Although he's only just graduated from high school, 18-year-old Dean Duffy thinks of himself as a has-been. Mired in an inexplicable and frustrating two-year batting slump, he helplessly watches...
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Author: Powell, RandySummary:
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Author: Spinelli, JerrySummary:
Crash Coogan is a big jock. As long as he can remember, he has crashed through life, running over anyone or anything that stands in his way. So when the geeky pacifist kid Penn Webb moves onto his...
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Author: Mills, KyleSummary:
With U.S. intelligence agencies wracked by internal power struggles and paralyzed by bureaucracy, the president has been forced to establish his own clandestine group, Covert-One. It's...
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Author: Beattie, AnnSummary:
Nina and her brother Andrew share a strong bond: during childhood, they helped each other survive the cruelty of their physician father. Their mother has not fared so well: she is a drunken...
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Author: Gabaldon, DianaSummary:
In the eighteenth century, paroled prisoner-of-war Jamie Fraser and his old fried Tobias Quinn must travel from London to Ireland on a mission of intrigue surrounding a packet of documents and an...
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Author: Gabaldon, DianaSummary:
London, 1759. After a high-society electric-eel party leads to a duel that ends badly, Lord John Grey feels the need to lie low for a while. Conveniently, before starting his new commission in His...
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Author: AviSummary:
Each member of the South Orange River seventh-grade soccer team has qualities of excellence, but not on the soccer field.
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Author: Neff, Henry H.Summary:
Young Max McDaniels battles trolls, water beasts, and other monsters in a hostile, poverty-stricken dystopian landscape profoundly transformed by the villainous Astaroth.
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Author: Preus, MargiSummary:
In Nazi-occupied Norway, fourteen-year-old Espen joins the resistance movement, graduating from deliverer of illegal newspapers to courier and spy.
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Author: Ebershoff, DavidSummary:
Inspired by the true story of Danish painter Einar Wegener and his California-born wife, this tender portrait of a marriage asks: what do you do when someone you love wants to change? It starts...
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Author: Paulsen, GarySummary:
When the camp van crashes into a raging river, Daniel has some tough choices to make. He could save himself, or risk everything in an attempt to save his campmates who have made fun of him from...
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Author: Paulsen, GarySummary:
Nikki Roberts feels very grown up when her parents leave her alone in their mountain lodge but her horseback ride to a nearby meadow leads to an encounter with deadly poachers and a forest fire....
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Author: Paulsen, GarySummary:
Roman and three of his classmates are held captive in a remote mountain cabin. Can he overcome his fear--and the memory of his father's death--to lead the boys to freedom?
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Author: Paulsen, GarySummary:
While climbing the sheer mountain face known as Devil's Wall, the Rock Jockeys stumble upon the empty wreckage of a B-17 Bomber, unearthing a gruesome secret. Includes valuable information on...
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Author: Koller, Jackie FrenchSummary:
Darek and his family and friends are returning from their dragonquest with something different: Zantor, a live baby dragon. The villagers are surprised that it is nothing like the fierce creatures...
Genre: Juvenile fiction