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1) The Unseen
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Feeling angry and out-of-place in her large family, twelve-year-old Xandra finds a magical key to a world of ghostly, sometimes frightening, phantoms that help her see herself and her siblings more clearly.
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A young woman's secret may tear her rural Minnesota community apart, in this "emotional tale of star-crossed love, vengeance and regret" (Publishers Weekly). In the tumultuous days after World War I, Herman Richter returns from the front to find his only sister, Liesel, allied with Lester Sutter, the "slow" son of a rival clan who spends his days expertly trapping lake turtles. Liesel has sought Lester's friendship in the wake of her parents' deaths...
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In a distant future, eighteen-year-old Lugh is kidnapped, and while his twin sister Saba and nine-year-old Emmi are trailing him across bleak Sandsea they are captured, too, and taken to brutal Hopetown, where Saba is forced to be a cage fighter until new friends help plan an escape.
7) Hotel Ruby
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On the way to spend a summer with her grandmother after the sudden death of her mother, seventeen-year-old Audrey, her older brother Daniel, and their father happen upon the Hotel Ruby, a luxurious place filled with unusual guests and little chance of ever leaving.
9) Raging star
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Saba leads a group of guerrillas against DeMalo and the Tonton, all while contemplating DeMalo's invitation to join him in building a New Eden.
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Sophie Hartley books volume 3
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A girl in a large family is looking forward to her first "double digit" birthday, but soon discovers that growing up brings some unwanted changes.
12) Glint
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While fifteen-year-old Ellie tries to find her missing eleven-year-old brother, Danny, in alternating chapters Danny dreams of a parallel quest in a fantasy world of dragons and shapeshifters that he and Ellie knew as children.
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Longburrow volume 3
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"The young rabbit Podkin One-Ear and his allies battle to save their land from the evil Gorm tribe"--
14) Smiles to go
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Will Tuppence's life has always been ruled by science and common sense but in ninth grade, shaken up by the discovery that protons decay, he begins to see the entire world differently and gains new perspective on his relationships with his little sister and two closest friends.
15) Out of reach
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Accompanied by her brother's friend, Tyler, sixteen-year-old Rachel ventures through San Diego and nearby areas seeking her brother, eighteen-year-old Micah, a methamphetamine addict who ran away from home.
16) Lucky strikes
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"Set in Depression Era Virginia, this is the story of orphaned Amelia and her struggle to keep her siblings together"--
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Just Grace volume 7
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While Grace and her best friend Mimi are waiting for the arrival of the baby sister Mimi's family plans to adopt, Grace gets a big surprise.
18) The real mother
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Sara Elliot returns to her home in Chicago to care for her younger siblings; however, when another brother, Mack, returns home after three years, his manipulative manner challenges Sara's authority.
19) The silent boy
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Katy, the precocious ten-year-old daughter of the town doctor, befriends a retarded boy.
20) Podkin One-Ear
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Longburrow volume 1
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"In a fantasy world of anthropomorphic rabbits, Podkin and his siblings must go on the run when the villainous Gorm invade their home and enslave their clan. Facing pursuit and treachery at every turn, they must find allies and refuge if they are to survive-and fight to reclaim their world from the Gorm scourge"--
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