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Sixteen-year-old Miles, thirteen-year-old Sarah, and their parents find themselves changing in many ways as they struggle to survive winter in a remote cabin, while keeping anyone in the nearby town from learning they are living there illegally after the devastation of volcanic eruptions drove them from their Minneapolis home.
6) Dead to you
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Having been abducted at age seven, abandoned, a foster child, and homeless, Ethan, now sixteen, is happy to be home until his brother's suspicion and his own inability to remember something unspeakable from his early childhood begin to tear the family apart.
7) Hooper
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For Adam Reed, basketball is a passport. Adam s basketball skills have taken him from an orphanage in Poland to a loving adoptive mother in Minnesota. When he s tapped to play on a select AAU team along with some of the best players in the state, it just confirms that basketball is his ticket to the good life: to new friendships, to the girl of his dreams, to a better future.
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"I re-read these books every year, marveling at how a world so quaint-shirtwaists! Pompadours! Merry Widow hats!-can feature a heroine who is undeniably modern." -Laura Lippman
"There are three authors whose body of work I have reread more than once over my adult life: Charles Dickens, Jane Austen and Maud Hart Lovelace." -Anna Quindlen
Often considered Maud Hart Lovelace's best novel, Emily of Deep Valley is now back in print. This gorgeous...
11) Curling crunch
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Upset over her parents' divorce and her subsequent move to Minnesota, Maisie joins a curling team and begins to have a change of heart.
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DEN - Kids + Teens: Asian / Pacific American Heritage Month
MCL - Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature
NPM - JUV GRL X
MCL - Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature
NPM - JUV GRL X
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"Eleven-year-old Maizy Chen visits her estranged grandparents, who own and run a Chinese restaurant in Last Chance, Minnesota; as her visit lengthens, she makes unexpected discoveries about her family's history and herself"--
13) Truest
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"Westlin Beck's summer is turned upside down when the Hart twins move to town: aggravating, intriguing, and quirky Silas and his mysteriously ill sister, Laurel"--
15) Stork
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Stork trilogy volume 1
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After her parents' divorce, Katla and her mother move from Los Angeles to Norse Falls, Minnesota, where Kat immediately alienates two boys at her high school and, improbably, discovers a kinship with a mysterious group of elderly women--the Icelandic Stork Society--who "deliver souls."
16) Just a girl
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When her divorced parents start living together again, Rianne finds herself questioning her future, her relationship with Luke, and why she's gotten stuck with an "easy girl" reputation for doing the same exact things as guys without any judgment.
18) Duty or desire
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In this adaptation of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, Alejandro and Chrissie, teens from opposite sides of Minneapolis, are drawn together over their shared experience of brutal police attacks, but while Alejandro struggles with divided loyalties between his duty to his family and crew and his obsessive love, Chrissie debates whether to pursue justice or just move on.
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Betsy-Tacy stories volume 4
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The further adventures of 12-year-old Betsy, Tacy, and Tib as they explore the world beyond their neighborhood and discover the public library, see a real play, and make friends with the owners of the downtown hotel.
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