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Lawrence
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Lawrence, Kansas
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Every
Man for Himself : Ten Short Stories About Being a Guy.
New York : Dial Books, c2005. The Prom Prize / by Walter Dean
Myers -- Jump Away / by Rene Saldaa, Jr. -- No More Birds
Will Die Today / by Paul Acampora -- Shockers / by Davidm
Lubar -- Pig Lessons / by Edward Averett -- Strange Powers
/ by Craig Thompson -- The Unbeatable / by Mo Willems -- Princes
/ by David Levithan -- Fear / by Terry Trueman --It's Complicated
/ by Ron Koertge. An anthology of ten original short stories
about such things as family problems, sexuality, and courage,
written by well-known authors. |
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Easy Answers : Short Stories About Teenagers Making Tough
Choices.
New
York : Delacorte Press, c1997. A collection of sixteen short
stories, by Louise Plummer, M.E. Kerr, Jack Gantos, and others,
about teenagers in situations that test their character. |
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Adams,
Douglas, 1952-. The Hitchhiker's
Guide to the Galaxy. New York : Harmony Books,
c1989, c1979. Seconds before Earth is demolished to make room
for a galactic freeway, an earthman is saved by his friend.
Together they journey through the galaxy. |
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Alexander,
Lloyd. The Book of Three.
Rev. Ed. New York : Henry Holt, 1999. Rev. Ed. Taran, Assistant
Pig-Keeper to a famous oracular sow, sets out on a hazardous
mission to save Prydain from the forces of evil. |
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Books
by M. T. Anderson |
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Books
by Isaac Asimov |
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Bis |
Bissinger,
H. G. Friday Night Lights : a Town,
a Team, and a Dream. 1st Da Capo Press gift ed.
[New York] : Da Capo Press, 2003. Examines the role of high
school sports in America as seen through the story of a high
school football season in Odessa, Texas. |
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Bloor,
Edward, 1950-. Tangerine.
1st ed. San Diego, Calif. : Harcourt Brace, c1997. 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
damaged his eyesight. |
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Bowden,
Mark, 1951-. Black Hawk Down : a
Story of Modern War. 1st ed. New York : Atlantic
Monthly Press, c1999. A narrative of how ninety-nine elite
American soldiers find themselves trapped in Mogadishu, Somalia,
and how they fought their way out during Operation Restore
Hope. |
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Books
by Ray Bradbury |
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Card,
Orson Scott. Ender's Game.
T. Doherty Associates, 1977. Ender, who is the result of genetic
experimentation, may be the military genius Earth needs in
its war against an alien enemy |
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Books
by Tom Clancy |
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Colfer,
Eoin. Artemis Fowl. 1st American
ed. New York : Hyperion Books For Children, c2001. When a
twelve-year-old evil genius tries to restore his family fortune
by capturing a fairy and demanding a ransom in gold, the fairies
fight back with magic, technology, and a particularly nasty
troll. |
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Books
by Robert Cormier |
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Coy,
John, 1958-. Crackback.
1st ed. New York : Scholastic Press, c2005. Miles barely recalls
when football was fun after being sidelined by a new coach,
constantly criticized by his father, and pressured by his
best friend to take performance-enhancing drugs |
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Crane,
Stephen, 1871-1900. The Red Badge
of Courage : an Episode of the American Civil War.
New York : Avon, 1987, c1982. During his service in the Civil
War, a young Union soldier matures to manhood and finds peace
of mind as he comes to grips with his conflicting emotions
about war. |
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Books
by Chris Crutcher |
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Books
by Carl Deuker |
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Doyle,
Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930. The
Complete Sherlock Holmes. New York : Doubleday,
1930. Contains all of Sherlock Holmes' adventures. Includes
four novels and 56 short stories. Contents of Volume One:
A Study in Scarlet.--The Country of the Saints.--The Sign
of Four.---Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.--Memoirs of Sherlock
Holmes. Contents of Volume Two: The Return of Sherlock Holmes.--The
Hound of the Baskervilles.--The Valley of Fear.--His Last
Bow.--The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes. |
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Farmer,
Nancy. The House of the Scorpion.
1st ed. New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2002.
In a future where humans despise clones, Matt enjoys special
status as the young clone of El PatrØn, the 142-year-old
leader of a corrupt drug empire nestled between Mexico and
the United States. |
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Books
by Alex Flinn |
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Gantos,
Jack. Hole In My Life.
New York, NY : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002. The author
of this book is Jack Gantos, who is the author of the Joey
Pigza books. In this autobiography Gantos relates how, as
a young adult, he became a drug user and smuggler, was arrested,
did time in a federal prison, and eventually got out and went
to college, all the while hoping to become a writer. |
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Gol |
Golding,
William, 1911-. Lord of the Flies.
1st Perigee hardcover ed., 50th anniversary ed. New York :
Perigee, 2003. A fable of ship-wrecked children turning to
primitive savagery which portrays the collapse of social order
into chaos. |
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Haddix,
Margaret Peterson. Among the Hidden.
New York : Aladdin,
2000,c1998. In a future where the Population Police enforce
the law limiting a family to only two children, Luke has lived
all his twelve years in isolation and fear on his family's
farm, until another "third" convinces him that the
government is wrong. |
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Books
by Pete Hautman |
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Hinton,
S. E. The Outsiders. New
York : Viking Press, 1967. The struggle of three brothers
to stay together after their parent's death and their quest
for identity among the conflicting values of their adolescent
society. |
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Books
by Will Hobbs |
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Books
by Anthony Horowitz |
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Books
by Brian Jacques |
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Johnson,
Angela, 1961-. The First Part Last.
