DPHS North Proposed Book Purchases
March 2026 Board Meeting Book List
| TITLE | AUTHOR (LAST, FIRST) |
| (S)kin | Zoboi, Ibi Aanu |
| A catalog of burnt objects | Youngdahl, Shana |
| A dangerous idea : the Scopes trial, the original fight over science in schools | Levy, Debbie |
| A girl walks into the forest | Roux, Madeleine |
| A guide to falling off the map | Arnot, Zanni L |
| A language of dragons | Williamson, S. F |
| A most perilous world : the true story of the young abolitionists and their crusade against slavery | Gaddy, Kristina R |
| Absolutely No Worries | Gale, Laurel |
| After Life | Forman, Gayle |
| And the river drags her down | Yun, Jihyun |
| Bird in the Air Means We Can Still Breathe | Browne, Mahogany L |
| Black history is your history | Cassidy, Taylor |
| Break wide the sea | Holland, Sara |
| Cast vs Crew Act 1: Setting the Stage | Campion, Lindsay |
| Chappell Roan : a vibrant journey through the career and influence of the indie-pop superstar | Day, Harbert |
| Cry out loud | O'Connor, Tara |
| Dead Fake: A Bleak Haven Novel | Ralph, Vincent |
| Eliza, from scratch | Lee, Sophia |
| Every Borrowed Beat | Stewart, Erin |
| Everybody Loses: The Tumultuous Rise of American Sports Gambling | Funt, Danny |
| Everything Is Poison | McCullough, Joy |
| Everything is tuberculosis : the history and persistence of our deadliest infection | Green, John |
| Fitting Indian | Chand, Jyoti |
| Flirting with Murder | Sellet, Amanda |
| Freddie and Stella Got Hot | Horne, Maggie |
| Girls of dark divine | Woods, E. V |
| Hello sunshine | Young, Keezy |
| Holding on for dear life | Bowling, Dusti |
| Honeysuckle and Bone | Tobias, Trisha |
| I am not Jessica Chen | Liang, Ann |
| I wish I didn't have to tell you this | Yelchin, Eugene |
| I witnessed. The Lizzie Borden story | Kraatz, Jeramey |
| Imposter | Levin, Cait |
| Kid X | Baptiste, Tracey |
| Kill creatures | Power, Rory |
| King : a life : young adult edition | Eig, Jonathan |
| King y Kayla y el caso del diente perdido | Butler, Dori Hillestad |
| Knucklehead : poems | Keith, Tony |
| La distancia entre nosotros (The Distance Between Us) | Grande, Reyna |
| Lady or the tiger | Herrman, Heather M |
| Leave it on the track | Fisher, Margot |
| Legendary Frybread Drive-In : intertribal stories | |
| Lies on the serpent's tongue | Pearsall, Kate |
| Loudmouth : Emma Goldman vs. America (a love story) | Heiligman, Deborah |
| Love Me Tomorrow | Jean, Emiko |
| Mari and the Great Market Swap | Springer-Willms, Janelle |
| Mindworks | Shusterman, Neal |
| My perfect family | Vanbrakle, Khadijah |
| Mystery royale | Cavalancia, Kaitlyn |
| Never thought I'd end up here | Liang, Ann |
| One of the Boys | Zeller, Victoria |
| Our Infinite Fates | Steven, Laura |
| Out of air | Reiss, Rachel |
| Oxford Blood | Davis-Featherstone, Rachael |
| Prisionero B-3087 (Prisoner B-3087) | Gruener, Jack |
| Rebis : born and reborn | Marchesini, Irene |
| Rhino's run | Lipsyte, Robert |
| Rosa by any other name | Alcaraz, Hailey |
| Run Home | Bermudez, Alyssa |
| Shampoo unicorn | Lovett, Sawyer |
| Silenced voices : reclaiming memories from the Guatemalan genocide | Leon, Pablo |
| Sisters in the wind | Boulley, Angeline |
| Sisters in the Wind | Boulley, Angeline; Isabella Star LaBlanc |
| Some of Us Are Brave | Faruqi, Saadia |
| Song of a blackbird | Van Lieshout, Maria |
| Sundown Girls | Stratton, L.S. |
| Tall water | Sindu, SJ |
| Tested | Monders, Anna |
| The better to eat you with | Mejia, Tehlor Kay |
| The Chase | Bloomfield, Jenny |
| The corruption of Hollis Brown | Ancrum, K |
| The Dragon and the Sun Lotus | Wen Zhao, Amalie |
| The flip side | Walz, Jason |
| The girl you know | Rose, Elle Gonzalez |
| The grove | Whitney, Brooks |
| The house no one sees | King, Adina |
| The invisible wild | Van De Car, Nikki |
| The last bookstore on Earth | Braun-Arnold, Lily |
| The leaving room | McBride, Amber |
| The Lions' Run | Pennypacker, Sara |
| The lost women of science | Bellows, Melina Gerosa |
| The Moon Without Stars | Miller, Chanel |
| The Mother Tree | Rosen, Sybil |
| The Nazi conspiracy : the secret plot to kill Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill | Meltzer, Brad |
| The Raven Boys, the graphic novel. 1 | Williams, Stephanie |
| The romance rivalry | Lee, Susan |
| The Rose Bargain | Smith, Sasha Peyton |
| The scammer | Jackson, Tiffany D |
| The story of my anger | Mendez, Jasminne |
| The Strength of the Few | Islington, James |
| The Swan's Daughter: A Possibly Doomed Love Story | Chokshi, Roshani |
| The Thrashers | Soto, Julie |
| The totally awesome world of Caitlin Clark : learn all there is to know about your favorite all-star | Weiss, Sara |
| The totally awesome world of Caitlin Clark : learn all there is to know about your favorite all-star | Weiss, Sara |
| The totally awesome world of Cristiano Ronaldo : learn all there is to know about your favorite soccer legend | Fischer, Neal E |
| The tournament | Barrow, Rebecca |
| The unexpected consequence of bleeding on a Tuesday | Toney, Kelsey B |
| They bloom at night | Tran, Trang Thanh |
