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Name Cover Grade # of Copies Among the Hidden

Luke is one of the shadow children, a third child

forbidden by the Population Police. He’s lived his entire

life in hiding.

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Amal Unbound

Life for 12-year-old Amal is a happy one. She lives with

her parents and three younger sisters on a farm in rural

Pakistan, is a star student, and has plans to become a

teacher. But when her mother gives birth to a fifth

daughter, her life changes forever.

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Artemis Fowl, Graphic Novel

12 year old Artemis Fowl is a millionaire, a genius and a

criminal mastermind. But even he doesn’t know what

he’s taken on when he kidnaps a fairy, Captain Holly

Short. These aren’t the fairies of bedtime stories –

they’re dangerous!

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Bone Collector’s Son

Ghost story set in 1907 in Vancouver, BC. 14 year old

Bing-wing Chan begins to help his father with his job as

“bone collector”. Sinister things start to happen soon

after Bing accompanies his father to the graveyard.

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Boy in the Striped Pajamas, The

During World War II, 8-year-old Bruno’s family lives

near the concentration camp where his father is

commandant. Unhappy and lonely, he wanders out

behind his house one day and finds a Jewish boy of his

age. Though the barbed-wire fence of the camp

separates them, the boys begin a forbidden friendship,

oblivious to the real nature of their surroundings.

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Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, The

True story of a young man in Africa who used the only

resources available to him to build a windmill and

elevate the lives and spirits of those in his community.

7-12 30

Breadwinner, The

Imagine living in a country in which women and girls

are not allowed to leave the house without a man.

Imagine having to wear clothes that cover every part of

your body, including your face, whenever you go out.

This is life in Afghanistan.

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Bridge to Terabithia

The story of bullied kids Jesse Aarons and Leslie Burke,

12-year-old neighbors who create a fantasy world called

Terabithia and spend their free time together in an

abandoned tree house.

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Child of Dandelions

A beautiful, touching story of a child caught between

two worlds, in a country caught in the grip of a brutal

army dictator.

9-12 29

City of Ember

Citizens of Ember are assigned work at the age of 12.

Two children trade assignments. For as long as anyone

can remember, the great lights of Ember have kept the

darkness at bay. But now the lights are beginning to

flicker.

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Daniel’s Story

Daniel barely remembers leading a normal life before

the Nazis came to power in 1933. He can still picture

once being happy and safe, but memories of those days

are fading as he and his family face the dangers

threatening Jews in Hitler’s Germany in the late 1930s.

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Emako Blue

Emako Blue was supposed to be a star. She was

beautiful and good-hearted. She was Monterey's best

friend. She was the only girl Jamal cared about, the one

who saw through his player act. She was the one who

understood the burden of Eddie's family...

8-9 30

Ender’s Game

Once again, Earth is under attack. An alien species is

poised for a final assault. The survival of humanity

depends on a military genius who can defeat the aliens.

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Fatty Legs

A True Story. The moving memoir of an Inuit girl who

emerges from a residential school with her spirit intact.

Eight-year-old Margaret Pokiak has set her sights on

learning to read, even though it means leaving her

village in the high Arctic.

4-8 34

Fish

War and drought have come to Tiger's country. Just

before Tiger's family leaves, Tiger finds a fish

struggling for life in a drying-up puddle - and rescues it.

5-8 33

Freak the Mighty

Learning-disabled Max and his new friend, Freak,

whose birth defect has affected his body but not his

brilliant mind, find that, working together, they make a

formidable pair.

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Garbage King, The

The story of 2 boys who led unbelievably different lives,

Dani in a grand house full of servants and Mamo with

no home at all. But now both boys are on the run. Fate

has brought them together and their only chance of

survival is to trust each other with their lives.

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Grave, The

Tom, a thirteen-year-old Liverpool orphan, finds

himself in Ireland during the devastating potato famine

after he falls into an open grave in 1974 and travels back

in time.

