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Flush
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Hiaasen, Carl
[Division I] With their father jailed for sinking a river boat, Noah Underwood and his younger sister, Abbey, must gather evidence that the owner of this floating casino is emptying his bilge tanks into the protected waters around their Florida Keys home.
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The Lightning Thief
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Riordan, Rick
[Division II] Twelve-year-old Percy Jackson learns he is a demigod, the son of a mortal woman and Poseidon, god of the sea. His mother sends him to a summer camp for demigods where he and his new friends set out on a quest to prevent a war between the gods.
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Ruby Holler
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Creech, Sharon
[Division I] Thirteen-year-old fraternal twins Dallas and Florida have grown up in a terrible orphanage but their lives change forever when an eccentric but sweet older couple invites them each on an adventure, beginning in an almost magical place called Ruby Holler.
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Drums, Girls, & Dangerous Pie
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Sonnenblick, Jordan
[Division II] When his younger brother is diagnosed with leukemia, thirteen-year-old Steven tries to deal with his complicated emotions, his school life, and his desire to support his family.
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Escaping the Giant Wave
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Kehret, Peg
[Division I] When an earthquake creates a tsunami while thirteen-year-old Kyle is babysitting his sister during a family vacation at a Pacific Coast resort, he tries to save himself, his sister, and a boy who has bullied him for years.
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Things Not Seen
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Clements, Andrew
[Division II] When fifteen-year-old Bobby wakes up and finds himself invisible, he and his parents and his new blind friend Alicia try to find out what caused his condition and how to reverse it.
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Runt
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Bauer, Marion Dane
[Division I] Runt, the smallest wolf cub in the litter, seeks to prove himself to his father King and the rest of the pack and to earn a new name.
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Hoot
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Hiaasen, Carl
[Division II] Roy, who is new to his small Florida community, becomes involved in another boy's attempt to save a colony of burrowing owls from a proposed construction site.
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The Doll People
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Martin, Ann M
[Division I] A family of porcelain dolls that has lived in the same house for one hundred years is taken aback when a new family of plastic dolls arrives and doesn't follow The Doll Code of Honor.
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Zach's Lie
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Smith, Roland
[Division II] When Jack Osborne is befriended by his school's custodian and a Basque girl, he begins to adjust to his family's sudden move to Elko, Nevada, after entering the Witness Security Program, but the drug cartel against which his father will testify is determined to track them down.
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In the Stone Circle
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Kimmel, Elizabeth Cody
[Division I] While spending the summer in an old stone house in Wales, fourteen-year-old Cristyn comes to terms with the death of her mother while satisfying the request of a thirteenth-century princess.
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Touching Spirit Bear
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Mikaelsen, Ben
[Division II] After his anger erupts into violence, Cole, in order to avoid going to prison, agrees to participate in a sentencing alternative based on the native American Circle Justice, and he is sent to a remote Alaskan Island where an encounter with a huge Spirit Bear changes his life.
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The Ghost of Fossil Glen
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DeFelice, Cynthia C.
[Division I] Allie Nichols' friend Karen doesn't want to hear the story of a ghost calling for Allie's help and then falling to her death. As Allie discovers that her role is to avenge a murder, she also learns something about friendship, false and true.
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Dovey Coe
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Dowell, Frances O'Roark
[Division II] When accused of murder in her North Carolina mountain town in 1928, Dovey Coe, a stronged-willed twelve-year-old girl, comes to a new understanding of others, including her deaf brother.
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Silverwing
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Oppel, Kenneth
[Division I] When a newborn bat named Shade but sometimes called Runt becomes separated from his colony during migration, he grows in ways that prepare him for even greater journeys.
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Trapped Between the Lash and the Gun
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Whitmore, Arvella
[Division II] Twelve-year-old Jordan is becoming dangerously involved with a street gang when he is suddenly transported through time to become a slave on the plantation of his ancestors.
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The Million Dollar Shot
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Gutman, Dan
[Division I] Eleven-year-old Eddie gets a chance to win a million dollars by sinking a foul shot at the National Basketball Association finals.
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Among the Hidden
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Haddix, Margaret Peterson
[Division II] A government decree allows each family only two children. For Luke, a third child, this has meant a lifetime of hiding. But could a stray glimpse of a child hiding in the house across the way lead to freedom?
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Danger in the Desert
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Fields, Terri
[Division I]Two brothers attempt to survive in the desert outside Scottsdale, Arizona, after they are abandoned there following a carjacking.
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Tangerine
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Bloor, Edward
[Division II] Twelve-year-old Paul, who lives in the shadow of his football hero brother Erik, fights for the right to play soccer despite his near blindness and slowly begins to remember the incident that damaged his eyesight.
