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1) The giver
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Series
Giver quartet volume 1
Language
English
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2023 Most Circulated Teen Fiction
Books for Young Readers to Inspire Conversations
Tear Jerkers
Time's 100 Best YA Titles of All Time
Books for Young Readers to Inspire Conversations
Tear Jerkers
Time's 100 Best YA Titles of All Time
Description
Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives.
2) Takedown
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English
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"Jeff wants to be a good wrestler, but will his bad temper get in the way?"--Unedited summary from book.
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Series
Way of the warrior kid volume 2
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Marc's life has changed since last summer and has had a great year, and it's all due to what his Uncle Jake, the Navy SEAL, taught him. It was all going well until the last day of school when Nathan James kept calling him Plate Face, and Marc's temper explodes. Now he has to spend all summer with Nathan at camp, but the only way to get there is by walking. Uncle Jake is back again, to help him learn how to be strong on the inside. Marc hopes it's...
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Burmese pythons are native to Southeast Asia, so when one showed up dead along the side of a Florida highway in 1979, scientists wondered where it came from. No one knew the snakes had launched a full-scale invasion. Pet pythons that escaped or were released by their owners started breeding in the wild, and these enormous predators began eating every animal in their path. Today a group of scientists at the Conservancy of Southwest Florida is tracking...
10) Good different
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Seventh-grader Selah Godfrey knows that to be "normal" she has to keep her feelings tightly controlled when people are around, but after hitting a fellow student, she needs to figure out just what makes her different--and why that is ok. Told in verse.
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Readers learn about the #NeverAgain movement, from the history of the right to bear arms to later efforts at gun control, legislation such as the Brady handgun Violence Protection Act and the implementation of background checks, to the school shootings at Columbine, Sandy Hook and Parkland and the creation of #neveragain.
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