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  SE Hinton Classic Collection -...

  S. E. Hinton

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  Four gripping, intense novels from “the author who changed the way that books for teens were written” (The New Yorker).   With millions of copies sold, S.E. Hinton’s novels have inspired readers of all ages for generations. This volume includes four of the award-winning author’s most compelling books.   In Rumble Fish, two brothers discover how the bond of blood can be as tight as a noose: “Packs a punch that will leave readers of any age reeling.”—School Library Journal   In Taming the Star Runner, a horse provides an opportunity for escape to a troubled young aspiring writer: “A powerful story.”—Kirkus Reviews   In Tex, a boy goes looking for trouble, but might find redemption instead: “An utterly disarming, believable portrait of a small-town adolescent.”—The New York Times   And in Some of Tim’s Stories, a bartender recounts the story of two lives torn apart by tragedy: “Immediate and gripping.”—School Library Journal

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  Picture Perfect Vacation

  Joanna Jarc Robinson

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  Vacations are so much fun! Follow along as a young boy takes pictures as he travels to his aunt Roxie's cottage at the lake. How will they get there? What will they see along the way? Who will be there when they arrive? What will they do during the day and at night? Upbeat music and fun sound effects help tell the adorable story of “Picture Perfect Vacation.” Parents and kids alike will be dreaming and planning for their next vacation!

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  The Voyage of the Frog

  Gary Paulsen

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  An adventure novel about survival at sea from the Newbery Award–winning author of Northwind. “An epic, often lyrical journey of self-discovery.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) 
   
  ALA/YALSA Best Book for Young Adults  
   
  ALA Notable Book for Children 
   
  ALA/YALSA Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 
   
  David thought he was alone, that the ocean around him was all there was of the world. The wind screamed, the waves towered, and his boat, the twenty-two foot fiberglass FROG, skidded and bucked and, each moment, filled deeper and grew heavier with sea water. 
   
  David thought surely he was dead at fourteen. His uncle Owen, who had taught him about sailing safely, would be so angry. Owen had died only days ago, his last wish for David to take the FROG out on his own, and sail her beyond sight of the coast, and once there, scatter Owen’s ashes. 
   
  David had done this the evening before, but he hadn’t thought of a storm roaring across the Pacific, or of the terror of being alone later in the dark hundreds of miles from home with no radio or flares and little food. He hadn’t thought of a shark attacking, or of the four killer whales, or the oil tanker large as a city about to sink him and the FROG . . .  
   
  But in fact, David wasn’t alone at all. He’d had the FROG as a partner from the first—his uncle’s guiding spirit. He had only to learn that. 
   
  “Paulsen’s spare prose offers an affecting blend of the boy’s inner thoughts and keen observations of the power of nature to destroy and to heal.” —School Library Journal

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  A Slick Little Robot

  Harry T. Roman

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  This robot was designed to clean and inspect gigantic oil tanks.

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  The Phantom Lollipop Man

  Pamela Butchart

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  Izzy and her friends are shocked when they find their lollipop man has disappeared! Maisie thinks he's gone to Rome but if that's true, why do they keep seeing a weird white wispy cloud around the school? And why do Izzy's legs feel cold even though she's got tights on? Could it be that the lollipop man is a phantom and he's come to spook them all?! Laugh-out-loud fun from Blue Peter Award winners Pamela Butchart and Thomas Flintham.
  
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  To Wee Or Not To Wee!
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  There's a Yeti in the Playground
  The Phantom Lollipop Man
  Icarus Was Ridiculous

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  Sister Spider Knows All

  Adrian Fogelin

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  A sensitive story of an adolescent girl uncovering her past and discovering the possibilities for her future. For twelve-year-old Roxanne, there are two things in life she can count on: her beloved grandmother, Mimi, and her weekend job at the flea market where she helps Mimi buy and sell fresh produce and other people’s junk to pay the household bills. This is her home and the people she knows and loves are here. But outside this fragile weekend world, she’s lost. A so-so student with few aspirations for higher education, she feels out of place at school. Stuck in the back of the pack with the other “lardbutts,” Rox just tries to stay out of the way of the popular creeps in her class. And who is she anyway? Her teenage mother left when she was only three months old and her father’s identity is a mystery. And no one, least of all Mimi, will talk about what happened. But then her cousin John Martin brings home a girlfriend from college who has very different ideas about the way life works. And when Roxanne discovers her mother’s teenage diary, she finds some painful but important answers to the unsolved questions of her past and the possibilities for a different future. With gentle wit and an uncanny sensitivity, author Adrian Fogelin captures the fragility of life’s certainties in this moving novel of an adolescent girl’s struggles to find her way in the world.

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