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1) Matilda
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English
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Matilda applies her untapped mental powers to rid the school of the evil child-hating headmistress, Miss Trunchbull, and restore her nice teacher, Miss Honey, to financial security.
Matilda is a sweet, exceptional young girl, but her parents think she's just a nuisance. She expects school to be different, but there she has to face Miss Trunchbull, a kid-hating terror of a headmistress. When Matilda is attacked by the Trunchbull, she suddenly discovers...
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English
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After her ability to heal physical ailments is revealed to the world, thirteen-year-old Ava has trouble dealing with all the people who come seeking a miracle, especially since, with each healing, she grows weaker.
"On the heels of his critically acclaimed and New York Times bestselling debut novel, The Returned, Jason Mott delivers a spellbinding tale of love and sacrifice. On an ordinary day, at an air show like that in any small town across the...
4) Almond
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Language
English
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The New Girl at school plays the violin so beautifully that Almond gets lost in the music, but she also feels sad because she does not know if she herself has any talent at all--until the school play, when with the encouragement of her mother, her teacher, and the New Girl, she finds she has a talent for acting.
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Series
Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur volume 6
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide, Inc., a subsidiary of Marvel Entertaiment, LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"It's time to cry S.O.S. - Save Our School! New York City has a new mayor, and his name is...Wilson Fisk! Yes, the Kingpin is in charge of the Big Apple and everything in it, including the Department of Education! But he won't be running it alone: meet your new favorite Marvel character, Princess Fisk! What's her tragic past? Meanwhile, Lunella's problems are all in the present - for one, if she's so smart, why can't she unravel the genetic mystery...
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Series
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide, Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Bad dreams and great team-ups! Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur must fight to stay out of the Dream Dimension, a place at the edge of our subconscious where all manner of monsters dwell! What fearsome fiends lurk within the mind of a 65-million-year-old thunder lizard -- or worse yet, a 9-year-old super genius?! Doctor Strange and Sleepwalker are about to find out! Then, Lunella meets the original kid super hero, Spider-Man! And if that isn't amazing...
7) Clover
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Language
English
Description
"Kazuhiko is a young, but already deeply wounded black ops agent of a baroque, retro-tech future-- is pulled out of retirement to escort Sue, a mysterious waif, to a destination she alone knows. Sue and Kazuhiko have never met, yet she knows him, having grown up since the age of four with her only human contact being two distant voices: that of her elderly 'grandma'-- Kazuhiko's commander, General Ko, and of Kazuhiko's dead girlfriend, the beautiful...
Author
Series
Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur volume 4
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Journey to the Living Planet! It's Lunella Lafayette's biggest adventure yet, as a voice from the outer reaches of space beckons her and Devil Dinosaur on a truly fantastic voyage - an Ego trip, if you will! Are you ready for Moon Girl to meet--Girl-Moon? Lunella isn't just smart, she's the smartest person on Earth - but what good is that when the problems she faces are intergalactic? And when our incredible duo makes it back to Earth, they might...
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Series
Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur volume 7
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Eight hours of sleep usually means a full night's rest--but now Lunella and Devil face a fight to stay out of the Dream Dimension, a place at the edge of our subconscious where all manner of monsters dwell! What fearsome fiends lay within the unconscious mind of a 65-million-year-old thunder lizard? Or worse yet, a 9-year-old super-genius? As Moon Girl and Devil transverse the Dreamscape, all is revealed about their host, Bad Dream--and he isn't...
10) Paper things
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When Ari's mother died four years ago, she had two final wishes: that Ari and her older brother, Gage, would stay together always, and that Ari would go to Carter, the middle school for gifted students. So when nineteen-year-old Gage decides he can no longer live with their bossy guardian, Janna, Ari knows she has to go with him. But it's been two months, and Gage still hasn't found them an apartment. He and Ari have been "couch surfing," staying...
12) Gifted: a novel
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English
Description
Fourteen-year-old India-born math prodigy Rumi Vashey becomes the object of her parents' campaign to make her one of the youngest students ever to attend Oxford University, until she rebels against her parents' expectations to seek out friendship and romance.
13) Matilda
Author
Series
Collection Folio junior volume 744
Language
Français
Description
Matilda applies her untapped mental powers to rid the school of the evil, child-hating headmistress, Miss Trunchbull, and restore her nice teacher, Miss Honey, to financial security.
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English
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"Freakishly smart. That's the unwelcome box Ru Evans has been put into her whole life. After all, she taught herself euclidean geometry at age seven, has an eidetic memory, and is about to enter college at thirteen years old. Boarding at a house near campus 150 miles from home, Ru meets seventeen-year-old Gabriel, an outsider himself who, like Ru, has trouble making friends -- until they form a fast sibling-like bond. Finding a relatable someone in...
16) Project girl
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
The author tells the story of her struggles to reconcile her ghetto background and the world of private schools, wealthy classmates, and important jobs offered to her because of her academic talent.
Author
Series
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide, Inc., a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Pint-sized genius Lunella Lafayette takes on the Marvel Universe alongside some of its greatest heroes: Miles Morales, the Avengers and the X-Men. Because when Lunella's trusty T.Rex, Devil Dinosaur, goes missing, it may take all their helping hands to find him! Miles sure knows his way around Brooklyn. But when the Avengers detect rogue dinosaur activity in an unlikely place, they'll need Lunella's help -- and that means Moon Girl is on her way...
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