Making the Run
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| Author | William Doyle |
| ISBN | 0385499701 |
In 1961, a black veteran named James Meredith applied for admission to the University of Mississippi — and launched a legal revolt against white supremacy in the most segregated state in America. Meredith’s challenge ultimately triggered what Time magazine called “the gravest conflict between...
| Author | Mary Beth Miller |
| ISBN | 0142400254 |
Even though she was acquitted, it seems that everyone-even her own parents-believes that Zoe helped her best friend, Aimee, commit suicide. Now, months later, her family has moved to a new town to escape the stigma of the trial, and Zoe is completely cut off from her group of friends. In her new life Zoe...
| Author | Francesca Lia Block |
| ISBN | 0064408396 |
An exquisite novel about the consequences of who we choose to love.
Lex and his sister, Marina, are inseparable. The air they share has always been light and boundless, but suddenly it's weighted down. And now Lex is gone. When the one relationship that cradled her turns out to shatter her sense...
| Author | Chris Lynch |
| ISBN | 0747562660 |
Will knows he is meant to be a pilot. But instead he finds himself with a bunch of kids in wood shop, in a school that's known as Hopeless High. Will doesn't know what he's doing thereor mabye he just doesn't want to admit the truth. Once upon a time he made beautiful things like gnomes, whirligigs, and furniture....
| Author | Terri Fields |
| ISBN | 1596432195 |
Always caution, Joe has never even gotten so much as an after-school detention. So how is it that this Saturday night, he's at Burger Heaven, waving a loaded gun, yelling at the teen workers to get down on the floor NOW? Dylan has always succeeded at his twisted plans--until this Saturday, this robbery,...
| Author | Hillary Frank |
| ISBN | 0618250735 |
Having left behind the melodrama of her solitary high school days—and the beheaded martyrs in her paintings—Ellie arrives at the New England College of Art and Design. Looking forward to the opportunity to recreate herself and her art, she begins her first day by dirty dancing with the Devil. Then...
| Author | Walter Dean Myers |
| ISBN | 0439368421 |
An exciting, eye-catching repackage of acclaimed author Walter Dean Myers' bestselling paperbacks, to coincide with the publication of SUNRISE OVER FALLUJA in hardcover.
Seventen-year-old Anthony "Spoon" Witherspoon is returning to Harlem after seven months at an exclusive prep school....
| Author | Will Weaver |
| ISBN | 0060094753 |
"It's not the big, tragic things in life that do you in-"For Jed Berg, life is good: He's landed a major girlfriend, made number onesingles in varsity tennis, and his father lets him drive his 1969 Camaro. Sweet.
Then a punk chick with pink hair enters Jed's life. She calls herself Gertrude, but...
| Author | Joyce Carol Oates |
| ISBN | 0060012196 |
When The Sky Blue Ball comes soaring over the fence, a high-school girl is confronted with the haunting memory of childhood. A jealous teen lets her cousin go off alone with a dangerous Capricorn, aware of the terrifying possibilities. A vulnerable young girl cunningly outwits a menacing stranger...
| Author | Jane St. Anthony |
| ISBN | 0374372896 |
What happens when you get what you think you want and then don't know what to do with it? When twelve-year-old Margaret hears the boy next door call to her in the middle of the night, her heart races with excitement – and nervousness. Will this mean Sherman is her boyfriend? Although Sherman insists that...
| Author | David Klass |
| ISBN | 0374399506 |
A taut psychological thriller for teens
Seventeen-year-old Jeff thought he would never again have to deal with his older brother, a convicted murderer serving a life sentence. But after six years, Troy’s sentence has been overturned on a technicality and he is released from prison....
| Author | Julius Lester |
| ISBN | 0152163050 |
Jenna and Jeremy knew their parents' marriage was in trouble. Mom and Dad didn't talk much, and when they did, they had to work really hard to be civil to each other. But no one could have predicted what would come next. The headline read, COLLEGE SHRINK KILLS WIFE, and suddenly everything changed. Now...
