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  • 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
  • The Unbreakable Heart of Oliva Denaro

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    From the internationally bestselling author of The Children’s Train comes an unforgettable coming-of-age novel, set in 1960s Sicily and based on a true story, of how a young Sicilian girl defied centu

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    • Author: Ardone, Viola
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 352
    • Publish Date: May 09 2023
    • ISBN10: 0063276879
    • Language: English
  • Still Time

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    “A moving, beautiful story about what persists and what doesn’t, about what can be repaired and what can’t.” –Karen Joy Fowler, author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

    Until John Wilson met

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    • Author: Hegland, Jean
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: October 17 2017
    • ISBN10: 1628728213
    • Language: English
  • Anne of Avonlea

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    In the years since she arrived at Green Gables, Anne has earned the love and respect of the people of Avonlea–as well as a reputation for getting herself into predicaments. Now sixteen years old–and… [more below]

    • Series: Anne of Green Gables #2
    • Author: Montgomery, L. M.
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 352
    • Publish Date: November 25 2014
    • ISBN10: 1770497323
    • Language: English
  • Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

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    Selected for The Great American Read, the PBS series celebrating America’s 100 most-loved books.

    It’s a warm summer’s afternoon when young Alice first tumbles down the rabbit hole and into the adventu

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    • Author: Carroll, Lewis
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: April 26 2016
    • ISBN10: 1909621579
    • Language: English
  • Sea Monsters

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    Winner of the 2020 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, this intoxicating story of a teenage girl who trades her a middle-class upbringing for a quest for meaning in 1980s Mexico is “a surreal, captivating[more below]

    • Author: Aridjis, Chloe
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: February 18 2020
    • ISBN10: 1948226774
    • Language: English
  • A Christmas Carol

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    • Series: Flame Tree Collectable Classics
    • Author: Dickens, Charles
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 384
    • Publish Date: November 02 2021
    • ISBN10: 1839642254
    • Language: English
  • Voices: The Final Hours of Joan of Arc

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    “Stunning . . . . elegant . . . . arresting . . . . supple and harrowing.” —Wall Street Journal

    Best-selling author David Elliott explores how Joan of Arc changed the course of history and remains a

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    • Author: Elliott, David
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: March 02 2021
    • ISBN10: 0358452082
    • Language: English
  • Nobody, Somebody, Anybody

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    “It’s My Year of Rest and Relaxation, but with fewer pills and more boats.” —Entertainment Weekly

    A moving and darkly comic debut novel about an anxious young woman who administers a self-made “placeb

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    • Author: McClorey, Kelly
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: March 15 2022
    • ISBN10: 0063002663
    • Language: English
  • The Birdcage

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    In the spirit of Lisa Jewell and Kate Morton, an emotional mystery set in the rugged remote landscape of north Cornwall full of dark secrets and twists, about three unusual sisters forced to confront [more below]

    • Author: Chase, Eve
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 368
    • Publish Date: July 19 2022
    • ISBN10: 0525542418
    • Language: English
  • Criss Cross: A Newbery Award Winner

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    Winner of the Newbery Medal – New York Times Bestseller – An ALA Notable Book – An ALA Best Book for Young Adults – School Library Journal Best Book – Booklist Editors’ Choice – Kirkus Reviews Editor

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    • Author: Perkins, Lynne Rae
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 368
    • Publish Date: December 26 2007
    • ISBN10: 0060092742
    • Language: English
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