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In the end, people in Buhler decided that although the grocery and hardware stores might cost a little more they were prepared to pay a premium to preserve their community. Buhler has a large brown and yellow sign on the main road into town. It features a cross with an open book suggestive of a Bible. In Haven, the former mayor Mike Alfers conceded that the promised financial advantage of Dollar General has largely been lost with the closure of the Foodliner.

It is now a fitness centre, with the old grocery store sign still hanging outside. For all that, while Alfers feels sympathy for Nech, he said the Dollar General is the future. I think Buhler voted their sentiment. The question is, in five years will they have a Dollar General or something similar?

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With decent paying jobs increasingly scarce in rural Kansas, a good part of the population of Buhler and Haven work in large towns with ready access to a range of rivals from Walmart to farmers markets. The threat from Dollar General prompted Keith to evaluate his way of doing business. He was already in the process of building a larger shop just down the road from the existing one, but now it will incorporate hot foods such as chicken and a salad bar.

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It will also open later. For all his support for building the Dollar General in Haven, Alfers rarely shops there and regrets the loss of the Foodliner. I like to cook. The more immediate impact has been on those who are less mobile, like the elderly. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention calculates that about a quarter of the population is unable to buy healthy food nearby.

Dollar Generals are frequently to be found in those areas and some studies have made a direct link between the rise of dollar stores and unhealthy eating. But it is not that straightforward. A lot of our customers bought not healthy stuff. They leaned towards what was fast and cheap.

We had a pretty good selection of fresh produce. Yet growing up in an artificial community of young soldiers, Ender suffers greatly from isolation, rivalry from his peers, pressure from the adult teachers, and an unsettling fear of the alien invaders. His psychological battles include loneliness, fear that he is becoming like the cruel brother he remembers, and fanning the flames of devotion to his beloved sister. Is Ender the general Earth needs? But Ender is not the only result of the genetic experiments.

The war with the Buggers has been raging for a hundred years, and the quest for the perfect general has been underway for almost as long. Between the three of them lie the abilities to remake a world. If the world survives, that is. Eragon by Christopher Paolini series: Fifteen-year-old Eragon believes that he is merely a poor farm boy—until his destiny as a Dragon Rider is revealed.

Gifted with only an ancient sword, a loyal dragon, and sage advice from an old storyteller, Eragon is soon swept into a dangerous tapestry of magic, glory, and power. Now his choices could save—or destroy—the Empire. Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon: My disease is as rare as it is famous. The only people I ever see are my mom and my nurse, Carla. But then one day, a moving truck arrives next door. I look out my window, and I see him. He catches me looking and stares at me. I stare right back. His name is Olly. For example, I am certainly going to fall in love with Olly.

Falling From Grace by S. The new guy in school is different. Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell: Cath is a Simon Snow fan. Hanging out in Simon Snow forums, writing Simon Snow fan fiction, dressing up like the characters for every movie premiere. Cath is on her own, completely outside of her comfort zone. For Cath, the question is: Can she do this? Can she make it without Wren holding her hand? Is she ready to start living her own life? Writing her own stories? And does she even want to move on if it means leaving Simon Snow behind?

Fifteen by Beverly Cleary: It seems too good to be true. Stan is tall and good-looking, friendly and hard-working — everything Jane ever dreamed of. If only she knew all the clever things to say. If only she were prettier. If only she were ready for this….

Flipped by Wendelin Van Draanen: The first time she saw him, she flipped. The first time he saw her, he ran. That was the second grade, but not much has changed by the seventh. Still walking around with my first kiss. This is a classic romantic comedy of errors told in alternating chapters by two fresh, funny voices. Wendelin Van Draanen is at her best here with a knockout cast of quirky characters and a hilarious series of misunderstandings and missed opportunities.

But underlying the humor are two teens in transition. They are each learning to look beyond the surface of people, both figuring out who they are, who they want to be, and who they want to be with. This unfamiliar, isolated landscape is much the same as the world outside: But those who call it home have little or no control over their fate.

