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  Confessions of a Candy Snatcher

  Phoebe Sinclair

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  It's Halloween: Candy-snatching time.  
   
  For the past few years, twelve-year-old Jonas and his friends have competed to see how much candy they can snatch from unsuspecting trick-or-treaters. No one’s supposed to get hurt. So Jonas is taken by surprise when one of his smaller targets fights back against his candy-snatching attempt.  
  He’s even more surprised when he starts to receive anonymous notes from someone who seems to know what happened that night. Jonas already has enough on his plate, between evolving friendships and his own guilt—guilt his friend Concepción challenges him to confront in a zine she’s  
  creating around the prompt “What’s the worst thing you ever did?” It’s a complicated question, one that touches on issues of identity, maturity, and physical boundaries. Phoebe Sinclair’s debut novel relates an emotive, reflective story about the wonder—and mess—of growing up.

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  Drive

  Joyce Moyer Hostetter

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  World War II is over, but the Honeycutt family is still feeling its devastating effects. Especially Daddy, who can’t forget what he saw on the battlefield and sometimes can’t cope with everyday life. Fourteen-year-old Ellie Honeycutt finds  
  escape at the NASCAR speedway and in her dreams of travel and college. Her twin sister, Ida, clings to family and finds solace in her sketchbook. Once inseparable, the two sisters find themselves growing apart with the start of high school. They  
  make different friends, take different classes—and unfortunately fall for the same charming classmate. Can Ellie and Ida renew their deep bond while finding their own separate drives in life? 
   
  In this fourth addition to the acclaimed Bakers Mountain Stories, Joyce Moyer Hostetter once again brings to life the quiet town of Hickory, North Carolina, and its residents, exploring the close ties of family and friends against the backdrop of  
  the nuclear arms race, the Korean War, polio scares, and the 1952 presidential election.

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  Herumphmumph - A Story of...

  Jo Hill

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  Polly just loves to sew. Whether they’re big things or small things, stuffed or flat, patterned or plain, she is never happier than when she is surrounded by threads and materials in a rainbow of colours, textures and designs and the two things she has endless amounts of, which are imagination and love. These she stitches into every one of her 
  creations. On one special afternoon at school, she makes the softest, most colourful, most special gingham elephant, who from that moment becomes her bestest friend, sharing the most wonderful adventures with her that last a lifetime.

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  Charlie & Mouse Lost and Found

  Laurel Snyder

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  Join Charlie and Mouse as they: lose something old, find someone new, say a sad goodbye, and discover that home for them, for Blanket, and for a brand-new puppy is really … each other. 
   
  Charlie and Mouse are finding surprises in all sorts of unexpected places! A day full of losing, finding, saying hello and goodbye has its ups and downs—but through it all they’ll also find that as long as they’re together, they’re never truly lost.

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  Silk Veils of the Desert Oracle:...

  Hang Nguyen

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  Across the endless sands of Saharion, where veil dancers swirl prophecies in silk and nomad warlords etch oaths in storm-scarred blades, dancer Mira unveils a visionary union with warlord Kael, whose nomadic heart yearns for a fate beyond the dunes. Their love, swirled in veil vows and sand-kissed caresses, unveils the desert's secrets—or buries them in tempestuous gales. As they traverse vision-haunted oases and oath-bound caravans, shadowed by oracle rivals and dune stalkers, Mira's silken grace merges with Kael's warlike resolve, revealing a desert oracle legend of unveiled destiny. When a fractured veil summons sand spirits, they must dance the union to calm the storm. In the swirl of silk veils, where every vision whispers promise and every oath carves the soul, their visionary bond becomes the oasis that quenches the wanderer's thirst.

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  The Presidents of World War II

  Editors Charles River

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  Franklin Delano Roosevelt might be America’s greatest 20th century president, but there’s no question that he was the most unique. A well-connected relative of Theodore Roosevelt, FDR was groomed for greatness until he was struck down by polio. Nevertheless, he persevered, rising through New York politics to reach the White House just as the country faced its greatest challenge since the Civil War, beginning his presidency with one of the most iconic lines ever spoken during an inaugural address. For over a decade, President Roosevelt threw everything he had at the Great Depression, and then threw everything the country had at the Axis powers during World War II. Ultimately, he succumbed to illness in the middle of his fourth term, just before the Allies won the war.  
  	Among America’s presidents, Harry Truman’s presidency produced some of the nation’s most crucial decisions and left one of the nation’s most unique legacies. When President Franklin Roosevelt died in April 1945, Vice President Truman, somewhat unprepared for the Presidency, now had to fill some of the biggest shoes in American history. Incredibly, Truman had not been informed of the country’s secret attempt to build atomic bombs. 
  	The new president had to usher America through victory in Europe in his first month and decide to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki a few months later, but the end of World War II produced only the first of many consequential decisions Truman would face during his nearly 8 years in office. As president, Truman would lay the groundwork for the next 50 years of American foreign policy, as the architect of Cold War containment, the man who signed off on the Marshall Plan, and the commander-in-chief during much of the Korean War.

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