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Archie's Girls Betty and Veronica volume 22
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English
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Betty & Veronica star in their first comic book series! Take a trip back to the earliest days of Archie Comics as Betty Cooper and Veronica Lodge show the town of Riverdale who's really in charge! Prepare to experience the original Betty and Veronica with stories like "Spot Remover!", "Ignorance is Bliss" and more! DISCLAIMER: The stories, characters, and incidents in this publication are entirely fictional. This publication contains material that...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 3
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For August, running into a long-ago friend sets in motion resonant memories and transports her to a time and a place she thought she had mislaid: 1970s Brooklyn, where friendship was everything. August, Sylvia, Angela, and Gigi shared confidences as they ambled their neighborhood streets, a place where the girls believed that they were amazingly beautiful, brilliantly talented, with a future that belonged to them. But beneath the hopeful promise there...
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"The Girl Who Fell from the Sky can actually fly." -The New York Times Book Review
Rachel, the daughter of a Danish mother and a black G.I., becomes the sole survivor of a family tragedy after a fateful morning on their Chicago rooftop.
Forced to move to a new city, with her strict African American grandmother as her guardian, Rachel is thrust for the first time into a mostly black community, where her light brown skin, blue eyes, and...
6) Nemesis
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English
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Miss Jane Marple investigates the murder of a young girl.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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Seventeen-year-old Greg has managed to become part of every social group at his Pittsburgh high school without having any friends, but his life changes when his mother forces him to befriend Rachel, a girl he once knew in Hebrew school who has leukemia.
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When she awakened, there was a fly buzzing about her Jell-O and the ice-cream had melted. The storm was still on, but seemed farther away - so much so that she could hear the solemn ticking of the wall-clock. And something more: a squeaking sound, like the protests of a wheelchair too long neglected. It was coming from outside her room. It was coming up the hall.
She looked at the doorway.
Sure enough, an old woman in a wheelchair muscled her way...
9) Lucky girl
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In a true story of family ties, journalist Mei-Ling Hopgood, one of the first wave of Asian adoptees to arrive in America, comes face to face with her past when her Chinese birth family suddenly requests a reunion after more than two decades.
In 1974, a baby girl from Taiwan arrived in America, the newly adopted child of a loving couple in Michigan. Mei-Ling Hopgood had an all-American upbringing, never really identifying with her Asian roots or...
10) A fair maiden
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Sixteen-year-old Katya Spivak is out for a walk on the gracious streets of Bayhead Harbor with her two summer babysitting charges when she's approached by silver-haired, elegant Marcus Kidder. At first his interest in her seems harmless, even pleasant; like his name, a sort of gentle joke. His beautiful home, the children's books he's written, his classical music, the marvelous art in his study, his lavish presents to her - Mr. Kidder's life couldn't...
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Tank Girl was originally published in the legendary Deadline Magazine between the years of 1988 to 1995. Drawn and written, for the most part, by Jamie Hewlett and Alan Martin, it mixed punk aesthetic with Looney Tune style adventures. In this anniversary series we reappraise the initial run of comics, giving them a shiny new full-color treatment in a style consistent with their age and original production, and add context with artwork, strips, and...
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Ecco
Pub. Date
c2006
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English
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Fifteen years ago, in 1975, Genna Hewett-Meade's college roommate died a mysterious, violent, terrible death. Minette Swift had been a fiercely individualistic scholarship student, an assertive-even prickly-personality, and one of the few black girls at an exclusive women's liberal arts college near Philadelphia. By contrast, Genna was a quiet, self-effacing teenager from a privileged upper-class home, self-consciously struggling to make amends for...
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Justice League Unlimited volume 4
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English
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Eight action-packed adventures featuring the incredible women of the DC Universe! When a Justice League mission goes bad, can Supergirl and Mary Marvel step in to save the day? Meanwhile, Wonder Woman battles the Cheetah while Natasha Irons takes on a robot attack. Then, it's a true "Battle of the Sexes" when Wonder Woman's Amazon sisters suddenly turn against Man's World!
Collects Adventures in the DC Universe #3-6, #9; Justice League Adventures...
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Unbeatable Squirrel Girl volume 17
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English
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It's a normal, quiet day at Empire State University, filled with lots of lectures and higher education and students learning quietly. But don't turn away, there's also going to be a fist fight! A big one! And Doreen Green will also get a new Flying Squirrel suit from a mystery benefactor that would render her even more unbeatable, if such a thing were scientifically possible! That pretty much means crime is over forever. There definitely can't be...
15) Hannah's way
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
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In rural Minnesota in 1932, Hannah, a young orthodox Jewish girl, deals with being the new girl in class.
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"Girls can rule the world-- all they need is confidence. This empowering, entertaining guide from the bestselling authors of The Confidence Code gives girls the essential yet elusive code to becoming bold, brave, and fearless. It's a paradox familiar to parents everywhere: girls are achieving like never before, yet they're consumed with doubt on the inside. Girls worry constantly about how they look, what people think, whether to try out for a sports...
18) Dana's valley
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New Look for a Bestselling Author's Mother-Daughter Collaboration Erin Walsh thinks her family is as close to perfect as it can be. When one grim diagnosis is all it takes to shake her family to the core, she wonders if they can ever go back to they way they were. Erin's attempts to go about life as usual feel empty and as each member of her family seems to struggle alone, she is about ready to give up on God. However, Erin has yet to learn that God...
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Unbeatable Squirrel Girl volume 22
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English
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Squirrel Girl goes savage! When Doreen Green and Nancy Whitehead enter a mysterious programming competition, they don't suspect that the prize for winners will be an all-expenses-paid trip to...the Savage Land! Will Squirrel Girl fight a dinosaur? Will Squirrel Girl fight two dinosaurs?! Will we come up with really excellent reasons why these fi ghts would take place, reasons that both justify the fights while also telling the story of what lead to...
20) Fugly
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English
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Defined as nothing but fat in the real world, Beth Soames specializes in trolling beautiful girls online until two new friendships, one online and one offline, make her question her behavior.
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