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Terror at Bottle Creek
Watt Key - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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In this gritty, realistic wilderness adventure, thirteen-year-old Cort is caught in a battle against a Gulf Coast hurricane. Cort's father is a local expert on hunting and swamp lore in lower Alabama who has been teaching his son everything he knows. But when a deadly Category 3 storm makes... |
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Some Kind of Courage
Dan Gemeinhart - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover
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Joseph Johnson has lost just about everyone he's ever loved. He lost his pa in an accident. He lost his ma and his little sister to sickness. And now, he's lost his pony-fast, fierce, beautiful Sarah, taken away by a man who had no right to take her.Joseph can sure enough get her back,... |
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Seven Dead Pirates
Linda Bailey - Tundra Books
Format: Print book
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Lewis Dearborn is a lonely, anxious, "terminally shy" boy of eleven when his great-grandfather passes away and leaves Lewis's family with his decaying seaside mansion. Lewis is initially delighted with his new bedroom, a secluded tower in a remote part of the house. Then he discovers... |
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Terror at Bottle Creek
Watt Key - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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In this gritty, realistic wilderness adventure, thirteen-year-old Cort is caught in a battle against a Gulf Coast hurricane. Cort's father is a local expert on hunting and swamp lore in lower Alabama who has been teaching his son everything he knows. But when a deadly Category 3 storm makes... |
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Some Kind of Courage
Dan Gemeinhart - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover
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Joseph Johnson has lost just about everyone he's ever loved. He lost his pa in an accident. He lost his ma and his little sister to sickness. And now, he's lost his pony-fast, fierce, beautiful Sarah, taken away by a man who had no right to take her.Joseph can sure enough get her back,... |
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Going Where It's Dark
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor - Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Format: Print book
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From the Newbery Award-winning author of Shiloh comes a middle-grade novel that combines adrenaline-fueled adventure with a poignant coming-of-age story about a boy who loves the challenges he faces when caving but finds daily life dealing with his stuttering problem a most difficult... |
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Some Kind of Courage
Dan Gemeinhart - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover
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Joseph Johnson has lost just about everyone he's ever loved. He lost his pa in an accident. He lost his ma and his little sister to sickness. And now, he's lost his pony-fast, fierce, beautiful Sarah, taken away by a man who had no right to take her.Joseph can sure enough get her back,... |
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Going Where It's Dark
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor - Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Format: Print book
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From the Newbery Award-winning author of Shiloh comes a middle-grade novel that combines adrenaline-fueled adventure with a poignant coming-of-age story about a boy who loves the challenges he faces when caving but finds daily life dealing with his stuttering problem a most difficult... |
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Cast Off: The Strange Adventures of Petra de Winter and Bram Broen
Eve Yohalem - Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Format: Print book
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A tale of pirates, mutiny, and friendship on the high seas, perfect for fans of The True Confessions of Charlotte DoyleIt's 1663 and there is an extra passenger on board a Dutch merchant ship setting sail for the East Indies. Twelve-year-old Petra has stowed away to escape her abusive... |
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Tides of War #1: Blood in the Water
C Alexander London - Scholastic Inc.
