Who I'm Not
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| Author | Matt Whyman |
| ISBN | 0060746653 |
In the South American town of Medellin, where drug dealers rule and hope is scarce, young assassins are in large supply. Take Shorty and Alberto: two hardened best friends from poor homes whose biggest dream is to see a live soccer match. These boys understand that the one true power they will ever possess...
| Author | Lisa Bullard |
| ISBN | 0544029003 |
Thirteen-year-old Trav has always wondered about his dead-before-he-was-born dad. But when he heads from California to his grandmother's house in rural Minnesota, hoping to learn about his past, he gets more than he bargained for.
It turns out his dad was involved in a bank robbery...
Young Lara is being groomed in the family tradition to take over as Count Voronstov's next kennel steward, breeding borzoi dogs worthy of the Tsar. But then Lara's baby brother is born and she finds herself supplanted as her father decides to make her brother the next kennel steward. Going against her...
| Author | Walter Sorrells |
| ISBN | 0525478019 |
Two years ago, David Crandall's mother was murdered and with little evidence, no witnesses, and no motive, the crime was left unsolved. Now a high school senior, David is unable to shake the sense that someone knows more than they're letting on. His suspicion deepens as he uncovers clues to a scandalous...
| Author | Sarah Aronson |
| ISBN | 1596432144 |
ONE MISTAKE. ONE BAD NIGHT. ONE TOO MANY DRINKS. A powerful and heartbreaking debut novel about a guy who had it all...until he drank that fifth beer and got into the car. Frank Marder is a head, paralyzed from the neck down, and it's his fault. He was drinking. He was driving. Now Frank can't...
| Author | G. Neri |
| ISBN | 1584302798 |
Three moves is all it takes to change the outcome of the game.
In Marcus's world, battles are fought everyday on the street, at home, and in school. Angered by his sister's death and his father's absence, and pushed to the brink by a bullying classmate, Marcus fights back with his fists.
One...
| Author | Rune Michaels |
| ISBN | 1416912592 |
It's tough to measure up to your parents' expectations. Imagine how much harder it would be if your mother told you that your biological father—whom you'd never met—was a Nobel prize-winning genius? What if, after years of testing and tutoring, you never showed that particular spark of brilliance?...
| Author | Lee Weatherly |
| ISBN | 0440419042 |
Juliet is passionate about acting and has been given the chance to star as the lead role in the play Northern Lights (based on Philip Pullman's The Golden Compass). But at home, her life is not so happy. Her family starts to disintegrate after her father suddenly and unexpectedly leaves home. What exactly...
| Author | Anna Perera |
| ISBN | 0141326077 |
Khalid, a fifteen-year-old Muslim boy from Rochdale, is abducted from Pakistan while on holiday with his family. He is taken to Guantanamo Bay and held without charge, where his hopes and dreams are crushed under the cruellest of circumstances. An innocent denied his freedom at a time when Western...
| Author | Jessica Blank |
| ISBN | 1423106423 |
Why would anyone choose to live on the streets? There is Eeyore, just twelve years old when she runs away from her priveleged home, harboring a secret she's too ashamed to tell anyone. Rusty is a sensitive gay teen who winds up alone when his older boyfriend ditches him in Hollywood. Squid has gone through...
| Author | Dee Garretson |
| ISBN | 0061953474 |
A Junior Library Guild selection - Just once Luke Brockett would like to do something slightly dangerous, but when your father is the President of the United States, that is not an option. Always surrounded by Secret Service agents and kept in a bubble of safety, Luke sees Camp David, the presidential...
Interessante Zeitreiseidee, die spannende neue Möglichkeiten eröffnet und schön umgesetzt wurde. Mit den Charakteren bin ich leider nicht so warm geworden, da wir sie kaum kennenlernen konnten und gegen Ende häuften sich ein wenig die Logiklöcher. Aber insgesamt war es doch eine rasante...
| Author | Catherine Thimmesh |
| ISBN | 0547991347 |
No human being has ever seen a triceratops or velociraptor or even the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex. They left behind only their impressive bones. So how can scientists know what color dinosaurs were? Or if their flesh was scaly or feathered? Could that fierce T.rex have been born with spots? In a first for...
| Author | Gary Paulsen |
| ISBN | 0385742282 |
What's the craziest thing you ever did to get someone to notice you? The craziest thing that i have ever did was bye 500$ dollar shoes and sell them. The " Vote" is a realistic fiction book. My opinion of this book is that it makes you get excited about school politics and gives you a great lesson on how not to...
| Author | Geraldine McCaughrean |
The end of the world is a busy time if you mean to outlive it.
