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A Year Down Yonder

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By Richard Peck

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Mary Alice is terrified when she's sent to live with her feisty, larger-than-life Grandma Dowdell! A story with lots of laughs and scenes that you will never forget.

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Behaving Bradley

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By Perry Nodelman

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Roped into updating his high school's Code of Conduct, Brad encounters obstinate faculty members, monstrous bullies, spineless student leaders, and personal agendas.

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Bone Vol. 1, Out from Boneville

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By Jeff Smith

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Humor, mystery, and adventure are spun together in this action-packed, sidesplitting saga. Everyone who has ever left home for the first time only to find that the world outside is strange and overwhelming will love Bone.

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Fractured Fairy Tales

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By A. J. Jacobs

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Humorous stories as featured on The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends.

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Girl Gives Birth to Own Prom Date

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By Todd Strasser

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When Brad asks someone else to the senior prom, Nicole resorts to a desperate measure - she decides to make her next-door neighbor over into a dream date.

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Hoot

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By Carl Hiaasen

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Perennial new kid Roy Eberhardt is trying to survive middle school in Coconut Grove, Florida, when he spots a strange boy running through the neighborhoods of his bus route.
Corrupt developers, bullies, and child abuse all play a part in this ecological mystery.

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Hope Was Here

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By Joan Bauer

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Hope, a sixteen-year-old waitress, tackles life with energy and enthusiasm and stays Hope-ful through change and difficulties. She also gives great tips for food service!

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Never Cry “Arp!”: and Other Great Adventures

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By Patrick F. McManus

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Short stories about growing up in Idaho, described as "laugh-out-loud, stomach-clutching, tears-rolling-down-your-cheeks hilarious."

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Once Upon a Marigold

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By Jean Ferris

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A young man with a mysterious past and a penchant for inventing things leaves the troll who raised him, meets an unhappy princess he has loved from afar, and discovers a plot against her and her father.

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Sunshine Rider: The First Vegetarian Western

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By Ric Lynden Hardman

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Wylie Jackson and his pet cattalo (a cross between a longhorn cow and a buffalo) join a cattle drive until Wylie, faced with killing his first calf, turns vegetarian and runs off in search of adventure.

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