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Jessica Chai’s life is a mess. She’s the typical invisible girl at high school, a loner, and her relationship with her mom consists of them awkwardly spending money together. Until one day, the popular cheerleaders force her to donate her hair, and she’s invited to a party. Jessica gets into an accident, and the result of her accident impacts the lives of four different individuals. 

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Ten-year-old Guiamo, recently orphaned and abandoned by his impoverished uncle, approaches an elderly fisherman, Calidius, in hopes of obtaining food and shelter. When the weathered seaman takes the boy in, however, Guiamo's destiny is altered forever.

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Do you love mysteries? The book, "Get Psyched"  was a extravagant mystery. I think this book could get somebody's attention very fast. "Get Psyched" is about a girl named Zoey who participates in cheer competitions. While on a trip, she expirenced some terrifying visions. Zoey must protect her current friends and her new friends to come, but how will she do that? 

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And We Stay by: Jenny Hubbard 

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Three Bird Summer is about a boy named Adam who is trying to find treasure with a girl named Alice. Every summer, Adam goes to his Grandma's rustic cabin on Three Bird Lake, but this year is different because all his cousins and relatives won't be there. And there's a new girl next door. After Adam gets to know the new girl, Alice, they become good friends. Suddenly,  Adam's grandma starts leaving strange notes in his room. The notes are about someone named G. One day Adam was helping his Grandma with papers and he found a treasure map.

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Pheonix is about a girl name Elora. When she turns sixteen, she finds out that she is a part of an elite society of mythological creatures called Phoenix. When she becomes a Phoenix, she learns that her mentor is a super hottie named Ezra whom she has been drooling over for three years. As a member of this elite society Elora learns that there are dark secrets. When her BFF goes missing, Elora decides to let the authorities handle it while trying to find clues of her own.

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It's 2137, and a new Lord of Opium has come into power. Matt was once just a lowly clone, but after the events of The House of the Scorpion and the death of El Patron, he finds myself in a completely new and completely perilous situation. He has to gain the respect of all of El Patron's allies. He must protect the ecological biosphere in his land, and free the eejits from their zombielike trances. Not only that, but he must prevent the deaths of those he loves--including Maria. And above all, he must protect Opium, the largest land in the Dope Confederacy, without Tam Lin.

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Jawbreaker: Unlock the (U)niverse is a short self-help book that focuses on teaching self-love, confidence and self-awareness in 9 steps. The author, Jolene Stockman, compares each individual to a jawbreaker- made up of many complex layers that they have assembled throughout their lives.Using visualization, muscle testing, and extended metaphors, readers work to figure out who they are, what they want from life, and how they plan to get there. The book is part pep-talk and part advice, and uses funny anecdotes from the author's personal life to illuminate each step. 

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Lex and Amber are two Rifters (time travelers) with no knowledge of each other or what their lives were like before they were pulled into the time-traveling world.  Lex is part of the Hollows, a band of scruffy Rifters whose mission is to stop the Tesla institute at all cost.  Amber is a student at the Tesla Institute, run by the famous (or infamous?) Tesla.  Their goal is to preserve the time stream, or so Tesla claims.  But as Amber and Lex embark on journeys that lead them to each other, they will learn things that will change their

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