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The last town on earth

Thomas Mullen

The Last Town on Earth centers on the inhabitants of a small logging town in Washington and what happens when they take drastic measures (quarantine) to try and protect themselves from the virulent an

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Mort

Terry Pratchett

In this Discworld installment, Death comes to Mort with an offer he can't refuse - especially since being, well, dead isn't compulsory.

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Through the lock

Carol Otis Hurst

Etta, a twelve-year-old orphan in nineteenth-century Connecticut, meets a boy living in an abandoned cabin on the New Haven and Northampton Canal and has adventures with him while trying to be reunite

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The land

Mildred D Taylor

After the Civil War Paul, the son of a white father and a black mother, finds himself caught between the two worlds of colored folks and white folks as he pursues his dream of owning land of his own

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The pen is mightier than the sword

Anne Mazer

Abby Hayes is chosen to write an advice column for her fifth-grade newspaper, but her own life is out of control

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Defining Dulcie

Paul Acampora

When sixteen-year-old Dulcie's father dies, her mother makes a decision to move them to California, where Dulcie makes an equally radical decision to steal her dad's old truck and head back home

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The ghost's grave

Peg Kehret

Apprehensive about spending the summer in Washington State with his Aunt Ethel when his parents get an overseas job, twelve-year-old Josh soon finds adventure when he meets the ghost of a coal miner

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Heroes don't run

Harry Mazer

To honor his father who died during the Japanese invasion of Pearl Harbor, seventeen-year-old Adam eagerly enlists in the Marines in 1944, survives boot camp, and faces combat on the tiny island of Ok

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Now you see it--

Vivian Vande Velde

With Wendy's new glasses, she begins to see cheerful corpses, old crones disguised as teeny-boppers, and portals to another world--a place where everyone knows of the glasses' powers and will do anyth

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Artemis Fowl

Eoin Colfer

Once again, Artemis will have to pair up with his old comrade, captain Holly Short, to track down the missing demon and rescue him before the time spell dissolves and the lost demon colony returns vio

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