Bucking the Sarge
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SUE LIMB
0-385-73215-5
With her hilariously active imagination, Jess Jordan has a tendency to complicate her life, but now, as she’s finally getting closer to her crush, she’s determined to keep things under control. Readers will fall in love with Sue Limb’s insanely optimistic heroine.
Shades of Simon Gray
JOYCE MCDONALD
0-440-22804-2
Simon is the ideal teenager—smart, reliable, hardworking, trustworthy. Or is he? After Simon’s car crashes into a tree and he slips into a coma, another portrait of him begins to emerge.
Zipped
LAURA AND TOM MCNEAL
0-375-83098-7
In a suspenseful novel of betrayal, forgiveness, and first love, fifteen-year-old Mick Nichols opens an e-mail he was never meant to see—and learns a terrible secret.
Harmony
RITA MURPHY
0-440-22923-5
Power is coursing through Harmony—the power to affect the universe with her energy. This is a frightening gift for a girl who has always hated being different, and Harmony must decide whether to hide her abilities or embrace the consequences—good and bad—of her full strength.
Cuba 15
NANCY OSA
0-385-73233-3
Violet Paz’s upcoming quinceañero, a girl’s traditional fifteenth-birthday coming-of-age ceremony, awakens her interest in her Cuban roots—and sparks a fire of conflicting feelings about Cuba within her family.
Pool Boy
MICHAEL SIMMONS
0-385-73196-5
Brett Gerson is the kind of guy you love to hate—until his father is thrown in prison and Brett has to give up the good life. That’s when some swimming pools enter his world and change everything.
Milkweed
JERRY SPINELLI
0-440-42005-9
He’s a boy called Jew. Gypsy. Stopthief. Runt. He’s a boy who lives in the streets of Warsaw. He’s a boy who wants to be a Nazi someday, with tall, shiny jackboots of his own. Until the day that suddenly makes him change his mind—the day he realizes it’s safest of all to be nobody.
Stargirl
JERRY SPINELLI
0-440-41677-9
Stargirl. From the day she arrives at quiet Mica High in a burst of color and sound, the hallways hum with the murmur of “Stargirl, Stargirl.” The students are enchanted. Then they turn on her.
Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind
SUZANNE FISHER STAPLES
0-440-23856-0
Life is both sweet and cruel to strong-willed young Shabanu, whose home is the windswept Cholistan Desert of Pakistan. She must reconcile her duty to her family and the stirrings of her own heart in this Newbery Honor–winning modern-day classic.
The Gospel According to Larry
JANET TASHJIAN
0-440-23792-0
Josh Swensen’s virtual alter ego, Larry, becomes a huge media sensation. While it seems as if the whole world is trying to figure out Larry’s true identity, Josh feels trapped inside his own creation.
Memories of Summer
RUTH WHITE
0-440-22921-9
In 1955, thirteen-year-old Lyric describes her older sister Summer’s descent into mental illness, telling Summer’s story with humor, courage, and love.
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Table of Contents
Cover
Other Books By This Author
Title Page
Dedication
Chapter 1 - My Life Listing
Chapter 2 - “So Long, Sew-Crates”
Chapter 3 - Chester X
Chapter 4 - “Break A Rule, Lose Your Allowance …”
Chapter 5 - Archaeology Today's Person of the Millennium
Chapter 6 - Moving Day
Chapter 7 - Sparky's Bad Night
Chapter 8 - Sucker Path Stroll
Chapter 9 - Pit Puppy Charms
Chapter 10 - The Quest for the Ashy Brown Kneecap
Chapter 11 - Mr. Goodbye Cruel World
Chapter 12 - Rightfully Gold!
Chapter 13 - Who's Your Daddy?
Chapter 14 - The Order of the Universe Maintained
Chapter 15 - Luther's Long Last Limo Ride
Chapter 16 - Bucking the Sarge
Chapter 17 - Another Media Conspiracy Against A Young Bruh
Chapter 18 - Sharing the Wealth
Chapter 19 - The Last List and Testament of Luther T. Farrell
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