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Frindel
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Clements, Andrew
[Division I] Nick can dream up a distraction to prevent homework assignments from being given. In fifth grade, however, he meets his match in tough language-arts teacher Mrs. Granger. He invents the word "frindle" and convinces the whole school to use it instead of the word "pen." The word spreads. Fast-forwards by 10 years and "frindle" has made it into the dictionary. With this coup Nick gets a big surprise: the proof that Mrs. Granger was rooting for "frindle" all along.
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Crash
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Spinelli, Jerry
[Division II] Seventh-grader John Crash Coogan has always been comfortable with his tough, aggressive behavior, until his relationship with an unusual Quaker boy and his grandfather's stroke make him consider the meaning of friendship and the importance of family.
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Mick Harte Was Here
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Park, Barbara
[Divisions I and II] Phoebe recalls her younger brother Mick and his death in a bicycle accident.
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The Summer I Shrank My Grandmother
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Woodruff, Elvira
[Division I] Aspiring scientist Nelly Brown uses a magic chemistry set to make her grandmother young again but is unable to stop the alteration. The seventy-year-old woman becomes a baby and Nelly fears that she may shrink into nothing.
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The Devil's Arithmetic
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Yolen, Jane
[Division II] Hannah resents the traditions of her Jewish heritage until time travel places her in the middle of a small Jewish village in Nazi-occupied Poland.
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Cages
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Kehret, Peg
After losing an acting role and fighting with her alcoholic stepfather, Kit is arrested for shoplifting and ordered to work, as a part of her sentence, at an animal shelter.
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Nightmare Mountain
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Kehret, Peg
Twelve-year-old Molly's visit to her aunt and uncle's llama ranch in the state of Washington leads her into unexpected danger and suspense.
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38 Weeks Till Summer Vacation
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Kerby, Mona
Skinny Nora Jean Sampson and her friends at R. B. Nolen Elementary School are kept busy with a snake in the girls' bathroom, a scary Halloween fun house, and a pizza party in the library.
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The Dead Man in Indian Creek
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Hahn, Mary Downing
When Matt and Parker learn that the body they found in Indian Creek is a drug-related death, they fear Parker's mother may be involved.
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This Island Isn't Big Enough for the Four of Us!
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Greer, Gery
[not in HCL] Scott and Pete pretend to explore deserted island by naming field, forest, stream and cove. In reality, they're stuck with a tent decorated to look like a gingerbread house, and the deserted island has at least two other people on it who take pictures of some of the boys' most embarrassing moments. Enter Cornelius, an eccentric author who has built a treehouse on the island, and Jill's Aunt Katherine.
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Hatchet
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Paulsen, Gary
After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the wilderness, learning to survive initially with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce.
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Wait Till Helen Comes
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Hahn, Mary Downing
Molly and Michael dislike their spooky new stepsister, Heather, but realize that they must try to save her when she seems ready to follow a ghost child to her doom.
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Eating Ice Cream with a Werewolf
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Green, Kate
[not in HCL] A wacky baby sitter and her book of spells keep a twelve-year-old and his little sister guessing while their parents are away.
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Night of the Twisters
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Ruckman, Ivy
A fictional account of the night that freakish and devastating tornadoes hit Grand Island, Nebraska, as experienced by a twelve-year-old, his family, and friends.
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Stone Fox
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Gardiner, John Reynolds
Little Willie hopes to pay the back taxes on his grandfather's farm with the purse from a dog sled race he enters.
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Zucchini
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Barbara Dana
[not in HCL] A painfully shy young boy befriends a homeless baby ferret and gets as much comfort as he gives.
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Skinnybones
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Park, Barbara
Alex's active sense of humor helps him get along with the school braggart, make the most of his athletic talents, and simply get by in a hectic world.
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Nothing's Fair in Fifth Grade
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DeClements, Barthe.
A fifth grade class, repelled by the overweight new student who has serious home problems, finally learns to accept her.
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It Can't Hurt Forever
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Singer, Marilyn
[not in HCL] Eleven-year-old Ellie describes her experiences during twelve days of hospitalization for heart surgery.
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The Best Christmas Pageant Ever. Pictures By Judith Gwyn Brown.
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Robinson, Barbara
The six mean Herdman kids lie, steal, smoke cigars (even the girls) and then become involved in the community Christmas pageant.
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The Pinballs
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Byars, Betsy Cromer
Three lonely foster children learn to care about themselves and each other.
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Summer of the Monkeys
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Rawls, Wilson.
In the late 1800's, a fourteen-year-old Ozark mountain boy spends the summer trying to recapture monkeys escaped from a traveling circus.
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