| Author | Kimberly Willis Holt |
| ISBN | 0698119703 |
1968 looks like it'll be a pretty good year for Jaynell Lambert. The town's going to pave the dirt road she lives on, her girly-girl sister, Racine, isn't driving her completely crazy, and Grandpap has just moved in with his new emerald green Cadillac convertible. Jaynell and Grandpap have something...
| Author | Victoria McKernan |
| ISBN | 0375837507 |
When orphans Aiden and Maddy Lynch first meet trailrider Jefferson J. Jackson in the spring of 1865, they're struggling to survive on their family's drought-ravaged Kansas farm. So when Jackson offers an escape – a 2000-mile journey across the roughest country in the world – Aiden knows it's their...
| Author | N.M. Browne |
| ISBN | 1582349037 |
Karen, after being attacked by a group of classmates, ends up in a coma in this world, and awakens as a fox in another world. She befriends a young man named Mowl who has been accused of being a traitor and is on the run himself. Mowl believes Karen Fox is an arl, a mystical being in the form of an animal. As Karen...
| Author | Amy Purdy |
| ISBN | 0062379097 |
Amy Purdy, who inspired a nation on Dancing with the Stars and has been called a hero by Oprah Winfrey, reveals the intimate details of her triumphant comeback from the brink of death to making history as a Paralympic snowboarder.
In this poignant and uplifting memoir, Dancing With the Stars...
| Author | Ellie McDonald |
| ISBN | 1596351276 |
I’ve read the book Danger After Dark by McDonald Ellie. The main characters are: Lily, the president of the silly stuff club; Sarah, the writer of the club; AnaMaria, the artist of the club; Kate, the “brain” of the club; Elizabeth; and Alex. This story is very adventurous, so it has a variety of...
| Author | Mike Pace |
| ISBN | 1938404416 |
…a matter of light and death…
In the sleepy college town of Cumberton, MD, an old cemetery must be moved to make room for a new dormitory, and an ungodly Light, buried for centuries, escapes. A rash of gruesome student suicides rocks the town. Sheriff Estin Booker teams up with former Baltimore...
| Author | John O'Brien |
| ISBN | 0385721390 |
John O’Brien was raised in Philadelphia by an Appalachian father who fled the mountains to escape crippling poverty and family tragedy. Years later, with a wife and two kids of his own, the son moved back into those mountains in an attempt to understand both himself and the father from whom he’d become...
| Author | Andrew Clements |
| ISBN | 0618003614 |
A day spent with a young child at the beach is filled with many minor dramas—a lost shoe, a ball that floats too far out into the water, a drippy ice-cream cone. These can be frustrating events for both child and parent, but the daddy in this book finds a way to fix each problem, lovingly and patiently. Why?...
| Author | John Fox Jr. |
| ISBN | 0813101727 |
Once again he started his life over afresh, with his old capital, a strong body and a stout heart. In his breast still burned the spirit that had led his race to the land, had wrenched it from savage and from king, had made it the high temple of Liberty for the worship of freemen-the Kingdom Come for the oppressed...
| Author | Laura Preble |
| ISBN | 0425217175 |
Last year, Shelby Chapelle and her friend Becca founded the Queen Geek Social Club, and set out to find others of their kind. This year, Becca has even bigger plans for the Queen Geeks. She thinks working on the club's website and planning Geekfest (a talent show of geek-tastic proportions) should be...
| Author | Greg Logsted |
| ISBN | 1416950788 |
"All around me I see people laughing, joking, and walking around with these huge, goofy smiles plastered on their faces. I've begun to wonder how they do it, and more important, will I ever be able to be like that again?"
Five months after his dad's unexpected death, Billy Romero is still...
A Practical Guide to Dragon Riding
| Author | Lisa Trumbauer |
| ISBN | 0786949759 |
Take flight with this sequel to The New York Times best-selling A Practical Guide to Dragons!!
How do you hatch a dragon egg? Do dragon riders need reins? How do you say fly in Draconic? Once again, Sindri Suncatcher opens up his notebooks to share with us more wonders of dragonkind. In this fully...
