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The Snowden Library Adventures in Reading Summer 2020
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Fever, 1793 P E A by Laurie Halse AndersonIn 1793 Philadelphia, sixteen-year-old Matilda Cook, separated from her sick mother, learns about perseverance and self-reliance when she is forced to cope with the horrors of a yellow fever epidemic.
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Sudden impact Pby Lesley ChoyceTina's best friend Kurt is hurt one day playing soccer and needs a liver transplant, and Tina is determined to help him any way she can.
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Hunting the Dragon : a novel Pby Peter L. DixonBilly Crawford, an 18-year-old surf bum working in Fiji, joins forces with a dolphin activist and his young assistant as they try to find and sink a ship whose pirate crew is killing dolphins along with the tuna they catch and sell.
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Series: Cherub series 2 #1 by Robert Muchamore
What links a drugs smuggler, a corrupt customs official and the illegal immigrant who made your lunchtime sandwich? Ryan Sharma's about to find out. Ryan is the newest recruit to CHERUB. Twelve years old, just out of basic training and as green as grass. He's got his first mission: befriending Ethan Aramov, a spoilt rich kid living in California whose grandmother just happens to run a billion-dollar criminal empire. Ryan's got no idea that his routine first mission will turn into one of the biggest in CHERUB history.
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Series: Cherub 1 by Robert Muchamore
When James is recently orphaned, he is recruited by a secret agency for his math skills and must undergo one hundred days of grueling training.
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Series: Stranded #1 by Jeff Probst
Jane, Buzz, Carter, and Vanessa, aged nine to thirteen, are on a sailing trip in the South Pacific intended to help them bond in their newly-blended family when a massive storm strands them on a deserted island.
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Series: Stranded #2 by Jeff Probst
After being stranded on a deserted island, Jane, Buzz, Carter, and Vanessa must learn how to find food and shelter, create a fire, and get along with each other in order to survive
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Survivors P A Series: Stranded #3 by Jeff Probst
Trapped for eleven days on a deserted island, Jane, Buzz, Carter and Vanessa must venture deeper into the jungles of the island, where they discover a secret and find danger at every turn
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The Thief Lord P Aby Cornelia Caroline FunkeTwo brothers, having run away from the aunt who plans to adopt only the younger one, are sought by a detective hired by their aunt, but they find protection from a gang of Venetian street children and their leader, the Thief Lord
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Series: Secrets of the immortal Nicholas Flamel #1 by Michael Scott
When the legend that Nicholas Flamel lives due to his ability to make the elixir for life is discovered to be true, Dr. John Dee begins his plot to steal the Book of Abraham the Mage from him in order to rule the world, but knowing that they are the only ones with the power to stop him, Josh and Sophie quickly set their own plan in motion to do so.
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by Caroline B. Cooney
While in a panic to do a last minute report for his Advanced Bio class, Mitty Blake glances through some old medical books in his family's weekend house and discovers an old envelope containing two things that will forever alter his life.
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Series: Ella enchanted #1 by Gail Carson Levine
In a first novel and 1998 Newbery Honor Book based on the story of Cinderella, Ella struggles against a childhood curse that forces her to obey any order given to her.
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Series: The game is life #1 by Terry Schott
What if, instead of traditional schools, children learned by participating in a virtual reality simulation, one that allowed them to experience "life" from birth to death -- multiple times? What if one player, on his final play, could change the world forever...?
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Series: Harry Potter #1 by J. K Rowling
Rescued from the outrageous neglect of his aunt and uncle, a young boy with a great destiny proves his worth while attending Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry
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The hobbit P E Aby J.R.R. TolkienThe adventures of Bilbo Baggins and his encounter with trolls, orcs, gigantic spiders, and the fearsome dragon, Smaug.
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Series: Percy Jackson & the Olympians #1-5 by Rick Riordan
After learning that the father he never knew is Poseidon, God of the Sea, Percy Jackson is transferred from boarding school to Camp Half-Blood, a summer camp for demigods, and becomes involved in a quest to prevent a catastrophic war between the gods
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Series: The heroes of Olympus #1 by Rick Riordan
Jason, Piper, and Leo, three students from a school for "bad kids," find themselves at Camp Half-Blood, where they learn that they are demigods and begin a quest to free Hera, who has been imprisoned by Mother Earth herself.
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Series: The Maze Runner Trilogy #1 by James Dashner
Sixteen-year-old Thomas wakes up with no memory in the middle of a maze and realizes he must work with the community in which he finds himself if he is to escape.