Good Kings Bad Kings challenges our definitions of what it means to be disabled in a story told with remarkable authenticity and in voices that resound with humor and spirit. Deep down, Dicey hopes they can find someone to trust, someone who will take them in and love them. Told in a series of vignettes — sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes deeply joyous — it is the story of a young Latina girl growing up in Chicago, inventing for herself who and what she will become.

Few other books in our time have touched so many readers. They arrive in New York City in to a life far removed from their existence in the Caribbean. In the wild and wondrous and not always welcoming U. For them, it is at once liberating and excruciating to be caught between the old world and the new.

In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV. Without really meaning to, she becomes a contender.

But if she is to win, she will have to start making choices that weigh survival against humanity and life against love. If I Stay by Gayle Forman sequel: In the blink of an eye everything changes. Little by little she struggles to put together the pieces- to figure out what she has lost, what she has left, and the very difficult choice she must make.

Heartwrenchingly beautiful, this will change the way you look at life, love, and family. Jeremiah feels good inside his own skin. Too bad the rest of the world has to get in their way. Jude and her twin brother, Noah, are incredibly close.

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At thirteen, isolated Noah draws constantly and is falling in love with the charismatic boy next door, while daredevil Jude cliff-dives and wears red-red lipstick and does the talking for both of them. But three years later, Jude and Noah are barely speaking. Something has happened to wreck the twins in different and dramatic ways. Determined to succeed at life-which means getting into the right high school to get into the right college to get the right job-Craig studies night and day to ace the entrance exam, and does.

He soon sees his once-perfect future crumbling away. The stress becomes unbearable and Craig stops eating and sleeping-until, one night, he nearly kills himself. There, isolated from the crushing pressures of school and friends, Craig is finally able to confront the sources of his anxiety. Legend by Marie Lu series: What was once the western United States is now home to the Republic, a nation perpetually at war with its neighbors. But his motives may not be as malicious as they seem.

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She certainly would have remembered her boyfriend, Ace. She might even have remembered why she fell in love with him in the first place. She never would have met James, the boy with the questionable past and the even fuzzier future, who tells her he once wanted to kiss her. But Naomi picked heads. So Whitley acts out. It will take all three of them to help Whitley get through her anger and begin to put the pieces of her family together. Monster by Walter Dean Myers: Maybe I can make my own movie. The film will be the story of my life.

No, not my life, but of this experience. Open Road Summer by Emery Lord: Her best friend, country superstar Lilah Montgomery, is nursing a broken heart of her own. But when Matt Finch joins the tour as its opening act, his boy-next-door charm proves difficult for Reagan to resist, despite her vow to live a drama-free existence. This summer, Reagan and Lilah will navigate the ups and downs of fame and friendship as they come to see that giving your heart to the right person is always a risk worth taking.

The Outsiders by S. No one ever said life was easy. When Michael learns about Projekt , a secret Nazi war mission, things get even more complicated. He must prove his loyalty to the Hitler Youth at all costs — even if it means risking everything he cares about. They might get you a little bigger, but just a little. Runningback Mick Johnson has dreams: He has dreams of winning and of being the best. But football is a cruel sport. It requires power, grace, speed, quickness, and knowledge of the game. It takes luck, too. One crazy bounce can turn a likely victory into sudden defeat.

A way to make him bigger, stronger, faster? Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger. Some cops and the local drug lord try to intimidate Starr and her family.

What everyone wants to know is: And the only person alive who can answer that is Starr. But what Starr does—or does not—say could upend her community. It could also endanger her life. Luke has never been to school. In fact, Luke has never had a friend. Luke is one of the shadow children, a third child forbidden by the Population Police. Jen is willing to risk everything to come out of the shadows — does Luke dare to become involved in her dangerous plan?