So says Timna—sole daughter of Noah—as she and her family prepare to face the flood that will cleanse the Earth. But during the forty days and nights before the waters recede, the inhabitants of the Ark experience more than just a...
| Author | Toby Forward |
| ISBN | 1406320447 |
3.75 stars
I liked how this sort of tied into the first book slowly and then all at once. I was happy to read some of the origin stories of people we'd met in Dragonborn, and I liked trying to figure out who they were before the story told us.
The writing didn't feel quite as strong as the first,...
| Author | Rick Atkinson |
| ISBN | 1627791116 |
Adapted for young readers from the #1 New York Times–bestselling The Guns at Last Light, D-Day captures the events and the spirit of that day—June 6, 1944—the day that led to the liberation of western Europe from Nazi Germany's control. They came by sea and by sky to reclaim freedom from the occupying...
| Author | David Meissner |
| ISBN | 1590788230 |
I feel like I recommend this only under a specific set of circumstances, ie: you are a middle school teacher teaching a unit about the Gold Rush OR Call of the Wild and you want some primary sources.
I picked it up with an eye to booktalk it for fans of nonfiction survival stories, but I just don't...
Becoming Ben Franklin: How a Candle-Maker's Son Helped Light the Flame of Liberty
| Author | Russell Freedman |
| ISBN | 0823423743 |
In 1723 Ben Franklin arrived in Philadelphia as a poor and friendless seventeen-year-old who had run away from his family and an apprenticeship in Boston. Sixty-two years later he stepped ashore in nearly the same spot but was greeted by cannons, bells, and a cheering crowd, now a distinguished statesman,...
| Author | Pamela S. Turner |
| ISBN | 0547716389 |
Ride alongside the author Pamela S. Turner and her scientific team and meet a cast of dolphin characters large enough (and charismatic enough) to rival a Shakespearean play—Puck, Piccolo, Flute, and Dodger among them. You will fall in love with this crew, both human and finned, as they seek to answer...
| Author | Norah McClintock |
| ISBN | 1554699894 |
Finn watches in horror as his stepmother is gunned down in front of his house. His father reacts and kills the gunman. When Finn learns that the killer is the same man who admitted to killing his birth mother years before, he is shocked and wants to know if this is more than a terrible coincidence. At the police...
| Author | Eric Devine |
| ISBN | 0762450150 |
When Ben Candido and his friends, Ricky and John, decide to post a YouTube video of themselves surfing on top of a car, they finally feel like the somebodies they are meant to be instead of the social nobodies that they are. Overnight, the video becomes the talk of the school, and the boys are sure that their...
| Author | Tim Green |
| ISBN | 0062208721 |
New York Times bestselling author and former NFL defensive end Tim Green delivers another baseball tale that will keep kids on the edge of their seats. Perfect for fans of Mike Lupica or Dan Gutman's Baseball Card Adventure series.
Tommy's the new kid in town, like he's been so many times before....
The Haunting of Gabriel Ashe
| Author | Dan Poblocki |
| ISBN | 0545402700 |
Has Gabriel created a monster?
Gabe and Seth used to play make-believe games in the woods behind Seth's family farm. It was the perfect creepy landscape for imagining they were up against beasts and monsters and villains.
Just as Gabe's decided he's outgrown their childish games,...
Infographica: The World As You Have Never Seen It Before
| Author | Martin Toseland |
| ISBN | 1780877579 |
If I can convince only one single person not to waste their cash on this plate of steaming stupid tripe then this review will not have been in vain. (Hey, Google, I'm over here!) Yes, I bought this thing, another victim of the click-click-and-you’re-done culture. So, what do we have here? A wretched...