1st ed. New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers,
c2003. Bobby's carefree teenage life changes forever when
he becomes a father and must care for his adored baby daughter. |
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Jordan,
Robert. Wheel of Time series |
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KEO |
Keown,
Tim. Skyline : One Season, One Team,
One City. New York :
Macmillan, c1994. Chronicles a season in the lives of the
Skyline High
basketball team of Skyline High School in Oakland, California. |
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by Stephen King |
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KLA |
Klause,
Annette Curtis. Blood and Chocolate.
New York, N.Y. : Delacorte Press, 1997. Having fallen for
a human boy, a beautiful teenage werewolf must battle both
her packmates and the fear of the townspeople to decide where
she belongs and with whom. |
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Books
by Gordon Korman
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Lipsyte,
Robert. The Contender.
New York, : Harper & Row, [1967]. A Harlem high school
dropout escapes from a gang of punks into a boxing gym, where
he learns that being a contender is hard and often discouraging
work, but that you don't know anything until you try. |
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Books
by Jack London
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Books
by David Lubar |
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Books
by Chris Lynch |
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Marsden,
John, 1950-. Tomorrow, When the War
Began. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1995. Seven Australian
teenagers return from a camping trip in the bush to discover
that their country has been invaded and they must hide to
stay alive. |
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Martino,
Alfred C. Pinned. Orlando,
Fla. : Harcourt, 2005. Dealing with
family problems, girls, and their own competitive natures,
high school
seniors Ivan Korske and Bobby Zane face each other in the
final match of the New Jersey State Wrestling Championship. |
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McNamee,
Graham. Acceleration.
New York : Random, 2003. Stuck
working in the Lost and Found of the Toronto Transit Authority
for the summer, 17-year-old Duncan finds the diary of a serial
killer and sets out to stop him. |
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Morgenroth,
Kate. Jude. 1st ed. New
York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c2004.
Still reeling from his drug-dealing father's murder, moving
in with the wealthy mother he never knew, and transferring
to a private school, fifteen-year-old Jude is tricked into
pleading guilty to a crime he did not commit. |
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Morpurgo,
Michael. Private Peaceful.
1st American ed. New York : Scholastic Press, 2004, c2003.
When Thomas Peaceful's older brother is forced to join the
British Army, Thomas decides to sign up as well, although
he is only fourteen years old, to prove himself to his country,
his family, his childhood love, Molly, and himself. |
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Books
by Walter Dean Myers |
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Nix,
Garth. Shade's Children.
1st ed. New York : HarperCollins, c1997. In a savage future
world, four young fugitives attempt to overthrow the bloodthirsty
rule of the Overlords with the help of Shade, their mysterious
mentor. |
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Books
by Christopher Paolini |
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Patterson,
James, 1947-. Maximum Ride : the
Angel Experiment. 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown
and Co., 2005. After the mutant Erasers abduct the youngest
member of their group, the "birdkids," who are the
result of genetic experimentation, take off in pursuit and
find themselves |
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Books
by Gary Paulsen |
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Books
by Robert Newton Peck |
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Philbrick,
W. R. (W. Rodman). Freak the Mighty.
New York :Scholastic, c1993. At the beginning of eighth grade,
learning disabled Max and his new friend Freak, whose birth
defect has affected his body but not his brilliant mind, find
that when they combine forces they make a powerful team. |
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Pullman,
Philip, 1946-. The Golden Compass.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, c1995. Accompanied by her daemon,
Lyra Belacqua sets out to prevent her best friend and other
kidnapped children from becoming the subject of gruesome experiments
in the Far North. |
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Ritter,
John, 1951-. Choosing Up Sides.
New York : Philomel Books, c1998. In 1921 thirteen-year-old
Luke finds himself torn between accepting his left-handedness
or conforming to the belief of his preacher-father that such
a condition is evil and must be overcome. |
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Sachar,
Louis, 1954-. Holes. 1st
ed. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998. As further
evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute
to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent
to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he
finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of
himself. |
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Shan,
Darren. Cirque du freak. Book
1. Boston : Little, Brown, c 2001. Two boys who are best friends
visit an illegal freak show, where an encounter with a vampire
and a deadly spider forces them to make life-changing choices. |
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Books
by Neil Shusterman
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Sleator,
William. The Boy Who Reversed Himself.
New York :Puffin,
1998,c1986. When Laura discovers that the unpopular boy living
next door to her has the ability to go into the fourth dimension,
she makes the dangerous decision to accompany him on his journeys
there. |
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Steinbeck,
John, 1902-1968. Of Mice and Men.
New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books, 1993. Sustained by the hope
of someday owning a farm of their own, two migrant laborers
arrive to work on a ranch in central California. |
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Tashjian,
Janet. The Gospel According to Larry.
1st ed. New York : Henry Holt & Co., 2001. Seventeen-year-old
Josh, a loner-philosopher who wants to make a difference in
the world, tries to maintain his secret identity as the author
of a web site that is receiving national attention.
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Thomas,
Rob. Rats Saw God. New
York, NY : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c1996.
In hopes of graduating, Steve York agrees to complete a hundred-page
writing assignment which helps him to sort out his relationship
with his famous astronaut father and the events that changed
him from promising student to troubled teen. |
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Books
by J.R.R. Tolkien |
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Books
by Terry Trueman
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Wer |
Werlin,
Nancy. DoubleH. New York
: Dial Books, c2004. Eighteen-year-old Eli discovers a shocking
secret about his life and his family while working for a Nobel
Prize-winning scientist whose specialty is genetic engineering. |
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White,
Robb, 1909-. Deathwatch.
Dell, 1973, c1972. Needing money for
school, a college boy accepts a job as guide on a desert hunting
trip and nearly loses his life. |
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Books
by Paul Zindel |
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