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New Moon (Twilight Saga)
Author: Meyer
ISBN-10: 190741049X
ISBN-13: 9781907410499
Published: 2010-10-01
Publisher: Atom
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Book Description:
I stuck my finger under the edge of the paper and jerked it under the tape. 'Shoot,' I muttered when the paper sliced my finger. A single drop of blood oozed from the tiny cut. It all happened very quickly then. 'No!' Edward roared ...Dazed and disorientated, I looked up from the bright red blood pulsing out of my arm - and into the fevered eyes of the six suddenly ravenous vampires. For Bella Swan, there is one thing more important than life itself: Edward Cullen. But being in love with a vampire is more dangerous than Bella ever could have imagined. Edward has already rescued Bella from the clutches of an evil vampire but now, as their daring relationship threatens all that is near and dear to them, they realise their troubles may just be beginning ...
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Shoeless Joe
Author: W.P. Kinsella
ISBN-10: 0345309219
ISBN-13: 9780345309211
Published: 1983-03-12
Publisher: Ballantine Books
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"Wild...Romantic...Unconventional...A triumph of hope."THE BOSTON GLOBEThe voice of a baseball announcer tells the Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella: "If you build it, he will come." "He" is Shoeless Joe Jackson, Ray's hero. "It" is a baseball stadium which Ray carves out of his cornfield. Like the movie FIELD OF DREAMS that was made from this novel, SHOELESS JOE is about baseball. But it's also about love and the power of dreams to make people come alive....From the Paperback edition.
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Freckles
Author: Gene Stratton-Porter
ISBN-10: 0613069625
ISBN-13: 9780613069625
Published: 1999-10
Publisher: Bt Bound
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Book Description:
1904. Stratton-Porter was an American feminist, environmentalist, photographer and one of Indiana's most famous female authors. Many of her writings were moralistic and romantic novels. Freckles is the story of an orphaned boy who gets a job as a timber guard in Limberlost. He only has one hand, but much courage. As the plot unfolds, Freckles falls in love with the beautiful Swamp Angel and his noble past is revealed. The book proved so popular that she went on to write A Girl of the Limberlost. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.
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Tangerine
Author: Edward Bloor
ISBN-10: 059043277X
ISBN-13: 9780590432771
Published: 1998-09
Publisher: Apple
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Book Description:
Paul Fisher's older brother has always been the football-playing hero of the family. But when the Fishers move to Tangerine, Florida, Paul enters a place where weird is normal. And suddenly the blind can see. Bloor was featured as a "Publishers Weekly" "Flying Starts" author in 1997; "Tangerine" was named a 1997 "American Bookseller" Pick of the Lists, an ALA Top-Ten Best Book, a "Horn Book" Fanfare Book, a "Publishers Weekly" Best Book of the Year, and an Edgar Award nominee.
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Maniac Magee
Author: Jerry Spinelli
ISBN-10: 1560546212
ISBN-13: 9781560546214
Published: 1993-03
Publisher: Thorndike Pr
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After his parents die, Jeffrey Lionel Magee's life becomes legendary, as he accomplishes athletic and other feats which awe his contemporaries.
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Peak
Author: Roland Smith
ISBN-10: 0152062688
ISBN-13: 9780152062682
Published: 2008-08-01
Publisher: Harcourt
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The only thing you’ll find on the summit of Mount Everest is a divine view. The things that really matter lie far below. –Peak Marcello After fourteen-year-old Peak Marcello is arrested for scaling a New York City skyscraper, he’s left with a choice: wither away in juvenile detention or fly to Kathmandu with his long-lost father. Peak quickly learns that his father’s renewed interest in him has strings attached. As owner of Peak Expeditions, he wants his son to be the youngest person to reach the Everest summit. The story of Peak’s dangerous ascent—told in his own words—is suspenseful, immediate, and impossible to put down. Awards: ALA Best Book for Young Adults, ALA Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers, New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age, Booklist Editors’ Choice, National Book Award Winner, Junior Library Guild Selection
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The Running Dream
Author: Wendelin Van Draanen
ISBN-10: 0375966676
ISBN-13: 9780375966675
Published: 2011-01-11
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
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Book Description:
Winner of the 2012 Schneider Family Book AwardJessica thinks her life is over when she loses a leg in a car accident. She's not comforted by the news that she'll be able to walk with the help of a prosthetic leg. Who cares about walking when you live to run?As she struggles to cope with crutches and a first cyborg-like prosthetic, Jessica feels oddly both in the spotlight and invisible. People who don't know what to say, act like she's not there. Which she could handle better if she weren't now keenly aware that she'd done the same thing herself to a girl with CP named Rosa. A girl who is going to tutor her through all the math she's missed. A girl who sees right into the heart of her.With the support of family, friends, a coach, and her track teammates, Jessica may actually be able to run again. But that's not enough for her now. She doesn't just want to cross finish lines herself—she wants to take Rosa with her.From the Hardcover edition.
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The Young Pitcher
Author: Zane Grey
ISBN-10: 0688110908
ISBN-13: 9780688110901
Published: 1992-03
Publisher: William Morrow & Co
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In a reissue of an eighty-year-old classic, college freshman Ken Ward dreams of playing varsity ball and gets a chance to prove himself with a potato.
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Bleachers
Author: John Grisham
ISBN-10: 0756957591
ISBN-13: 9780756957599
Published: 2004-06-01
Publisher: Perfection Learning
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Neely Crenshaw was once star quarterback for Messina High School's football team. His playing days ended with a sickening injury. Afterwards his life went nowhere: his marriage foundered and his real estate business drifted. For fifteen years he's been trying to forget his glorious past as sporting hero but hasn't been able to move on. But now the man who moulded him, Coach Eddie Rake is dying and Neely returns to Messina. Rake has acted as football coach for 34 years at Messina High; his teams have won 13 state championships and been on an 84 game unbeaten streak. The town idolizes him. Players old and young have returned to pay their respects. Neely congregates with them on the bleachers as they wait for Rake to finally pass away.It is in the many conversations and revelations that follow that Neely can confront what his explosive relationship with Rake really meant to him and, in the moment of loss, find redemption.
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Each Peach Pear Plum (Viking Kestrel picture books)
Author: Allan Ahlberg
ISBN-10: 0670840181
ISBN-13: 9780670840182
Published: 1992-02-01
Publisher: Viking Juvenile
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Book Description:
A poem on each page gives the clue as to what is hiding in the picture opposite, so young children can follow the rhymes.
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