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On the night Donovan Turner is thrown out of a car on a highway in the middle of nowhere, he can barely remember his own name, let alone the past twenty-four hours. Where is he? Where is his girlfriend, Bee? In an attempt to flag down the next passing car, he startles the driver, causing a fatal accident. With sirens in the distance and the lingering feeling that he's running from something--or someone--Donovan grabs the dead driver's briefcase and...
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Magnificent Mya Tibbs volume 1
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Nine-year-old Mya is excited about participating in School Spirit Week, even making a pinky promise with her best friend Naomi to be her partner, but when she accidentally gets paired with the biggest bully in school, Mean Connie, Naomi is mad at Maya for breaking her promise, so she must learn to work with Mean Connie and try and get her friend back.
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Amber Brown volume 4
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Unhappy over her parents' divorce and her mother's boyfriend Max, nine-year-old Amber finds her schoolwork suffering.
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Rainbow Street Shelter volume 1
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When Logan's dog runs away as he and his mother are moving to a new home after his parents separate, a girl named Hannah, who longs for a dog of her own, finds him.
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Baseball great novels volume 3
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Determined to play in the Little League World Series, twelve-year-old Josh struggles to concentrate on his game and be the team's leader while also trying to cope with his parents' impending divorce.
6) Shark Girl
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After a shark attack causes the amputation of her right arm, fifteen-year-old Jane, an aspiring artist, struggles to come to terms with her loss and the changes it imposes on her day-to-day life and her plans for the future.
7) Chrissa
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Girl of the year. 2009: Chrissa volume 1
Girl of the year. 2009 Chrissa volume 1
American girls collection. Chrissa volume 1
Girl of the year. 2009 Chrissa volume 1
American girls collection. Chrissa volume 1
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Chrissa Maxwell moves to a new school in the middle of the year, and the girls in her fourth-grade class are decidedly unfriendly. On the advice of her grandmother, Chrissa tries first to be nice, and then to ignore the mean girls. But they just won't quit, and when the teasing turns into serious bullying, Chrissa must find the courage to stand strong and speak out.
10) Snowboard duel
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When the son of the new manager of the ski resort starts a snowboard cross team and will not allow girls to join, Brian and Hannah try to think of a way to change his mind.
11) Hero-type
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Feeling awkward and ugly is only one reason sixteen-year-old Kevin is uncomfortable with the publicity surrounding his act of accidental heroism, but when a reporter photographs him apparently being unpatriotic, he steps into the limelight to encourage people to think about what the symbols of freedom really mean.
12) Blink & Caution
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Two teenagers who are living on the streets and barely getting by become involved in a complicated criminal plot, and make an unexpected connection with each other.
13) The piper's son
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After his favorite uncle's violent death, Tom Mackee watches his family implode, quits school, and turns his back on music and everyone who matters, and while he is in no shape to mend what is broken, he fears that no one else is, either.
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When Lucy B. Parker gets friend-dumped right before school starts, she thinks things can't get much worse. But then her mom announces she's dating Laurel Moses' dad. Laurel is the TV-movie-music star and now Lucy will be the less-pretty less-talented sister of the famous girl.
15) Amazing Grace
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Although a classmate says that she cannot play Peter Pan in the school play because she is black, Grace discovers that she can do anything she sets her mind to do.
17) I want a dog!
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Lisa wants a dog but her parents claim their apartment is too small, so she devises a plan to convince her parents she could take care of a dog.
20) Wing ding
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Super sluggers volume 3
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When star shortstop for the Rambletown Rounders, Stump Plumwhiff, comes down with a bad case of the "yips," his teammates try to help him regain his self-confidence before the All-Star game.
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