| This is where we die | He, Cindy R. X |
| This place kills me | Tamaki, Mariko |
| This thing of ours | Joseph, Frederick |
| Trespassers | Alvarez, Jennifer Lynn |
| Truth is | Sawyerr, Hannah V |
| Truth, lies, and the questions in between | Elliott, L. M |
| Two Perfect Lies | Richards, Natalie D. |
| Ultrawild : an audacious plan for rewilding every city on Earth | Mushin, Steve |
| Under the neon lights | Vinson, Arriel |
| Under the Same Stars | Bray, Libba |
| Under the Same Stars | Bray, Libba |
| Under the Same Stars | Bray, Libba; January LaVoy, Jeremy Carlisle Parker, Major Curda |
| Up in smoke | Brooks, Nick |
| Wandering wild | Noni, Lynette |
| We fell apart | Lockhart, E |
| We won't all survive | Marshall, Kate Alice |
| When we ride : a novel | Ogle, Rex |
| Whirby | Harris, Molly |
| White lies : how the South lost the Civil War, then rewrote the history | Bausum, Ann |
| Who owns the moon? : and other conundrums of exploring and using space | Levinson, Cynthia |
| You Are Now Old Enough to Hear This | Starmer, Aaron |
| You belong here | Miller, Sara Phoebe |
| Niña del pueblo de floricanto (Child of the Flower-Song People): Luz Jimnez, hija de los nahuas | Amescua, Gloria |
| Este es un cuento (This Is a Story) | Schu, John |
Books to be purchased in January 2026
| TITLE | AUTHOR (LAST, FIRST) |
| Beginning genealogy (Your Family Tree) | Ollhoff, Jim |
| A Glimmer of Change | McNicoll, Elle |
| A Matter of Murder | Price, Tirzah |
| Asgardians: Loki | O'Connor, George |
| Beth Is Dead | Bernet, Katie |
| Bud Finds Her Gift | Wall Kimmerer, Robin |
| Dogs and us : a fifteen-thousand-year friendship | Pantaleo, Marta |
| Ferris | DiCamillo, Kate |
| Golden son | Brown, Pierce |
| How to make friends with the dark : a novel | Glasgow, Kathleen |
| Iron gold | Brown, Pierce |
| Morning star | Brown, Pierce |
| Pardalita | Estrela, Joana |
| Red Threads: A Graphic Novel | Nguyen-Hayama, Ila |
| Seven All Alone | McKay, Kirsty |
| Shiny Happy People | McLeod Chapman, Clay |
| Srta. Campista (Miss Camper) | Fajardo, Kat |
| The Better to Eat You With | Kay Mejia, Tehlor |
| The dark fable | Harbour, Katherine |
| Traitors in Space: A Pick-Your-Own-Path Adventure | Collins, Tim |
Books to be purchased in December 2025
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Title |
Author/Artist |
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Red rising |
Brown, Pierce |
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Dragon Flower |
Jiang Hong, Chen |
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Embrace the Serpent |
Mara, Sunya |
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Words Matter |
Fitch Pazner, Anita |
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Jane Stays Dreaming |
Meiser, Britnee |
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The Dysfunctional Family's Guide to Murder |
Emery, Kate |
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Wolf Club |
Bird, James |
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Angelica and the Bear Prince |
Le Nguyen, Trung |
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The Dead of Summer |
La Sala, Ryan |
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Final Cut |
Worley, Olivia |
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Hermana pegajosa (Sticky Hermana) |
Siqueira, Ana |
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How to Grow a Family Tree |
Birdsong, Bea |
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War Games |
Gratz, Alan |
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Decir adiós en cubano (How to Say Goodbye in Cuban) |
Miyares, Daniel |
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Setting the Stage |
Champion, Lindsay |
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Confessions From the Group Chat |
Meadows, Jodi |
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Hollow |
Grothe, Taylor |
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Hazelthorn |
Drews, CG |
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Sugar Crash |
Di Lorenzo, Melinda |
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Of Flame and Fury |
Bridge, Mikayla |
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Coldwire |
Gong, Chloe |
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Flip! |
Ukazu, Ngozi |
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Moonsick |
O'Donnell, Tom |
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On guard! |
Wasserman, Cassidy |
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The Unexpected Lives of Ordinary Girls |
Anderson Coats, J. |
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No More Gnomes |
Mills, Beth |
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Héroes de la esperanza (Hopeful Heroes) |
Engle, Margarita |
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A-Ztec: A Bilingual Alphabet Book |
Valtierra, Emmanuel |
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Painting Through the Rough |
Aro, David |
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Lena the Chicken (But Really a Dinosaur!) |
Bailey, Linda |
