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Double Play
Sara Cassidy
Format: Paperback
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Allie loves baseball. It's the one thing that has been consistent in her lately complicated life. Allie's father left recently, and now Allie has a new family -- her mother's new girlfriend, Phyllis, and son Miles have moved in. It's taking some adjustment, mostly because Miles |
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Bleed Like Me
C. Desir - Simon Pulse
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of Fault Line comes an edgy and heartbreaking novel about two self-destructive teens in a Sid and Nancylike romance full of passion chaos and dyed hairSeventeen-year-old Amelia Gannon just Gannon to her friends is invisible to almost everyone in her life To her parents to her teacherseven... |
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Tap Out
Eric Devine - Running Press Kids
Format: Paperback
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Seventeen-year-old Tony Antioch lives in Pleasant Meadows, a trailer park where questions aren't asked since everyone already knows the answers from their own experience. He dreams of rescuing his mother from her constant stream of abusive boyfriends but in reality can barely duck the punches... |
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A Matter of Heart
Amy Fellner Dominy - Delacorte Press
Format: Print book
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"A novel that will make your heart pound--anxiously, joyfully, triumphantly."--New York Times Bestselling Author, Lauren Myracle. Readers will happily sink into this emotionally grounded, contemporary young adult novel about the sudden end of one girl's Olympic swimming dreams... |
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Wild Cards
Simone Elkeles - Walker Childrens; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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After getting kicked out of boarding school, bad boy Derek Fitzpatrick has no choice but to live with his ditzy stepmother while his military dad is deployed. Things quickly go from bad to worse when he finds out she plans to move them back to her childhood home in Illinois. Derek's... |
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Change-Up: Mystery at the World Series
John Feinstein - Yearling; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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A behind-the-scenes mystery at the World Series from bestseller John Feinstein. Bestselling author, journalist, and Edgar Award winner John Feinstein is back with another high-stakes sports mystery. Teen reporters Stevie Thomas and Susan Carol Anderson are covering baseball's World... |
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Lost in the Sun
Lisa Graff - Philomel Books
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of A Tangle of Knots and Absolutely Almost, a touching story about a boy who won't let one tragic accident define him. Everyone says that middle school is awful, but Trent knows nothing could be worse than the year he had in fifth grade, when a freak accident... |
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Jack Strong Takes a Stand
Tommy Greenwald - Henry Holt & Co
Format: Print book
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Jack Strong just wants to be a regular kid. But his parents have overscheduled his week with every extracurricular activity under the sun: tennis, baseball, cello, karate, tutoring, and Chinese language lessons -- all on top of regular homework. His parents want him to be "well-rounded"... |
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None of the Above
I. W. Gregorio - Balzer + Bray
Format: Print book
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A groundbreaking story about a teenage girl who discovers she's intersex . . . and what happens when her secret is revealed to the entire school. Incredibly compelling and sensitively told, None of the Above is a thought-provoking novel that explores what it means to be a boy, a girl, or something... |
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Conviction
Kelly Loy Gilbert - Disney-Hyperion
Format: eBook
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"A small-town boy questions everything he holds to be true when his father is accused of murder"-- |
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Stick
Michael Harmon - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Print book
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"Stick" is the best wide receiver in the history of his high school - the football seems magnetically drawn to his hands, hence his nickname. Preston is an outcast, and his pipsqueak stature and nerdy social status couldn't be further from a star athlete's. Stick... |
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Losers Take All
David Klass - Farrar Straus Giroux
Format: Print book
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In this table-turning novel about the thrill of defeat and the agony of victory, the new rule at Jack Logan's sports-crazy New Jersey high school is that all kids must play on a team. So Jack and a ragtag group of anti-athletic friends decide to get even. They are going to start a rebel... |
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Second Impact
David Klass - Frances Foster Books
Format: Print book
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Kendall is football town, and Jerry Downing is the high school's star quarterback, working to redeem himself after he nearly killed a girl in a drunk driving accident last year. Carla Jenson, lead reporter for the school newspaper's sports section, has recruited Jerry to co-author a blog... |
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Shakespeare Makes the Playoffs
Ron Koertge - Candlewick; 1 edition
Format: Print book
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Fielding his social life is a bigger challenge for Kevin than hitting a fastball in Ron Koertge's funny, insightful sequel to SHAKESPEARE BATS CLEANUP.Fourteen-year-old Kevin Boland has a passion for playing baseball, aknack for writing poetry - and a cute girlfriend named Mira who's... |
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Head Games: A PrettyTOUGH Novel
Keri Mikulski
Format: Paperback
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Taylor is calm, cool, collected, and ferocious on the basketball court. A total all-star. Not so much in real life. She may be tall, gorgeous, and an incredible catch, but just try telling her that! And lately, Taylor doesn't know which way to turn: The summer showcase gam |
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Dairy Queen
Catherine Gilbert Murdock - Houghton Mifflin Books for Children; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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When you dont talk, theres a lot of stuff that ends up not getting said.Harsh words indeed, from Brian Nelson of all people. But, D. J. cant help admitting, maybe hes right. When you dont talk, theres a lot of stuff that ends up not getting said.Stuff like why her best friend, Amber, isnt... |
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Game
Walter Dean Myers
Format: Hardcover
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Drew Lawson knows basketball is taking him places. It has to, because his grades certainly aren't. But lately his plan has run squarely into a pick. Coach's new offense has made another player a star, and Drew won't let anyone disrespect his game. Just as his team makes the pla |
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Latitude Zero
Diana Renn - Viking Juvenile
Format: Book
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"I have to run," said Juan Carlos. "You will call? Please? It is very important." "Yes. I will call. Definitely. At two." That's what Tessa promises. But by two o'clock, young Ecuadorian cycling superstar Juan Carlos is dead, and Tessa, one of the last... |
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Stand-Off
Andrew Smith - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Print book
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Ryan Dean West is back to his boarding school antics in this bitingly funny sequel to Winger, which Publishers Weekly called "alternately hilarious and painful, awkward and enlightening" (Publishers Weekly, starred review) .It's his last year at Pine Mountain, and Ryan Dean... |
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This Side of Salvation
Jeri Smith-Ready - Simon Pulse
Format: Hardcover
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Everyone mourns differently. When his older brother was killed, David got angry. As in, fist-meets-someone-else's-face furious. But his parents? They got religious. David's still figuring out his relationship with a higher power, but there's one thing he does know for sure:... |
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The Running Dream
Wendelin Van Draanen - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the 2012 Schneider Family Book AwardJessica thinks her life is over when she loses a leg in a car accident. Shes not comforted by the news that shell be able to walk with the help of a prosthetic leg. Who cares about walking when you live to run?As she struggles to cope with crutches... |
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