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Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 04/27/2010
ISBN-13: 9780375834875
ISBN-10: 0375834877

Nick and his friend Marta decide to investigate when a mysterious fire starts near a Florida wildlife preserve and an unpopular teacher goes missing.

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Publisher: Puffin Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 04/20/2006
ISBN-13: 9780142403709
ISBN-10: 0142403709

A twelve-year-old boy named Moose moves to Alcatraz Island in 1935 when guards' families were housed there, and has to contend with his extraordinary new environment in addition to life with his autistic sister.

Publisher: Puffin Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 02/22/2011
ISBN-13: 9780142417829
ISBN-10: 0142417823

Even though his mother feels baseball ruined her marriage to his father, she allows fourteen-year-old Brian to become a bat boy for the Detroit Tigers, who have just drafted his favorite player back onto the team.

Publisher: Harcourt
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 08/01/2006
ISBN-13: 9780152056575
ISBN-10: 0152056572

Comfort Snowberger is well acquainted with death since her family runs the funeral parlor in their small southern town, but even so the ten-year-old is unprepared for the series of heart-wrenching events that begins on the first day of Easter vacation with the sudden death of her beloved great-uncle Edisto. Reprint.

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Publisher: Yearling
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 01/08/2008
ISBN-13: 9780385734165
ISBN-10: 0385734166

While learning to bestow dreams, a young dream giver tries to save an eight-year-old boy from the effects of both his abusive past and the nightmares inflicted on him by the frightening Sinisteeds. Reprint.

Publisher: HarperTrophy
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/01/2005
ISBN-13: 9780060540241
ISBN-10: 0060540249

Twelve-year-old Annie ponders the many rhythms of life the year that her mother becomes pregnant, her grandfather begins faltering, and Max, her best friend and running partner, becomes distant. Reprint.

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Publisher: HarperCollins Pub.
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/01/2008
ISBN-13: 9780060530921
ISBN-10: 0060530928

Raised since he was a baby by ghosts, werewolves, and other residents of the cemetery in which he has always resided, Bod wonders how he will manage to survive amongst the living with only the lessons he has learned from the dead.

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Publisher: Disney/Hyperion Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 12/29/2009
ISBN-13: 9781423121701
ISBN-10: 1423121708

After 12-year-old Percy Jackson (who, like Harry, has had a troubled childhood) vaporizes his algebra teacher, he is whisked off to Camp Half-Blood, where he learns that he is the son of Poseidon, god of the sea. Before he's really adjusted to this news, Percy realizes that it's up to him, his best friend Grover (who is a satyr--half boy, half horse), and Annabeth (one of Athena's daughters) to stop an all-out war between Poseidon and Zeus over a missing lightning bolt. If they fail, humanity is doomed.

Publisher: Scholastic
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/01/2008
ISBN-13: 9780439443838
ISBN-10: 0439443830

Frustrated at life with an autistic brother, twelve-year-old Catherine longs for a normal existence but her world is further complicated by a friendship with a young paraplegic.

Publisher: Harcourt
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/01/2006
ISBN-13: 9780152057800
ISBN-10: 0152057803

Twelve-year-old Paul, who lives in the shadow of his football hero brother Erik, fights for the right to play soccer despite his near blindness and slowly begins to remember the incident that damaged his eyesight. An ALA Best Book for Young Adults. Reprint. Jr Lib Guild.

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Publisher: Yearling
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 12/28/2010
ISBN-13: 9780375850868
ISBN-10: 0375850864

In the 1980s, as her mother prepares to be a contestant on a television game show, Miranda tries to make sense of a series of mysterious notes received from an anonymous source that seems to defy the laws of time and space.

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Publisher: Graphia
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/22/2008
ISBN-13: 9780547076317
ISBN-10: 0547076312

Groomed by his father to be a star player, footb.

