Laura Knight Keating
21) River of dreams
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Awake or asleep, Finn has never though of herself as any kind of hero, but she comes into her power as a Dreamwalker -- people who fight the monsters in other people's dreams -- by realizing her brother in a coma is the one calling out to her.
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How badly do you want to be famous? What--or who--would you sacrifice? These are the questions Justine Childs is forced to reckon with as the main suspect in the murder of It-girl Eva-Kate Kelly. Not long ago, Eva-Kate drew Justine into her orbit before meeting her untimely end in a Venice Beach canal. Prosecutors and the public want to know: Did Justine, now a social media darling in her own right, kill her celebrity best friend? Can anyone be trusted...
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Winterborne home volume 2
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IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
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"April thought she had her happy ending. After all, she has her new house and new friends and new guardian. But she also has a very big new secret. The kids of Winterborne House are the only ones who know that Gabriel Winterborne--famous billionaire and terrible cook--is really a sword-wielding vigilante. What they don't know is that he's not the only one. When a masked figure breaks in, looking for something--or someone--it's clear that Gabriel has...
24) The Ranger
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Crow stories trilogy volume 2
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In this memorable and beautifully illustrated story, a ranger comes across a fox caught in a trap. The ranger frees the fox and promises only to tend to its wounds. The fox recovers and remains curiously close to the ranger, and when unexpected twists occur, the fox ends up being the helper. The ranger asks the fox, "Does this make us even?" and almost immediately feels regret - keeping score has no place in friendship. And so the two continue their...
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IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
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Acclaimed writer Margo Rabb's Kissing in America is "a wonderful novel about friendship, love, travel, life, hope, poetry, intelligence, and the inner lives of girls," raves internationally bestselling author Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love). In the two years since her father died, sixteen-year-old Eva has found comfort in reading romance novels-118 of them, to be exact-to dull the pain of her loss that's still so present. Her romantic fantasies...
26) Activated
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In this exhilarating sequel, Jo Rivers, grapples with the aftermath of her adventures in Tunisia. Haunted by her extraordinary mathematical abilities and the enigmatic encounter with Noble, Jo's quest for a normal life is forever shattered. As she embarks on a mission to unlock the secrets of her gift and confront her unresolved emotions, she discovers that Noble has inexplicably disappeared, leaving only a coded message in the stars. With Kai undercover,...
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IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
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In this charming debut about first love and second chances, a young girl gets caught between the boy next door and a playboy. Perfect for fans of To All the Boys I've Loved Before.
Mansfield, Massachusetts, is the last place seventeen-year-old Edie Price wants to spend her final summer before college. It's the home of wealthy suburban mothers and prima donnas like Edie's cousins, who are determined to distract her from her mother's death with cute...
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A whip-smart, heart-wrenching debut YA novel about first love, first loss, and filmmaking that will delight fans of Jandy Nelson and Jennifer Niven
In the movie version of Amelia's life, the roles have always been clear. Her older brother, Toby: definitely the Star. As popular with the stoners as he is with the cheerleaders, Toby is someone you'd pay ten bucks to watch sweep Battle of the Bands and build a 'beach party' in the bathroom. As for Amelia?...
29) I'm From Nowhere
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A teenage girl shipped off to prep school tries to solve the mystery of her own identity-and her mother's past-in this "gem of a book" (Kim Culbertson).
It's always been just Wren and her mother, Hannah, living together in Southern California. But when Hannah receives a reporting assignment in Greenland, Wren is sent away to Hardwick Hall, her mother's alma mater-even though her mother has refused to discuss her time at the exclusive Connecticut...
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Soon to be a Major Motion Picture
Set in Shanghai and Seattle, “Calculated” is a gritty, modern day blend of the Count of Monte Cristo and Mission Impossible.
She has many names-Octavia, Double 8, Phoenix, Josephine. She's a math prodigy, a calculating genius and everyone wants her.
In seventeen-year-old Jo River's complicated world of numbers, there's no such thing as coincidence. When she is betrayed by someone she loves, kidnapped by the...
31) Planning Perfect
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Sometimes the best parts of life can't be planned.
Felicity Becker loves watching an event come together. There's something magical about crafting an experience people will remember. So when her mom gets engaged, Felicity sees the wedding as the perfect opportunity to show off her skills.
After Felicity's friend Nancy offers up her family's apple orchard as a venue, wedding planning gets even better. But the more time Felicity and Nancy spend together...
32) Seashell season
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Every year on March 26th, Verity Peterson visits Ogunquit Beach, where she puts a handwritten message into a bottle and launches it into the waves. It's a ritual of remembrance for the daughter she hasn't seen in sixteen years--not since her baby's father, Alan, took two-month-old Gemma and disappeared. Verity keeps searching and hoping, sustained by the thought that someday she might get to be a mother to her own child. And finally, one phone call...
34) The gilded girl
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Gilded magic volume 1
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IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
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Heartfelt, fast-paced, and utterly absorbing, The Gilded Girl is Alyssa Colman's sparkling debut novel about determination, spirit, and the magic of friendship. Any child can spark magic, but only the elite are allowed to kindle it. Those denied access to the secrets of the kindling ritual will see their magic snuffed out before their thirteenth birthday. In 1906 New York City, Miss Posterity's Academy for Practical Magic is the best kindling school--and...
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Eighteen-year-old American, Wren, is stranded in England when news of an impending world-ending comet causes global chaos, but when she meets a runaway prince with an agenda of his own, she realizes he might be her only chance of getting home in time to say goodbye.
36) Accidental
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IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
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"Sixteen-year-old Jo must decide whether to trust her estranged father or the grandparents who raised her but hid the truth about the way her mother died when Jo was only two"--
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Seventeen-year-old Calliope Silversmith's lifelong friendships are transformed when she starts dating new neighbor, Max, but her life is turned upside-down when she learns the identity of the sperm donor her mothers chose.
Calliope Silversmith has never wanted anything more than her best friends Ginger and Noah, her moms, their house in the woods, and their family-run yoga studio-- except maybe knowing who her sperm donor is. When Max and his family...
39) Remember me
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When Blue Owens wakes up with the overwhelming feeling that something is wrong with her memory, she meets Adam Mendoza, who explains that she paid to have her unpleasant memories erased in order to "start over"--and that begins Blue's journey to recover her memories and understand the truth of why she felt the need to lose them in the first place.