Can he afford not to? From acclaimed author, Patricia Hruby Powell comes the story of a landmark civil rights case, told in spare and gorgeous verse. In , in Caroline County, Virginia, amidst segregation and prejudice, injustice and cruelty, two teenagers fell in love. Their life together broke the law, but their determination would change it.

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Richard and Mildred Loving were at the heart of a Supreme Court case that legalized marriage between races, and a story of the devoted couple who faced discrimination, fought it, and won. Rowan is a second child in a world where population control measures make her an outlaw, marked for death. She can never go to school, make friends, or get the eye implants that will mark her as a true member of Eden. Indeed, her kaleidoscopic eyes may very well give her away to the ruthless Center government. Outside of Eden, Earth is poisoned and dead.

All animals and most plants have been destroyed by a man-made catastrophe. Long ago, the brilliant scientist Aaron Al-Baz saved a pocket of civilization by designing the EcoPanopticon, a massive computer program that hijacked all global technology and put it to use preserving the last vestiges of mankind. Humans will wait for thousands of years in Eden until the EcoPan heals the world. Now, desperate to see the world, she recklessly escapes for what she swears will be only one night of adventure. Though she finds an exotic world, and even a friend, the night leads to tragedy.

Soon Rowan becomes a renegade on the run. Tyrell feels he needs to score some money to make things better. On a foggy night in Amsterdam, a man falls from a rooftop to the wet pavement below. As sirens wail in the distance, Alfie manages to get out two last words to his young son, March: But March learns that his father is not talking about a stash of loot.

March and Jules have no intention of staying put. Clarkston, Georgia, was a typical southern town until it became a refugee resettlement center. The author explores how the community changed with the influx of refugees and how the dedication of Lumah Mufleh and the entire Fugees soccer team inspired an entire community. Samantha McAllister looks just like the rest of the popular girls in her junior class.

But hidden beneath the straightened hair and expertly applied makeup is a secret that her friends would never understand: Sam is drawn to them immediately, especially a guitar-playing guy with a talent for verse, and starts to discover a whole new side of herself. Four kids from wildly different backgrounds with personalities that are explosive when they clash.

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But they are also four kids chosen for an elite middle school track team—a team that could qualify them for the Junior Olympics if they can get their acts together. They all have a lot to lose, but they also have a lot to prove, not only to each other, but to themselves. Ghost has a crazy natural talent, but no formal training.

If he can stay on track, literally and figuratively, he could be the best sprinter in the city. But Ghost has been running for the wrong reasons—it all starting with running away from his father, who, when Ghost was a very little boy, chased him and his mother through their apartment, then down the street, with a loaded gun, aiming to kill. Since then, Ghost has been the one causing problems—and running away from them—until he meets Coach, an ex-Olympic Medalist who blew his own shot at success by using drugs, and who is determined to keep other kids from blowing their shots at life.

The first is of Little Bao, a Chinese peasant boy whose village is abused and plundered by Westerners claiming the role of missionaries. Little Bao, inspired by visions of the Chinese gods, joins a violent uprising against the Western interlopers. Against all odds, their grass-roots rebellion is successful. But in the second volume, Yang lays out the opposite side of the conflict.

A girl whose village has no place for her is taken in by Christian missionaries and finds, for the first time, a home with them.

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As the Boxer Rebellion gains momentum, Vibiana must decide whether to abandon her Christian friends or to commit herself fully to Christianity. It offers a penetrating insight into not only one of the most controversial episodes of modern Chinese history, but into the very core of our human nature. Gene Luen Yang is rightly called a master of the comics form, and this book will cement that reputation. Ben has a problem. So when his friends start falling victim to an evil dream-monster that prevents them from waking, Ben knows he has to help them. Easier said than done when dreams can shift and the monster knows his way around the ever-changing landscape of the mind!

With help from a talking rabbit-companion who has a mysterious past, Ben might just be able to defeat the monster and save his friends. In a land without magic, where the king rules with an iron hand, an assassin is summoned to the castle. She comes not to kill the king, but to win her freedom. Her name is Celaena Sardothien. The Crown Prince will provoke her. The Captain of the Guard will protect her.

