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  Macaroni Boy
Written by Katherine Ayres
Grades: Grades 3-7
Trade Paperback | Yearling | Juvenile Fiction | 978-0-440-41884-9 (0-440-41884-4) | July 2004 | $5.99/7.99(Canada)

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Mike Costa has lived his whole life in The Strip, Pittsburgh’s warehouse and factory district. His father’s large Italian family runs a food wholesale business, and Mike is used to the sounds and smells of men working all night to unload the trains that feed the city. But it’s 1933, and...
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  No Castles Here
Written by A.C.E. Bauer
Grades: Grades 4-8
Trade Paperback | Yearling | Juvenile Fiction - Fairy Tales & Folklore - Collections by a Single Author; Juvenile Fiction - Social Situations - Homosexuality; Juvenile Fiction - Social Situations - Values | 978-0-375-83922-1 (0-375-83922-4) | March 2009 | $6.99/7.99(Canada)

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AUGIE BORETSKI KNOWS how to get by. If you're a scrawny loser in the destitute city of Camden, New Jersey, you keep your head down, avoid the drug dealers and thugs, and try your best to be invisible. Augie used to be good at that, but suddenly his life is changing...
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  Blubber
Written by Judy Blume
Grades: Grades 3-7
Trade Paperback | Yearling | Juvenile Fiction - Social Situations | 978-0-440-40707-2 (0-440-40707-9) | August 1986 | $6.50/7.99(Canada)

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Blubber is a good name for her, the note from Wendy says about Linda. Jill crumples it up and leaves it on the corner of her desk. She doesn't want to think about Linda or her dumb report on the whale just now. Jill wants to think about Halloween.

But Robby grabs...
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  Hoot
Written by Carl Hiaasen
Grades: Grade 5 & Up
Trade Paperback | Yearling | Juvenile Fiction | 978-0-440-41939-6 (0-440-41939-5) | December 2005 | $6.99/9.99(Canada)

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A book for young readers. It involves new kids, bullies, alligators, eco-warriors, pancakes, and pint-sized owls. A hilarious
Floridian adventure!
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  Hoot
Written by Carl Hiaasen
Grades: Grade 5 & Up
Trade Paperback | Yearling | Juvenile Fiction | 978-0-440-42170-2 (0-440-42170-5) | March 2006 | $6.99/7.99(Canada)

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Unfortunately, Roy’s first acquaintance in Florida is Dana Matherson, a well-known bully. Then again, if Dana hadn’t been sinking his thumbs into Roy’s temples and mashing his face against the school-bus window, Roy might never have spotted the running boy. And the running boy is intriguing: he was running away from...
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  There's A Boy in the Girl's Bathroom
Written by Louis Sachar
Grades: Grades 3-7
Trade Paperback | Yearling | Juvenile Fiction - Social Situations - Self-Esteem | 978-0-394-80572-6 (0-394-80572-0) | August 1988 | $6.99/9.99(Canada)

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Bradley Chalkers IS the oldest kid in the fifth grade. He tells enormous lies. He picks fights with girls. No one likes him—except Carla, the new school counselor. She thinks Bradley is sensitive and generous, and knows that Bradley could change, if only he weren’t afraid to try. But when you...
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  Calvin Coconut: Trouble Magnet
Written by Graham Salisbury
Grades: Grades 2-5
Trade Paperback | Yearling | Juvenile Fiction - Humorous Stories; Juvenile Fiction - Boys & Men; Juvenile Fiction - Social Situations | 978-0-375-84600-7 (0-375-84600-X) | April 2010 | $6.99/7.99(Canada)

About this book
A humorous chapter book about a fourth-grade boy, full of the fun of growing up in Hawaii.
 
Calvin Coconut lives near the beach in Kailua, Hawaii, with his mom and his little sister. All his friends live there, too.


