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BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU. WHO'S WATCHING BACK? …More

All eyes are on seventeen-year-old Lonnie Jackson while he practices with his team for a city-wide basketball Tournament of Champions. His coach, Cal, knows Lonnie has what it takes to be a pro-basketball player, but warns him about giving in to the pressure. Cal knows because he, too, once had the chance--but sold out.

As the Tournament nears, Lonnie learns that some heavy bettors want Cal to keep him on the bench so that the team will lose the championship. As the last seconds of the game tick away Lonnie and Cal must make a decision. Are they eilling to blow the chance of a lifetime? …More

Draper delivers the shocking conclusion to her Coretta Scott King Honor-winning series that includes "The Battle of Jericho" and "November Blues." When Jack arrives at school wielding an AK-47, there are only seconds to stop a tragedy. …More

A thought provoking biography of the first Jewish baseball hall of famer, who battled anti-Semitism both on an off the field. …More

High school sophomore Danny excels at gymnastics but is bullied, like the rest of the gymnasts, by members of the football team, until an emotionally and physically scarred new student joins the football team and forms an unlikely friendship with Danny. …More

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Jessica thinks her life is over when she loses a leg in a car accident. She's not comforted by the news that she'll be able to walk with the help of a prosthetic leg. As she struggles to cope with crutches and a first cyborg-like prosthetic, Jessica feels oddly both in the spotlight and invisible. …More

Kate Grable is horrified to find out that the football coach has given the team steroids that are having an unexpected effect: turning hot gridiron hunks into mindless flesh-eating zombies. No one is safe--not her cute crush Aaron; not her dorky brother, Jonah; not even Kate! She's got to find an antidote--before her entire high school ends up eating each other. …More

Charlie Bucktin, a bookish 13-year-old, is startled one summer night by an urgent knock on his bedroom window. His visitor is Jasper Jones, an outcast in their small mining town, and he has come to ask for Charlie's help. Terribly afraid but desperate to impress, Charlie follows him into the night. …More

A series of poems describes all the baffling changes at home and at school in twelve-year-old Joylin's transition from tomboy basketball player to not-quite-girly girl. …More

Raised to be a thief, blind 10-year-old orphan Peter Nimble steals from a mysterious stranger three pairs of magical eyes that lead him to a hidden island where he must decide to become a hero or resume his life of crime. …More

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Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel’s story is about to be completely rewritten. …More

"The amazing story of the Chilean miners and their incredible rescue!"-- …More

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This book details various means to help young people get in shape and stay that way. …More

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