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1) Airhead
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English
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Sixteen-year-old Emerson Watts, an advanced placement student with a disdain for fashion, is the recipient of a "whole body transplant" and finds herself transformed into one of the world's most famous teen supermodels.
4) Like
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English
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In a series of amusing comparisons, a boy shows how humans are much more like each other than we are like any other thing on Earth.
5) Fever Crumb
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English
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Foundling Fever Crumb has been raised as an engineer although females in the future London, England, are not believed capable of rational thought, but at age fourteen she leaves her sheltered world and begins to learn startling truths about her past while facing danger in the present.
6) Why am I me?
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English
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In a poetic, philosophical exchange, two children of different races ask themselves why they are who and what they are, and speculate on how they could be different.
8) Noggin
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Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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After dying at age sixteen, Travis Coates' head was removed and frozen for five years before being attached to another body, and now the old Travis and the new must find a way to coexist while figuring out changes in his relationships.
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Necromancer (Lish McBride) volume 1
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Sam LaCroix, a Seattle fast-food worker and college dropout, discovers that he is a necromancer, part of a world of harbingers, werewolves, satyrs, and one particular necromancer who sees Sam as a threat to his lucrative business of raising the dead.
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The Wormling volume 4
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English
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Having discovered that he is the King's Son, Owen contemplates his future with trepidation as he must fulfill his destiny to lead the battle with the Dragon, unite the worlds of the Highlands and the Lowlands, and marry a princess.
11) Patchwork
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Putnam, G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"An ode to the richly varied tapestry of experiences and identities that make every child unique"--
12) You are a story
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Holiday House
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
Description
"An empowering reflection on the many things we are and the ways we relate to the world"--
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English
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Publisher Annotation: Mr. Walker, the human-shaped figure who lives in the traffic signal box and tells pedestrians when it is safe to cross the street, decides to leave his post and experience all that he has been missing, in this sweet and satisfying tale about finding one's place in the world.
14) Moonflower
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English
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Moon is convinced that they do not belong to this world: that most of the time they are invisible (unless they stay still too long), that they belong to the stars, and want to go back to them--they live entirely in their imagination with an imaginary spirit guide who can appear in any shape and refuses to speak to anyone, lest their words tie them to a world they reject.
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Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Born in the Library, daughter of a Library god, Freida has spent her whole life exploring its ever-changing tunnels, and communing with its gods--but then she meets Joshua, a Tierran boy desperate to save his people, and Nergüi, disciple of a persecuted minority, and to help them she will risk everything.
16) Thunder Boy Jr
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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Thunder Boy Jr. is named after his dad, but he wants a name that's all his own. Just because people call his dad Big Thunder doesn't mean he wants to be Little Thunder. He wants a name that celebrates something cool he's done, like Touch the Clouds, Not Afraid of Ten Thousand Teeth, or Full of Wonder. But just when Thunder Boy Jr. thinks all hope is lost, he and his dad pick the perfect name... a name that is sure to light up the sky.
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Serafina (Robert Beatty) volume 2
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English
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In 1899, when an evil threatens all the humans and animals of the Blue Ridge Mountains, twelve-year-old Serafina, rat catcher for the Biltmore estate and the daughter of a shapeshifting mountain lion, must search deep inside herself and embrace the destiny that awaits her.
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English
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Living in isolation with a robot on what appears to be an alien world populated with bizarre life forms, a twelve-year-old human girl called Eva Nine sets out on a journey to find others like her. Features "augmented reality" pages, in which readers with a webcam can access additional information about Eva Nine's world.
19) Born to be good
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How to be a supervillain volume 2
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Victor Spoil hates the Junior Super Academy. It makes him cranky, and his parents couldn't be prouder, because supervillains aren't meant to be nice. Until Victor confesses he wants to leave and become a librarian. The horror! But when superheroes and villains, including his parents, start disappearing, only a dedicated do-gooder like Victor can track them down. He discovers that the supers are being captured to square off against aliens in gladiator-like...
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Tupelo Landing volume 2
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English
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"When Miss Lana accidentally buys a haunted inn at the Tupelo Landing town auction, Desperado Detectives--aka Mo LoBeau and her best friend Dale--opens up a paranormal division to solve the ghost's identity before the town's big 250th anniversary bash"--
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