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2017-18 Oregon Battle of the Books 9-12 Division
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The Amulet of Samarkand
by Jonathan Stroud
Nathaniel, a magician's apprentice, summons up the djinni Bartimaeus and instructs him to steal the Amulet of Samarkand from the powerful magician Simon Lovelace
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The girl of fire and thorns
by Rae Carson
Chosen for an extraordinary--and fearsome--destiny, 16-year-old princess Elisa becomes the heart of a revolution after the king asks her to save his troubled country, setting her on a journey that will take her from being an untried teen to becoming a young woman of fierce love and untold power. A debut novel.
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The indigo notebook
by Laura Resau
Fifteen-year-old Zeeta comes to terms with her flighty mother and their itinerant life when, soon after moving to Ecuador, she helps an American teenager find his birth father in a nearby village
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Ink and bone
by Rachel Caine
In a world where the Great Library of Alexandria governs the flow of information to the people, Jess discovers that those who control the Library believe that knowledge is more valuable than human life after his friend commits heresy
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Just mercy : a story of justice and redemption
by Bryan Stevenson
The executive director of a social advocacy group that has helped relieve condemned prisoners explains why justice and mercy must go hand-in-hand through the story of Walter McMillian, a man condemned to death row for a murder he didn't commit. 30,000 first printing.
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Outrun the moon
by Stacey Lee
Gaining admittance into an elite school usually limited to white girls, 15-year-old Mercy Wong, who strives to escape from her disadvantaged life through education, endures harsh conditions in a park encampment when the 1906 San Francisco earthquake destroys her home and school. Simultaneous eBook.
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The sacred lies of Minnow Bly
by Stephanie Oakes
Losing everything including her family, her hands and her ability to trust after spending 12 years in a cult, a traumatized Minnow struggles to find her voice in juvenile detention in the aftermath of her leader's death. Simultaneous eBook. 20,000 first printing.
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The steep & thorny way
by Cat Winters
A suspenseful reimagining of Hamlet is set in 1920s Oregon, where the outcast daughter of a white mother and a black father finds her survival further complicated by the fearmongering of the KKK and the discovery that her stepfather might have murdered her father.
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Uncaged
by John Sandford
When an act of animal rights activism at a research lab goes wrong, a terrible secret is exposed, and Shay must find her brother Odin before the researchers at Singular Corp can silence both of them
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When I was the greatest
by Jason Reynolds
Living in a Brooklyn neighborhood known for guns and drugs, Ali, his sister, and their neighbors stay out of trouble until they go to the wrong party, where one of them gets badly hurt and another leaves with a target on his back
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The wrath & the dawn
by Renée Ahdieh
Coming of age in a land where the Caliph of Khorasan takes a new bride each night and executes her at sunrise, 16-year-old Shahrzad volunteers to marry him in order to break the cycle and exact revenge for the murder of her best friend. Inspired by A Thousand and One Nights. A first novel. Simultaneous eBook.
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