Mom says: "You're the man of the house, Cal." Which means: Be responsible...
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  Nicky Deuce: Welcome to the Family
Written by Steven R. Schirripa and Charles Fleming
Grades: Grades 5-8
Trade Paperback | Yearling | Juvenile Fiction - Humorous Stories | 978-0-440-42053-8 (0-440-42053-9) | November 2006 | $5.99/7.99(Canada)

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It’s July, and Nicholas Borelli II’s parents are scheduled to spend two weeks on a cruise. Nicholas will spend those two weeks, as he does every summer, at Camp Wannameka. The night before he’s to leave, however, there’s a phone call: thanks to an explosion in the septic system, camp is...
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  The Friskative Dog
Written by Susan Straight
Grades: Grades 3-7
Trade Paperback | Yearling | Juvenile Fiction - Family; Juvenile Fiction - Toys, Dolls, Puppets; Juvenile Fiction - Animals - Dogs | 978-0-440-42145-0 (0-440-42145-4) | August 2008 | $5.99/7.50(Canada)

About this book
Sharron was five when her father gave her the Friskative Dog. And just like the best-loved toys from The Velveteen Rabbit, Sharron has made the Friskative Dog real through her love and devotion.

Now Sharron is nine, and her father is missing, and the Friskative Dog is more necessary to her than...
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  Shredderman: Attack of the Tagger
Written by Wendelin Van Draanen
Grades: Grades 2-5
Trade Paperback | Yearling | Juvenile Fiction - Humorous Stories; Juvenile Fiction - Action & Adventure | 978-0-440-41913-6 (0-440-41913-1) | April 2006 | $5.99/7.50(Canada)

About this book
Alvin Bixby: Hulking, knuckles of steel, hideous breath, foul temper. Kids call him: Bubba.

Nolan Byrd: Puny, power walker, math genius, can’t keep shoes tied. Kids call him: Nerd.

Bubba has been the bane of Nolan’s existence for five long years. So when Mr. Green asks the class to become reporters, Nolan...
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  Shredderman: Enemy Spy
Written by Wendelin Van Draanen
Grades: Grades 2-5
Trade Paperback | Yearling | Juvenile Fiction - Humorous Stories; Juvenile Fiction - Action & Adventure | 978-0-440-41915-0 (0-440-41915-8) | September 2006 | $5.99/6.99(Canada)

About this book
Shredderman.com just made the national news! Everyone is talking about the new cyber-superhero. Oh yeah!

But now people are dying to know who is behind Shredderman.com. Reporters are snooping all over Cedar Valley! Oh no!

Nolan's parents and even his sidekick, Mr. Green, think he should lay low for a while. But being...
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  Shredderman: Meet the Gecko
Written by Wendelin Van Draanen
Grades: Grades 2-5
Trade Paperback | Yearling | Juvenile Fiction - Humorous Stories; Juvenile Fiction - Action & Adventure | 978-0-440-41914-3 (0-440-41914-X) | September 2006 | $5.99/6.99(Canada)

About this book
Nolan Byrd single-handedly saved his school from the bullydom of Alvin “Bubba” Bixby. He posted proof of Bubba’s exploits on the Web at Shredderman.com. Now Shredderman is the school hero! But since Shredderman’s identity is a secret, everyone still treats Nolan like . . . a nerd.

But inside this nerd beats...
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  Shredderman: Secret Identity
Written by Wendelin Van Draanen, Illustrated by Brian Biggs
Grades: Grades 2-5
Trade Paperback | Yearling | Juvenile Fiction - Humorous Stories; Juvenile Fiction - Action & Adventure | 978-0-440-41912-9 (0-440-41912-3) | April 2006 | $5.99/6.99(Canada)

About this book
Alvin Bixby: Hulking, knuckles of steel, hideous breath, foul temper. Kids call him: Bubba.

Nolan Byrd: Puny, power walker, math genius, can’t keep shoes tied. Kids call him: Nerd.

Bubba has been the bane of Nolan’s existence for five long years. So when Mr. Green asks the class to become reporters, Nolan...
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