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Unlike the other birthmothers in her utopian community, teenaged Clara forms an attachment to her baby, feeling a great loss when he is taken to be adopted by a family unit.

"Nineteen-year-old Signa Farrow must solve a duke's murder and contend with a seemingly all-powerful deity, Fate"--Provided by publisher.

"Sisters Usha and Aarti, and cousin Gloria, see different things in the stars--a Big Dipper, a Big Digger, and a Big Kite--in this introduction to geometry and spatial relationships"--Provided by publisher.

In a remote mountain village every boy who turns thirteen must face a ritual hunt known as the Trial. Oskari, who cannot stand to be alone in a forest and whose ceremonial bow is too big for him, sets out on his hunt and sees an eerie blue light that he thinks is an alien, but realizes it is the President of the United States, whose plane was sabotaged and crashed and is running for his life.

Simple text and photographs define environment, discuss how water is used, and offer suggestions on how children can help conserve water.

"A select group of students enter the Roca Negra academy, an elitist institution located in a cold and inhospitable area of Baqueira. This prestigious boarding school guarantees them becoming the leaders of tomorrow. In return, they just have to abide by the rules and maintain composure. But everything takes an unexpected turn when the snow leaves them incommunicado and a corpse with obvious signs of violence appears on the scene. It will be then that the police will begin an investigation that will put the spotlight on those privileged students, who until recently trusted each other. However, now they must assume that there is at least one murderer among them. How would you act if the only people you could trust could also betray you?"--Adapted from back cover.

Twelve-year-old Ben Ripley leaves his public middle school to attend the CIA's highly secretive Espionage Academy, which everyone is told is an elite science school.

"As her senior capstone project, Pippa Fitz-Amobi is determined to find the real killer in a closed, local murder case, but not everyone wants her meddling in the past"--Provided by publisher.

Ever since her near-fatal drowning, Cassidy has been able to pull back the "Veil" that separates the living from the dead and see ghosts, not that she wants to, and she was really looking forward to a ghost-free summer at the beach; however her parents are going to start filming a TV series about the world's most haunted places, starting with Edinburgh with its graveyards, castles, and restless phantoms--and Cass and her personal ghost companion, Jacob, are about to find out that a city of old ghosts can be a very dangerous place indeed.

"Teen mother Emoni Santiago struggles with the challenges of finishing high school and her dream of working as a chef"--OCLC.