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2) Kaleidoscope
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An astounding new feat of storytelling from Brian Selznick, the award-winning creator of The Invention of Hugo Cabret and Wonderstruck. A ship. A garden. A library. A key. In Kaleidoscope, the incomparable Brian Selznick presents the story of two people bound to each other through time and space, memory and dreams. At the center of their relationship is a mystery about the nature of grief and love which will look different to each reader. Kaleidoscope...
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With insight and a light touch, best-selling, Newbery Honor-winning author Gary D. Schmidt tells two poignant, linked stories: that of a grieving girl and a boy trying to escape his violent past. Following the death of her closest friend in summer 1968, Meryl Lee Kowalski goes off to St. Elene's Preparatory Academy for Girls, where she struggles to navigate the venerable boarding school's traditions and a social structure heavily weighted toward students...
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Told in their alternating voices, twelve-year-old neighbors and former best friends Cora Hamed and Quinn McCauley begin working together to open a wormhole so they can travel through time to prevent the school shooting that resulted in the deaths of Cora's sister and Quinn's brother.
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Sixteen-year old Jessie, still grieving over her mother's death, must move from Chicago to "The Valley, " with a new stepfamily but no new friends until an anonymous fellow student emails and offers to help her navigate the school's treacherous social waters.
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Secrets are revealed as OCD-afflicted Griffin grieves for his first love, Theo, who died in a drowning accident.
Even though Theo had moved to California for college and started seeing Jackson, Griffin never doubted Theo would come back to him when the time was right. But when Theo dies in a drowning accident, the future he's been imagining for himself is gone. To make things worse, the only person who truly understands his heartache is Jackson....
9) Slob
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Picked on, overweight genius Owen tries to invent a television that can see the past to find out what happened the day his parents were killed.
10) Dear Mothman
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After the death of his best friend and the only other trans boy at school, Noah starts writing letters expressing his feelings to the humanoid creature Mothman and risks everything when he treks into the woods to prove Mothman's existence.
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#6. Be brave, Waive B! You got as much right to a good life as anybody, so find it! Right before Wavie's mom died, she gave Wavie a list of instructions to help her move on. But little did her mom know that a whild turn of events would bring Wavie to Conley Hollow, the Appalachian home her mom had hoped to forever leave behind. Now Wavie's back in the Holler - and in the clutches of a dastardly aunt. Living with rotten relatives stinks, but Wavie...
14) Let's get lost
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During her cross-country adventures following the tragic death of her family, Leila touches the lives of four strangers -- Hudson, Bree, Elliot, and Sonia. While forever changing the lives of these four, Leila also discovers an important truth about herself.
15) A comb of wishes
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Since her mother's death, 12 year old Kela feels as broken as the shards of glass known as "mermaid's tears" that sparkle on the beaches of her Caribbean island home of St. Rita. When Kela and her friend Lissy find an ancient-looking comb, Kela knows that she should leave it alone, but she brings it home with her. In the deep ocean, the mermaid Ophidia can feel that her comb has been taken and must grant a wish in exchange for the comb. Kela wants...
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"Since her twin brother, Eddie, drowned five years ago, sixteen-year-old Elsie Main has tried to remember what really happened that fateful day on the beach. When cute, mysterious Tay introduces Elsie to the world of freediving, she vows to find the answers she seeks at the bottom of the sea." --
19) I was here
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In an attempt to understand why her best friend committed suicide, eighteen-year-old Cody Reynolds retraces her dead friend's footsteps and makes some startling discoveries.
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Twelve-year-old Kingston James is sure his brother Khalid has turned into a dragonfly. When Khalid unexpectedly passed away, he shed what was his first skin for another to live down by the bayou in their small Louisiana town. Khalid still visits in dreams, and King must keep these secrets to himself as he watches grief transform his family. It would be easier if King could talk with his best friend, Sandy Sanders. But just days before he died, Khalid...