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Hatchet: Book 1
Hatchet
by Gary Paulsen
13 year-old Brian Robeson, is going to visit his dad. But when the pilot that is flying his plane has a heart attack, he has to fly it all on his own! Then, he crash lands in the Canadian wilderness with nothing to survive with but a small hatchet and a wind braker. Can he survive, or will he end up being found dead?
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Harry Potter: Book 6
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
by J. K. Rowling
In the sixth installment in the series the war against Voldemort is not going well; even the Muggles have been affected. Dumbledore is absent from Hogwarts for long stretches of time, and the Order of the Phoenix has already suffered losses, and yet...as with all disappointments, life goes on. Sixth-year students learn to Apparate. Teenagers flirt, fight, and fall in love. Harry receives some extraordinary help in... (more)
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Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
The classic tale of a group of English school boys who are left stranded on an unpopulated island, and who must confront not only the defects of their society but the defects of their own natures.
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Butt Wars!
The Final Conflict
by Andy Griffiths
Zack Freeman (and his butt) have twice saved the world from total reek-dom. But now the young butt-fighter faces his nastiest challenge yet: Hundreds of thousands of Great White Butts attacking the earth with giant brown blobs are about to cause Buttageddon. In order to stop them, Zack will have to hitch a ride in a time-traveling buttmobile, back to the reign of the prehistoric buttosaurs. Can Zack battle the... (more)
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The Road To The N F L
by Tim Green
Ever wondered how top atheletes got their start in the game? Well, former N F L star Tim Green (now a regular commentator for N P R and Fox as well as a novelist in his own right) is going to tell you. Drawing on interviews he's conducted in the course of his career, this is the real story of how some of biggest, toughtest, hardest-hitting guys came to play the game.
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Clarice Bean: Book 5
Utterly Me, Clarice Bean
by Lauren Child
"Fans of Child's irrepressible, impulsive picture-book heroine — as well as kids who have not yet had the pleasure of making her acquaintance — will devour her first chapter-book adventure." —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY It's not easy to concentrate at school when mysterious things are happening all around you. In fact, Clarice Bean is starting to feel just like her favorite heroine: Ruby Redfort, schoolgirl detective.... (more)
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Dragon Ball Z: Book 7
Dragon Ball Z, Vol. 7
by Akira Toriyama
Here is the seventh volume of the runaway hit series printed in the original Japanese right-to-left format. The Great Elder of Namek grants Kuririn the One-Star Dragon Ball and the incredible power that goes with it. Meanwhile, Vegeta breaks free of Freeza's spaceship and races across the planet in search of the same Dragon Ball, the one that will make him immortal.
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The Day Without Yesterday: Lemaitre, Einstein, and the Birth of Modern Cosmology
by John Farrell
Sometimes our understanding of our universe is given a huge boost by one insightful thinker. Such a boost came in the first half of the twentieth century, when an obscure Belgian priest put his mind to deciphering the nature of the cosmos. Is the universe evolving to some unforeseen end, or is it static, as the Greeks believed? The debate has preoccupied thinkers from Heraclitus to the author of the Upanishads,... (more)
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Bolt of Fate
Benjamin Franklin and his Electric Kite Hoax
by Tom Tucker
Was Benjamin Franklin's famous electric kite experiment a fraud? And did it determine the course of the American Revolution? Every schoolchild in America knows that Benjamin Franklin flew a kite during a thunderstorm in the summer of 1752. Electricity from the clouds above traveled down the kite's twine and threw a spark from a key that Franklin had attached to the string. He thereby proved that lightning and... (more)
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Best Dad in the Sea (Finding Nemo Step into Reading, Step 1)
by Amy J. Tyler
A Step into Reading Book. Nemo loves his father Marlin, and Marlin loves his little Nemo. In this Step 1 story based on Disney/Pixar’s new feature film Finding Nemo, young readers will love watching Marlin gain courage as he searches the ocean for his son–and seeing Nemo learn that he’s capable of great things, just like his dad!
Shakespeare's King Lear (In the Original and Modern English, Shakespeare's parallel text series)Maurice Charney
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Shakespeare's King Lear (In the Original and Modern English, Shakespeare's parallel text series)
by Maurice Charney
Screamers the Trap Door and Other Stories to Twist Your MindDon Wulffson
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Screamers the Trap Door and Other Stories to Twist Your Mind
by Don Wulffson
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Oliver Twist
by Charles Dickens
This is an abridged adaption of the original.One of Dickens' most popular and moving novels, OLIVER TWIST deals with a world Dickens himself knew only too well -- a world of debtors, prisons, alms houses and poverty. Oliver is born in a workhouse. Apprenticed to an undertaker, he runs away to London where the "Artful Dodger," Jack Dawkins, takes the starving boy into a den of thieves. Among this motley... (more)
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Eyes Of Elisha
by Brandilyn Collins
On the Devil's CourtCarl Deuker
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On the Devil's Court
by Carl Deuker
Great Writers Of The English Language Exotic Journeys (Great Writers Of The English Language)Reg Wright
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Great Writers Of The English Language Exotic Journeys (Great Writers Of The English Language)
by Reg Wright
Early Modern NovelistsWright
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Early Modern Novelists
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The Bermuda Triangle (X Science: An Imagination Library Series)
by Jacqueline Laks Gorman
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The BFG
by Roald Dahl
A work of genius! Brings out the kid in everyone. A funny, entertaining, exciting book about a giant who has lots of marvelous adventures with an orphan girl named Sophie. Great read for everyone!
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If You Give
If You Give a Pig a Pancake
by Laura Joffe Numeroff, Felicia Bond
If you give a pig a pancake, she'll want syrup to go with it. You'll give her some of your favorite maple syrup. She'll probably get all sticky, so she'll want to take a bath. She'll ask you for some bubbles. When you give her the bubbles . . .chaos is the order of the day when an accommodating little girl tries to keep up with the whims of a bossy little pig.