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Anderson, M.T. Burger wuss.
Hoping to lose his loser image, Anthony plans revenge on a bully which results in a war between two competing fast food restaurants, Burger Queen and O'Dermott's. |
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Bloor, Edward. Tangerine.
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. |
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Crutcher, Chris. Whale talk.
Intellectually and athletically gifted, TJ, a multiracial, adopted teenager, shuns organized sports and the gung-ho athletes at his high school until he agrees to form a swimming team and recruits some of the school's less popular students. |
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Flanagan, John. The ruins of Gorlan.
When fifteen-year-old Will is rejected by Battleschool, he becomes the reluctant apprentice to the mysterious Ranger Halt, and winds up protecting the kingdom from danger. Sequel, The burning bridge. |
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Hiaasen, Carl. Flush.
With their father jailed for sinking a river boat, Noah Underwood and his younger sister, Abbey, must gather evidence that the owner of this floating casino is emptying his bilge tanks into the protected waters around their Florida Keys home. |
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Heinlein, Robert. Starship troopers.
A recruit of the future goes through the toughest boot camp in the universe--and into battle with the Terran Mobile Infantry against mankind's most frightening enemy. |
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Hoobler, Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler. The ghost in the Tokaido Inn.
While attempting to solve the mystery of a stolen jewel, Seikei, a merchant's son who longs to be a samurai, joins a group of kabuki actors in eighteenth-century Japan. Sequel: The demon in the teahouse. |
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Lawrence, Iain. The cannibals.
Tom Tin and his friend Midgely-- with assorted juvenile criminals-- escape the ship taking them to serve their terms in Australia and head for a Pacific island, forgetting Tom's father's warnings about headhunters and cannibals. |
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Lubar, David. Hidden talents.
When thirteen-year-old Martin arrives at an alternative school for misfits and problem students, he falls in with a group of boys with psychic powers and discovers something surprising about himself. |
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Oppel, Kenneth. Airborn.
Matt, a young cabin boy aboard an airship, and Kate, a wealthy young girl traveling with her chaperone, team up to search for the existence of mysterious winged creatures reportedly living hundreds of feet above the Earth's surface. |
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Patterson, James. Maximum Ride: the Angel experiment.
After the mutant Erasers abduct the youngest member of their group, the "birdkids," who are the result of genetic experimentation, take off in pursuit and find themselves struggling to understand their own origins and purpose. Sequel: Maximum Ride: school's out forever. |
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Paulsen, Gary. How Angel Peterson got his name : and other outrageous tales about extreme sports.
Author Gary Paulsen relates tales from his youth in a small town in northwestern Minnesota in the late 1940s and early 1950s, such as skiing behind a souped-up car and imitating daredevil Evel Knievel. |
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Ralston, Aron. Between a rock and a hard place.
One of the most extraordinary survival stories ever told -- Aron Ralston's searing account of his six days trapped in one of the most remote spots in America, and how one inspired act of bravery brought him home. |
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Sleator, William. The boy who couldn't die.
When his best friend dies in a plane crash, sixteen-year-old Ken has a ritual performed that will make him invulnerable, but soon learns that he had good reason to be suspicious of the woman he paid to lock his soul away. |
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Thomas, Rob.
Rats saw God.
In hopes of graduating, Steve York agrees to complete a hundred-page writing assignment which helps him to sort out his relationship with his famous astronaut father and the events that changed him from promising student to troubled teen. |
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Vizzini, Ned. It's kind of a funny story.
A humorous account of a New York City teenager's battle with depression and his time spent in a psychiatric hospital. |
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Volponi, Paul. Black and white.
Two star high school basketball players, one black and one white, experience the justice system differently after committing a crime together and getting caught. |
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