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After cell phones are banned at Branton Middle School, Frost, Deedee, Wolf, and Bench decide to start communicating with each other through sticky-notes, replacing text messages. It quickly catches on in the rest of the school, but for every nice note there is a mean, bullying one. Then, when new girl Rose sits down at Frost's lunch table, her presence threatens to unravel Frost's circle of friends, and the sticky-note war escalates.
4) No talking
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The noisy fifth grade boys of Laketon Elementary School challenge the equally loud fifth grade girls to a "no talking" contest.
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"It is 1805 and Mary Lambert has always felt safe among the deaf community of Chilmark on Martha's Vineyard where practically everyone communicates in a shared sign language, but recent events have shattered her life; her brother George has died, land disputes between English settlers and the Wampanoag people are becoming increasingly bitter, and a 'scientist' determined to discover the origins of the islands' widespread deafness has decided she makes...
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"In 1910 New York City, four years after her Irish immigrant father dies of tuberculosis, ten-year-old Essie's fear and anxiety continue to grow uncontrollably, so much that when her mother, a brave nurse, remarries and the family moves to North Brother Island, where Essie's new stepfather runs a quarantine hospital for the incurably sick, Essie imagines all manner of horrors, including the ghost of a little girl--which might not be imaginary after...
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In 1940, when Delphi Keep's taken over by the Royal Navy as a communications outpost, Ian, Theo, and Carl dread being evacuated to the earl's winter residence where they'll no longer be protected, but are even more concerned about deciphering the third prophecy and identifying the Secret Keeper.
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Young Outsider Hylas' search for his missing sister is derailed when he is captured and sold into slavery, placing him in great danger from his mortal enemies, the Crows. Planning his escape, Hylas befriends an orphaned lion cub along with the runaway and cunning Pirra. Together, the three must cast the Crows' sacred dagger into a volcano and destroy their power.
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After a volcano shrouds the sky with ash and causes a severe winter, Hylas, in search of his lost sister, takes a ship to Keftiu to find and free Pirra from captivity. However, Telamon knows something Hylas does not--that Pirra found the dagger of Koronos, and he wants it for himself. Hylas and Pirra, along with Havoc the lion cub and Echo, one of the Goddess's falcons, will have to do battle with the Crows once again.
15) War horse
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Albert and his horse, Joey, are like brothers even though they aren't the same species. When Joey is sold into the army during World War I, Albert enlists in the army in an attempt to be reunited with Joey. Both horse and boy experience the horrors of war until finally a miracle brings the two friends together again.
16) Ghost hunter
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To fulfill his destiny, Torak must defy demons and tokoroths, navigate through the Gorge of the Hidden People, and battle the evil Eagle Owl Mage.
17) Smart dog
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Fifth grader Amy finds her life growing complicated when she meets and tries to hide an intelligent, talking dog who has escaped from a university lab.
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On a gloomy morning in Vigàta, a call from Fazio rouses Inspector Montalbano from a nightmare. A man called Giugiù Nicotra has been found dead in the skeletal workings of a construction site--a place now entombed by a sea of mud from recent days of rain and floods. Shot in the back, he had fled into a water supply system tunnel. The investigation gets off to a slow start, but all the evidence points to the world of construction and public contracts,...
19) Half brother
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In 1973, when a renowned Canadian behavioral psychologist pursues his latest research project-- an experiment to determine whether chimpanzees can acquire advanced language skills-- he brings home a baby chimp named Zan and asks his thirteen-year-old son to treat Zan like a little brother.
20) The last wild
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Feeling barely alive in a world where all animals are endangered, Kester Jaynes, a voiceless inmate in a home for troubled children, discovers that he can communicate with bird and cockroach rescuers that he endeavors to save from extinction.