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	Gathering Blue (The Giver Quartet #2) Books » Young Adult Fiction 0 Author(s) Lois Lowry Publisher Houghton Mifflin Co Genre(s) Science Fiction In her strongest work to date, Lois Lowry once again creates a mysterious but plausible future world. It is a society ruled by savagery and deceit that shuns and discards the weak. Left orphaned and physically flawed, young Kira faces a frightening, uncertain future. Blessed with an almost magical talent... Read more Read reviews Write review	5.0 4.2 (13)
	The Wind Blows Backward Books » Young Adult Fiction 0 Author(s) Mary Downing Hahn Publisher Houghton Mifflin Co Genre(s) General Fiction Lauren and Spencer share a love of poetry, and both have problems with their parents. But when Lauren realizes that she is falling in love with Spencer, she also begins to recognize his moody and self-destructive side. Read more Read reviews Write review	0.0 5.0 (2)
	The Woman in the Wall Books » Young Adult Fiction 0 Author(s) Patrice Kindl Publisher Houghton Mifflin Co Genre(s) General Fiction Read more Read reviews Write review	0.0 1.8 (4)
	Cold Sassy Tree Books » Young Adult Fiction 0 Author(s) Olive Ann Burns Publisher Houghton Mifflin Co Genre(s) Historical Fiction Classics The one thing you can depend on in Cold Sassy, Georgia, is that word gets around - fast. When Grandpa E. Rucker Blakeslee announces one July morning in 1906 that he's aiming to marry the young and freckledy milliner, Miss Love Simpson - a bare three weeks after Granny Blakeslee... Read more Read reviews Write review	0.0 0.0 (0)
	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Books » Young Adult Fiction 0 Author(s) J. R.R. Tolkein Publisher Houghton Mifflin Co Genre(s) Fantasy Read more Read reviews Write review	0.0 4.3 (4)
	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Books » Young Adult Fiction 0 Author(s) J. R.R. Tolkein Publisher Houghton Mifflin Co Genre(s) Fantasy Read more Read reviews Write review	0.0 4.8 (6)
	Perfect Family Books » Young Adult Fiction 0 Author(s) Jerrie Oughton Publisher Houghton Mifflin Co Genre(s) General Fiction Read more Read reviews Write review	0.0 0.0 (0)
	Imani All Mine Books » Young Adult Fiction 0 Author(s) Connie Rose Porter Publisher Houghton Mifflin Co Genre(s) General Fiction Read more Read reviews Write review	0.0 4.5 (2)
	Not As Crazy As I Seem Books » Young Adult Fiction 0 Author(s) George Harrar Publisher Houghton Mifflin Co Genre(s) General Fiction Read more Read reviews Write review	0.0 0.0 (0)
	Spitting Image Books » Young Adult Fiction 0 Author(s) Shutta Crum Publisher Houghton Mifflin Co Genre(s) General Fiction Read more Read reviews Write review	0.0 5.0 (1)
	The Other Side of Dawn (Tomorrow #7) Books » Young Adult Fiction 0 Author(s) John Marsden Publisher Houghton Mifflin Co Genre(s) General Fiction This is it -- the final explosive chapter in an epic saga of war and rebellion. An international bestseller that fans will not be able to resist. Since their town was invaded by enemy soldiers and transformed into a war zone, Ellie and her four surviving friends have been... Read more Read reviews Write review	0.0 5.0 (1)
	The Same Stuff as Stars Books » Young Adult Fiction 0 Author(s) Katherine Paterson Publisher Houghton Mifflin Co Genre(s) General Fiction Read more Read reviews Write review	0.0 4.0 (4)
	Rachel Chance Books » Young Adult Fiction 0 Author(s) Jean Thesman Publisher Houghton Mifflin Co Genre(s) General Fiction In this suspenseful and exciting story set in Seattle in the 1940s, fifteen-year-old Rachel, with her grandfather and a teenage hired hand, sets out to rescue her baby brother, who has been kidnapped. Read more Read reviews Write review	0.0 4.0 (1)
	Molly Donnelly Books » Young Adult Fiction 0 Author(s) Jean Thesman Publisher Houghton Mifflin Co Genre(s) General Fiction Molly Donnelly faces many changes in Seattle during the turbulent years of World War II. Her best friend is taken away to a Japanese internment camp, her mother gets her first job in a factory, and Molly herself discovers first love. Read more Read reviews Write review	0.0 4.0 (1)
	Better Than Running at Night Books » Young Adult Fiction 0 Author(s) Hillary Frank Publisher Houghton Mifflin Co Genre(s) General Fiction Having left behind the melodrama of her solitary high school days—and the beheaded martyrs in her paintings—Ellie arrives at the New England College of Art and Design. Looking forward to the opportunity to recreate herself and her art, she begins her first day by dirty dancing with the Devil. Then... Read more Read reviews Write review	3.0 4.0 (1)

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