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...
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Author: Bloor, EdwardSummary:Genre: Juvenile fiction
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Author: Hobbs, WillSummary:
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...
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Author: Gilb, DagobertoSummary:
Sonny Bravo is a tender, unusually smart fifteen-year-old who is living with his vivacious mother in a large city where intense prejudice is not just white against black, but also brown. When his...
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Author: Hobbs, WillSummary:
Fifteen-year-old Victor Flores journeys north in a desperate attempt to cross the Arizona border and find work in the United States to support his family in central Mexico.
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Author: Connor, LeslieSummary:
The oldest Mariss brother, fourteen-year-old Dewey, attempts to be the "embodiment of responsibility" as he juggles the management of the family's bicycle repair business while sharing the...
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Author: Ferraiolo, Jack D.Summary:
Scott Hutchinson has an alternate identity as Bright Boy, the sidekick of Phantom Justice. But with the help of his rival sidekick, Monkeywrench, Scott begins to question whether Phantom Justice...
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Author: Klause, Annette CurtisSummary:
After leaving home in search of adventure, romance, and riches, seventeen-year-old Abel, the "normal" son of freak show entertainers, is haunted by a mysterious spirit.
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Author: Kinney, JeffSummary:
Middle-schooler Greg Heffley is the prime suspect when it is discovered that school property has been damaged, but when a surprise blizzard hits and school is closed, Greg is stuck indoors with...
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Author: Polikoff, Barbara GarlandSummary:
As Horatio tries to adjust to the death of his father from lung cancer, O.P., Horatio's grandfather, mourns the loss of his dog Mollie.
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Author: Lopez, JackSummary:
Surfing is Juan Barrela's life but when his best friend Jamie faces a violent home situation, the tenth-grader steals his mother's car and drives with Jamie's sister Amber to Mexico to help her...
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Author: Smith, RolandSummary:
A fourteen-year-old boy attempts to be the youngest person to reach the top of Mount Everest.
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Author: Olson, GretchenSummary:
Instead of playing tennis, seventeen-year-old Jeff is required to spend his summer working on an Oregon strawberry farm where new friendships with field hands and migrant workers, as well as the...
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Author: Kinney, JeffSummary:
It's a new school year, and Greg Heffley finds himself thrust into middle school, where undersized weaklings share the hallways with kids who are taller, meaner, and already shaving.
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Author: Kinney, JeffSummary:
Greg Heffley tells about his summer vacation and his attempts to steer clear of trouble when he returns to middle school and tries to keep his older brother Rodrick from telling everyone about...
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Author: Slavin, DavidSummary:
Diary of a Wimpy Kid meets Percy Jackson in Odd Gods, the first book in a hilarious series about the most unlikely, unusual Gods ever to grace the halls of Mount Olympus Middle School. Oddonis may...
Genre: Juvenile fiction