October 1, 2002
Orca Book Publishers

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Every student in the school knew that all the most important aspects of school life were controlled by a secret club called Shadow Council. Each fall, Shadow held a traditional lottery during which a single student's name was drawn. The rest of the student body called this student the lottery winner.
But Shadow Council know better; to them the winner was the lottery victim.
Whatever the label, the fated student became Council's go-fer, delivering messages of doom to selected targets. in response, the student body completely shunned the lottery winner for the entire year.
This year's victim was fifteen-year-old Sally Hanson.

October 1, 2001

Rebound by Sagebrush

read over the year of my childhood

Description

Journeys to the end of the world, fantastic creatures and epic battles between good and evil - the book that has it all is The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, written in 1949 by C. S. Lewis. But Lewis did not stop there. Six more books followed, and together they became known as The Chronicles of Narnia.
For over fifty years, The Chronicles of Narnia have transcended the fantasy genre to become part of the canon of classic literature. Each of the seven books is a masterpiece, drawing the reader into a land where magic meets reality, and the result is a fictional world whose scope has fascinated generations.
This edition presents all seven books - unabridged - in one impressive volume.

August 1, 1984
Random House Children's Books

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The lives of five captives hang in the balance while their families gather the ransom.
Two brothers, their family frantic to find their sons. A loner whose uncle doesn't even know he's missing. An army brat whose family will never be able to raise enough money. A cheerleader who can't count on her stepdad but knows her father will come through. And now the clock is ticking...

August 1, 1994
Random House Children's Books

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Jonas's world is perfect. Everything is under control. There is no war or fear or pain. There are no choices. Every person is assigned a role in the Community.
When Jonas turns twelve, he is singled out to receive special training from The Giver. The Giver alone holds the memories of the true pain and pleasure of life. Now it's time for Jonas to receive the truth. There is no turning back.

October 11, 2001
Macmillan

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It is an icy night in the country that long ago was known as Transylvania. The wintry ground crackles as a hunter's paw breaks the hard earth. The wolf pauses, her breath like smoke in the old air, then a howl pierces the night. But it is her eyes, not her howl, that speak of danger. Beware of the Sight.
In the shadow of the Carpathian mountains, a pack of wolves seeks shelter from the vicious winter. A legend clings to them - a story of man and wolf, of power and death. The Sight has come into their world. They will never be the same again...

April 24, 2007
Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing

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In the realm of Faerie, the time has come for Roiben's coronation. Uneasy in the midst of the malevolet Unseelie Court, pixie Kaye is sure of only one thing - her love for Roiden. But when Kaye, drunk of faerie wine, declares herself to Kuiloen, he sends her on a seemingly impossible quest. Now Kaye can't see or speak to Roiben unless she can find the one thing she knows doesn't exist: a faerie who can tell a lie.
Miserable and convinced she belongs nowhere, Kaye decides to tell her mother the truth - that she is a changeling left in place of the human daughter stolen long ago. Her mother's shock and horror sends Kaye back to the world of faerie courts, Kaye finds herself a pawn in the games of Silarial, queen of the Seelie Court. Silarial wants Roiden's throne, and she will use Kaye, and any means necessary, to get it. In this game of wits and weapons, can a pixie out play a queen?

January 31, 2006
Thorndike Press

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When seventeen-year-old Valerie Russell runs away to New York City, she's trying to escape a life that has utterly betrayed her. Sporting a new identity, she takes up with a gang of squatters who live in the city's labyrinthine subway system.
But there's something eerily beguiling about Val's new friends. Impulsive Lolli talks of monsters in the subway tunnels they call home and shoots up a shimmery amber-colored powder that makes the shadows around her dance. Severe Luis claims he can make deals with creatures that no one else can see. And then there's Luis's brother, timid and sensitive Dave, who makes the mistake of letting Val tag along as he makes a delivery to a woman who turns out to have goat hooves instead of feet.
When a bewildered Val allows Lolli to talk her into tracking down the hidden lair of the creature for whom Luis and Dave have been dealing, Val finds herself bound into service by a troll named Ravus. He is as hideous as he is honorable. And as Val grows to know him, she finds herself torn between her affection for an honorable monster and her fear of what her new friends are becoming.

October 1, 2002
Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing

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Sixteen-year-old Kaye is a modern nomad. Fierce and independent, she travels from city to city with her mother's rock band until an ominous attack forces Kaye back to her childhood home. There, amid the industrial, blue-collar New Jersey backdrop, Kaye soon finds herself an unwilling pawn in an ancient power struggle between two rival faerie kingdoms - a struggle that could very well mean her death.

August 30, 2002
Pan Macmillan Limited

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Mara's island home is drowning beneath storm-tossed waves as mighty icecaps melt and Earth loses its land to the ocean.
But Mara has seen something extraordinary - hints of a New World rising from the sea and reaching into the sky, cities where frantic refugees might find safety.
In a desperate bid for survival, Mara and her friends set sail in the ultimate exodus. Their quest is heart-wrenching story of love and loss, and journey into humanity's capacity for good and evil.