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"Lexie and her cousin, Eleni, are super-mega-extra-seriously close. They're like twins who aren't actually twins, if that's possible. But when Lexie tells a terrible, jealous lie, her whole family is split apart. It's up to Lexie to bring them all back together and fix her relationship with Eleni. After a few calamitous escapades, Lexie has discovered that there are all sorts of truths and all sorts of lies ... But can telling the truth be more hurtful...
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Series
Historical house volume 1914
Publisher
Usborne
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
202 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
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In London in 1914, Polly supports suffragettes who demand women's right to vote.
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CHERUB novels volume 3
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English
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CHERUB agents are highly trained, extremely talented and all under the age of seventeen. For official purposes, these agents do not exist. They are sent out on missions to spy on terrorists, hack into crucial documents, and gather intel on global threats all without gadgets or weapons. It is an extremely dangerous job, but these agents have one crucial advantage: Adults never suspect that teens are spying on them. James's mission brings him to the...
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Eleven-year-old Ada's clubfoot has been fixed at last, and she knows now that she's not what her mother said she was - damaged and deranged. But soon Ada learns that she's not a daughter anymore either. Who is she now? World War II rages on, and Ada and her brother move with their guardian, Susan, into a cottage with the iron-face Lady Thorton and her daughter. Life in the crowded home is tense. Then Ruth moves in. Ruth, a Jewish girl, from Germany....
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Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
196 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Bullied at school and by his father, thirteen-year-old Jack, a messenger boy during the London Blitz, becomes a hero after meeting a stray dog that can smell people buried beneath rubble.
10) Bhangra babes
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English
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As their auntie's wedding day approaches, the Indian-British Dhillon sisters try to rescue her from her fiancé's meddling aunt while also competing against one another for the affections of the new, handsome boy at school.
11) City of ghosts
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City of ghosts volume 1
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English
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Ever since her near-fatal drowning, Cassidy has been able to pull back the "Veil" that separates the living from the dead and see ghosts, not that she wants to -- she was really looking forward to a ghost-free summer at the beach. However, her parents are going to start filming a TV series about the world's most haunted places, starting with Edinburgh, with its graveyards, castles, and restless phantoms -- and Cass and her personal ghost companion,...
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2019.
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English
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England is at war. Growing up in a lighthouse, Pet's world has been one of storms, secret tunnels and stories about sea monsters. But now the clifftops are a terrifying battleground, and her family is torn apart. This is the story of a girl who is small, afraid and unnoticed. A girl who freezes with fear at the enemy planes ripping through the skies overhead. A girl who is somehow destined to become part of the strange, ancient legend of the Daughters...
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Ten-year-old Ada has never left her family's one-room apartment. Her bitter mother is too humiliated by Ada's twisted foot to let her outside. But when her little brother, Jamie is going to be shipped out of London to escape World War II, Ada doesn't waste a minute: she sneaks out to join him. So begins a new adventure for Ada, and for Susan Smith, the woman who is forced to take in two kids. As Ada teaches herself to ride a pony, learns to read,...
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Romeo volume 1
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English
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During World War II, eleven-year-old Felicity is sent from London to Bottlebay, Maine, to live with her grandmother, aunt, uncle, and a reclusive boy who helps her decode mysterious letters that contain the truth about her missing parents.
17) Romeo blue
Author
Series
Romeo volume 2
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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Description
During World War II, Felicity Bathburn is living in Bottlebay, Maine, with her eccentric relatives and their foster child Derek, whom she has grown to love, but when a man claiming to be Derek's true father arrives and starts asking all sorts of strange questions Felicity becomes suspicious of his motives.
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Zom-B volume 2
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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"Waking up in a military complex, months after zombies attacked school, B has no memory of the last few months. Life in the UK has turned tough since the outbreak, and B is woven into life -- and battle -- in the new military regime quickly. But as B learns more about the zombies held in the complex and the scientists keeping them captive, unease settles in. Why exactly was B saved? And is there anyone left in the world to trust?" --
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Series
Rebel girls (Chapter books) volume 2
Publisher
Timbuktu Labs
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
128 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Growing up in nineteenth century London, England, Ada is curious about absolutely everything. She is obsessed with machines and with creatures that fly. She even designs her own flying laboratory! According to her mother, Ada is a bit too wild, so she encourages Ada to study math. At first Ada thinks: Bleh! Who can get excited about a subject without pictures? But she soon falls in love with it. One day she encounters a mysterious machine, and from...
20) Emperor
Author
Series
Time's tapestry volume 1
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
302 pages : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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