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"Being seventeen during World War II is tough. Finding out you're the next keeper of the real Cinderella's dress is even tougher. Kate simply wants to create window displays at the department store where she's working, trying to help out with the war effort. But when long-lost relatives from Poland arrive with a steamer trunk they claim holds the Cinderella's dress, life gets complicated. Now, with a father missing in action, her new sweetheart shipped...
4) Crush
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It's a funny thing about time. The proverb, "Time heals all wounds ," is true to some extent. But Jayson still hurts. Maybe Ronette doesn't want time to heal this wound. It feels better fresh. Jayson thought she'd change her mind over break. But Ronette is firm. She's alone, finally. Except she's not. "Hey, Houseman girl." This brother has the warmest, friendliest face Ronette has ever seen. The rest, as they say, is history.
5) Frenemies
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Ronette Bradley hasn't exactly been an ideal student. Certainly she's no overachiever. But she's caught a lucky break. And she's determined not to screw up. Ronette receives a surprise call accepting her to Houseman University. She is psyched, especially because her fave poet in the world is a Houseman professor. Great, right? Oh-so-wrong. Her roommate, Chyna, turns out to be a--well, it's unprintable--but Chyna thinks she's all that because she's...
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"When a famed photojournalist shows up to document her family's 'Little Women Live!' attraction, Jo, who is rebelling against living in the shadow of her literary namesake, discovers that real life is much more complicated and messier than fiction"--Provided by publisher.
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"La vida de Emilia Agostini, la piloto más joven de Chile, se derrumba cuando su padre muere en un accidente de aviación. El sueño que compartían era hacer el viaje mítico de Amelia Earhart, la piloto estadounidense cuyo avión desapareció misteriosamente en 1936. Tras la muerte de su padre, Emilia pierde la fe en sí misma e intenta suicidarse. Es así como llega a la clínica de Las Flores, donde conoce a Gabriel, un genio matemático...
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"Stacy always knew that the intelligent, playful wolves who raised her weren't like other animals. Normal wolf packs don't spend their time rescuing animals and caring for an orphaned girl. But lately, Stacy's wolves have revealed to her just how special they are--supernaturally special. The wolves each have their own unique ability: they can breathe underwater, run at impossible speeds, heal wounds, and more. They're extraordinary--but how did they...
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Anne is finally off to Redmond College! While she's sad to be leaving Marilla and the twins, she's excited to finally become a full-fledged BA, and to embark on new adventures with the other Avonlea folks attending Redmond, a group that includes her friend Gilbert Blythe. At Redmond Anne meets Philippa Gordon, a frivolous but charming girl who pulls Anne into the center of the Redmond social scene. As Anne becomes the object of several boys' affection,...
10) Always human
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In the near-future, people use technology to give the illusion of all kinds of body modifications-but some people have "Egan's Syndrome," a highly sensitive immune system that rejects these "mods" and are unable to use them. Those who are affected maintain a "natural" appearance, reliant on cosmetics and hair dye at most to help them play with their looks. Sunati is attracted to Austen the first time she sees her and is drawn to what she assumes is...
11) Slip jig summer
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"In this high-interest novel for teen readers, ballet-obsessed Natalie has to spend the summer with her Irish-dancing cousins."--
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"Stacy was raised by wolves. She's never needed humans to survive and, from what she sees of humans, they're dangerous and unpredictable. For as long as she can remember, Stacy's pack of six powerful, playful wolves--Addison, Basil, Everest, Noah, Tuckerand Wink--have been her only family. Together, Stacy's pack patrols the forest to keep other animals safe, relying on her wits and each wolf's unique abilities to accomplish risky rescue missions....
13) Little women
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The classic story of the March family whose 4 daughters are growing up in New England in the mid-1800s. There are numerous sequels, for example, Little Men and Jo's Boys. Annotation. Little Women is the heartwarming story of the March family that has thrilled generations of readers. It is the story of four sisters--Jo, Meg, Amy and Beth-- and of the courage, humor and ingenuity they display to survive poverty and the absence of their father during...
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Of all Jane Austen's books, Pride and Prejudice has earned a special place in the hearts of the reading public as her best-loved and most intimately known novel. From its famous opening sentence the story of the Bennet family and of the novel's two protagonists, Elizabeth and Darcy, told with a wit that its author feared might prove 'rather too light and bright, and sparkling', delights its most familiar readers as thoroughly as it does those who...