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When Gabe, aka Chunk, a teenager who derives his greatest satisfaction from playing in the school band, finds out that the cheerleaders have appropriated the band's usual source of income (funds from the soda vending machine) for a new dance team, he takes on the school's social hierarchy to fight for the right of band geeks.
82) Wild Man Island
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After fourteen-year-old Andy slips away from his kayaking group to visit the wilderness site of his archaeologist father's death, a storm strands him on Admiralty Island, Alaska, where he manages to survive, encounters unexpected animal and human inhabitants, and looks for traces of the earliest prehistoric immigrants to America.
84) Winger
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Series
Winger volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
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Two years younger than his classmates at a prestigious boarding school, fourteen-year-old Ryan Dean West grapples with living in the dorm for troublemakers, falling for his female best friend who thinks of him as just a kid, and playing wing on the Varsity rugby team with some of his frightening new dorm-mates.
85) Dog days
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Series
Carver chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
Gavin wants to make a good impression at Carver Elementary, where no one knows he excels at soccer and skateboarding, but an annoying big sister, a bully, and his great aunt's Pomeranian are not helping.
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Bolden, an Agate imprint
Pub. Date
[2017]
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This rhythmic, read-aloud title is an unbridled celebration of the self-esteem, confidence, and swagger boys feel when they leave the barbers chair-a tradition that places on their heads a figurative crown, beaming with jewels, that confirms their brilliance and worth and helps them not only love and accept themselves but also take a giant step toward caring how they present themselves to the world. The fresh cuts. Thats where it all begins.
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
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From the moment he wakes up, Buster Bickles is full of big ideas, but when he tries them out he never fails to get into trouble, at home or in school. Then his mother takes him to visit his Uncle Roswell, an inventor, who needs some help only Buster can provide.
89) Concrete rose
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Maverick feels strongly about family ties, making choices he feels necessary to help support his mom while his King father serves time, and leave him literally holding his son in a doctor's waiting room after he gets paternity test results back and his babymomma ghosts. Now the child he's raising is impacting the lives of his family and his girlfriend, and the gang life he led to support them all financially could leave them all bearing his responsibilities...
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Harcourt Children's Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2013]
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In early twentieth-century New York, as thirteen-year-old Sacha Kessler, the Inquisitor's apprentice, faces enemies old and new that threaten him and his family, he changes his mind about learning magic.
91) Men Of Iron
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Airmont Publishing Company Inc
Pub. Date
1965
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A quest for knighthood motivates Myles Falworth through rigorous training and dangerous jousting tournaments to confront a lifelong enemy and claim his true love.
Myles Falworth determines that the only way he can restore his family's honor, undo the false charge of treason placed against his blind father by the arrogant Earl of Alban, is to become a knight of noble standing and challenge the Earl to single combat. Men of Iron is a historical novel...
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Harcourt, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013.
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Irreverent, foul-mouthed, seventeen-year-old Cricket Cherpin, living under the watchful eye of Mother Mary at a Catholic boys' home in Maine, has such bleak prospects he is considering suicide when Wynona Bidaban steps into his world.
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2016.
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Samuel and his younger brother, Joshua, are free black boys living in an orphanage during the Civil War, but when Samuel takes the blame for his brother's prank, he is sent South, given a new name, and sold into slavery--and somehow he must survive both captivity and the war, to find his way back to his brother.
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Life of Ty volume 2
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA), LLC
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
"In the second book of the series, seven-year-old Ty Perry discovers that being kind is part of being Ty"--
96) Attaboy, Sam!
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Sam is able to help his sister Anastasia with the poem she is writing for their mother's birthday, but his own efforts to create a special perfume are disastrous.
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Last musketeer volume 3
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
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"When Greg and the Musketeers return to Paris and find the city under siege, they leap into action to prevent King Louis from being overthrown and history from being changed forever"--
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Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"When Martin 'Murray Poopins' Healey left the Wohlfardt household, all the responsible habits, good manners, and study skills that twins David and Nathan had developed under his less-than-watchful eye went out the window, until Myron, who claims to be Martin's twin, arrives"--
99) Blast off!
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Alien in my pocket volume 1
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Fourth-grader Zack McGee's life is turned upside-down when Amp, a tiny alien, crash-lands in his bedroom, then causes trouble at school while trying to get parts to repair his spaceship.
100) License to spill
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Publisher
Poppy/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Description
"The second-quarter journal entries of five freshmen at ultra-competitive Noble High detail the students' ongoing quest to become the Phoenix Five--the most outstanding first-year students in the school"--
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