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Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Journey to Change the World... One Child at a Time
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Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin, Sarah Thomson (Adapted by)
With the first cup of tea, you are a stranger. With the second ...a friend. With the third cup of tea, you are family. One day Greg Mortenson set out to climb K2 - the world's second highest mountain - in honour of his younger sister, but things went wrong and Greg became lost. He wandered into a poor village, where the chief and his people took ...
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The Last Song
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Nicholas Sparks
Seventeen-year-old Veronica Miller's life was turned upside-down when her parents divorced and her father moved from New York City to Wilmington, North Carolina. Three years later, she remains angry and alienated from her parents, until her mother sends her to spend the summer with him. The film adaptation of this novel will star Miley Cyrus.
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The Care & Keeping of You: The Body Book for Girls
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Valorie Lee Schaefer, Norm Bendell (Illustrator)
This guide to health and hygiene for preteen girls covers such subjects as acne, menstruation, bad breath, and developing healthy eating habits. Color illustrations accompany the text
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The Feelings Book: The Care & Keeping of Your Emotions
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Dr. Lynda Madison, Ph.D., Norm Bendell (Illustrator)
This companion to "The Care and Keeping of You" helps girls understand their emotions and deal with them. With tips on expressing feelings and staying in control, and letters from real girls written to "American Girl" magazine, this guide also gives advice on handling fear, anxiety, jealousy, and grief. A special section addresses fears related to ...
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The Birth of Venus
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Sarah Dunant
In 15th-century Florence, a young woman named Alessandra welcomes an arranged marriage to a cultured man over 30 years her senior because he promises her the freedom to pursue her painting. But the deal is not quite what she imagined. As Florence falls increasingly under the sway of Savanarola, Alessandra begins an affair with another young artist ...
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Housekeeping
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Marilynne Robinson
A modern classic, Housekeeping is the story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up haphazardly, first under the care of their competent grandmother, then of two comically bumbling great-aunts, and finally of Sylvie, the eccentric and remote sister of their dead mother. The family house is in the small town of Fingerbone on a glacial ...
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Amy and Isabelle
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Elizabeth Strout
Isabelle Goodrow works in a dead-end job in a self-imposed exile with her daughter Amy, trying to cope with the shame she feels about her affair with Amy's father. When Amy, frustrated by her seemingly unemotional mother, begins her own affair, the relationship between the two deteriorates.
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Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Fight Terrorism and Build Nations...One School at a Time
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Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin
The inspiring account of one manas campaign to build schools in the most dangerous, remote, and anti- American reaches of Asia In 1993 Greg Mortenson was the exhausted survivor of a failed attempt to ascend K2, an American climbing bum wandering emaciated and lost through Pakistanas Karakoram Himalaya. After he was taken in and nursed back to ...
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Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls
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Rachel Simmons
An exploration of aggressive behavior in girls. The author theorizes that because girls are traditionally not encouraged to express anger, those feelings are often repressed only to come out later as aggressive behavior--aggression which girls seem most often to take out on each other. ODD GIRL OUT offers advice to parents, teachers, and ...
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Keeping the Moon
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Sarah Dessen
Always an outcast, Colie expects the worst when she is sent to spend the summer with her eccentric aunt, Mira. Yet when she lands a job at the Last Chance Cafe, she meets two new friends who help Colie see herself in a new way.
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Tallgrass
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Sandra Dallas
During World War II, a family finds life turned upside-down when the government opens a Japanese internment camp in their small town. Part thriller, part historical novel, Dallas has written a riveting exploration of the darkest--as well as the best--parts of the human heart.
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Secret Life of Bees
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S Kidd
Lily Owens is growing up in South Carolina in the mid-1960s, raised by her cruel father but cared for by Rosaleen, her African-American nanny. When Rosaleen tries to vote and is beaten for her trouble, she and Lily head for the town of Tiburon, a place with ties to Lily's dead mother, where they live with a local beekeeper, and where Lily learns ...
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Lovely Bones
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Alice Sebold
The spirit of fourteen-year-old Susie Salmon describes her murder, her surprise at her new home in heaven, and her witness to her family's grief, efforts to find the killer, and attempts to come to terms with what has happened.
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A Smart Girl's Guide to Friendship Troubles: Dealing with Fights, Being Left Out & the Whole Popularity Thing
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Patti Kelley Criswell, Angela Martini (Illustrator)
From backstabbing to bullying to just being out, here's advice for girls about a whole host of friendship problems. Tips, quizzes, and real life stories about girls who've solved their friendship problems round out this timely advice book. Full color.
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A Mercy
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Toni Morrison
Nobel Prize-winning author Morrison's latest "New York Times"-bestselling masterpiece centers on a powerful tragedy involving a mother and daughter, and reveals how acts of mercy have unforeseen consequences.
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Finding Nouf
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Zoe Ferraris
A finely detailed literary mystery set in contemporary Saudi Arabia, Ferraris's debut centers on Nouf ash-Shrawi, a 16-year-old girl who disappears into the desert three days before her marriage and is later found dead and several weeks pregnant.
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The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy
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Jeanne Birdsall
In this middle-grade novel, a summer of exciting new experiences awaits the lively Penderwick sisters at a summer rental cottage on the large Berkshire estate of Mrs. Tifton, a snobby heiress. With a spacey but loving botanist father, 12-year-old Rosalind is often in charge. Her younger sister, Jane, age 11, is a writer with a dramatic flair. Skye ...
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Lies Young Women Believe: And the Truth That Sets Them Free
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Nancy Leigh DeMoss, Dannah Gresh
DeMoss teams up with established youth author Gresh to give girls aged 13-19 the tools they need to identify where their lives and beliefs are off course, while offering practical, faith-based approaches to overcome these hurdles.
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Just Listen
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Sarah Dessen
This multilayered tale tells the story of a year in the life of a family coming to terms with the imperfections beneath its perfect facade. Includes a teaser chapter of Dessen's new hardcover, "Lock and Key."
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A Crooked Kind of Perfect
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Linda Urban
Ten-year-old Zoe Elias has perfect piano dreams. She can practically feel the keys under her flying fingers; she can hear the audience's applause. All she needs is a baby grand so she can start her lessons, and then she'll be well on her way to Carnegie Hall.But when Dad ventures to the music store and ends up with a wheezy organ instead of a ...
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Bluest Eye
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Toni Morrison
In this novel about the nature of black identity, narrated by Pecola's friend Claudia, we learn that Pecola was raped by her father, and is plagued with a desire to be white.
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Zoe's Tale
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John Scalzi
A return to the bestselling "Old Man's War" universe, by science fiction's fastest-rising new star, told from the point of view of one of the most appealing characters in the series!
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Once Upon a Potty--Girl
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Alona Frankel
An introduction to toilet training written for young children and their parents. There are two versions of this book--one deals specifically with potty training for boys, the other with potty training for girls. Color illustrations accompany the text.
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Pretty in Plaid: A Life, a Witch, and a Wardrobe, Or, the Wonder Years Before the Condescending, Egomanical, Self-Centered Smart Ass Phase
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Jen Lancaster
In this prequel to "Bitter Is the New Black," Lancaster reveals how she has developed the hubris that perpetually gets her into trouble. Using fashion icons of her youth to tell her hilarious and insightful stories, readers meet the girl she used to be.
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P.S. I Loathe You
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Lisi Harrison
The Clique has managed to kick the Briarwood boys out of OCD for good. But now that their summer secrets have been revealed, the girls are faced with a whole new set of problems.
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