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2016-2017 HISD Name that Book Contest List
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Blackbird fly
by Erin Entrada Kelly
Bullied at school, eighth-grader Apple, a Filipino American who loves the music of the Beatles, decides to change her life by learning how to play the guitar. Simultaneous eBook.
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The lightning queen
by Laura Resau
Enduring a barren existence in the 1950s Mexican mountains after losing his mother and sister, 11-year-old shepherd Teo meets a mysterious young girl in a traveling fortune-teller's caravan and forges a friendship that overcomes cultural and mystical obstacles. By the author of the Notebook series. Simultaneous eBook.
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Witherwood Reform School
by Obert Skye
Abandoned at a creepy reform school after a misunderstanding with a cruel governess, siblings Tobias and Charlotte confront the school's menacing elements only to discover that they face danger from the headmaster's mind-control practices. By the creator of the Creature From My Closet series. Simultaneous eBook.
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The thing about jellyfish
by Ali Benjamin
A teen determinedly investigates the drowning death of her best friend to prove that the tragedy occurred because of a rare jellyfish sting. A first solo novel by the co-author of The Keeper. Simultaneous eBook. 35,000 first printing.
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Connect the Stars
by Marisa De los Santos
When 13-year-olds T.E. and Audrey meet at a wilderness camp in the desert, they think their quirks are enough to prevent them from ever having friends, but as they trek through the challenging and unforgiving landscape, they learn that they each have what it takes to make the other whole. Simultaneous eBook. 50,000 first printing.
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House arrest
by K. A Holt
Required to keep a journal as well as report to a probation officer and therapist, a young man who is on probation for one year has difficulty staying out of trouble when he is compelled to take drastic measures to help his struggling family and sick brother.
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Loot : how to steal a fortune
by Jude Watson
When his notorious cat burglar father urges him to "find jewels" before dying from a terrible fall, young March discovers that he must actually track down Jules, the twin sister he never knew he had. By the National Book Award-winning author of What I Saw and How I Lied. Simultaneous eBook.
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Nightingale's nest
by Nikki Loftin
Discovering a young girl perched in the branches of a tall sycamore while doing yard work for a wealthy store owner, 12-year-old John befriends the girl, a foster child in the home of a spiteful family, and confronts his employer's impossible choice, either of which would put the girl's or John's family's future in jeopardy. By the author of The Sinister Sweetness of Splendid Academy.
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The boy who harnessed the wind : creating currents of electricity and hope
by William Kamkwamba
One of the co-authors tells his engaging and inspiring true story of hope, tenacity and imagination, in which as an African teenager he built a windmill from scraps, creating electricity for his village—and a better life for himself and his family. Reprint. 100,000 first printing.
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Summer of the monkeys
by Wilson Rawls
Fourteen-year-old Jay tries to recover a group of wily monkeys escaped from a circus train in the hopes the reward will buy him the gun and pony he has so long wanted
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Drowned city : Hurricane Katrina & New Orleans
by Don Brown
A 10th-anniversary tribute and companion to The Great American Dust Bowl combines authoritative memoir with evocative graphic and watercolor illustrations in an account published to benefit Habitat for Humanity New Orleans. Simultaneous eBook. 20,000 first printing.
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Audacity
by Melanie Crowder
A historical fiction novel in verse detailing the life of Clara Lemlich and her struggle for women's labor rights in the early twentieth century in New York
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The Battle of Darcy Lane
by Tara Altebrando
Twelve-year-old Julia's summer with her friend Taylor is disrupted when new girl Alyssa moves to Darcy Lane and ruins Julia's friendship with Taylor, her crush Peter, and her fun summer plans
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How Lunchbox Jones saved me from Robots, Traitors, and Missy the Cruel
by Jennifer Brown
"Luke Abbott's school is the losing-est school in the history of losing. And that's just fine for him. He'd rather be at home playing video games and avoiding his older brother Rob and the Greatest Betrayal of All Time. But now he's being forced to join the robotics team, where surely he'll help uphold the school's losing streak"
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Undertow
by Michael Buckley
A 16-year-old girl is caught in an epic clash of civilizations when a society of undersea warriors marches out of the ocean into modern-day Coney Island. Simultaneous eBook. 100,000 first printing.
