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https://www.booktopia.com.au/blog/2020/06/12/11-great-ya-retellings-of-beloved-classic-novels/

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R.L Stine

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Tris, an adult resident of a futuristic world divided into five factions, elects to join the Dauntless faction. But she actually belongs to another faction, which she must hide, as a major war looms.

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it is about the main character called "greg" and his older brother "rodrick" they spend the whole summer in the country side pool. greg has a good friend called riley. he is in all the shows, he is his best friends. but something happen.........

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This story is about the universal race to build the first atomic bomb. It includes a lot of tradecraft, physics and the way other countries try to stop each others development of the weapon.

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Amulet is an American graphic novel series written by Kazu Kibuishi. It is about a girl called Emily and her family, and a lot of different characters she meets on her way. But when she went to her grandfather's house, she found an amulet necklace, and it had a special soul inside of it...

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Mortal engines is a steampunk story about moving cities on giant treads, it takes place in London, one of the biggest traction cities in the hunting ground, and they have a secret weapon that no one knows about.

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these are good books! 👍

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Escape from Mr Lemoncello's Library By Chris Grabenstein

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Escape from Mr Lemoncello's Library By Chris Grabenstein

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Kyle Keeley has found out that the new library downtown is made by the famous Mr Lemoncello. He becomes one of the first few people to enter the library but entering is so much easier then getting out...

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The book is a romance book which is about four friends who have spreated about they finished high school and they reunite and they make new adventures and memories.

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Big mouth and Ugly Girl by Joyce Carol Oates. This is a realistic fiction about two teenagers from two very different worlds. Matt is wrongly accused but no one will listen. Ursula "ugly girl" is an outcast who's above average height.

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To Kill a Mockingbird, novel by Harper Lee, published in 1960. Enormously popular, it was translated into some 40 languages and sold more than 30 million copies worldwide. In 1961 it won a Pulitzer Prize. The novel was praised for its sensitive treatment of a child’s awakening to racism and prejudice in the American South.

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absolutely true story of a part time indian

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absolutely true story of a part time indian

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absolutely true story of a part time indian is a story about a kid who grew up in a native american neighbourhood and goes to school in a white part of town. The main arcis about the main character (junior) struggling with his identity and wondering whether he is a "traitor" towards his tribe.

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A literary masterpiece. It is a wonderful book and Tolkien really makes the world believable and realistic, while making it still seem like complete fantasy.

'In a hole there lived a hobbit'
- The Hobbit

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Wonder is about a little kid born with facial differences, up until now, he prevented from going into elementary school, Auggie Pullman is his name. He becomes one of the best heroes in fifth grade. His family, classmates all struggle to discover their compassion and acceptance. Auggie's extraordinary journey will unite them and prove you can't blend in when you were born to stand out. There is also a movie (1hr and 53min). The best movie and book there is out there.

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The Giver is about a different world with many rules and systems. When the protagonist Jonas turns 12, his career is chosen for him. He has been selected to be the giver which results in him learning many new things about the world he lives in. The giver is followed by three other books called Gathering blue, Messenger, and Son. All of the books have different storylines but in the end they join together to form one story.

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The bookshop of the broken hearted by Robert Hillman is a novel about love and forgiveness. In 1960s Australia a lonely farmer Tom Hope gets his life turned upside down by the arrival of the spirited bookseller. This book is not so much about a bookshop but about two broken hearted people finding each other.

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I recommend Everything Everything by Nicola Yoon. I recently finished reading this book and I really liked it. The story is about a girl with a disease called "bubble baby disease" and because of it she's not allowed to leave her house or come in contact with anything that has not already been sanitised. It's also about her journey when she meets her new neighbour that had just moved next door to her. The whole story is in the perspective of the teenage girl. If you like stories about drama and romance then I highly recommend this book to you but if you prefer thriller or sci-fi then maybe this isn't the best option for you.

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Cross game is a moving dramma that heratfelt and ture, yet in the brilliant hands of manga artist Mitsuru Adachi, slightfully flower with a light and amusing touch. The series centers aroung a boy named KO, the family of four sisters who live down the street and the game of baseball. This poignat coming-of-age story will change your perception of what shonen manga can be.
There are 8 chapters.

