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1) Skeleton Key
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Alex Rider adventures volume 3
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English
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Reluctant teenage-spy Alex Rider, on a routine mission at the Wimbledon tennis championships, gets caught up in Chinese gangs, illegal nuclear weapons, and the suspect plans of his Russian host, General Sarov.
2) Oliver Twist
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English
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The adventures of an orphan boy who lives in the squalid surroundings of a nineteenth-century English workhouse until he becomes involved with a gang of thieves.
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English
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Classics. Mark Twain's tale of a boy's picaresque journey down the Mississippi on a raft conveyed the voice and experience of the American frontier as no other work had done before. When Huck escapes from his drunken father and the 'sivilizing' Widow Douglas with the runaway slave Jim, he embarks on a series of adventures that draw him to feuding families and the trickery of the unscrupulous 'Duke' and 'Dauphin'. Beneath the exploits, however, are...
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[2019]
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English
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"In 1984 in the barrios of Newark, Beatriz Mendez is looking forward to dancing at her fifteenth birthday, because dancing is her true passion in life, but when her brother Juni, gang-leader of the Puerto Rican gang the Diablos, is killed by the rival Haitian Macoute gang she finds herself thrust into the role of gang-leader and drug dealer--until she meets Nassar, a dorky Haitian boy who shares and reignites her passion for dancing."--
1984, in...
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Seven Realms novels volume 1
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English
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Relates the intertwining fates of former street gang leader Han Alister and headstrong Princess Raisa, as Han takes possession of an amulet that once belonged to an evil wizard and Raisa uncovers a conspiracy in the Grey Wolf Court.
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My weirdest school volume 12
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English
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"Ms. LaGrange is leaving, and that means there's a new lunch lady at Ella Mentry School. But when Ms. Hall makes it her mission to get A.J. and the gang to eat more veggies, they form a club to protest. Will Ms. Hall be able to lure them over to the veggie side? Or will their resistance be a piece of cake?"--P. [4] of cover.
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My weird school specials volume 1
Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
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"For A. J. and the gang from Ella Mentry School, a night of regular trick-or-treating turns into the weirdest Halloween in the history of the universe"-- Provided by publisher.
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Young wizards volume 1
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English
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Thirteen-year-old Nita, tormented by a gang of bullies because she won't fight back, finds the help she needs in a library book on wizardry which guides her into another dimension.
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My weirder school volume 10
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English
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"A.J. and the Ella Mentry School gang learn some unusual self-defense moves from a wacky teacher who thinks he's an action hero"--Provided by publisher.
11) Bones of a saint
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English
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In the bear-trap town of Archangel Valley in 1978, fifteen-year-old R.J. struggles to co-exist with the Blackjacks - a gang of petty but wicked criminals who recruit the innocent youth of the valley before they have a chance to become innocent adults. R.J. has people he wants to protect, like his crippled younger brother, Charley, who he carries around the valley like a backpack. He has people he wants to understand, like the physically precocious...
12) Concrete rose
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Maverick feels strongly about family ties, making choices he feels necessary to help support his mom while his King father serves time, and leave him literally holding his son in a doctor's waiting room after he gets paternity test results back and his babymomma ghosts. Now the child he's raising is impacting the lives of his family and his girlfriend, and the gang life he led to support them all financially could leave them all bearing his responsibilities...
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Train to impossible places volume 2
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English
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"The adventure continues in book two of the stunning The Train to Impossible Places middle-grade fantasy series! Suzy Smith and her friends have gathered again for the re-launch of The Impossible Postal Express. The celebrations don't last long though, before Trollville is rocked by a violent tremor--one of a series growing more powerful by the day. It's clear something sinister is underfoot. Nevertheless Suzy's got a long overdue package that the...
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My weird school daze volume 11
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English
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The After School Kids' Care director wants to get into The Guiness Book of World Records, and A. J. and the gang jump in to help him.
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My weirder school volume 7
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English
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"When Mr. Granite goes home sick, the wackiest substitute teacher in the history of the world comes to A.J.'s class and teaches math lessons using magic tricks"--
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Nisekoi volume 25
Pub. Date
[2014]-
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English
Description
In order to to keep the peace between their feuding gang families, Japanese high school students Raku Ichijou and Chioge Kirisaki agree to pretend they are in a romantic relationship.
18) On the hook
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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"Hector has always worked hard and minded his own business. He wants to be captain of his school's chess team, go to college, and help his family make their way to a better life someday. Until Joey singles him out. Joey, whose older brother, Chavo, is head of the Discípulos gang, tells Hector that he's going to kill him: maybe not today, or tomorrow, but someday. And Hector, frozen with fear, does nothing. From that day forward, Hector's death hangs...
20) Everland: Book 1
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Everland volume 1
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
London is a ruin, destroyed by German bombs, ravaged by the Horologia virus, and ruled by the ruthless Captain Hanz Otto Oswald Kretschmer, whose Marauders search for and seize the children who are immune to the virus in the hope that their blood will produce a cure--their latest victim is sixteen-year-old Gwen Darling's younger sister and Gwen will do anything to get her back, even join up with Pete and his gang of Lost Boys living in a city hidden...
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