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Giver, The

Jonas is a brilliant boy who happens to live in a society

that is being controlled by the rules and tradition of The

Elders. Through his wisdom and mannerism, Jonas is

selected as the Receiver of Memory, a post that

distinguishes him from others and gives him authority.

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Great Gilly Hopkins, The

11 year old Gilly Hopkins is famous for being brash,

brilliant and completely unmanageable. None of her

foster homes has been able to tame her yet.

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Graveyard Book, The

“Bod” is a normal boy. He would be completely normal

if he didn’t live in a graveyard, being raised by ghosts,

with a guardian who belongs to neither the world of the

living nor the dead.

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Hatchet

Thirteen year old Brian is on his way to visit his father

when the single-engine plane in which he is flying

crashes. Suddenly, Brian finds himself alone in the

Canadian wilderness with nothing but a tattered

Windbreaker and the hatchet his mother gave him as a

present.

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Highwayman, The

The Highwayman is the second book in a unique series -

- Visions in Poetry -- featuring classic poems illustrated

by outstanding contemporary artists. Originally

published in 1907, "The Highwayman" is a haunting

ballad of doomed love.

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Holes

Stanley Yelnats, a boy who has bad luck due to a curse

placed on his great- great-grandfather, is sent to Camp

Green Lake, a juvenile detention camp, for a crime he

did not commit. Stanley and the other boys at the camp

are forced to dig large holes in the dirt every day.

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Hunger Games

In the ruins of a place once known as North America

lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded

by 12 outlying districts. The Capital is harsh and cruel

and keeps the districts in line by forcing them to send

one boy and one girl between the ages of 12 and 18 to

participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the

death on live TV.

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I Heard the Owl Call My Name,

AbEd

A young Anglican vicar named Mark Brian who has

not long to live, is sent to a First Nations parish in

British Columbia where he learns about the meaning of

life.

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Lady of Shallot, The

A lyrical ballad by the English poet Alfred Tennyson.

Based on the medieval Donna di Scalotta, it tells the

story of Elaine of Astolat, a young noblewoman

imprisoned in a tower on an island near Camelot.

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Lastling, The

14 year old Paris is thrilled when her rich, influential

uncle Franklin decides to take her on a trip to the

Himalayas to search for rare and endangered species.

She hopes this will be her chance to prove just how

mature and worthy of his company she is. But this will

be no pleasure trip as they travel into the war-ravaged

forest

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Maniac Magee

Jeffery Lionel Magee aka “Maniac Magee” is an orphan

whose parents died in a trolley accident when he was

three. Without a home, he moves in with his aunt and

uncle who dislike each other to the point of not

communicating. While living with them, Maniac runs

away during a school musical never to return.

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Misfits, The

Two seventh-graders who have always been misfits

decide to do something about it with the approach of the

student council elections. When they team up to form a

new political party, their platform bans name calling--

and the impact on the school and their own lives is a

surprise to all.

7-9 30

Monkey Island

11 year old Clay is on his own. His father lost his job

and left the family. Now his mother has disappeared

from their welfare hotel. Clay is homeless and on the

streets of New York City.

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Mud City

Parvana’s best friend has fled Afghanistan and is faced

with surviving on her own on the streets of Peshawar,

Pakistan. With her dog as her only friend, she must

scrounge for food, beg for money and look for a safe

place to sleep every night.

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My Side of the Mountain

Sam Gribley is terribly unhappy living in New York

City with his family, so he runs away to the Catskill

Mountains to live by himself. With only a penknife, a

ball of cord, forty dollars, and some flint and steel, he

intends to survive on his own.

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Om-Kas-Toe: Blackfeet, AbEd

Young Om-kas-toe longs for the day when he can take

his place as a brave. He doesn’t have to wait long for

adventure, however. While serving as lookouts he and

his twin sister discover a strange animal that has never

before been seen by the Blackfeet tribe.

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Parvana’s Journey

Part two of the Breadwinner Trilogy of books about life

in Afghanistan during the Taliban rule, Parvana is a 12

year old girl, who is travelling across the country to try

to find her family. She had started the journey with her

father, but this book begins at her father's funeral.