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Ranger's apprentice book series- book 1 The ruin of Gorlan

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Ranger's apprentice book series- book 1 The ruin of Gorlan

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The main character is will, who is brave and used to be sacred of Rangers, For all these years his heart has been set on battle school, but after getting rejected by batlle school and all the others but the Ranger Halt, he became the Ranger's apprentice. He has a lot of the skill needed for being Ranger such as silent as the shadow, he can climb,the most of all he is brave. Later there are some dangerous missions that are for Rangers to complete. One single arrow is the matter of life or death for the whole kingdom.

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The Hate U Give involves a black teenage girl who witnesses the her best friends get shot and die by a police officer. Throughout this story she has to deal with social and emotional challenges and much more.

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The story of 'The Hate You Give' is about an African-American teenage  girl who witnesses the tragic death of her childhood best friend, Khalil. he was shot by an American police officer and Starr uses her voice to bring him to justice as well as everyone who has been killed out of the influence of racism on police officers.

This book is a great read for anyone and everyone. There are a few parts in the book that include topics that could be offensive, mature, and some content that mostly older kids would have a good understanding of.

This book is also a good example of the current events that are going on in America."The Hate You Give" is a very had book to put down, and I'm sure you'd love it. (The movie was great too!)

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This story is about a girl that goes to a boarding school and gets somewhat involved with a murder of one of the other girls at the school. She gets mysterious coded messages that are related to the murder. Whilst trying to solve this, she has her friend group, family and her new friends to worry about. A great book.

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90% liked this book according to google

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Noble House is a novel by James Clavell, published in 1981 and set in Hong Kong in 1963. The novel is over a thousand pages long, and contains dozens of characters and numerous intermingling plot lines.

some 300,000 words and more than 1200 pages so it is very long!

published April 1981

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The Art of War is an old Chinese  book written by Sun Tzu about war tactics and how you can defeat your enemies.

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This book through a young teenagers perspective. She expresses her story through writing letters to a prison inmate, she felt guilty leading her to do this. The story led to her revealing and confessing a secrect shes been keeping. It is very relateable, to an extent, and is a very intriging book that I could not put down.

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A reinterpretation of a mythology classic

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Murakami's expansive exploration of self and emotional isolation, set in two mirroring Japans, with slight unsettling differences between them.

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A dark and strange story about an ordinary place that we see everyday, convenience stores, though likely without every thinking about the people who work in them. The perspective is not what you would expect and the story doesn't go where you think it would.

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Set in the marshlands of Florida, where a mysterious uninhabited area named "Area X" has been slowly growing. There have been 11 expeditions into the area, and only one person has ever come back. The protagonist, a biologist, is part of the 12th team to investigate what happened to the missing teams. The book is a modern gothic realistic speculative tale. Weirder than the movie. Part of the Southern Reach Series.

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I am Malala is a great nonfiction book that makes everyone deeply reflect on the privilege we have in life. Malala is a activist who won a nobel peace prize for getting shot by a taliban because of fighting for women's rights to go to school.

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In kindergarten, Jarrett Krosoczka's teacher asks him to draw his family, with a mommy and a daddy. But Jarrett's family is much more complicated than that. His mom is an addict, in and out of rehab, and in and out of Jarrett's life. His father is a mystery - Jarrett doesn't know where to find him, or even what his name is. Jarrett lives with his grandparents, two very loud, very loving, very opinionated people who had thought they were through with raising children until Jarrett came along. Jarrett goes through his childhood trying to make his non-normal life as normal as possible, finding a way to express himself through drawing even as so little is being said to him about what's going on. Only as a teenager can Jarrett begin to piece together the truth of his family, reckoning with his mother and tracking down his father.

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It is the story of a holocaust survivor on who was on Oskar Schindler list

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A true story of a group of young men who start together as freshmen at the University of Washington and end up winning a gold medal (and irritating 🤬 : )

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The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics

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Meet Celaena Sardothien.
Beautiful. Deadly. Destined for greatness.

In the dark, filthy salt mines of Endovier, an eighteen-year-old girl is serving a life sentence. She is a trained assassin, the best of her kind, but she made a fatal mistake. She got caught.