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El turno de John (John's Turn) |
Barnett, Mac |
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Zip Zap Wickety Wack: A Story about Sharing |
Diffee, Matthew |
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The Everything Trail |
Fleming, Meg |
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¡Hola, Tobi! (Hello, Tobi!) |
Written and illustrated by Andrea Cáceres |
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Help Me Find My Hamster! |
Hartman, Brooke |
Books to be purchased in October 2025
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TITLE |
AUTHOR |
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10 Blind Dates |
Ashley Elston |
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A Steeping of Blood |
Faizal, Hafsah |
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A Tempest of Tea |
Hafsah Faizal |
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A Tempest of Tea |
Hafsah Faizal, Maya Saroya |
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A winter's promise |
Dabos, Christelle |
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All Alone with You |
Amelia Diane Coombs |
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All That's Left to Say |
Emery Lord |
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All the Fighting Parts |
Hannah V. Sawyerr |
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All the Fighting Parts: A Novel |
Hannah V. Sawyerr |
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An Impossible Thing to Say |
Arya Shahi |
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Anatomy: A Love Story |
Dana Schwartz |
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Ariel Crashes a Train |
Olivia A. Cole |
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Ariel Crashes a Train |
Olivia A. Cole |
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Beneath the Wide Silk Sky |
Emily Inouye Huey, Sophie Oda |
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Better Than the Movies |
Lynn Painter |
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Break to You |
Neal Shusterman, Debra Young, Michelle Knowlden |
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Break to You |
Neal Shusterman, Debra Young, Michelle Knowlden, Elisa Meléndez, JaQwan J. Kelly |
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Brick animals : clever and creative ideas to make from classic Lego |
Elsmore, Warren |
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Chinese phrases for dummies |
Abraham, Wendy |
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Complete national parks of the United States : 440+ parks, monuments, battlefields, historic sites, scenic trails, recreation areas, and seashores |
White, Mel |
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Dating and Dragons |
Kristy Boyce, Abigail Reno |
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Dating and Dragons |
Kristy Boyce |
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Dispatches from Parts Unknown |
Bryan Bliss |
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DIY beauty : easy, all-natural recipes based on your favorites from Lush, Kiehl's, Burt's Bees, Bumble and bumble, Laura Mercier, and more! |
De Clercq, Ina |
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Donuts and Other Proclamations of Love |
Jared Reck, Kirby Heyborne |
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Donuts and Other Proclamations of Love |
Jared Reck |
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Dungeons and Drama |
Kristy Boyce, Eva Kaminsky |
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Dungeons and Drama |
Kristy Boyce |
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Eighteen Roses |
Shannon C. F. Rogers |
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Eighteen Roses |
Shannon C.F. Rogers, Jensen Olaya |
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Everything We Never Had |
Randy Ribay |
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Everything We Never Had |
Randy Ribay, Ramón de Ocampo, Jesse Inocalla, Manny Jacinto, JB Tadena |
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Fadeaway |
E. B. Vickers |
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Firekeeper's Daughter |
Angeline Boulley |
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Fuzz : when nature breaks the law |
Roach, Mary |
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Google it : a history of Google |
Redding, Anna Crowley |
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Have You Seen This Girl |
Nita Tyndall |
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Hearts Overboard |
Becky Dean, Phoebe Strole |
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Hearts Overboard |
Becky Dean |
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Heist Royale |
Kayvion Lewis |
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High school debut. Vol. 4 |
Kawahara, Kazune |
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I Loved You in Another Life |
David Arnold, Carlotta Brentan, Michael Crouch, Sigrid Zeiner |
