small town called Deer Creek. When she moves, Randi thinks her days of solving mysteries are over, but when Deer Creek's prized time capsule goes missing, she must put her ninja suit back on and get down to business as a detective. Randi and her new friend D.C. must act fast,  because the town's Founder's Day Festival is coming up and that is when the special guest is going to open the time capsule.

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Warrior Kids: A Tale of New Camelot is a thought-provoking book. Eighteen-year-old King Lance of New Camelot is working with his knights to make the world a better place for the children of the future. With so many things polluting Earth, Lance and many other kids are worried about the future of the planet. If pollution continues as it has been, then the Earth of the future will be hard to live on. 

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In Manicpixiedreamgirl  Tyler Darcy discovers some important information that may change his romantic relationships, both real and imagined. Tyler has had this big crush for a girl named Rebecca Webb since his freshmen year of high school. This girl became his manic pixie dream girl, a girl that he truly has no clue about.  Tyler should realize that he has an amazing girl right infront of him- his girlfriend Sydney.  Now it is all up to Tyler to figure out who he truly wants- his manic pixie dream girl, or the girl who's cared for him since the beginning?

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In the book The Hounds of Set, the main character is a 13 year-old teenager named Alex. Alex lives with his grandmother in a small, quiet town on the beach. For Alex, life in this dull, sleepy town is boring and he dreams of adventure. That is, until he receives the gift. The gift that shatters his very perspective of existence and sends him on an adventure he never even dreamed of, full of danger and mystery and sends him scrambling for answers. Can Alex solve the greatest puzzle of all?

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Fourteen year old James Turner has one passion in life- whales. He reads about them online, watches every type of whale-related media from Whale Wars to Jacques Cousteau documentaries, and has even adopted his own whale, Salt, through the Greater New England Whale Conservatory. Unfortunately, his fixation on aquatic mammals (as opposed to partying and pop culture), has isolated him from his fellow freshmen.  James is a social outcast.

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Redeye Fulda Cold is the story of Rick Fontain, a young man out of high school and working for Bell Systems, who is drafted into the US Army. Because of his results on aptitude testing, Fontain is encouraged to begin officer training, but he is wary of devoting the years to this career.  He instead begins to work on a missile defense system called the Redeye. 

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Halfway Home: Drawing My Way Through Japan is about a girl that was born in Japan by an American man and a Japanese woman who now lives in Japan. This book shows her journey to Japan, her time while she is there, and part of her way back to America. She gets to redisover her birthplace and see new things she has never seen before. She gets to reconnect with her grandparents that live in Japan. She shares in this book the cultural differences between America and Japan

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Chantarelle is the second book in the Five Stones Trilogy, written by G.A. Morgan. In this book, Knox and Evelyn return to Ayda and Chase, guided by Captain Nate, returns to Ayda. All three children have their own personal battles to overcome. The book is mainly based on attempting to prevent Dankar from obtaining the mysterious "Fifth Stone". The Fifth Stone is a stone believed to bring balance to the daylights, or life forces, of Ayda.

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Charlie is a senior in high school, but she is not looking forward to her final year in school at all. Her best friend Lila is everything Charlie thinks she is not: intelligent, sociable, funny, and gorgeous to boot. Charlie is used to being glanced over when she and Lila are together. Her mom just can't seem to understand her, and is forcing her to join an extracurricular activity to try to make more friends. She knows she's going to hate it... until she meets her new English teacher, Mr. Drummond.  She thinks he is everything she's always wanted.

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