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1) The giver
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Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives.
Living in a "perfect" world without social ills, a boy approaches the time when he will receive a life assignment from the Elders, but his selection leads him to a mysterious man known as the Giver, who reveals the dark secrets behind the utopian...
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"Lenny the lion loves his grandpa, King Lion. But when King Lion starts to forget things, Lenny begins to worry. He can't understand why grandpa keeps getting muddled and doesn't want to play any more. Lenny doesn't know what to do, but with a little help from grandpa's old friends, perhaps he can find a way to help him remember"--
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1 volume (unnumbered) : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
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Español
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"La mamá de Lisa es una auténtica despistada, y eso le parece divertido a todo el mundo. ¿Pero su despiste puede llegar al punto de olvidar un día a su hija en la escuela? Eso ya no resultaría ta divertido. ¿verad? -- Page 4 of cover.
Lisa's MOM is real clueless, and that seems funny to everyone. But her cluelessness can reach the point of forgetting your daughter at school one day? That would not be fun, right?
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Flinkwater chronicles volume 2
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216 pages ; 22 cm.
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"Ginger Crump solves the mystery of why people in her town are forgetting things they should definitely know"--
5) Also
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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This moving story follows one family through generations of time spent together and shows readers that memories allow us to connect to the past, the present, and also to each other.
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Canaan is a quiet city on an idyllic world, hemmed in by high walls, but every twelve years the town breaks out in a chaos of bloody violence, after which all the people undergo the Forgetting, in which they are left without any trace of memory of themselves, their families, or their lives--but somehow seventeen-year-old Nadia has never forgotten, and she is determined to find out what causes it and how to put a stop to the Forgetting forever.
7) The leaving
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421 pages ; 22 cm
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"Six kindergarteners were taken. Eleven years later, five come back--with no idea of where they've been. No one remembers the sixth victim, Max. Avery, Max's sister, needs to find her brother--dead or alive--and isn't buying this whole memory-loss story"--
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290 pages ; 22 cm
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A girl with recurring memory loss chases down the boy she loves based on the one memory she is able to hold onto.
For the past seven years Flora Banks has no short-term memory. Her mind resets itself several times a day, and has since the tumor was removed from her brain at the age of ten. Then when she kisses Drake, her best friend's boyfriend, the night before he leaves town, this one memory breaks through Flora's fractured mind and sticks. She's...
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Father is a prophet. Infallible. The Chosen One. Seventeen-year-old Piper will do anything for Father ... until the day the government raids the compound and separates her from her siblings, from all of Father's followers -- even Caspian, the boy she loves. Desperate to escape deprogramming after being rescued from the cult, Piper wants to rejoin her family. She's living with a woman They claim is her real mother -- and Piper plans to escape. -- adapted...
11) The memory thief
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319 pages ; 22 cm
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When Madame threatens to put her mother up for auction, Etta Lark rejoins the rebel group she swore off years earlier.
In the city of Craewick the power-obsessed ruler, Madame, has cultivated a society in which memories are currency, citizens are divided by ability, and Gifted individuals can take memories from others through touch as they please. Etta Lark grapples with the guilt of an accident that has left her mother bedridden in the city's asylum....
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"A girl must stop the Boogeyman living in her home from stealing her family's warmest memories"--
When her distant aunt and uncle die, Amelia Howling and her parents move in with Amelia's orphaned cousins. Luckily, the house is large, filled with nooks and crannies perfect for hiding. The house was built years ago by a creature named Horatio, who has the power to travel through time and memories. He's been waiting for the perfect human inhabitant,...
13) Exile
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Keeper of the lost cities volume 2
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568 pages ; 22 cm.
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Sophie is settling in nicely to her new life in Havenfield. She's getting to spend time with rare, precious species -- including the first female Alicorn, who shows herself to Sophie and trusts no one but her. Sophie is tasked with helping to train the magical creature so that the Alicorn can be revealed to the people of the lost cities as a sign of hope. But the secrets buried deep in Sophie's memories remain, and before long she's back in incredible...
14) Boat of dreams
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm
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Inspired by Rogério Coelho's family vacation on a Brazilian coastal village in winter, the characters of the old man and the young boy popped into his imagination and compelled him to create a story that took him almost seven years to complete. An old man and a seagull live on a deserted island. A young boy and his cat are lonely in a city. Between them, in a stoppered bottle, floats a piece of paper on which the man draws a flying boat and the boy...
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Guardians volume 3
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226 pages ; 20 cm.
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When orphaned Katherine learns that the teeth collected by the scorned Tooth Fairy contain memories of childhood, she enlists the help of the Guardians to get her tooth back and remember her parents.
17) The tide
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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A young girl spends a day on the beach with her grandpa, whose memories are starting to come and go like the tide.
18) White cat
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Curse workers volume 1
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When Cassel Sharpe discovers that his older brothers have used him to carry out their criminal schemes and then stolen his memories, he figures out a way to turn their evil machinations against them.
19) Neverseen
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Keeper of the lost cities volume 4
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672 pages ; 22 cm.
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"Sophie battles the rebels -- and recovers dark memories from her past. She must question everything to find a truth that will either save her world -- or shatter it"--
20) Eventown
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"The world tilted for Elodee this year, and now it's impossible for her to be the same as she was before. Not when her feelings have such a strong grip on her heart. Not when she and her twin sister, Naomi, seem to be drifting apart. So when Elodee's mom gets a new job in Eventown, moving seems like it might just fix everything. Indeed, life in Eventown is comforting and exciting all at once. Their kitchen comes with a box of recipes for Elodee to...
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