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: 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:
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: Aslan, AustinSummary:
Twelve-year-old Mace Blazer gets the chance to pilot a state-of-the-art vehicle, that transforms at the touch of a button from racecar to jet plane to submarine, in the biggest race in the world...
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Author: Kinney, JeffSummary:
In Big Shot, book 16 of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series from #1 international bestselling author Jeff Kinney, Greg Heffley and sports just don't mix. After a disastrous field day competition...
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Author: Gonzales, SophieSummary:
Sophie Gonzales and Cale Dietrich's " If This Gets Out is an absolute showstopper! Equal parts edgy and adorable, this bright, joyful book has everything I look for in a queer YA romance...
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Author: Henry, KatieSummary:
Gideon's short-lived run as a locally famous boy detective ended when middle school started. Now he's sixteen and officially retired. That is, until his best friend Lily shows up...
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Author: Álvarez, NoéSummary:
Growing up in Yakima, Washington, Noe Álvarez worked at an apple-packing plant alongside his mother, who "slouched over a conveyor belt of fruit, shoulder to shoulder with mothers...
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Author: King, WesleySummary:
From the author of Incredible Space Raiders from Space! comes a coming-of-age story about a boy whose life revolves around hiding his obsessive compulsive disorder-until he gets a mysterious note...
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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.
Genre: Young adult fiction, Fantasy fiction