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Collectors volume 1
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Overlooked in class, a hearing-impaired boy who collects lost or discarded trinkets discovers a dangerous underground world full of stolen wishes and the people who collect them.
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Questioneers volume 6
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When Zookeeper Fred's green snake Vern gets loose in the zoo, the Questioneers need all their talents to help find him, but in the end, it is Aaron's art that leads the way. Includes facts about snakes.
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It is 1904 and the partially deaf Asta Hedstrom is engaged to Nils, but she does not want to marry him: she would rather spend her time with her best friend Gunnar Fuglestad and his secret boyfriend, Erlend, who belongs to the wealthiest family on their Norwegian island; so when Nils gravely injures Gunnar, she shuns her marriage and moves in with Gunnar and Erlend in a secluded cabin above town--and the three misfits set out to win the annual Christmas...
7) Wait for me
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As her senior year in high school approaches, Mina yearns to find her own path in life, but working at the family business, taking care of her little sister, and dealing withher mother's impossible expectations are as stifling as the southern California heat until she falls in love with Ysrael, a young migrant worker with dreams of becoming a musician, who offers a way out.
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Because of a hearing disability, Kohei is often misunderstood and has trouble integrating into life on campus, so he learns to keep his distance. That is until he meets the outspoken and cheerful Taichi. He tells Kohei that his hearing loss is not his fault. Taichi's words cut through Kohei's usual defense mechanisms and open his heart. More than friends, less than lovers, their relationship changes Kohei forever.
10) Hola, universo
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Virgil se siente fuera de lugar en su familia loca por los deportes. Valencia es sorda, inteligente y ama todo sobre la naturaleza. Kaori es una psíquica autoproclamada, cuya hermana pequeña, Gen, siempre la sigue. Y Chet desea que los niños raros simplemente dejen de ser tan diferentes para poder concentrarse en el baloncesto. No son amigos Pero cuando Chet tira una broma que atrapa a Virgil y su conejillo de indias en el fondo de un pozo,...