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Sarah is having a rotten summer. While her friends are having the time of their lives at Camp Wallhallas Teen Scene Week, she is being forced to go camping with the meanest people on the face of the earthher parents. But Sarah has no idea she is about to experience a summer she will never forget.Confined in a camper with her parents, Sarah thinks her life stinks. Her fate turns, however, when she meets Cory Hamlin, a dreamy fellow camper who helps her discover that vacationing in the great outdoors is tons more fun than spending a week at camp. After four days at the lake swimming, canoeing, and falling head over heels for the blue-eyed boy in the tent next door, the disappointment of missing Teen Scene Week seems like a distant memory. Sarahs camping trip takes an unexpected, eerie turn, however, when a teenager suddenly disappears off a boat in the dark of the night. Suddenly Sarah knows more than she should. Now it is up to her, with Corys help, to gather evidence and decide who to trust before they can ever go to the police.

The words "nuclear war" strike fear into the hearts of people all over the world. Movies and books depict the apocalyptic aftermath of such an event. While fictitious accounts may not be totally accurate, in October 1962, the United States came perilously close to finding out the reality of such a catastrophe during the Cuban Missile Crisis. For thirteen days, the country teetered on the verge of nuclear war. Through engaging text, accompanied by dynamic images and intriguing sidebars, students will learn exactly how close the nation came to World War III and how the country was pulled back from the brink.

Cardi B is a regular girl from the Bronx who has managed to do extraordinary things. In just a few short years, she paved a way to success and did it her way. Using social media and little more than a camera and an app as a launching pad, she rocketed to the top of the music charts. Eye-catching photographs, revealing quotations, and accessible text pull readers into Cardi B''s past struggles, present successes, and future hopes and dreams. Sidebars expand on fascinating details, and a timeline presents important milestones in an easy-to-read format.

Cardi B had her start on social media and reality television before rocketing to the top of the music charts. Her many accomplishments include becoming the first female rapper to have two number one singles on the Billboard Hot 100 and the first person of Dominican descent to have a song hit number one in the history of the chart. Full-color photographs, insightful details, and direct quotations will give readers insight into the early hardships that drove this "regular girl from the Bronx" to achieve record-breaking successes, while still remaining humble and true to herself.