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A little book of sloth
Hang around just like a sloth and get to know the delightful residents of the Avarios Sloth Sanctuary in Costa Rica, the world's largest sloth orphanage. You'll fall in love with bad-boy Mateo, ooh and ahh over baby Biscuit, and want to wrap your arms around champion cuddle buddy Ubu! Suggested by Dawn - Your Teen Services Coordinator |
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Juvenile in justice
Find out what it is like for kids behind bars. Suggested by Dawn - Your Teen Services Coordinator |
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October mourning : a song for Matthew Shepard
Relates, from various points of view, events from the night of October 6, 1998, when twenty-one-year-old Matthew Shepard, a gay college student, was lured out of a Wyoming bar, savagely beaten, tied to a fence, and left to die. Suggested by Dawn - Your Teen Services Coordinator |
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Silver : return to Treasure Island
Set 20 years after Treasure Island, Natty, the daughter of Long John Silver, teams up with Hawkins' son, Jim, on a dangerous voyage to the legendary island in search of their fathers' hidden treasure. Suggested by Dawn - Your Teen Services Coordinator |
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Black ice
In 1868, teenaged Sherlock Holmes faces danger in a train station for the dead, a museum of curiosities, and downtown Moscow as he helps his brother, Mycroft, who has been framed for murder. Suggested by Dawn - Your Teen Services Coordinator |
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Birthmarked
In a future world baked dry by the sun and divided into those who live inside the wall and those who live outside it, sixteen-year-old midwife Gaia Stone is forced into a difficult choice when her parents are arrested and taken into the city. Suggested by Laura @ Marysville Library |
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Anna and the French kiss
When Anna's romance-novelist father sends her to an elite American boarding school in Paris for her senior year of high school, she reluctantly goes, and meets an amazing boy who becomes her best friend, in spite of the fact that they both want something more. Suggested by Laura @ Marysville Library |
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Evolution, me, & other freaks of nature
Following her conscience leads high school freshman Mena to clash with her parents and former friends from their conservative Christian church, but might result in better things when she stands up for a teacher who refuses to include "Intelligent Design" in lessons on evolution. Suggested by Laura @ Marysville Library |
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Code name Verity
In 1943, a British fighter plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France and the survivor tells a tale of friendship, war, espionage, and great courage as she relates what she must to survive while keeping secret all that she can. Suggested by Laura @ Marysville Library |
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Divergent
In a future Chicago, sixteen-year-old Beatrice Prior must choose among five predetermined factions to define her identity for the rest of her life, a decision made more difficult when she discovers that she is an anomoly who does not fit into any one group, and that the society she lives in is not perfect after all. Suggested by Laura @ Marysville Library |