Recommended Reading List
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9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation – Sid Jacobsen
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Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian – Sherman Alexie
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Acceleration – Graham McNamee
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Across Five Aprils – Irene Hunt
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Across the Nightingale Floor – Lian Hearn
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After the Wreck, I Picked Myself Up, Spread My Wings and Flew Away –
Joyce Carol Oates
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Aftershock – Kelly Easton
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Al Capone Does My Shirts – Gennifer Choldenko
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Alice on Her Way – Phyllis Naylor
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All-American Girl – Meg Cabot
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Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, The – Terry Pratchett
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American Born Chinese – Gene Yang
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An Abundance of Katherines – John Green
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Angus, Thongs and Full Frontal Snogging – Louise Rennison
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Apology, The – Socrates (Plato)
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Armageddon's Children – Terry Brooks
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Atlas Shrugged – Ayn Rand
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Atonement – Ian McEwan
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Avalon High – Meg Cabot
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Battle of Jericho, The – Sharon Draper
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Becoming Anna: The autobiography of a Sixteen-year-old – Anna J.
Michener
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Bend in the Road – Nicholas Sparks
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Between a Rock and a Hard Place – Aron Ralston
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Blood Red Horse – K.M. Grant
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Body of Christopher Creed – Carol Plum-Ucci
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Book Thief – Markus Zusak
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Book Thief, The – Markus Zusak
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Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic
Savant – Daniel Tammet
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Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
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Breathing Underwater – Alex Flinn
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Briar Rose – Jane Yolen
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Bridge to Terabithia – Katherine Paterson
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Brief Chapter in My Impossible Life – Dana Reinhardt
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Buddha Boy – Koja Kathe
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Burn Journals, The – Brent Runyon
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee – Dee Alexander Brown
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Cage of Stars – Jacquelyn Mitchard
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Catch: A Novel – Will Leitch
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Catherine Called Birdie – Karen Cushman
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Cereal Killer – G.A. McKevett
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Chains – Laurie Halse Anderson
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Chicago Poems – Carl Sandburg
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Child Called It, A – David Pelzer
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Christopher Killer: A Forensic Mystery, The – Alane Ferguson
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City of Bones – Cassandra Clare
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Communist Manifesto – Marx and Engels
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Copper Sun – Sharon Draper
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Coraline – Neil Gaiman
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Cut – Patricia McCormick
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Dairy Queen – Katherine Murdock
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Dairy Queen: A Novel – Catherine Murdock
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Dangerous Engine: Benjamin Franklin, from Scientist to Diplomat –
Joan Dash
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Darkly Dreaming Dexter – Jeff Lindsay
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Deadline – Chris Crutcher
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Dear Miss Breed: True Stories of the Japanese American Incarceration
during World War II and a Librarian who Made a Difference – Jane
Oppenheim
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Death by Chocolate – G.A. McKevett
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid – Jeff Kinney
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Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks – E. Lockhart
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Does My Head Look Big in This? – Randa Abdel-Fattah
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Donorboy – Brendan Halpin
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Dreams from My Father – Barack Obama
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Elsewhere – Gabrielle Zevin
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Eragon – Christopher Paolini
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Esperanza Rising – Pam Munoz Ryan
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Fair Weather – Richard Peck
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First Part Last, The – Angela Johnson
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Fleshmarket – Nicola Morgan
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For Teens Only: Quotes, Notes, and Advice You Can Use – Carol Weston
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Freakonomics – Steven Levitt
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Glass Castle – Jeannette Walls
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Godless – Pete Hautman
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Good Guy, The – Dean Koontz
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Graveyard Book – Neil Gaiman
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Great and Terrible Beauty – Libba Bray
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Guts – Gary Paulsen
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Gym Candy – Carl Deuker
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Handbook for Boys – Walter Dean Myers
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Harry Potter and the Deadly Hallows – J.K. Rowling
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – J.K. Rowling
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Haunting of Alaizabel Cray, The – Chris Wooding
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Haunting of Hill House – Shirley Jackson
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Hawksong – Amelia Atwater Rhodes
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Heart is a Lonely Hunter – Carson McCullers
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Heart of a Soldier – James B. Stewart
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High Heat – Carl Deuker
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Hole in My Life, A – Jack Gantos
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Hoops Of Steel – John Foley
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Hot Zone – Richard Preston
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How Angel Peterson got his Name – Gary Paulsen
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How to Build a House – Dana Reinhardt
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How To Ruin A Summer Vacation – Simone Elkeles
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How We Decide – Jonah Lehrer
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Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins
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I Am Scout: The Biography Of Harper Lee – Charles J. Shields
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I'll Always Remember You…Maybe – Stella Pevsner
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I’d Tell You I Love You, But Then I’d Have to Kill You – Ally Carter
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Inexcusable – Chris Lynch
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Into the Wild – Jon Krakauer
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It’s Kind of a Funny Story – Ned Vizzini
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It’s Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life – Lance Armstrong
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Jellicoe Road – Melina Marchetta
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Jude – Kate Morgenroth
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Jungle – Upton Sinclair
Mergers – Stephen Layne
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Just Listen – Sarah Dessen
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Kabul Beauty School – Deborah Rodriguez
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Katie.com – Katherine Tarbox
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Killer Angels – Michael Shaara
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Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
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Last Lecture – Randy Pausch
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Leaving Paradise – Simone Elkeles
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Life As We Knew It – Susan Beth Pfeffer
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Life of Pi – Yann Martel
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Lightning Thief, The – Rick Riordan
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Lincoln: A Life of Purpose and Power – Richard Carwardine
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Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe: The Chronicles of Narnia – C.S.
