Dead Is So Last Year

By Marlene Perez

Something very strange starts happening in Nightshade the summer that the eldest Giordano sister, Rose, gets a job working at Dr. Franken's research laboratory. People are starting to see double. Doppelgängers of Nightshade residents are popping up all over town. Daisy, Rose and Poppy think it's a coincidence, until the rumors start that their father, who disappeared several years ago, has been spotted in town. Can the girls have a summer job, spend days at the beach, and still solve all the mysteries?

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War Is. . .Soldiers, Survivors, and Storytellers Talk About War

Edited by Marc Aronson

Twenty different stories, both fiction and nonfiction, told through essays, a "miliblog", interviews, and more.

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Distant Waves

A Novel of the Titanic

By Suzanne Weyn

Four sisters and their mother make their way from a spiritualist town in New York to London, becoming acquainted with journalist W. T. Stead, scientist Nikola Tesla, and industrialist John Jacob Astor. When they all find themselves on the Titanic, one of Tesla's inventions dooms them...and one could save them. This book has it all--romance, science, spiritualism, and history.
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Santa Claus in Baghdad

And Other Stories About Teens in the Arab World

By Elsa Marston
Eight short stories that tell what it is like to be a teen living in the Arab world today. Find out what different issues they struggle with, and see also how similar their lives can be to yours.
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No Cream Puffs

By Karen Day

Madison is not your average 12-year-old girl from Michigan in 1980. She doesn’t use lipgloss, but she loves to play sports, and joins baseball for the summer—the first girl in Southern Michigan to play on a boys’ team. The press call her a star and a trailblazer, but Madison just wants to play ball. Who knew it would be so much pressure?

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