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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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Bagdasarian, Adam. First
French kiss and other traumas.
The author recounts humorous, sad, traumatic, romantic, and confusing episodes from his childhood. |
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Cabot, Meg. All-American
girl.
A sophomore girl stops a presidential assassination attempt, is appointed Teen Ambassador to the United Nations, and catches the eye of the very cute
First Son. |
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Choldenko, Gennifer. Al Capone
does my shirts.
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.
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Ferris, Jean. Love among the
walnuts.
Born and raised in isolation in a wealthy, eccentric family, Sandy is shocked when he, his parents, and their servants become victims of a vicious plot
by his greedy uncles to incapacitate them and take their money. |
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Howe, Norma. The adventures of Blue
Avenger.
On his sixteenth birthday, still trying to cope with the unexpected death of his father, David Schumacher decides--or does he--to change his name to
Blue Avenger, hoping to find a way to make a difference in his Oakland neighborhood and in the world. |
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Juby, Susan. Miss Smithers.
Sixteen-year-old Alice MacLeod's life as an outcast begins to change when she experiments with being friends with different sorts of people, tries
drinking alcohol and eating meat, and competes in the Miss Smithers beauty pageant. |
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Korman, Gordon. Son of the mob: Hollywood hustle.
Eighteen-year-old Vince Luca, son of mob boss Anthony Luca, goes away to college in southern California hoping to escape his past, but soon his
brother and a series of "uncles" appear at his dorm, and before long he is caught up in criminal activity once again. |
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LaRochelle, David. Absolutely positively
not.
Chronicles a teenage boy's humorous attempts to fit in at his Minnesota high school by becoming a macho, girl-loving, "Playboy" pinup-displaying
heterosexual. |
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Limb, Sue. Girl, 15, charming but
insane.
Fifteen-year-old Jess, living with her mum, separated from her father in Cornwall, and with a best friend who seems to do everything perfectly, finds
her own assets through humor. |
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Lubar, David. Sleeping freshmen never
lie.
While navigating his first year of high school and awaiting the birth of his new baby brother, Scott loses old friends and gains some unlikely new ones
as he hones his skills as a writer. |
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Rees, Douglas. Vampire High.
When his family moves from California to New Sodom, Massachusetts and Cody enters Vlad Dracul Magnet School, many things seem strange, from
the dark-haired, pale-skinned, supernaturally strong students to Charon, the wolf who guides him around campus on the first day. |
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Rennison, Louise. Angus,
thongs, & full-frontal snogging.
Presents the humorous journal of a year in the life of a fourteen-year-old British girl who tries to reduce the size of her nose, stop her mad cat from
terrorizing the neighborhood animals, and win the love of handsome hunk Robbie. |
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Shusterman, Neil. The Schwa was here.
A Brooklyn eighth-grader nicknamed Antsy befriends the Schwa, an "invisible-ish" boy who is tired of blending into his surroundings and going
unnoticed by nearly everyone. |
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Smith, Jeff. Out from Boneville.
The adventures of the Bone cousins two weeks after being run out of Boneville. |
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Vizzini, Ned. Be more chill.
Badly in need of self-confidence and a change of image, high school nerd Jeremy Heere swallows a pill-sized super computer that is supposed to help
him get whatever he wants. |
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Wilson, Daniel H. How to
survive a robot uprising.
Whatcha gonna do when the robots come for you? |
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