Publisher: Atheneum Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 03/09/2010
ISBN-13: 9781416971702
ISBN-10: 141697170X

Realistic Fiction. Nearly 11 years old, Melody Brooks has never spoken a word. She has cerebral palsy and can't walk, talk, or feed herself, and her body "tends to move on its own agenda"--but, while the kids and teachers around her don't know it, she is the smartest kid in the whole school. Being stuck inside her head is driving Melody out of her mind...until she gets a special computer that allows her to finally express her thoughts. But are people ready to hear them? This emotionally intense and compelling story, narrated by Melody, is a tribute to the strength and bravery of every kid with challenges to overcome.

Publisher: Clarion Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 11/15/2010
ISBN-13: 9780547251271
ISBN-10: 0547251270

Fiction. When rebel soldiers attack his Sudanese village in 1985, 11-year-old Salva runs away. Separated from his family in the chaos, he walks--sometimes with other refugees, sometimes alone--all through southern Sudan, Ethiopia, and Kenya in search of a safe haven. Many years later, a young Sudanese girl also spends most of her time walking, but her trek is the same every day: it takes her eight hours to reach the place where she fetches water for her family. Both of these spare, harrowing stories are based on real-life events, and readers are sure to be surprised and uplifted when they learn what connects them.

Publisher: Harcourt
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 08/01/2008
ISBN-13: 9780152062682
ISBN-10: 0152062688

After being arrested for scaling a New York skyscraper and then sent to live with his long-lost father and fellow climber, Peak Marcello finds it difficult to rebuild their bond, thus when his father suddenly pushes him to climb Mt. Everest, Peak must take into consideration his father's questionable motives. Reprint.

Publisher: Aladdin
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/01/2010
ISBN-13: 9781442402713
ISBN-10: 1442402717

When his family exceeds its legal debt limit, thirteen-year-old Matt is sent to the Federal Debt Rehabilitation Agency workhouse, where he discovers illicit activities are being carried out using the children who have been placed there.

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Publisher: Scholastic Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/01/1997
ISBN-13: 9780590360807
ISBN-10: 0590360809

In a series of poems, fourteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression.

Publisher: Scholastic Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 02/01/2010
ISBN-13: 9780439837064
ISBN-10: 0439837065

Fiction. In Drums, Girls, & Dangerous Pie, Jeffrey Alper's big brother, Steven, stayed strong for him during Jeffrey's treatment for leukemia. Now, in After Ever After, Jeffrey is in eighth grade and in remission--but the side effects of his treatments go beyond physical and learning challenges; for much of his life now, he's felt like "Jeffrey Alper, Official Town Cause." Worst of all, Steven has taken off to Africa to join a drum circle and "find himself," so Jeffrey has to handle the stresses of school, friends, his physical condition, and maybe even his first girlfriend by himself. If you like novels that are emotionally intense and yet very funny, don't miss After Ever After.

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 06/01/2010
ISBN-13: 9781442401945
ISBN-10: 144240194X

Escaping from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan in the summer of 2001, eleven-year-old Fadi and his family immigrate to the San Francisco Bay Area, where Fadi schemes to return to the Pakistani refugee camp where his little sister was accidentally left behind.

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Publisher: Harper & Row
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 06/01/1967
ISBN-13: 9780060239206
ISBN-10: 0060239204

Publisher: HarperCollins
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 01/01/2001
ISBN-13: 9780380977444
ISBN-10: 0380977443

After his anger erupts into violence, Cole, in order to avoid going to prison, agrees to participate in a sentencing alternative based on the native American Circle Justice, and he is sent to a remote Alaskan Island where an encounter with a huge Spirit Bear changes his life.

Publisher: Atheneum
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/01/1999
ISBN-13: 9780689821806
ISBN-10: 0689821808

An African-American girl and a Latino boy fall in love after meeting on the Internet, but they are harrassed by a gang who objects to their interracial dating.

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Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/01/2002
ISBN-13: 9780689852220
ISBN-10: 0689852223

In a future where humans despise clones, Matt enjoys special status as the young clone of El Patron, the 142-year-old leader of a corrupt drug empire nestled between Mexico and the United States.

