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1) Rumble fish
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English
Description
Rusty-James wants to be as tough a teen as his older brother, Motorcycle Boy, who has always helped him out of tough spots. But one day, when Rusty-James faces danger, Motorcycle Boy is not around.
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English
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Smuggled out of Nigeria after their mother's murder, Sade and her younger brother are abandoned in London when their uncle fails to meet them at the airport and they are fearful of their new surroundings and of what may have happened to their journalist father back in Nigeria.
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Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
After long study of the various manuscripts that composed this early tale of Middle-Earth, Christopher Tolkien has constructed a coherent and epic narrative that composes a crucial part of his father's literary oeuvre. In the great country that lay beyond the Grey Havens in the West following the great cataclysm that ended the First Age of the World, Morgoth--the first Dark Lord--dwelt in the vast fortress of Angband, the Hells of Iron. As he waged...
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English
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"Connor is sure his best friend, Branwell, couldn't have hurt Branwell's baby half sister, Nikki. But Nikki lies in a coma, and Branwell is in a juvenile behavioral center, suspected of a horrible crime and unable to utter the words to tell what really happened. Connor is the only one who might be able to break through Branwell's wall of silence. But how can he prove Branwell didn't commit the unspeakable act of which he's accused - when Branwell...
10) Swear to howdy
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Two thirteen-year-old boys share neighborhood adventures, complaints about their older sisters, family secrets, and even guilt that bind them together in a special friendship.
11) And one for all
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Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
c1989
Language
English
Description
Geraldine's close relationship with her older brother Wing and his friend Sam changes when Wing joins the Marines and Sam leaves for Washington to join a peace march.
12) Darien's rise
Author
Series
Passages volume 1
Publisher
Tommy Nelson
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
Kyle and his sister Anna find themselves in an alternate world in which they have special powers to help carry out the will of the Unseen One.
Kyle and his sister Anna find themselves in an alternate world in which they have special powers to help carry out the will of the Unseen One. Introducing the first four titles in a new series from the creators of Adventures in Odyssey "TM" . An old notebook found in the bottom of a trunk sends Whit and Jack...
13) When I was older
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
A new friendship with a boy who is both attractive and intelligent helps fifteen-year-old Sophie sort out her feelings about her younger brother Erhard, who died three years earlier, her self-centered older sister, and her distant father.