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Ink and Bone : The Great Library
by Rachel Caine
Working in an alternate universe where the Great Library of Alexandria survived destruction, Jess is torn between his employers and his family's black-market book ring before an illegal innovation leads to a terrible discovery. Simultaneous eBook. 75,000 first printing.
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Moving Target
by Christina Diaz Gonzalez
Twelve-year-old Cassie Arroyo is a student in Rome, but her life changes when a secret organization, the Hastati, shoots her father--and she learns that she is a member of an ancient bloodline that enables her to use the Spear of Destiny, a legendary object that can alter the future
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Lost in the Sun
by Lisa Graff
As Trent Zimmerman struggles to move past a traumatic event that took place several months earlier, he befriends class outcast Fallon Little, who helps him understand that he can move on. Simultaneous eBook.
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Pennyroyal Academy
by M. A. Larson
Arriving in a war-stricken kingdom with no memory of how she got there, a girl enlists at a princess- and knight-training academy where she learns to fight witches and dragons under the steely glare of a Fairy Drillsergeant. A first novel. Simultaneous eBook.
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When
by Victoria Laurie
Sixteen-year-old Maddie Flynn cannot help but see the death date of everyone she meets or sees in a photograph or on-screen, and her alcoholic mother exploits this by having her do readings for money, but when Maddie predicts the death of a young boy, she becomes the center of an FBI investigation.
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Sweet
by Emmy Laybourne
The celebrity promotion of a trendy diet sweetener is overshadowed by the product's dangerous side effects and a famous actor's preference for a girl who is not the reality star selected to revitalize his career. By the author of the Monument 14 trilogy. Simultaneous eBook.
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Ink and Ashes
by Valynne E. Maetani
"When Japanese American Claire Takata finds out that her deceased father was once a member of the yakuza, a Japanese crime syndicate, danger enters her life that could end up killing someone"
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A Night Divided
by Jennifer A Nielsen
When her family is abruptly divided by the rise of the Berlin Wall, 12-year-old Gerta harbors forbidden thoughts about freedom and reuniting with her loved ones before a coded message from her father inspires a daring plan. By the best-selling author of the Ascendance Trilogy. Simultaneous eBook.
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We are all Made of Molecules
by Susin Nielsen-Fernlund
Trying to make the best of things when their parents move in together, a socially clueless genius and a less-than-bright but popular girl tackle a mean-spirited bully with their combination of hapless nerd power and malaprops. Simultaneous eBook.
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I am Princess X
by Cherie Priest
Years after writing stories about a superheroine character she created with a best friend who died in a tragic car accident, 16-year-old Libby is shocked to see stickers, patches and graffiti images of the superheroine appearing all over town. Simultaneous eBook.
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The Boy in the Black Suit
by Jason Reynolds
Working in the local funeral home to support his family after his mother's death and his father's descent into alcoholism, Matt falls in love with a tough girl who never cries and who understands his loneliness. By the author of When I Was the Greatest.
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Con Academy
by Joe Schreiber
Con man Will Shea may have met his match in scammer Andrea Dufresne as they make a high-stakes deal that will determine who gets to stay at Connaughton Academy, one of the most elite and privileged preparatory schools in the country, and who must leave. Simultaneous eBook.
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I Become Shadow
by Joe Shine
Abducted by a mysterious organization that trains her to become a future leader's guardian, Ren endures her new life along with a fellow abductee whom she comes to love before they are separated by Ren's assignment to protect a socially awkward college student. A first novel. Simultaneous eBook.
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Rebel Mechanics : All is fair in Love and Revolution
by Shanna Swendson
Landing a job as a governess to a wealthy family in an alternate-universe 19th-century New York, Verity becomes a spy for an underground society of innovators who are developing non-magical steam engines to fight against magic-wielding British controllers. Simultaneous eBook.
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The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B
by Teresa Toten
Struggling with his parents' divorce, his stepsibling and the challenges of OCD, teen Adam Spencer Ross despairs of ever falling in love before being unexpectedly drawn to a girl who makes him question his capacity for a normal relationship. Simultaneous eBook.
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The Truth about Twinkie Pie
by Kat Yeh
Sisters GiGi, a brainy 12-year-old, and DiDi, a junior-high dropout-turned-hairstylist, win a million-dollar prize and move from their southern trailer park to New York, where they make new friends and enemies while hiding family secrets. Simultaneous eBook.
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