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• Unraveller

  Hardinge, Frances,

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  This is a dark fantasy similar to A Series of Unfortunate Events and Coraline. In a world where anyone can create a life-destroying curse, only one person has the power to unravel them.

• A Wish in the Dark

  Soontornvat, Christina,

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• A Snake Falls to Earth

  Little Badger, Darcie, 1987-

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• The Hobbit, Or, There and Back Again

  Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973

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  Bilbo Baggins, a Hobbit who only wanted to be left alone, is drawn by a wizard and a band of homeless dwarves into a quest where he confronts evil orcs, savage wolves, and the great dragon, Smaug the Magnificent.

• The Storm Runner

  Cervantes, Jennifer,

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  To prevent the Mayan gods from battling each other and destroying the world, thirteen-year-old Zane must unravel an ancient prophecy, stop an evil god, and discover how the physical disability that makes him reliant on a cane also connects…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Little Women

  Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888

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  Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young ladies in nineteenth-century New England.

• A Thousand Steps Into Night

  Chee, Traci,

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• Frankenstein

  Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851

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  Victor Frankenstein discovers the secret of creating life and fashions an eight-foot monster, only to bring danger and destruction to the lives of those he loves.

• The Beatryce Prophecy

  DiCamillo, Kate,

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• A Hat Full of Sky

  Pratchett, Terry

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• The Book Thief

  Zusak, Markus,

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  Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Princess Bride

  S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure

  Goldman, William, 1931-

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  Presents the timeless love story between a farm boy named Westley and the beautiful Princess Buttercup.

• Between Shades of Gray

  Sepetys, Ruta

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  In 1941, fifteen-year-old Lina, her mother, and brother are pulled from their Lithuanian home by Soviet guards and sent to Siberia, where her father is sentenced to death in a prison camp while she fights for her life, vowing to honor her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Outsiders

  Hinton, S. E

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  The struggle of three brothers to stay together after their parent's death and their quest for identity among the conflicting values of their adolescent society.

• Inkheart

  Funke, Cornelia, 1958-

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• Oliver Twist

  Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870

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  Tells the story of a poor orphan's adventures in the criminal underworld of mid-nineteenth-century London.

• Cinder

  Meyer, Marissa

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• The Westing Game

  Raskin, Ellen

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  The mysterious death of an eccentric millionaire brings together an unlikely assortment of heirs who must uncover the circumstances of his death before they can claim their inheritance.

• The Girl From Everywhere

  Heilig, Heidi,

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  Nix has grown up on her father’s pirate ship, hopping across time using maps from other eras.

• Pride

  Zoboi, Ibi Aanu,

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  What if Pride and Prejudice had been about gentrification and the Bennett family was instead the Benitez family, an Afro-Latinx family in Bushwick? This book explores Pride and Prejudice with cultural references and settings that make the…Read moreRead more of this annotation