And it all started with one family—the Fears. Go back to how it all began and discover the dark family secrets buried underneath years of terror, from who sentenced an innocent woman to burn at the stake, to why the Fear mansion caught on fire, and how forbidden love, a bloody feud, and dark magic unleashed the curse that has lasted for far too long. In this riveting middle-grade adventure, the son of a Mississippi policeman finds a boy living on his own in the wilderness. Twelve-year-old Sam has been given a fishing boat by his father, but he hates fishing.

Instead he uses the boat to disappear for hours at a time, exploring the forbidden swampy surroundings of his bayou home. Then he discovers a strange kid named Davey, mysteriously alone, repairing an abandoned cabin deep in the woods. But this leads him to telling small lies that only get bigger as the danger increases for both boys and hidden truths become harder to conceal. When an educational safari goes wrong, five teens find themselves stranded in the Kalahari Desert without a guide.

Battling dehydration, starvation and the pangs of first love, she does her best to hold it together, even as their circumstances grow increasingly desperate. A silver lion, as though made of mercury, makes a vicious, unprovoked attack on the group. All his life, Call has been warned by his father to stay away from magic. If he succeeds at the Iron Trial and is admitted into the Magisterium, he is sure it can only mean bad things for him.

Now the Magisterium awaits him. Are you made fainthearted by death? Does fire unnerve you? Is a villain something that might crop up in future nightmares of yours? Are you thrilled by nefarious plots? Is cold porridge upsetting to you? It is likely that your answers will reveal A Series of Unfortunate Events to be ill-suited for your personal use. A librarian, bookseller, or acquaintance should be able to suggest books more appropriate for your fragile temperament. They rarely find themselves in the same room at the same time, and it often seems that the only thing they can count on are notes to each other on the refrigerator door.

When home is threatened by a crisis, their relationship experiences a momentous change. Forced to reevaluate the delicate balance between their personal lives and their bond as mother and daughter, Claire and her mother find new love and devotion for one another deeper than anything they had ever imagined. Heartfelt, touching, and unforgettable, Life on the Refrigerator Door is a glimpse into the lives of mothers and daughters everywhere.

In this deeply touching novel told through a series of notes written from a loving mother and her devoted fifteen-year-old daughter, debut author Alice Kuipers deftly captures the impenetrable fabric that connects mothers and daughters throughout the world. Moving and rich with emotion, Life on the Refrigerator Door delivers universal lessons about love in a wonderfully simple and poignant narrative. Bestselling author Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands, Junior leaves his troubled school on the rez to attend an all-white farm town high school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.

A bag of chips. But how can you stay still when someone is pounding your face into the concrete pavement? Soon the beating is all over the news and Paul is getting threatened with accusations of prejudice and racial brutality. Quinn refuses to believe that the man who has basically been his savior could possibly be guilty. But then Rashad is absent. As does the school. Simmering tensions threaten to explode as Rashad and Quinn are forced to face decisions and consequences they had never considered before. Booked by Kwame Alexander. Helping him along are his best friend and sometimes teammate Coby, and The Mac, a rapping librarian who gives Nick inspiring books to read.

Eleven by Tom Rogers. Alex Douglas always wanted to be a hero. But nothing heroic ever happened to Alex. Nothing, that is, until his eleventh birthday. Radar, his new dog, pretty much feels the same way. But this day has bigger things in store for both of them. This is a story about bullies and heroes.

About tragedy and hope. About enemies with two legs and friends with four, and pesky little sisters and cranky old men, and an unexpected lesson in kindness delivered with a slice of pizza. Illuminae by Amie Kaufan and Jay Kristoff. This afternoon, her planet was invaded. Now with enemy fire raining down on them, Kady and Ezra—who are barely even talking to each other—are forced to evacuate with a hostile warship in hot pursuit.

But their problems are just getting started. Legend by Marie Lu.


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