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Radar and the Raft by Jeff Lantos
Radar and the Raft is an account of the remarkable survival of seventeen passengers of a freighter torpedoed by a German U-boat in 1942. Their survival was in part due to the development of radar, a...
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Spooky Lakes by Geo Rutherford
Spooky Lakes by Geo Rutherford features twenty-five strange and mysterious lakes found on planet Earth. The book opens with an introduction to limnology, the study of lakes. "A lake is typically a...
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Lion Dancers by Cai Tse
Thirteen-year-old Wei Lee's father, Yuho Lee was part of the Black Tiger Lion Dance troupe that won the championship at the Twelfth Asia International Lion Dance Championships two years ago. Watching...
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The Bletchley Riddle by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
Fourteen-year-old Elizabeth (Lizzie) Novis is on her way to America. Escorted by Fleetwood, her Gran's estate steward, Lizzie is aboard a steamship at the port in Liverpool. She's to travel to...
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Pearl by Sherri L. Smith
This graphic novel opens in 1886 with the story of Amy's great-grandmother who was an ama, or a pearl diver on the shores of Honshu in Japan. Amy hear many stories about her sosobo especially one where...
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The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins
Eighteen-year-old Coriolanus Snow is preparing for the reaping ceremony of the Hunger Games. Snow, heir to the house of Snow lives in the war torn Capitol of Panem. Snow, along with his elderly...
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A Crane Among Wolves by June Hur
Seventeen-year-old Hwang Boyeon (Iseul)is determined to find her older sister, Suyeon who was kidnapped only three days earlier by the tyrant King Yeonsan who rules Korea. The two sisters had lost...
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Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins
It is the fiftieth annual Hunger Games but it is also the Second Quarter Quell, meaning twice as many tributes will be reaped: two boys and two girls from each district. Taken "off to the Capitol for...
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