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Rascal

Skunks, woodchucks, a crow named Poe, an 18-foot,

half-finished canoe in the living room… welcome to the

North home! Rascal is only a baby when Sterling brings

him home to join the menagerie, but soon raccoon and

boy are best friends, doing everything together – until

the spring day when Sterling realizes things must

change.

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River Boy

Fifteen-year-old Jess, a dedicated swimmer, dotes on

her grandfather, a fiercely independent and

cantankerous artist. When he falls ill, he insists on

returning to the isolated valley where he lived as a child

to finish his last painting, a haunting landscape called

'River Boy'.

7-9 30

Rust

Young Roman Taylor struggles to keep his family’s

small farm afloat as the countryside heals from a

devastating world war. When a boy with a jet pack, Jet

Jones, suddenly crash lands into their barn, Roman

believes the secrets of Jet’s past may be the key to their

survival.

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Stone, AbEd

Edwin, a young man who must understand his family’s

past if he is to have any future. After learning about the

life of his ancestor Stone, a young Plains Cree man from

the 19th century, Edwin can then move forward.

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StarGirl

She’s as magical as the desert sky. As strange as her pet

rat. As mysterious as her own name. The students at

Mica High are enchanted. At first.

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Such Wicked Intent

Tragedy has forced 16 year old Victor Frankenstein to

swear off alchemy forever. He vows he will never

dabble in the dark sciences again - just as he vows he

will no longer covet Elizabeth, his brother’s betrothed.

If only these things were not so tempting.

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This Dark Endeavour

Growing up, their lives are filled with imaginary

adventures... until the day their adventures turn all too

real. They stumble upon The Dark Library, and secret

books of alchemy and ancient remedies are discovered.

Father forbids that they ever enter the room again, but

this only peaks Victor's curiosity more.

8-9 30

Touching Spirit Bear

After his anger erupts into violence, Cole, in order to

avoid going to prison, agrees to participate in a

sentencing alternative based on the native American

Circle Justice, and he is sent to a remote Alaskan Island

where an encounter with a huge Spirit Bear changes his

life.

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Tower’s Falling

For fifth grader Deja, it’s tough enough starting school

in a new neighborhood. Projects about her home and

family only highlight how different she is from her

classmates. But when Deja receives an assignment on

the two towers missing from the skyline out their

classroom windows, she sets off on a journey of

discovery.

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Tuck Everlasting

Doomed to – or blessed with – eternal life after

drinking from a magic spring, the Tuck family

wanders about trying to live as inconspicuously and

comfortably as they can.

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We All Fall Down

Will is less than excited about spending a full day at his

father's workplace, he'd rather sleep in and do nothing

with his friends. In this fast-paced and dramatic novel,

Will discovers a new side of his father during an event

that continues to affect the world, September 11, 2001.

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Whale Rider, The

Only males are allowed to ascend to chiefdom in a

Maori tribe in New Zealand. This ancient custom is

upset when the child selected to be the next chief dies at

birth. His twin sister, Pai, survives and, at age 12, she

enlists the help of her grandmother and uncle to claim

her birthright. But to break with convention, she'll have

to win over her ultra-traditional grandfather.

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Whispers in Hiding

To be a Jewish child in Nazi-occupied Europe meant

being earmarked for death. To stay alive would take

more than courage; it would take cunning, luck, and, at

times, the kindness of strangers. Against all odds,

courageous children escape the hands of the enemy in

these incredible true stores of survival.

7-11 30

Wonder

August Pullman was born with a facial difference that

prevented him from going to a mainstream school –

until now. He’s about to enter fifth grade at Beecher

Prep, and if you’ve ever been the new kid, then you

know how hard that can be.

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Yellow Line

Like the solid double lines that divide highways, these

invisible barriers mark the social and ethno-cultural

realities of the village in which 16-year-old Vince and

his family live. They have challenged an entire village, a

place where the most important unwritten rule of

conduct is “Date your own kind.”

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