Format: Print book
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Based on a real military program! The US Navy's new breed of soldier is ready to make a big splash.From the author of Dog Tags!Navy SEALs are some of the most elite warriors in the world. Trained to operate in sea, land, and air, they work under cover of night to carry out the US military's... |
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Shipwreck Island
S A Bodeen - Feiwel and Friends
Format: Print book
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After Sarah's dad remarries, he and her stepmom decide to take the whole family on a special vacation in order to break the ice and have everyone get to know one another. They'll fly to Tahiti, charter a boat, and go sailing for a few days. It'll be an adventure, right? Wrong. Dead wrong. |
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Soldier Dog
Sam Angus - Feiwel and Friends
Format: Print book
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With his older brother gone to fight in the Great War, and his father prone to sudden rages, 14-year-old Stanley devotes himself to taking care of the family's greyhound and puppies. Until the morning Stanley wakes to find the puppies gone.Determined to find his brother, Stanley runs away... |
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Stranded
Jeff Probst - Puffin Books
Format: Print book
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A New York Times Bestseller!As seen on The Today Show, Rachael Ray, and Kelly and Michael.From the Emmy-Award winning host of Survivor, Jeff Probst, with Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life co-author, Chris Tebbetts, comes a brand new family adventure... |
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A Horse Called Hero
Sam Angus - Feiwel & Friends; First Ed 1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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On the brink of World War II, a family forced out of their London home flees to the country. Wolfie and his older sister Dodo are devastated to leave behind everything theyve ever known, but they begin settling into their new life.One day, they come across an orphaned fowl, which... |
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House of Secrets
Chris Columbus - Balzer + Bray
Format: Hardcover
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Hailed as "a breakneck, jam-packed roller coaster of an adventure" by J. K. Rowling, this New York Times bestseller is the first installment in the explosive tween fantasy series by famed Hollywood director Chris Columbus (of Harry Potter fame) and bestselling author Ned Vizzini... |
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The dogs of winter
Bobbie Pyron - Arthur A. Levine Books
Format: Hardcover
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A small boy, a cruel city, and the incredible dogs who save him.Based on a true story!When Ivan's mother disappears, he's abandoned on the streets of Moscow, with little chance to make it through the harsh winter. But help comes in an unexpected form: Ivan is adopted by a pack of dogs,... |
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Fourmile
Watt Key - Farrar Straus Giroux
Format: Print book
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Twelve-year-old Foster knows in his gut that Dax Ganey, the man dating his widowed mother, is a bad seed. Then a mysterious stranger arrives at their Alabama farm, a former Army Ranger in Iraq rambling across the country, and Foster believes he has found an ally against Dax. The stranger... |
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Visions
Eric Walters - Fitzhenry & Whiteside
Format: Paperback
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Twin brothers Rob and Mark are helping their scientist mother with her institute's muskox-observing mission. No one can figure out why no muskox can be found - until Rob and Mark get some strange information that leads them to a mysteriously etched human bone and an old Inuit man who seems... |
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Deadweather and Sunrise: The Chronicles of Egg, Book 1
Geoff Rodkey - G. P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Print book
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A stunning middle-grade debut--full of heart, humor, and nonstop action It's tough to be thirteen, especially when somebody's trying to kill you. Not that Egg's life was ever easy, growing up on sweaty, pirate-infested Deadweather Island with no company except an incompetent tutor and a pair... |
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Hatchet
Gary Paulsen - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Print book
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After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the Canadian wilderness, learning to survive with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce. |
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Fish
Gregory Mone - Scholastic Press
Format: Print book
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The exciting adventure of a resourceful boy who discovers his hidden gift as a fortune-hunting pirateFish--nicknamed for his incredible swimming abilities--is a twelve-year-old boy from a poor farming family. After taking a job as a courier for his uncle, Fish is waylaid by pirates, who steal... |
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The Underneath
Kathi Appelt - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Paperback
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There is nothing lonelier than a cat who has been loved, at least for a while, and then abandoned on the side of the road. A calico cat, about to have kittens, hears the lonely howl of a chained-up hound deep in the backwaters of the bayou. She dares to find him in the forest, and the hound... |
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Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson - Palazzo
Format: Print book
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When an old sea captain arrives at the Admiral Benbow inn, with a mysterious sea chest and fearful talk of a man with one leg, the scene is set for one of the most popular adventure stories of all time. Robert Louis Stevenson described Treasure Island as "a book about a map, a treasure,... |
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Stormbreaker
Anthony Horowitz - Speak
Format: Paperback
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Ten years ago, Anthony Horowitz introduced the world to Alex Rider . . . and now his debut mission is back in a special fully loaded anniversary edition! Packed with bonus material - including a brand new Alex Rider short story, a letter from Anthony Horowitz, and much more! |
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Jasper and the Riddle of Riley's Mine
Caroline Starr Rose - G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Hoping to strike it rich, two brothers escape an abusive father and set out on a treacherous journey to Alaska during the Klondike Gold Rush. Desperate to get away from their drunkard of a father, eleven-year-old Jasper and his older brother Melvin often talk of running away, of heading... |
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Jasper and the Riddle of Riley's Mine
Caroline Starr Rose - G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Hoping to strike it rich, two brothers escape an abusive father and set out on a treacherous journey to Alaska during the Klondike Gold Rush. Desperate to get away from their drunkard of a father, eleven-year-old Jasper and his older brother Melvin often talk of running away, of heading... |
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