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I Loved You in Another Life |
David Arnold |
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I Must Betray You |
Ruta Sepetys |
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If you can hear this |
Gardner, Faith |
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Indivisible |
Daniel Aleman, Adan Rocha |
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Indivisible |
Daniel Aleman |
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Iron Widow |
Xiran Jay Zhao |
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Looking for Smoke |
K. A. Cobell, Julie Lumsden, Katie Anvil Rich, Shaun Taylor-Corbett, Jordan Waunch |
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Looking for Smoke |
K. A. Cobell |
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Louder Than Hunger |
John Schu, Jeff Ebner |
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Love, Off the Record |
Samantha Markum |
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Love, Off the Record |
Samantha Markum, Ellen Quay |
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Lunar New Year Love Story |
Gene Luen Yang, LeUyen Pham |
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Make Me a Liar |
Melissa Landers, Gail Shalan |
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Make Me a Liar |
Melissa Landers |
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Mejor que ayer |
Painter, Lynn |
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Mere Mortals |
Erin Jade Lange, Jesse Vilinsky |
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Messenger: The Legend of Muhammad Ali |
Marc Bernardin, Ron Salas |
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On the bright side |
Sortino, Anna |
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On the Hook |
Francisco X. Stork |
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Only She Came Back |
Margot Harrison |
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Only She Came Back |
Margot Harrison, Anna Caputo |
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Perfect : the inside story of baseball's sixteen perfect games |
Buckley, James |
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Pony |
R.J. Palacio |
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Promise Boys |
Nick Brooks |
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Promise Boys |
Nick Brooks, Alfred Vines, Anthony Lopez, Brad Sanders, Christopher Hampton, Eliana Marianes, Hannah Church, Henriette Zoutomou, Jaime Lincoln Smith, Maria Liatis, Renier Cortes, Suehyla El-Attar, Xenia Willacey |
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Rags & bones : new twists on timeless tales |
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Ruin Road |
Lamar Giles |
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Ruin Road |
Lamar Giles, J. D. Jackson |
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Shy Boy : the horse that came from the wild |
Roberts, Monty |
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Signing made easy : a complete program for learning sign language |
Butterworth, Rod R |
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Six Truths and a Lie |
Ream Shukairy, Rasha Zamamiri, Ali Nasser, Lameece Issaq |
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Six Truths and a Lie |
Ream Shukairy |
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Stay Dead |
April Henry, Tessa Netting |
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Stay Dead |
April Henry |
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Stepping Off |
Jordan Sonnenblick |
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Stepping Off |
Jordan Sonnenblick, Kirby Heyborne |
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Such Charming Liars |
Karen M. McManus |
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Such Charming Liars |
Karen M. McManus, Skyler Gallun, Victoria Villarreal |
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Sunrise Nights |
Jeff Zentner, Brittany Cavallaro, Alexandra Hunter, Michael Crouch |
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Sunrise Nights |
Jeff Zentner, Brittany Cavallaro |
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Swarm |
Jennifer D. Lyle |
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Swarm |
Jennifer D. Lyle, Krystal Hammond |
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That's Not My Name |
Megan Lally |
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That's Not My Name |
Megan Lally, Sophie Amoss, Robb Moreira |
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The American Heritage dictionary of the English language. |
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The assassin's guide to babysitting |
Parker, Natalie C |
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The Black Queen |
Jumata Emill |
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The Blackwoods |
Brandy Colbert, Alaska Jackson |
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The Blackwoods |
Brandy Colbert |