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Series: The Maze Runner Trilogy #2 by James Dashner
Thomas wakes up with no memory in the middle of a maze and must become part of a community of survivors; Thomas and nineteen other boys are trapped in an experiment designed to gather data essential for the survival of the human race.
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The Catcher in the Rye P by J. D. SalingerAn adolescent boy, knowing he is about to be dropped by his school, spends three days and nights in New York City.
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The fault in our stars P E Aby John GreenSixteen-year-old Hazel, a stage IV thyroid cancer patient, has accepted her terminal diagnosis until a chance meeting with a boy at cancer support group forces her to reexamine her perspective on love, loss, and life.
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Five feet apart P E Aby Rachael LippincottA teen on the waiting list for a lung transplant faces an impossible choice when her infection risks prevent her from getting within five feet of the boy she loves, a fellow patient who is determined to experience life outside the hospital.
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Series: Brian's saga #1 by Gary Paulsen
After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the Canadian wilderness, learning to survive with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce.
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Holes P Aby Louis SacharAs further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.
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Series: Sisterhood #1 by Ann BrasharesAs they part for the summer, four friends, Carmen, Lena, Tibby, and Bridget, embark on a journey of self-discovery when they decide to share an old pair of worn jeans that were purchased from a thrift shop and form the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.
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Series: To all the boys I've loved before #1 by Jenny Han
Keeping private love letters written to five secret crushes she has had, Lara Jean Song finds her personal life going from imaginary to out of control when the letters are unexpectedly mailed.
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Series: To all the boys I've loved before #2 by Jenny Han
Lara Jean questions if a girl can be in love with two boys at once when she unexpectedly falls for Peter, a boy she's pretending to date, and a boy from her past.
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Series: To all the boys I've loved before #3 by Jenny Han
While helping plan her father's wedding, senior Lara Jean struggles with choosing a college and questions how graduation is going to change her relationship with her boyfriend Peter
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Wonder P E by R. J. Palacio
Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan, which entails enduring the taunts and fear of his classmates as he struggles to be seen as just another student.
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Manga touch P E GRby Jacqueline PearceDana is spending two weeks in Japan, but in spite of her love of manga and Japanese culture, being there with her former best friend Melissa and her new exclusive clique might make the experience lonelier than expected
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Roots and wings Pby Many LyAfter traveling back to Cambodia from Pennsylvania to bury her grandmother in a traditional ceremony, Grace takes the time to learn about her father, the reasons for the family's move from their native land, and the rich culture of a people of whom she is one.
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Series: Bamboo Grove by Yoko Kawashima Watkins
A fictionalized autobiography in which eleven-year-old Yoko escapes from Korea to Japan with her mother and sister at the end of World War II.
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Ties that bind, ties that break : a novel P Aby Lensey NamiokaWhen a young girl in China refuses to bind her feet as tradition expects from its young girls, Ailin upsets her close family greatly and so must learn to become more reliant on herself in order to survive and stay true to her beliefs.
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Under the midnight sun Pby Keigo HigashinoTwo Japanese teenagers, Ryo and Yukiho, are irrevocably linked together as suspects during the search for the person who killed Ryo's father despite the case going cold twenty years ago
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Enrique's journey : the true story of a boy determined to reunite with his mother P Eby Sonia NazarioA young adult adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's highly praised adult book by the same title documents the journey of a Honduran teen who braved hardship and peril to reunite with his mother after she was forced to leave him behind and seek migratory work in the United States, in an edition complemented by an epilogue providing new updates on Enrique's story.
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Hidden figures : Young Readers' Edition P Aby Margot Lee Shetterly Explores the previously uncelebrated but pivotal contributions of NASA's African-American women mathematicians to America's space program, describing how Jim Crow laws segregated them from their white counterparts despite their successes.
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I Am Malala : How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World: Young Reader's Edition P Aby Malala YousafzaiThis is my story. Malala Yousafzai was only ten years old when the Taliban took control of her region. They said music was a crime. They said women weren't allowed to go to the market. They said girls couldn't go to school. Raised in a once-peaceful area of Pakistan transformed by terrorism, Malala was taught to stand up for what she believes. So she fought for her right to be educated. And on October 9, 2012, she nearly lost her life for the cause: She was shot point-blank while riding the bus on her way home from school. No one expected her to survive. Now Malala is an international symbol of peaceful protest and the youngest ever Nobel Peace Prize nominee. In this Young Readers Edition of her bestselling memoir, which includes exclusive photos and material, we hear firsthand the remarkable story of a girl who knew from a young age that she wanted to change the world -- and did. Malala's powerful story will open your eyes to another world and will make you believe in hope, truth, miracles and the possibility that one person -- one young person -- can inspire change in her community and beyond.
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