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3) Rats saw God
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
In hopes of graduating, Steve York agrees to complete a hundred-page writing assignment which helps him to sort out his relationship with his famous astronaut father and the events that changed him from promising student to troubled teen.
7) Candyfloss
Author
Publisher
Roaring Book Press
Pub. Date
2007, c2006
Language
English
Description
When her mother plans to move to Australia with her new husband and baby, Floss must decide whether her loyalties lie with her mother or her father, while at the same time, her best friend begins to make fun of her and reject her.
8) Pop
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lonely after a midsummer move to a new town, sixteen-year-old high-school quarterback Marcus Jordan becomes friends with a retired professional linebacker who is great at training him, but whose childish behavior keeps Marcus in hot water.
9) Bystander
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Eric discovers there are consequences to not standing by and watching as the bully at his new school hurts people, but although school officials are aware of the problem, Eric may be the one with a solution.
Author
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
In 1974 at her new San Francisco school, nine-year-old Julie does not want to tell her class about her parents' divorce, or to tell her sister about messing up her school assignment, but when she breaks her finger playing basketball and her whole family rallies around her, she realizes the importance of telling the truth.
11) The Landry News
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
A fifth-grader starts a newspaper with an editorial that prompts her burnt-out classroom teacher to really begin teaching again, but he is later threatened with disciplinary action as a result.
12) Stand tall
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Tree, a six-foot-three-inch twelve-year-old, copes with his parents' recent divorce and his failure as an athlete by helping his grandfather, a Vietnam vet and recent amputee, and Sophie, a new girl at school.
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