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  • Rules at the School by the Sea: The Second School by the Sea Novel

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    It’s summer, but school is in session in the delightful second book of New York Times bestselling author Jenny Colgan’s utterly charming School by the Sea series, set at a girls’ boarding school in Co

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    • Series: School by the Sea #2
    • Author: Colgan, Jenny
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: August 23 2022
    • ISBN10: 0063243148
    • Language: English
  • Last Summer Boys

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    In this rapturous coming-of-age debut, a naive-yet-determined Appalachian boy will go to any length to save his family over the course of one life-changing summer.

    “If you’re famous, you don’t have to

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    • Author: Rivers, Bill
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: June 01 2022
    • ISBN10: 1662500319
    • Language: English
  • Graceland

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    Graceland is a dazzling debut by a singular new talent

    The sprawling, swampy, cacophonous city of Lagos, Nigeria, provides the backdrop to the story of Elvis, a teenage Elvis impersonator hoping to ma

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    • Author: Abani, Chris
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: January 26 2005
    • ISBN10: 0312425287
    • Language: English
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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    Fresh from his escapades with Tom Sawyer, with six thousand dollars in the bank, Huck Finn faces a new challenge: his father, Pap, who wants Huck’s fortune and will stop at nothing to get his hands on… [more below]

    • Series: Signature Classics
    • Author: Twain, Mark
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: September 05 2023
    • ISBN10: 1435172752
    • Language: English
  • The Plain Janes

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    Meet the Plain Janes–artist activists on a mission to wake up their sleepy suburban town. This cult classic graphic novel is perfect for fans of The LumberJanes and Awkward.When artsy misfit Jane Bec… [more below]

    • Author: Castellucci, Cecil
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 496
    • Publish Date: January 07 2020
    • ISBN10: 0316522813
    • Language: English
  • The Dressmaker

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    Tess, an aspiring seamstress, thinks she’s had an incredibly lucky break when she is hired by famous designer Lady Lucile Duff Gordon to be her personal maid on the Titanic. Once on board, Tess catche

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    • Author: Alcott, Kate
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 384
    • Publish Date: January 01 2013
    • ISBN10: 0307948196
    • Language: English
  • Keeper’n Me: Penguin Modern Classics Edition

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    When Garnet Raven was three years old, he was taken from his home on an Ojibway Indian reserve and placed in a series of foster homes. Having reached his mid-teens, he escapes at the first available o… [more below]

    • Author: Wagamese, Richard
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: October 02 2018
    • ISBN10: 0385693257
    • Language: English
  • Emily of New Moon

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    From the author of Anne of Green Gables, the first book of the beloved Emily trilogy–recently seen on Netflix’s hit show Russian Doll

    Emily Starr never knew what it was to be lonelyuntil her belov

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    • Series: Emily Novels #1
    • Author: Montgomery, L. M.
    • Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
    • Page Count: 352
    • Publish Date: April 01 1983
    • ISBN10: 055323370X
    • Language: English
  • Emily’s Quest

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    Emily knows she’s going to be a great writer.She also knows that she and her childhood sweetheart, Teddy Kent, will conquer the world together.But when Teddy leaves home to pursue his goal to become a… [more below]

    • Series: Emily Novels #3
    • Author: Montgomery, L. M.
    • Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: July 01 1983
    • ISBN10: 0553264931
    • Language: English
  • Little Women

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    This American classic is as fresh and meaningful today as it was when it was first written in the mid-nineteenth century. Largely based on the author’s own childhood, Little Women is a timeless tale o… [more below]

    • Series: Dover Thrift Editions
    • Author: Alcott, Louisa May
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 480
    • Publish Date: September 12 2018
    • ISBN10: 0486828069
    • Language: English
  • My Life as a Joke

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    From popular middle-grade novelist Janet Tashjian comes another hilarious installment in the My Life series, with illustrations by Janet’s son, Jake Tashjian.

    Derek Fallon discovers all the angst tha

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    • Series: My Life #4
    • Author: Tashjian, Janet
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: April 11 2017
    • ISBN10: 1250103886
    • Language: English
  • Ru

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    Winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction
    Winner of 2015 Canada Reads Prize
    Winner of Grand Prix litt raire Archambault
    Finalist for the 2012 Soctiabank Giller Prize
    Finalist for the 201

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    • Author: Thúy, Kim
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 160
    • Publish Date: November 27 2012
    • ISBN10: 1608198987
    • Language: English
  • When Your Teen Has an Eating Disorder: Practical Strategies to Help Your Teen Recover from Anorexia, Bulimia, and Binge Eating

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    If your teen has an eating disorder–such as anorexia, bulimia, or binge eating–you may feel helpless, worried, or uncertain about how you can best support them. That’s why you need real, proven-effe

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    • Author: Muhlheim, Lauren
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 168
    • Publish Date: September 01 2018
    • ISBN10: 1684030439
    • Language: English
  • The Great Gatsby

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    For generations of enthralled readers, the mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby has come to embody all the glamour and decadence of the Roaring Twenties.

    To F. Scott Fitzgerald’s bemused narrator, Nick

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    • Series: Vintage Classics
    • Author: Fitzgerald, F. Scott
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 192
    • Publish Date: January 05 2021
    • ISBN10: 0593311841
    • Language: English
  • Recipe for Disaster

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    In this heartfelt middle school drama, Hannah’s schemes for throwing her own bat mitzvah unleash family secrets, create rivalries with best friends, and ultimately teach Hannah what being Jewish is al[more below]

    • Author: Lucido, Aimee
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 352
    • Publish Date: September 14 2021
    • ISBN10: 0358386918
    • Language: English
  • Summer Hours at the Robbers Library

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    From journalist and author Sue Halpern comes a wry, observant look at contemporary life and its refugees. Halpern’s novel is an unforgettable tale of family…the kind you come from and the kind you c

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    • Author: Halpern, Sue
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 384
    • Publish Date: August 11 2023
    • ISBN10: 0062678965
    • Language: English
  • Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys

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    In Raising Cain, Dan Kindlon, Ph.D., and Michael Thompson, Ph.D., two of the country’s leading child psychologists, share what they have learned in more than thirty-five years of combined experience w… [more below]

    • Author: Kindlon, Dan
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: April 04 2000
    • ISBN10: 0345434854
    • Language: English
  • Otis Spofford

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    Newbery Medal-winning author Beverly Cleary brings her understanding and warmth to every page of this wonderful story of a “bad boy.”

    When it comes to stirring up a little excitement in class, Otis Spo

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    • Author: Cleary, Beverly
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 208
    • Publish Date: August 12 2008
    • ISBN10: 0380709198
    • Language: English
  • ’70s Teen Pop

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    Teen pop is a subgenre of popular music marketed to tweens and teens. Its melodic yearning and veneer of sincerity appeal to an emerging romantic eroticism and autonomy. But tweens and teens buy musi

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    • Series: Genre: A 33 1/3
    • Author: Jasmine, Lucretia Tye
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 168
    • Publish Date: October 05 2023
    • ISBN10: 1501383507
    • Language: English
  • Piano Days

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    PIANO DAYS is the story of three boys growing up in the late 1950s and early 1960s in a small town doing the things young boys do; playing softball for the local church team, discovering girls, going … [more below]

    • Author: Reid, Don
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 352
    • Publish Date: October 04 2022
    • ISBN10: 088146869X
    • Language: English
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