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Publisher: Tor
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 04/11/2008
ISBN-13: 9781435235007
ISBN-10: 1435235002

An expert at simulated war games, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin believes that he is engaged in one more computer war game when, in truth, he is commanding the last Earth fleet against an alien race seeking Earth's complete destruction. Nebula and Hugo Winner. Reissue.

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Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/03/2011
ISBN-13: 9780062024022
ISBN-10: 0062024027

Dystopian SF. In this future, post-apocalyptic Chicago, people have divided themselves into five factions, each named for the virtue that its members devote their lives to cultivating: Candor (honesty), Abnegation (selflessness), Dauntless (bravery), Amity (peacefulness), and Erudite (intelligence). At 16, all citizens choose their permanent factions, and Beatrice Prior has just shocked her family by rejecting Abnegation to become Dauntless. But in order to join the ranks of the bold and brave, she'll first have to survive their brutal initiation...and keep a secret that could cost her life. Combining thrills, action, and violence with heady romance, Divergent is one awesome summer read.

Publisher: Aladdin Paperbacks
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 03/01/2002
ISBN-13: 9780689848919
ISBN-10: 0689848919

In 1793 Philadelphia, sixteen-year-old Matilda Cook, separated from her sick mother, learns about perseverance and self-reliance when she is forced to cope with the horrors of a yellow fever epidemic. Reader's Guide available. Reprint.

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Publisher: Dial Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 03/01/2005
ISBN-13: 9780803729216
ISBN-10: 0803729219

After being taught in a boarding school run by whites that Navajo is a useless language, Ned Begay and other Navajo men are recruited by the Marines to become Code Talkers, sending messages during World War II in their native tongue.

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Publisher: Broadway Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/01/2002
ISBN-13: 9780767905923
ISBN-10: 076790592X

A sportswriter conveys the wisdom of his late mentor, college professor Morrie Schwartz, recounting their weekly conversations as Schwartz lay dying. Reprint. 500,000 first printing.

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Publisher: Washington Square Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 02/05/2008
ISBN-13: 9780743496735
ISBN-10: 0743496736

In the aftermath of a horrific small-town school shooting, lawyer Jordan McAfee finds himself defending a youth who desperately needs someone on his side, while intrepid detective Patrick DuCharme works with a primary witness in the daughter of the superior court judge assigned to the case. By the author of The Tenth Circle. Reprint. 800,000 first printing.

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Publisher: HarperTeen
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 07/01/2008
ISBN-13: 9780061448775
ISBN-10: 006144877X

In a small town on the coast of California, everyone over the age of fourteen suddenly disappears, setting up a battle between the remaining town residents and the students from a local private school, as well as those who have "The Power" and are able to perform supernatural feats and those who do not.

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Publisher: Hyperion
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 08/01/2006
ISBN-13: 9781401308797
ISBN-10: 1401308791

Portrays the life and career of Bill Belichick, head coach of the New England Patriots, revealing the strategies and ideals that have brought him and his team success.

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Publisher: Harper
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 06/01/2009
ISBN-13: 9780061537967
ISBN-10: 0061537969

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Publisher: Hyperion
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 04/10/2008
ISBN-13: 9781401323257
ISBN-10: 1401323251

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Publisher: Signet
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 04/01/2008
ISBN-13: 9780451221957
ISBN-10: 0451221958

Thriller. While working at a summer camp, Paul Copeland shirked his duties to meet a girl, and in his absence four campers disappeared into the woods. Two bodies were discovered, their throats slashed, but the other two kids--a boy and Paul's sister--were never found. Fast forward 20 years and Paul, now a county prosecutor, is working on a high-profile case while raising his daughter alone after losing his wife to cancer. Then he gets a strange call: a dead man has been found in Manhattan with personal effects that link him to Paul. When Paul identifies him as the missing boy camper--long presumed dead--it stirs up the past and places him in grave danger. "Another Coben gripper," says Booklist.

Publisher: Atria Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 04/01/2004
ISBN-13: 9780743454520
ISBN-10: 0743454529

Conceived to provide a bone marrow match for her leukemia-stricken sister, teenage Anna begins to question her moral obligations in light of countless medical procedures and decides to fight for the right to make decisions about her own body.

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