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The Graveyard Book
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Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 561,958 ratings
score: 291,
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The Thing About Jellyfish
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4.10 avg rating — 43,782 ratings
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The Little Prince
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4.33 avg rating — 2,397,370 ratings
score: 179,
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The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain
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4.09 avg rating — 4,633 ratings
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The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm
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Nancy Farmer (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 16,316 ratings
score: 100,
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Redwall (Redwall, #1)
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4.14 avg rating — 127,268 ratings
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Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
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3.92 avg rating — 10,826 ratings
score: 99,
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The Line Tender
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4.21 avg rating — 5,228 ratings
score: 99,
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A Girl Named Disaster
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Nancy Farmer (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 5,200 ratings
score: 98,
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Feathers
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Jacqueline Woodson (Goodreads Author)
3.73 avg rating — 7,778 ratings
score: 97,
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I Survived the Shark Attacks of 1916
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4.14 avg rating — 13,371 ratings
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Brown Girl Dreaming
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Jacqueline Woodson (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 92,128 ratings
score: 96,
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The Wednesday Wars
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4.12 avg rating — 46,565 ratings
score: 95,
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Out of the Dust
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3.77 avg rating — 78,935 ratings
score: 94,
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The Giver (The Giver, #1)
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Lois Lowry (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 2,749,494 ratings
score: 93,
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Gathering Blue (The Giver, #2)
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Lois Lowry (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 205,873 ratings
score: 92,
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Al Capone Does My Shirts (Tales from Alcatraz, #1)
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Gennifer Choldenko (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 45,710 ratings
score: 90,
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Al Capone Shines My Shoes (Tales from Alcatraz, #2)
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Gennifer Choldenko (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 8,490 ratings
score: 89,
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Goodbye Stranger
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3.92 avg rating — 14,551 ratings
score: 88,
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Listening for Lions
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4.06 avg rating — 4,282 ratings
score: 87,
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The Mark of Athena (The Heroes of Olympus, #3)
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Rick Riordan (Goodreads Author)
4.47 avg rating — 662,616 ratings
score: 86,
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The House of Hades (The Heroes of Olympus, #4)
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Rick Riordan (Goodreads Author)
4.57 avg rating — 472,191 ratings
score: 85,
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Red Scarf Girl
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3.79 avg rating — 17,029 ratings
score: 84,
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A Break with Charity: A Story about the Salem Witch Trials
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3.79 avg rating — 6,288 ratings
score: 83,
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The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate (Calpurnia Tate, #1)
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Jacqueline Kelly (Goodreads Author)
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score: 80,
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Echo
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4.36 avg rating — 46,671 ratings
score: 79,
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Doll Bones
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Holly Black (Goodreads Author)
3.67 avg rating — 29,934 ratings
score: 78,
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Dead End in Norvelt (Norvelt, #1)
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Jack Gantos (Goodreads Author)
3.72 avg rating — 22,032 ratings
score: 77,
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The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale (Maus, #1-2)
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4.58 avg rating — 247,584 ratings
score: 76,
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Touching Spirit Bear (Spirit Bear, #1)
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3.86 avg rating — 35,838 ratings
score: 75,
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A Corner of the Universe
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4.08 avg rating — 15,544 ratings
score: 74,
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When Zachary Beaver Came to Town
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3.66 avg rating — 6,396 ratings
score: 73,
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Messenger (The Giver, #3)
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Lois Lowry (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 146,702 ratings
score: 72,
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The Underneath
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Kathi Appelt (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 11,393 ratings
score: 71,
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Yellow Star
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4.25 avg rating — 16,253 ratings
score: 70,
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Dear Miss Breed: True Stories of the Japanese American Incarceration During World War II and a Librarian Who Made a Difference
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Joanne Oppenheim (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 431 ratings
score: 68,
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Milkweed
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4.02 avg rating — 31,368 ratings
score: 67,
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The Case of the Missing Marquess (Enola Holmes, #1)
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Nancy Springer (Goodreads Author)
3.78 avg rating — 42,719 ratings
score: 66,
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Artemis Fowl Collection (Artemis Fowl, #1-7)
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4.41 avg rating — 3,682 ratings
score: 65,
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The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia
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4.04 avg rating — 7,146 ratings
score: 64,
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The Devil's Arithmetic
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Jane Yolen (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 61,626 ratings
score: 63,
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Elsewhere
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Gabrielle Zevin (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 69,605 ratings
score: 62,
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Summerland
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3.57 avg rating — 12,594 ratings
score: 61,
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Splendors and Glooms
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3.82 avg rating — 9,676 ratings
score: 60,
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The Crossover
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4.22 avg rating — 68,424 ratings
score: 59,
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The House of the Scorpion (Matteo Alacran, #1)
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Nancy Farmer (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 95,774 ratings
score: 58,
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Stormbreaker (Alex Rider #1)
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Anthony Horowitz (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 107,517 ratings
score: 57,
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Fever 1793
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Laurie Halse Anderson (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 131,714 ratings
score: 56,
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The Fourteenth Goldfish
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Jennifer L. Holm (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 24,363 ratings
score: 55,
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The Moves Make the Man
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3.70 avg rating — 1,282 ratings
score: 54,
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Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous Weapon
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4.14 avg rating — 20,668 ratings
score: 53,
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Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow
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4.09 avg rating — 6,138 ratings
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Witness
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3.72 avg rating — 5,711 ratings
score: 51,
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The Book Thief
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Markus Zusak (Goodreads Author)
4.39 avg rating — 2,818,762 ratings
score: 50,
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Booked (The Crossover, #2)
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4.17 avg rating — 19,592 ratings
score: 49,
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The War That Saved My Life (The War That Saved My Life, #1)
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Kimberly Brubaker Bradley (Goodreads Author)
4.49 avg rating — 112,682 ratings
score: 48,
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Point Blank (Alex Rider #2)
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Anthony Horowitz (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 63,163 ratings
score: 47,
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
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4.62 avg rating — 4,032,387 ratings
score: 46,
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The False Prince (Ascendance, #1)
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Jennifer A. Nielsen (Goodreads Author)
4.24 avg rating — 107,235 ratings
score: 45,
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Among the Hidden (Shadow Children, #1)
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3.99 avg rating — 130,120 ratings
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Fallout
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Todd Strasser (Goodreads Author)
3.74 avg rating — 3,756 ratings
score: 43,
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Fire from the Rock
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Sharon M. Draper (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 1,800 ratings
score: 42,
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Sophia's War: A Tale of the Revolution
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3.91 avg rating — 5,332 ratings
score: 41,
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