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The Breakup Artists |
Adriana Mather, Booboo Stewart |
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The Breakup Artists |
Adriana Mather, Rachel L. Jacobs, Booboo Stewart, André Santana |
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The Brightwood Code |
Monica Hesse, Saydee Dickinson |
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The Brightwood Code |
Monica Hesse |
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The Calculation of You and Me |
Serena Kaylor, Stephanie Willing |
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The Calculation of You and Me: A Novel |
Serena Kaylor |
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The Color of a Lie |
Kim Johnson |
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The Color of a Lie |
Kim Johnson, Kevin R. Free |
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The curious case of Benjamin Button : a graphic novel |
DeFilippis, Nunzio |
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The Dark Becomes Her |
Judy I. Lin |
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The Dark Becomes Her |
Judy I. Lin, Katharine Chin |
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The divine comedy |
Dante Alighieri |
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The executioners three |
Dennard, Susan |
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The Fall of Whit Rivera |
Crystal Maldonado |
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The Fall of Whit Rivera |
Crystal Maldonado, Victoria Villarreal |
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The Half-Life of Love |
Brianna Bourne |
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The Invocations |
Krystal Sutherland, Kit Griffiths |
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The Invocations |
Krystal Sutherland |
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The Narrow |
Kate Alice Marshall, Jeremy Carlisle Parker |
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The Narrow |
Kate Alice Marshall |
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The paper girl of Paris |
Taylor, Jordyn |
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The Reappearance of Rachel Price |
Holly Jackson |
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The Reappearance of Rachel Price |
Holly Jackson, Sophie Amoss |
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The Rosewood Hunt |
Mackenzie Reed, Shaina Summerville |
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The Rosewood Hunt |
Mackenzie Reed |
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The Scarlet Alchemist |
Kylie Lee Baker, Natalie Naudus |
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The Scarlet Alchemist |
Kylie Lee Baker |
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The Space between Here & Now |
Sarah Suk |
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The Space between Here & Now |
Sarah Suk, Joy Osmanski |
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The Sticky Note Manifesto of Aisha Agarwal |
Ambika Vohra, Nikhaar Kishnani |
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The Sticky Note Manifesto of Aisha Agarwal |
Ambika Vohra |
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The Summer She Went Missing |
Chelsea Ichaso, Amy McFadden |
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The Summer She Went Missing |
Chelsea Ichaso |
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The survivor wants to die at the end |
Silvera, Adam |
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The Thirteenth Child |
Erin A. Craig, Christine Lakin |
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The Thirteenth Child |
Erin A. Craig |
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This Dark Descent |
Kalyn Josephson |
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Threads That Bind |
Kika Hatzopoulou, Mia Hutchinson-Shaw |
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Threads That Bind |
Kika Hatzopoulou |
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Toriko. 3,The thing!! |
Shimabukuro, Mitsutoshi |
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Two dark reigns |
Blake, Kendare |
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Under the Surface |
Diana Urban |
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Under the Surface |
Diana Urban, Rebecca Soler, Max Meyers |
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Wander in the Dark |
Jumata Emill, Kevin R. Free, Nile Bullock |
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Wander in the Dark |
Jumata Emill |
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Wander in the dark |
Emill, Jumata |
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What I Carry |
Jennifer Longo |
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What's Eating Jackie Oh? |
Patricia Park, Ami Park |
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What's Eating Jackie Oh? |
Patricia Park |
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Wildflowers of Texas field guide |
Bowers, Nora |