Young Captain Westfall offers her a deal: her freedom in return for one huge sacrifice. Celaena must represent the prince in a to-the-death tournament - fighting the most gifted thieves and assassins in the land. Live or die, Celaena will be free. Win or lose, she is about to discover her true destiny. But will her assassin's heart be melted?

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They were a perfect and beautiful family—until a heartbreaking tragedy shattered their happiness. Now, for the sake of an inheritance that will ensure their future, the children must be hidden away out of sight, as if they never existed. They are kept in the attic of their grandmother’s labyrinthine mansion, isolated and alone. As the visits from their seemingly unconcerned mother slowly dwindle, the four children grow ever closer and depend upon one another to survive both this cramped world and their cruel grandmother.

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Olive's Ocean opens as a stranger knocks on twelve-year-old Martha Boyle's door and hands her a piece of paper. She identifies herself as Olive Barstow's mother, then she thanks Martha and leaves. Martha is startled because Olive was a girl in her grade last year who had recently died after being hit by a car.

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Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard is a trilogy of fantasy novels written by American author Rick Riordan with the subject of Norse mythology and published by Disney-Hyperion. It is based on Norse mythology and is set in the same universe as the Camp Half-Blood Chronicles and The Kane Chronicles series. The first book, The Sword of Summer, was released on October 6, 2015. The second book, The Hammer of Thor, was released on October 4, 2016. The Ship of the Dead, the third book, was released on October 3, 2017. The main protagonist, Magnus Chase, son of the Vanir god of fertility Frey, narrates the novel in first person. He is a cousin of Annabeth Chase, a main character of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians and The Heroes of Olympus series, who links the two series together.

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The House of the Scorpion (2002) is a science fiction young adult novel by Nancy Farmer. It is set in the future and mostly takes place in Opium, a country which separates Aztlán (formerly Mexico) and the United States. The main character Matteo Alacrán, or Matt, is a young clone of adrug lord of the same name, usually called "El Patrón". It is a story about the struggle to survive as a free individual and the search for a personal identity.

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great book in a awesome sci fi world. It follows nimona as she apprenticeships under ballister black heart. nimona has the power of shapeshifting. its up to ballister to keep her in line but when ballister fails it all goes wrong

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Rescued from the gallows in 1850s London, young orphan (and thief) Mary Quinn is surprised to be offered a singular education, instruction in fine manners—and an unusual vocation. Miss Scrimshaw’s Academy for Girls is a cover for an all-female investigative unit called The Agency, and at seventeen, Mary is about to put her training to the test. Assuming the guise of a lady’s companion, she must infiltrate a rich merchant’s home in hopes of tracing his missing cargo ships.

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CHERUB: The recruit (And all the other books)

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CHERUB: The recruit (And all the other books)

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James is a teenage boy who is a amazing math student but usually sucks at his other classes, he is chubby and doesn't know how to swim, after accidentally cutting a teasing classmates face with a nail he gets warned and then after a series of events joins a organization CHERUB to become a spy.

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It's a good read, althouth its a little intence at times so if you like to read things like that, this is the book for you.

"Nine of us came here. We look like you. We talk like you. We live among you. But we are not you. We can do things you dream of doing. We have powers you dream of having. We are stronger and faster than anything you have ever seen. We are the superheroes you worship in movies and comic books--but we are real."

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Looking for Alaska by a John Green takes you on a journey of existentialism through the eyes of teenage protagonist Miles Halter. He has decided to leave his hometown, and goes to boarding school seeking "the great perhaps" You are taken from lighthearted moments to covering heavier topics towards the end of the book, and the contrast really brings out the realization that nothing is permanent.

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This is a book about an african american teenager in the US who was shot and killed, even though he didn't do anything to aggravate the police. The story follows him in the afterlife as he looks into the lives of his loved ones. This is a really good book to learn about the effects of racism and how a person of colour feels. It's especially good now with the current black lives matter movement.

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This book is a nonfiction book but I still think it's a good read. It's about how the world as we know it isn't as bad as things seem it is by telling us through statistics and comparing them to the past as well as through short anecdotes. The chapters are quite long but there are still bits where you can stop and take a break. It was published in 2017 so it won't be up to date.

