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  Big Nate

  Big Nate: In a Class by Himself

  by Lincoln Peirce

  Big Nate is in a class by himself! But things don't always go your way just because you're awesome. Nate barely survives his dad's toxic oatmeal before rushing off to school—minus his lunch. He body slams the no-nonsense principal. He accidentally insults his least favorite teacher, the horrifying Mrs. Godfrey (aka Godzilla). And school has barely started! Nate keeps his cool. He knows he's... (more)
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  The Janitor's Boy

  by Andrew Clements

  It was the perfect crime. Unfortunately, it also led to the perfect punishment. When Jack Rankin gets busted for defacing a school desk with a huge wad of disgusting, watermelon bubble gum, the principal sentences him to three weeks of after-school gum cleanup for the chief custodian. The problem is, Jack's anger at the chief custodian was the reason for his gum project in the first place. The chief custodian... (more)
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  Little Bee

  (published as "The Other Hand" in the UK)

  by Chris Cleave

  This book is published as "The Other Hand" in the UK.The publishers of Chris Cleave's new novel "don't want to spoil" the story by revealing too much about it, and there's good reason not to tell too much about the plot's pivot point. All you should know going in to Little Bee is that what happens on the beach is brutal, and that it braids the fates of a 16-year-old Nigerian orphan (who calls herself... (more)
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  Holes: Book 1

  Holes

  by Louis Sachar

  Stanley Yelnats is sentenced to dig holes at Camp Green Lake detention center for stealing a pair of sneakers. His grandfather tells him it is because a curse of bad luck that's in the family, which all started because of his no-good, dirty, rotten, pig-stealing great-great-grandfather. Stanley starts to feel the effects of the curse in earnest as his punishment at Camp Green Lake continues. When he gets to... (more)
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  Rikers High

  by Paul Volponi

  Martin was sitting on the front stoop of his apartment building minding his own business when he was arrested for something he didn’t even mean to do. Five months later, he’s still locked up on Rikers Island, in a New York City jail. Just when it seems things couldn’t get much worse, Martin is caught between two warring prisoners, and his face is slashed. Now he’ll be forever marked with a prison scar. One good... (more)
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  School Gyrls: The Junior Novel

  Created by entertainment guru Nick Cannon, School Gyrls is a brand-new multimedia property, kicking off with a TV movie airing in February 2010! In this retelling of the movie, Mandy Rain, Jacque Nimble, and Monica Marriott (Mo Money to all her friends) are ready to begin their freshman year at Summer Grove Academy, a private high school for girls. Or so they think. No sooner do they step foot on the perfectly... (more)
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  Boy Overboard

  by Morris Gleitzman

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  The Way Home

  by George P. Pelecanos

  Christopher Flynn is trying to get it right. After years of trouble and rebellion that enraged his father and nearly cost him his life, he has a steady job in his father's company, he's seriously dating a woman he respects, and, aside from the distrust that lingers in his father's eyes, his mistakes are firmly in the past. One day on the job, Chris and his partner come across a temptation almost too big to... (more)
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  Yesterday I Could Sing

  by PH. D. Michael R. Fontaine

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  Lockdown

  by Walter Dean Myers

  Walter Dean Myers is a New York Times bestselling author and a five-time winner of the Coretta Scott King Award, and he has received the Margaret A. Edwards Award for his contribution to young adult literature. His picture books include patrol: An American Soldier in Vietnam , I've Seen the Promised Land: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. , and Malcolm X: A Fire Burning Brightly . Mr. Myers lives with... (more)
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  Big Nate

  Big Nate Strikes Again

  by Lincoln Peirce

  Lincoln Peirce is a cartoonist-writer and the creator of the comic strip Big Nate, which appears in 200 U.S. newspapers. He lives with his family in Portland, Maine.
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  Frindle

  by Andrew Clements

  Nicholas Allen has plenty of ideas. Who can forget the time he turned his third-grade classroom into a tropical island, or the times he fooled his teacher by chirping like a blackbird? But now Nick's in fifth grade, and it looks like his days as a troublemaker are over. Everyone knows that Mrs. Granger, the language arts teacher, has X-ray vision, and nobody gets away with anything in her classroom. To make... (more)
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  Targeted: Homeland Security and the Business of Immigration

  by Deepa Fernandes

  Every year the American Dream inspires hundreds of thousands of people to risk their savings-and their lives-to enter the United States in search of a better life. Increasingly, instead of finding their dream, many encounter a nightmare-a country whose culture and legal system aggressively target and prosecute them. In Targeted , journalist Deepa Fernandes seamlessly weaves together history, political analysis,... (more)
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  The Juvie Three

  by Gordon Korman

  Gecko Fosse drove the getaway car. Terence Florian ran with the worst gang in Chicago. Arjay Moran killed someone. All three boys are serving time in juvenile detention centers until they get a second chance at life in the form of Douglas Healy. A former juvenile delinquent himself, Healy is running an experimental halfway house in New York City where he wants to make a difference in the lives of kids... (more)
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  Castle

  by J. Robert Lennon

  “ Castle tells a terrific story, dire and confusing and convincing.” —Scott Bradfield, The New York Times Book Review Eric Loesch, a private man with a shadowy past, returns to his hometown in rural New York, where he purchases a dilapidated house that he begins to renovate with steely determination. The adjacent woods on his property seem to beckon him, and he soon discovers a Gothic castle at the center... (more)