Lewis
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Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, A – Ishmael Beah
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Look Me in the Eye: My Life With Asperger’s – John Elder Robison
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Lord of the Rings – J.R.R Tolkien
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Love Always, Petra: A Story of Courage and the Discovery of Life’s
Hidden Gifts – Necova/Scovell.
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Luxe, The – Anna Godbersen
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Marley and Me – John Grogan
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Memory Keeper's Daughter, The – Kim Edwards
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Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home –
Nando Parrado
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Motherland: Beyond the Holocaust – Fern Schumer Chapman
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My Sister’s Keeper – Jodi Picoult
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Native Son – Richard Wright
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Nineteen Minutes – Jodi Piccout
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Northern Light, A – Jennifer Donnelly
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Of Beetles and Angels – Mawi Asgedom
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Peeps: A Novel – Scott Westerfeld
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Perfect Chemistry – Simone Elkeles
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Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood – Marjane Satrapi
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Petey – Ben Mikaelsen
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Playing for Pizza – John Grisham
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Please Stop Laughing at Me – Jodee Blanco
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Prey – Michael Crichton
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Pride of Baghdad – Brian Vaughan
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Prince, The – Machiavelli
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Raiders Night – Robert Lipsyte
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Raisin in the Sun – Lorraine Hansberry
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Red Kayak – Pricilla Cummings
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Redemption – Julie Chibbaro
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Riding The Bus With My Sister: A True Life Journey – Rachel Simon
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Romiette and Julio – Sharon Draper
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Rooftop – Paul Volponi
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Rules of Survival – Nancy Werlin
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Say Goodnight Gracie – Julie Reece Deaver
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Secret Life of Bees, The – Sue Monk Kidd
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Separate Peace – John Knowles
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Shack, The – William P. Young
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Shattering Glass – Gail Giles
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Shortcut in Time – Charles Dickinson
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Sickened – Julie Gregory
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Siddhartha – Herman Hesse
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Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, The – Ann Brashares
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Sold – Patricia McCormack
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Sold – Patricia McCormick
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Something Wicked This Way Comes – Ray Bradbury
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Son of the Mob – Gordon Korman
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Squared Circle – James Bennett
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State of Fear – Michael Crichton
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Story of My Life – Farah Ahmedi
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Such a Pretty Girl – Laura Wiess
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Suzanne’s Diary for Nicholas – James Patterson
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Taken – Chris Jordan
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Tale of Despereaux – Kate DiCamillo
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Tamar: A Novel of Espionage, Passion, and Betrayal – Mal Peet
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Teachers Funeral, The – Richard Peck
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Tenth Circle, The – Jodi Picoult
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Thirteen Reasons Why – Jay Asher
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Thousand Acres, A – Jane Smiley
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Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseini
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Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace – One School at
a Time – Greg Mortenson
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Touching Spirit Bear – Ben Mikaelsen
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Tough Boy Sonatas – Curtis Crisler
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Trapped: The 1909 Cherry Mine Disaster – Karen Tintori
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Truth About Forever – Sarah Dessen
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Tuesdays With Morrie – Mitch Albom
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Uglies – Scott Westerfeld
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Wall: Growing Up Behind The Iron Curtain, The – Peter Sis
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Warrior Heir, The – Cinda Williams Chima
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We Beat the Street: How a Friendship Pact Led to Success –
Davis/Hunt/Jenkins
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What Happened to Cass McBride? A Novel – Gail Giles
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What is the What – Dave Eggers
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Where the Sidewalk Ends – Shel Silverstein
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Who Am I Without Him? – Sharon G. Flake
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Wicked Lovely – Melissa Marr
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Wreath for Emmitt Till – Marilyn Nelson