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Looking forward to reading "The Song of Achilles" by Madeline Miller among others

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This biography is about how three men and a horse came together and formed the “dream team”. Seabiscuit was an unlikely champion as he was an undersized horse with short stubby legs. He was stubborn and always fought his trainers while staying at the lowest ranks of horse racing as he was misunderstood and mishandled. Red pollard was a failed jockey who was living in a horse stall since he was abandoned as a boy. Tom Smith was an extremely talented horse trainer and had a different approach to training horses than everyone else. The third was Charles Howard, a former bicycle repairman who made a fortune by introducing automobiles to the American West. In the summer of 1936, Howard bought Seabiscuit for bargain-basement price and entrusted him to Smith and Pollard. In the next four years, Seabiscuit overcame a large amount of bad luck to become one of the most spectacular performers ever in sports history, becoming the single biggest newsmaker of 1938.

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Once by Morris Gleitzman is the story of a young Jewish boy who is determined to escape the orphanage he lives in to save his Jewish parents from the Nazis in the occupied Poland of the Second World War. Everybody deserves to have something good in their life. At least Once.

If you read this book you should also Then, Now and After.

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Can't say anything about it because there is an immediate spoiler in the first chapters.

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This book is about a boy who writes about his life to a mysterious receiver he calls his 'friend'. He explains his life and all the problems he is faced as a highschool freshman. He may seem like a normal person but deep down he has many problems that he explains in his letters. This is an easy to read book but with a deep storyline. I guarantee that you will be hooked on the story. Genres: romance, fiction.

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Ally is in a new school, she has problems with reading words and they seem to move when she reads them. But A new teacher in the school Mr. Daniels seem to be different from the other teachers.

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The central character, Kira, who has a deformed leg, is orphaned and must learn to survive in a society that normally leaves the weak or disabled exposed to die in the fields. In the course of the book, she begins to learn the art of dyeing thread different colors, except for blue, which nobody in her community knows how to make. She also learns more about the truth of her village and the terrible secrets they hold.

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This book is about a girl who travels to a place called Elsewhere where she slowly ages down. What happens when she reaches the end?

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book recommendation for Turtles All The Way Down by John Green.  

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book recommendation for Turtles All The Way Down by John Green.  

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The book is about two friends who are trying to find a missing millionaire , and have their eyes on the money!  Unexpected events happen along the way, and the story becomes much tangled, and interesting that expected!

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Happy Summer HKA!! Read Read Read!! Keep safe and Have fun !

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Happy Summer HKA!! Read Read Read!! Keep safe and Have fun !

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Grade Nine & Ten Recommended Summer Reading

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Grade Nine & Ten Recommended Summer Reading

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Grade Nine & Ten Summer Reading Recommendations 2020

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Grade Nine & Ten Summer Reading Recommendations 2020

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Grade Seven & Eight Summer Reading Recommendations

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Grade Seven & Eight Summer Reading Recommendations

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HK Battle of the Books Secondary list 2020

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HK Battle of the Books Secondary list 2020

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Grade Six Recommended Summer Reading 2020

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Grade Six Recommended Summer Reading 2020

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The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something". ― Barack Obama. The secondary library padlet consists of a list of resources, books, challenges, virtual field trips and activities to ignite the passion of reading, inquiry and fun in your lives. Please feel free to collaborate and add any free resources to the Padlet.
https://hongkongacademy.padlet.org/virginia_hand1/onlinresources

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Camp Candlewick is an online program for avid readers who may be staying safe at home this summer. Over the course of twelve weeks, students in grades 1-12 can engage in a virtual book camp that encourages them to take part in shared reads, activities, and streaming events with prominent creators.

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Camp Candlewick is an online program for avid young readers who may be staying safe at home this summer. Over the course of twelve weeks, young people in grades 1-12 can engage in a virtual book camp that encourages them to take part in shared reads, activities, and streaming events with prominent creators.

Via website content and email newsletters, as well as robust support resources on sites such as Pinterest and YouTube, the families of "campers" will be alerted to reading suggestions, prompts, and activities for the "cabins" appropriate for their age.

