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Wrath of Ambar volume 1
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English
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Trained in warrior magic after the murder of her parents, a girl with a star-shaped birthmark is prophesied to be the downfall of a tyrant king, but the boy she falls in love with owes his loyalty to those hunting her.
Gul has a star-shaped birthmark on her arm, and in the kingdom of Ambar, girls with such birthmarks have been disappearing for years. Gul's mark is what caused her parents' murder at the hand of King Lohar's ruthless soldiers and forced...
2) Want
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Want volume 1
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English
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Jason Zhou is trying to survive in Taipei, a city plagued by pollution and viruses, but when he discovers the elite are using their wealth to evade the deadly effects, he knows he must do whatever is necessary to fight the corruption and save his city.
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Freaks volume 1
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English
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After accidentally opening a portal to another dimension, four bullied high school friends find themselves endowed with strange superpowers and they must team up with one of their tormenters to save their families and friends from the bloodthirsty creatures invading their small Arkansas town.
5) Tangled
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Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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After a wanted outlaw hides in a tower and discovers a princess named Rapunzel with magic hair locked inside, he helps her escape the tower and she discovers the outside world.
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Seafarer's kiss volume 1
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English
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Having long wondered what lives beyond the ice shelf, nineteen-year-old mermaid Ersel learns of the life she wants when she rescues and befriends Ragna, a shield-maiden stranded on the merfolk's fortress. But when Ersel's childhood friend and suitor catches them together, he gives Ersel a choice: say goodbye to Ragna or face justice at the hands of the glacier's brutal king. Determined to forge a different fate, Ersel seeks help from the divine Loki....
9) Akata witch
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English
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Watertown Summer Reading Middle School
Wayland YA Booklists: Fantasy Fiction
Wayland YA Booklists: Magic Schools, Training Camps & Apprenticeships
Wayland YA Booklists: Fantasy Fiction
Wayland YA Booklists: Magic Schools, Training Camps & Apprenticeships
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Twelve-year-old Sunny Nwazue, an American-born albino child of Nigerian parents, moves with her family back to Nigeria, where she learns that she has latent magical powers which she and three similarly gifted friends use to catch a serial killer.
10) Cinder
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English
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Framingham 2024 Reading Bingo Suggestions
Medfield Cozy Reads for Teens - Mysterious and Magical
STO Series Starters: Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Medfield Cozy Reads for Teens - Mysterious and Magical
STO Series Starters: Sci-Fi & Fantasy
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As plague ravages the overcrowded Earth, observed by a ruthless lunar people, Cinder, a gifted mechanic and cyborg, becomes involved with handsome Prince Kai and must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect the world in this futuristic take on the Cinderella story.
11) Scarlet
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Lunar chronicles volume 2
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English
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Scarlet Benoit and Wolf, a street fighter who may have information about her missing grandmother, join forces with Cinder as they try to stay one step ahead of the vicious Lunar Queen Levana in this story inspired by Little Red Riding Hood.
12) Cemetery boys
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English
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Yadriel, a trans boy, summons the angry spirit of his high school's bad boy, and agrees to help him learn how he died, thereby proving himself a brujo, not a bruja, to his conservative family.
When his traditional Latinx family has problems accepting his gender, Yadriel becomes determined to prove himself a real brujo. With the help of his cousin and best friend Maritza, he performs the ritual himself, and then sets out to find the ghost of his murdered...
13) The getaway
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English
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Jay discovers that mountain resort where he lives and works with his friends and family is also a doomsday oasis for the rich and powerful who expect top-notch customer service even as the world outside the resort's walls disintegrates.
Jay is living his best life at Karloff Country, one of the world's most famous resorts. He's got his family, his crew, and an incredible after-school job at the property's main theme park. Life isn't so great for...
14) Pardalita
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"16-year-old Raquel lives in a small town in Portugal, the kind of place where everyone knows everyone else's business. Her parents are divorced and she's just been suspended for cursing out a school aide asking about her father's new marriage. She has two best friends, Luísa and Fred, but wants something more. Then, from afar, she sees Pardalita, a senior and a gifted artist who's moving to Lisbon to study in the fall. The two girls get to know...
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A trip back to the era of troubled teens and awesome soundtracks; of Reagan, rap, and Ridgemont High; of MTV, VHS, and "Axel F"; of outsiders, lost boys, and dead poets; of Bill and Ted, Brooke Shields, and the Brat Pack; of three Porky's flicks, two Coreys, and one summer when "Baby" refused to be put in a corner. -- amazon.com
16) Cress
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Lunar chronicles volume 3
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English
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Cinder and Captain Thorne are fugitives on the run, now with Scarlet and Wolf in tow. Together, they're plotting to overthrow Queen Levana and prevent her army from invading Earth. Their best hope lies with Cress, a girl trapped on a satellite since childhood who's only ever had her netscreens as company.
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To all the boys I've loved before volume 1
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English
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Dedham's Romancing the Library 2023 YA
Medfield Self Discovery Stories for Teens - Novels
STO: From Page to Screen
YA Romance
Medfield Self Discovery Stories for Teens - Novels
STO: From Page to Screen
YA Romance
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"What if all the crushes you ever had found out how you felt about them...all at once? Sixteen-year-old Lara Jean Song keeps her love letters in a hatbox her mother gave her. They aren't love letters that anyone else wrote for her; these are ones she's written. One for every boy she's ever loved--five in all. When she writes, she pours out her heart and soul and says all the things she would never say in real life, because her letters are for her...
18) The outsiders
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English
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Based on S.E. Hinton's book about teenage gangs in 1966 Tulsa, OK. The "Soc's" [Socials] and the "Greasers," and the struggle of growing up as an outsider.
19) Heathers
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
When two teens 'accidentally' begin murdering the most popular kids in school, suicide suddenly becomes the 'in' thing to do.
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Last Finestra volume 1
Language
English
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When eighteen-year-old Alessa's power to slay demons mysteriously disappears, she hires Dante, a cynical outcast marked as a killer, to become her bodyguard, and soon discovers he is either the one person who can help her master her gift or the one who destroys her.
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