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1) Afterlife
Author
Language
English
Description
"Antonia Vega, the immigrant writer at the center of this novel, has had the rug pulled out from under her. She has just retired from the college where she taught English when her husband, Sam suddenly dies. And then more jolt: her big-hearted but unstable sister disappears, and Antonia returns home one evening to find a pregnant, undocumented teenager on her doorstep. Antonia has always sought direction in the literature she loves--lines from her...
3) Pearl
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When young Pearl, a mermaid, becomes caretaker of a single grain of sand, she discovers that performing even the smallest task well can transform the world.
Author
Series
Judy Moody volume 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
After learning about the American Revolution on a family trip to Boston, Judy Moody makes her own Declaration of Independence and tries to prove that she is responsible enough to have more freedoms.
8) Dingus
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A dingus is not a stupid person. A dingus is someone who can make you laugh or upset you by doing stupid things. My name is Henry, and I am a dingus."--front flap
10) Level 13
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Dedicated slacker Cameron Boxer thinks he has found gamer heaven: playing video games online for an audience (and money); but the Positive Action Group (the club he created to keep his parents off his back) keeps getting in the way with meetings and fund-raisers for worthy causes, and his friends keep turning to him for plans and girlfriend advice, plus Elvis the beaver is back chewing on the back wall--and all Cameron wants to do is to conquer the...
13) Extra innings
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mike's passion for baseball clashes with his father's concerns about his responsibilities, so Mike must find a balance between his passion for the game and his after-school work.
Author
Series
EllRay Jakes volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Third-grader EllRay is becoming famous for messing up, and when his little sister accidentally kills EllRay's class goldfish and he forgets his teacher's read-aloud book at home, it only makes matters worse.
16) Slacker
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Formats
Description
When eighth-grader Cameron Boxer creates the Positive Action Group at school he intends it as a diversion to fool his parents, teachers, and sister into letting him continue to concentrate on his video-gaming--but before he knows it other kids are taking it seriously, and soon he finds himself president of the P.A.G., and involved in community service, so the boy who never cared about anything is now the center of everything, whether he likes it or...
17) The shadow club
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a junior high school boy and his friends decide to form a club of "second bests" and play anonymous tricks on each other's arch rivals, the harmless pranks escalate until they become life-threatening.
20) Not me!
Author
Publisher
Egmont USA
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Not one member of a group of friends admits to having made a big mess, or offers to pitch in to clean it up.
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