Campers should read each book in advance of the date and then "meet" each author as the summer progresses via video messages; learn about each writer's favorite summer reading books, camp memories, and why it's so important to stay connected to books all year long. Hopefully they will discover some favorite new reads of their own !

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We hope you'll take the Camp Candlewick pledge:

I will view summer reading as a fun activity; an opportunity to embrace new stories, meet new characters and immerse myself in settings and experiences outside of my own.

I will set weekly reading goals and challenge myself to meet them.

I will try to make a special spot for myself--in my room, or outside in the sun--where I can enjoy private reading time.

I will joyfully recommend books that I love to other readers, especially my friends.

I will be thankful for teachers, librarians and especially family members for helping me have access to amazing books all summer long.

I will challenge myself to dip into the pages of a variety of different kinds of books, and will dare to try new genres and authors.

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THE NEST by Kenneth Oppel - Illustrated by Jon Klassen

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© copyright Kenneth Oppel & Firewing Productions

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The Nest by Kenneth Oppel Steve is an anxious boy who is visited in his dreams by wasps who say they want to save his sickly baby brother but can only do it with his help. But do they really want to help, and is he actually dreaming, and can he really help?

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The Nest by Kenneth Oppel Steve is an anxious boy who is visited in his dreams by wasps who say they want to save his sickly baby brother but can only do it with his help. But do they really want to help, and is he actually dreaming, and can he really help?

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Cinder | Marissa Meyer | Fan Movie Trailer

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Cinder by Marissa Meyer. Feiwel and Friends, 2012. Cinder, a gifted mechanic and a cyborg with a mysterious past, is blamed by her stepmother for her stepsister's illness while a deadly plague decimates the population of New Beijing. When Cinder's life gets intertwined with Prince Kai's, she finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle

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Cinder by Marissa Meyer. Feiwel and Friends, 2012. Cinder, a gifted mechanic and a cyborg with a mysterious past, is blamed by her stepmother for her stepsister's illness while a deadly plague decimates the population of New Beijing. When Cinder's life gets intertwined with Prince Kai's, she finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle

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Insignia by S.J. Kincaid Katherine Tegen, 2012. Tom, a fourteen-year-old genius at virtual reality games, is recruited by the United States Military to begin training at the Pentagon Spire as a Combatant in World War III, controlling the mechanized drones that do the actual fighting off-planet. The audiobook version is highly recommended. Series

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Insignia by S.J. Kincaid Katherine Tegen, 2012. Tom, a fourteen-year-old genius at virtual reality games, is recruited by the United States Military to begin training at the Pentagon Spire as a Combatant in World War III, controlling the mechanized drones that do the actual fighting off-planet. The audiobook version is highly recommended. Series

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Hilton, Marilyn. Full Cicada Moon by Marilyn Hilton  Mimi grapples with society in this novel written in verse about a half-black, half-Japanese seventh grader who moves to a new town and struggles to find her identity.

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Hilton, Marilyn. Full Cicada Moon by Marilyn Hilton  Mimi grapples with society in this novel written in verse about a half-black, half-Japanese seventh grader who moves to a new town and struggles to find her identity.

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If you liked Brown girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson then you can draw comparisons in Full Cicada Moon

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Frances Hardinge spent a large part of her childhood in a huge old house that inspired her to write strange stories from an early age. She read English at Oxford University, then got a job at a software company.

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The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge.   Gothic thriller set in the Victorian Age involves a young girl, Faith, in a desperate attempt to solve the suspected murder of her naturalist father, causing Faith to become entangled in the mysterious discovery of the Lie Tree.

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The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge.   Gothic thriller set in the Victorian Age involves a young girl, Faith, in a desperate attempt to solve the suspected murder of her naturalist father, causing Faith to become entangled in the mysterious discovery of the Lie Tree.

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 The Inquisitor’s Tale: Or, The Three Magical Children by  Adam Gidwitz On a dark night, travelers from across France cross paths at an inn and begin to tell stories of three children whose adventures take them on a chase through medieval France. 

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 The Inquisitor’s Tale: Or, The Three Magical Children by  Adam Gidwitz On a dark night, travelers from across France cross paths at an inn and begin to tell stories of three children whose adventures take them on a chase through medieval France. 