Book Summary      Julie Braverman is the coolest person Julie Prodsky has ever met. She has no curfew, a to-die-for wardrobe, and her mother is the model in the ‘It’s Better in the Bahamas’ ad. During their freshman year at the High School of Performing Arts in New York City, the previously unexplored world

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Book Summary      When Katarina Bishop was three, her parents took her to the Louvre… to case it. For her seventh birthday, Katarina and her Uncle Eddie traveled to Austria… to steal the crown jewels. When Kat turned fifteen, she planned a con of her own- scamming her way into the best boarding school

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Book Summary      During the summer of 1793, Mattie Cook lives above the family coffee shop with her widowed mother and grandfather. Mattie spends her days avoiding chores and making plans to turn the family business into the finest Philadelphia has ever seen. But then the fever breaks out.      Disease sweeps the

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Book Summary      In the little village of Castle Down, in a kingdom plagued by war, lives a peasant girl called Bella. Blessed with a kind family, and a loving friend, she manages to create her own small patch of sunlight in a dark and dangerous world. Bella is a blacksmith’s daughter; her friend

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Publisher: Little, Brown and Company Pages: 328 Release Date: August 2008 Synopsis      Charlotte Usher feels practically invisible at school, and then one day she really is. Even worse: she’s dead. And all because of a guy and a gummy bear.      In this satirical yet heartfelt novel, Tonya Hurley explores the invisibility

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Book Summary (goodreads): When Wayland North brings rain to a region that’s been dry for over ten years, he’s promised anything he’d like as a reward. He chooses the village elder’s daughter, sixteen-year-old Sydelle Mirabel, who is a skilled weaver and has an unusual knack for repairing his magical cloaks. Though Sydelle has dreamt of

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