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39 Clues: The Maze of Bones
Author: Rick Riordan
Series: The 39 Clues

Grace Cahill, the last matriarch of the Cahills, the world's most powerful family, left her descendants an impossible decision: "You have a choice — one million dollars or a Clue." 39 Clues hidden around the world will reveal the family's deepest secret, but no one has been able to assemble them. Now the clues race is on, and young Amy and Dan must decide what's important: hunting clues or uncovering what REALLY happened to their parents.

The Maze of Bones is the first book in the 39 Clues series and a #1 New York Times bestseller.

Release Date: Available Now


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Anacaona, Golden Flower, Quisqueya, Haiti, 1490
Author: Edwidge Danticat
Series: Royal Diaries

Beginning in 1490, Anacaona keeps a record of her life as a possible successor to the supreme chief of Xaragua, as wife of the chief of Maguana and as a warrior battling the first white men to arrive in the West Indies.

Release Date: April 2005



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Anastasia, the Last Grand Duchess - Russia, 1914
Author: Carolyn Meyer
Series: Royal Diaries

This is a novel in diary form, in which the youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II describes the privileged life in her family, up until the time of World War I and the tragic events that befell them.

Release Date: July 2006


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Anastasia: The Last Grand Duchess
Author: Carolyn Meyer
Series: Royal Diaries

Through young Anastasia Romanov's eyes, you are given a heart-wrenching look into one of the most dramatic times in history.

Release Date: September 2000



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Boy Who Dared, The
Author: Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Series: None

When Helmut Hubner listens to the BBC news, he discovers Germany is lying to the people. But when he tries to expose the truth, he's tried for treason.

Release Date: February 2008


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Call Me Maria
Author: Judith Cofer Ortiz
Series: None

Maria is a girl caught between two worlds: Puerto Rico, where she was born, and New York, where she now lives in the barrio.

Release Date: October 2004



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Catherine, the Great Journey, Russia, 1743
Author: Kristiana Gregory
Series: Royal Diaries

This fictional diary of Princess Sophie, later named Catherine, covers her life from 1743 until 1745, when at age fifteen she is married to her second cousin Peter, Grand Duke of Russia, who will one day be Emperor.

Release Date: December 2005


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Cleopatra
Author: Kristiana Gregory
Series: Royal Diaries

While her father is in hiding after attempts on his life, twelve-year-old Cleopatra records in her diary how she fears for her own safety and hopes to survive to become Queen of Egypt some day.

Release Date: September 1999



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Eleanor of Aquitaine
Author: Kristiana Gregory
Series: Royal Diaries

This is the diary of Eleanor, first daughter of the Duke of Aquitaine, from 1136 until 1137, when at age fifteen she becomes Queen of France.

Release Date: November 2002


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Elijah of Buxton
Author: Christopher Paul Curtis
Series: None

Eleven-year-old Elijah is the first child born into freedom in Buxton, Canada, a settlement of runaway slaves just over the border from Detroit.

Release Date: September 2007



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