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- I am number four / by Lore, Pittacus.;
In rural Ohio, friendships and a beautiful girl prove distracting to a fifteen-year-old who has hidden on Earth for ten years waiting to develop the Legacies, or powers, he will need to rejoin the other six surviving Garde members and fight the Mogadorians who destroyed their planet, Lorien.LSC- Subjects: Science fiction.; Extraterrestrial beings; Human-alien encounters; High schools; Friendship; Dating (Social customs); Moving, Household; Imaginary wars and battles;
- © 2011., HarperCollins,
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- Wenjack / by Boyden, Joseph,1966-author.; Richardson, C. S.,designer.; Monkman, Kent,illustrator.;
"An Ojibwe boy runs away from a North Ontario Indian School. He realizes too late just how far away home is. Along the way he's followed by Manitous, spirits of the forest who comment on his plight, cajoling, taunting, and ultimately offering him a type of comfort on his difficult journey back to the place he was so brutally removed from." Written by Scotiabank Giller Prize-winning author Joseph Boyden and beautifully illustrated by acclaimed artist Ken Monkman, Wenjack is a powerful and poignant look into the world of a residential school runaway trying to find his way home.--- Subjects: Biographical fiction.; Indians of North America; Native peoples;
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- Ivy + Bean and the ghost that had to go / by Barrows, Annie.; Blackall, Sophie.;
Second-graders Ivy and Bean set out to expel the ghost who is living in the girls bathroom at their school.LSC- Subjects: Ghost stories.; Ivy (Fictitious character : Barrows); Bean (Fictitious character : Barrows); Best friends; Friendship; Schools; Restrooms;
- © 2007, c2006., Chronicle Books,
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- When we were alone / by Robertson, David,1977-; Flett, Julie.;
When a young girl helps tend to her grandmother's garden, she begins to notice things that make her curious. Why does her grandmother have long, braided hair and beautifully colored clothing? Why does she speak another language and spend so much time with her family? As she asks her grandmother about these things, she is told about life in a residential school a long time ago, where all of these things were taken away. When We Were Alone is a story about a difficult time in history, and, ultimately, one of empowerment and strength.LSC- Subjects: Grandmothers; Native peoples; Indigenous peoples; Residential schools;
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- Extra weird! / by Do, Anh.; Faber, Jules,1971-;
LSC- Subjects: Humorous fiction.; Soccer stories.; Do, Weir (Fictitious character); Fathers and sons; Soccer teams; Schools;
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- A royal conundrum / by Yee, Lisa.; Santat, Dan.;
An elite group of underdogs trained to fight crime must save their unique school from shutting down.- Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; School fiction.; Action and adventure fiction.; Boarding schools; Schools; Friendship; Child detectives; Theft; Criminal investigation; Belonging (Social psychology) in children;
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- Rick / by Gino, Alex.;
Eleven-year-old Rick Ramsey has generally gone along with everybody, just not making waves, even though he is increasingly uncomfortable with his father's jokes about girls, and his best friend's explicit talk about sex; but now in middle school he discovers the Rainbow Spectrum club, where kids of many genders and identities can express themselves--and maybe among them he can find new friends and discover his own identity, which may just be to opt out of sex altogether.Ages 9-11.Grades 4-6.LSC- Subjects: Identity (Psychology); Sexual minorities; Asexual people; Middle schools; Friendship; Clubs;
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- Distress signal / by Lambert, Mary E.,1984-;
Lavender and the rest of the sixth-graders are on a camping trip to the Chiricahua wilderness, but the trip seems cursed from the start, and when a flash flood splits the group up Lavender finds herself lost, together with her former best friend Marisol, mean-girl Rachelle, and a boy John who has been behaving like a surly jerk since the start--they have only one pack of supplies and only the most basic wilderness knowledge, but if they are to survive they need to put their differences aside and work as a team or all that will be left of them are their sun-bleached bones.LSC- Subjects: School field trips; Camping; Desert survival; Wilderness survival; Floods; Friendship;
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- Black Panther : the young prince / by Smith, Ronald L.(Ronald Lenard),1959-;
LSC- Subjects: Black Panther (Fictitious character); Superheroes; Princes; Middle schools; Secrecy;
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- Fly / by Hughes, Alison,1966-;
Felix Landon Yarrow (Fly) is a 14-year-old boy with cerebral palsy who has a rich inner life and a witty, sometimes sarcastic, inner voice. Obsessed with the noble, chivalrous ideals of knighthood, he sets out into the wilderness (high school) on his steed (a mechanized wheelchair) to protect and save his lady love, Daria, from the nefarious villain (Carter, a pill-dealing cool kid). With the help of a trusty, loyal sidekick (his aide, Levi) and a computer, Fly constructs an elaborate trap, setting in motion events he thinks he can control -- but as they say, even the best laid plans can go awry.LSC- Subjects: Novels in verse.; Cerebral palsy; Middle school students; Knights and knighthood; Interpersonal relations;
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