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3) Superfudge
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English
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Peter describes the highs and lows of life with his younger brother, Fudge.
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English
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Peyton, Sydney's charismatic older brother, has always been the star of the family, receiving the lion's share of their parents' attention and -- lately -- concern. When Peyton's increasingly reckless behavior culminates in an accident, a drunk driving conviction, and a jail sentence, Sydney is cast adrift, searching for her place in the family and the world. When everyone else is so worried about Peyton, is she the only one concerned about the victim...
8) Clementine
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Series
Clementine volume 1
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English
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While sorting through difficulties in her friendship with her neighbor Margaret, eight-year-old Clementine gains several unique hairstyles while also helping her father in his efforts to banish pigeons from the front of their apartment building.
9) Lights out
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Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint
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English
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When a storm causes a neighborhood blackout, Sofia and her father come up with a plan for the perfect family night without electricity.
10) Ramona the brave
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English
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Determined to be brave, six-year-old Ramona Quimby has to deal with starting first grade, her mother's new job, and a teacher who does not understand how hard it is for Ramona to grow up.
11) Sounder
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English
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A young Negro boy learns the pain of humiliation and anger when his father is given an unjust jail sentence for stealing a ham from a white man. Learning to read and to discover that things do not die but become part of other things brings the youngster new hope.
12) The outsiders
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English
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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. Two rival gangs -- the "haves" & "have-nots" -- fight it out on the streets of an Oklahoma city. When it was first published in 1967, The Outsiders defied convention with its immediate, deeply sympathetic portrayal of Ponyboy and his struggle to find a place for himself in a difficult world....
13) Virals
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Series
Virals novels volume 1
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Razorbill
Language
English
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Tory Brennan is the leader of a band of teenage 'sci-philes' who live on an island off the coast of South Carolina and when the group rescues a dog caged for medical testing, they are exposed to an experimental strain of canine parvovirus that changes their lives forever.
16) Divergent
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Divergent trilogy volume 1
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English
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In a future Chicago, sixteen-year-old Beatrice Prior must choose among five predetermined factions to define her identity for the rest of her life, a decision made more difficult when she discovers that she is an anomaly who does not fit into any one group, and that the society she lives in is not perfect after all.
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Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
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First edition.
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English
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Feeling most alive when he's playing the blues with his grandfather, Clayton is devastated when his grandfather dies and his mother forbids him from playing music, losses that compel him to run away and join bluesmen on the road.
18) Double Fudge
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Fudge books volume 5
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English
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"Fudge is obsessed with money. He's making his own "Fudge Bucks" and has plans to buy the entire world. But life gets really crazy when Fudge and his older brother, Peter, run into their long-lost relatives, the Howie Hatchers" -- from the back cover.
19) Ralph S. Mouse
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English
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Presents the further adventures of a motorcycle-riding mouse who goes to school and becomes the instigator of an investigation of rodents and the peacemaker for two lonely boys.
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Dutton's Children's Books
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First edition.
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English
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Thirteen-year-old Ellsworth leaves his father to visit the relatives he has never met and eventually joins forces with Jess, his distant cousin, to uncover family secrets and search for their ancestor's hidden treasure.
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