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Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Emmy Award-winning CBS Sunday Morning Correspondent Bill Geist reflects on his coming of age in the American Heartland and traces his evolution as a man and a writer while working at a resort run by his uncle. He shares laugh-out-loud anecdotes and tongue-in-cheek observations guaranteed to evoke a strong sense of nostalgia for "the good ol' days.
442) Back to the future
Series
Publisher
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Marty McFly test-drives his friend Doc's time machine and accidentally travels 30 years into the past, where he must locate a younger version of Doc and make sure that his parents fall in love.
443) As simple as snow
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Why does Skippy, a student at Dublin's venerable Seabrook College, end up dead on the floor of the local doughnut shop? Could it have something to do with his friend Ruprecht Van Doren, who is determined to open a portal into a parallel universe using ten-dimensional string theory? Or Carl, the teenage drug dealer who is Skippy's rival in love?
446) Tampa: [a novel]
Author
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Becoming a teacher to fulfill her passion for fourteen-year-old boys, Celeste Price, an eighth grade teacher in suburban Tampa, sets her sights on Jack Patrick, who willingly accepts her terms for a secret relationship while she destroys his life for her own pleasure.
447) Trash
Pub. Date
2015
Language
Español
Description
When two trash-picking boys from Rio's slums find a wallet in amongst the daily detritus of their local dump, little do they imagine that their lives are about to change forever. But when the local police show up, offering a handsome reward for the wallet's return, the boys, Rafael and Gardo, realize that what they've found must be important.
448) Leave myself behind
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
449) Zed: [a novel]
Author
Publisher
M. Frederick]
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Seventeen year old Clayton Zediker, virtually an orphan now that his mother lies in a coma, tries to make sense of his life but becomes entangled with friends who take advantage of him. He also fears the transformation that will take place on his eighteenth birthday, December 21, 2012, which coincides with the mysterious end date of the Mayan calendar.
Author
Publisher
Jessica Kingsley
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"The Growing Up Book for Boys explains the facts behind the growth spurts, body changes and mood swings of adolescence for boys aged 9-14 on the autism spectrum. The pre-teen and teenage years are a confusing time when bodies start acting with a will of their own, friendships change and crushes start to develop. Using direct literal language and cool color illustrations, this book tells boys all they need to know about growing hair in new places,...
Author
Series
Pokémon world championship volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Continuing to battle their way up through the ranks of the World Coronation Series tournament, Ash and his Pokémon face a rematch against a powerful Gym Leader and must emerge victorious to forge ahead.
452) How to build a boat
Author
Publisher
Biblioasis
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Jamie O'Neill loves the color red. He also loves tall trees, patterns, rain that comes with wind, the curvature of many objects, books with dust jackets, cats, rivers and Edgar Allan Poe. At age thirteen, there are two things he especially wants in life: to build a Perpetual Motion Machine, and to connect with his mother, Noelle, who died when he was born. In his mind these things are intimately linked. And at his new school, where all else is disorientating...
453) Honey so sweet: 7
Author
Series
Honey so sweet volume 7
Publisher
VIZ Media
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Nao Kogure becomes jealous when Taiga Onise becomes a mentor to new student Miyabi Nishigaki.
454) The wretched
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Following his parents' separation, a rebellious teenage boy is sent to live with his father for the summer and work at the local marina to gain some form of discipline. The idyllic tourist town offers little solace for him, however, and Ben's problems grow increasingly disturbing when he makes a chilling discovery about the family renting the house next door.
Author
Publisher
HarperPerennial
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In the tradition of All The Light We Cannot See and The Nightingale, comes an incandescent debut novel about a young Dutch man who comes of age during the perilousness of World War II. Beginning in the summer of 1939, fourteen-year-old Jacob Koopman and his older brother, Edwin, enjoy lives of prosperity and quiet contentment. Many of the residents in their small Dutch town have some connection to the Koopman lightbulb factory, and the locals hold...
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Thomas Brussig's classic German novel, now appearing for the first time in English, is a moving and miraculously comic story of life in East Berlin before the fall of the wall."--
Young Micha Kuppisch lives on the nubbin of a street, the Sonnenallee, whose long end extends beyond the Berlin Wall outside his apartment building. Like his friends and family, who have their own quixotic dreams--to secure an original English pressing of Exile on Main...
457) Out of left field
Author
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Ninth-grader Jonah is not a jock. On the contrary, he loves history class and nerdy movies, and his athletic ineptitude verges on tragic. So, what's he doing signing up for the baseball team? Could it have something to do with the cute shortstop, Elliot?"--
458) Coda
Author
Publisher
RP Teens
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Possessing unique talents for composing and conducting music that his oppressive government encodes with mind-altering elements to control the world, 18-year-old Anthem performs unaltered music with an underground rock band and questions the loyalties of his girlfriend when a band member dies under suspicious circumstances.
Series
Publisher
Viz Media LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Naruto was a young shinobi with an incorrigible knack for mischief. He achieved his dream to become the greatest ninja in his village, and now his face sits atop the Hokage monument. But this is not his story... A new generation of ninja are ready to take the stage, led by Naruto's own son, Boruto! Boruto gets through round two of the Chunin Exam and receives praise from his father. But what Naruto doesn t know is that his son is cheating by using...
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