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• All the Answers

  Messner, Kate,

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  Twelve-year-old Ava finds an old pencil in her family's junk drawer and discovers, during a math test, that it will answer factual questions, so she and her best friend Sophie have a great time--and Ava grows in self-confidence--until the pencil…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• An Earl, the Girl, and a Toddler

  Riley, Vanessa,

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  Surviving a shipwreck en route to London from Jamaica was just the start of Jemina St. Maur's nightmare. Suffering from amnesia, she was separated from anyone who might know her, and imprisoned in Bedlam. She was freed only because barrister Daniel…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Back After This

  Holmes, Linda (Radio talk show host),

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  Cecily Foster loves to make podcasts. She fiercely protects her colleagues, dearly adores her friends, and never misses dinner with her sister. But after a disastrous relationship with a colleague who stole her heart and her ideas, she's put…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Carbide Tipped Pens

  Seventeen Tales of Hard Science Fiction

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  Presents a collection of hard science fiction tales that examines both the benefits and detriments of science and technology on humanity, the future, and the cosmos, and includes tales from Gregory Benford, Robert Reed, Aliette de Bodard, and Jack…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Castle School (for Troubled Girls)

  Sheinmel, Alyssa B.,

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  Paralyzed by grief, Moira feels punished when her parents send her to a therapeutic boarding school in Maine where she meets eleven other troubled girls and gradually begins to understand her parents' true intentions behind sending her there.

• A Cryptic Clue

  Gilbert, Victoria,

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  Sixty-year-old Jane Hunter, forced into early retirement from her job as a university librarian, is seeking a new challenge to keep her spirits up and supplement her meager pension. But as she's about to discover, a retiree's life can bring new…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dear Mr. Henshaw

  Cleary, Beverly

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  In his letters to his favorite author, ten-year-old Leigh reveals his problems in coping with his parents' divorce, being the new boy in school, and generally finding his own place in the world.

• Educated

  a Memoir

  Westover, Tara,

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  Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag." In the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• End of Story

  Finn, A. J.,

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  Invited by a reclusive mystery novelist to help draft his life story, a longtime correspondent and detective fiction expert finds herself in a real whodunnit when she learns the writer's first wife and son mysteriously vanished.

• Frindle

  Clements, Andrew, 1949-2019

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  When he decides to turn his fifth grade teacher's love of the dictionary around on her, clever Nick Allen invents a new word and begins a chain of events that quickly moves beyond his control.

• The Gift of Failure

  How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed

  Lahey, Jessica,

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  Counsels parents of school-aged children on how to overcome tendencies toward overprotectiveness to allow children to develop independence.

• Girl in Translation

  Kwok, Jean

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  When Kimberly Chang and her mother emigrate from Hong Kong to Brooklyn squalor, she quickly begins a secret double life: exceptional schoolgirl during the day, Chinatown sweatshop worker in the evenings. Disguising the more difficult truths of her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Grimoire Grammar School Parent Teacher Association

  Rozakis, Caitlin,

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  When Vivian's kindergartner, Aria, gets bitten by a werewolf, she is rapidly inducted into the hidden community of magical schools. Reeling from their sudden move, Vivian finds herself having to pick the right sacrificial dagger for Aria, keep…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ink & Sigil

  Hearne, Kevin,

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  Al MacBharrais is both blessed and cursed. He is blessed with an extraordinary white moustache, an appreciation for craft cocktails-and a most unique magical talent. He can cast spells with magically enchanted ink and he uses his gifts to protect…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ink Blood Sister Scribe

  Törzs, Emma, 1987-

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  Two estranged half-sisters tasked with guarding their family's library of magical books must work together to unravel a deadly secret at the heart of their collection--a tale of familial loyalty and betrayal, and the pursuit of magic and power

• The Ivies

  Donne, Alexa,

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  The Ivies, five prep school elites who would kill to get into the colleges of their dreams, has a showdown after Liv gets into Harvard and queen bee Avery does not.

• Jack Kirby

  the Epic Life of the King of Comics

  Scioli, Tom,

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  An action-packed illustrated life in comic books. Creating and co-creating some of the most enduring superheroes and supervillains of all time--including Captain America, the Fantastic Four, the X-Men, the Avengers, Iron Man, Black Panther, Thor,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Killer Question

  Hallett, Janice,

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  Sue and Mal Eastwood run an isolated rural pub called The Case is Altered where a weekly trivia game has revived its flagging fortunes--that is, until a body is found in the nearby river. Soon after, a mysterious new team arrives and shakes up the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Last Detective

  Lovesey, Peter,

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  Detective Superintendant Peter Diamond pursues the killer of a young woman whose nude body was found floating in a lake south of Bristol.

• Lessons in Chemistry

  Garmus, Bonnie,

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  Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it's the 1960s and despite the fact that she is a scientist, her peers are very unscientific when…Read moreRead more of this annotation