Carol Gorman
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This dramatic and moving story set in the days of the Negro Leagues illustrates the true meanings of friendship, prejudice, and heroism
Twelve-year-old Charlie Nebraska wants two things he can't get: to make the local Wildcats Baseball team and to have life to return to the way it was before his father died two years earlier in the Korean War.
Then Charlie meets Luther Peale, a stranger who quietly and mysteriously arrives...
Twelve-year-old Charlie Nebraska wants two things he can't get: to make the local Wildcats Baseball team and to have life to return to the way it was before his father died two years earlier in the Korean War.
Then Charlie meets Luther Peale, a stranger who quietly and mysteriously arrives...
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In her first year of middle school, tomboy Lizard Flanagan feels left out - her friends are growing up, but all Lizard wants is to stay the same. Twelve-year-old Lizard Flanagan can't believe it when her best friend, Mary Ann, wears a skirt on their first day of middle school. What happened to shorts and dirty sneakers? Suddenly Mary Ann is starting to look and talk like those girly girls she and Lizard always made fun of in elementary school. What's...
3) Die for Me
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An International Reading Association Children's Choice: When high school student Holly Baldwin is murdered, her friends decide to consult a Ouija board - with disastrous consequences When her classmates throw a party soon after the brutal murder of their friend Holly, Jessica can't believe they could be so insensitive. But the festivities turn dark when several girls sitting at a Ouija board receive a frightening message about Holly's death - and...
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At his new school, Jerry Flack is determined to stop being a dork and start being a cool guy - but does this science nerd really have what it takes to be popular? Jerry Flack is starting middle school in a new town where no one knows him and he can be anybody he wants. Jerry has a plan: He is finally going to be cool. But that turns out to be easier said than done. As his lies begin to pile up, Jerry knows he's going to slip up soon, and everyone...
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Lizard Flanagan is stunned when she is chosen as a model for the local fashion show - this tomboy in a dress has her work cut out for her. When Lizard Flanagan finds out about a trip to Wrigley Field to see the Chicago Cubs play - for only fifty dollars - she is thrilled. It's her big chance to see her favorite team in action! But how is she supposed to come up with fifty dollars before the trip? Lizard couldn't care less about the local teen fashion...
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After witnessing a murder, Julia is forced to keep quiet - until she receives a message from the dead boy and realizes she's in even more danger than she suspected. Julia reluctantly joins her cousin Nikki and her friends for a night of partying. Climbing into the hills, they spot Heath, a strange guy from school, and they chase him into a dilapidated cabin. Julia watches, horrified, as Nikki's friends set fire to the old building and wait for Heath...
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While preparing for his school's Shakespeare fundraiser, dorky Jerry Flack goes head to head with the school bully. Jerry Flack's first order of business as the new sixth-grade class president? Raising money to help make Hawthorne Middle School the coolest, starting with an Elizabethan fundraising festival to coincide with the class reading of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. There's just one problem: As class president, Jerry is going to...
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When his uncle invents a time machine that can summon people from the past, T.J. has his hands full with a seventeenth-century pirate. T.J. O'Brien witnesses a break-in behind the library. But when he sees the burglar - a real, live pirate - he realizes he can't go to the police. They'd never believe him! He decides to talk it over with his eccentric uncle Ainsley. But when he arrives at Ainsley's house, he finds the pirate sitting on the floor, eating...
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An International Reading Association Young Adult Choice: When a night in a graveyard with her friends turns fatal, Kelly knows it's up to her to find the killer - before the killer finds her. New to town, Kelly reluctantly agrees when her friends challenge her to spend the night in a graveyard with them. But she can't shake the feeling that someone is watching them through the mist. Her friends laugh off her suspicions - until she stumbles on a body...
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When the boy Amy is babysitting swears he witnessed a kidnapping, Amy isn't sure whether she should believe his crazy story Thirteen-year-old Amy Whipple is forced to babysit the son of her dad's most important client, and she is prepared for a boring weekend with a boring eight-year-old. On a trip to the park, Malcolm runs ahead, and when Amy catches up with him, he swears he has just seen the kidnapping of Jennifer Smith from his class. Malcolm...
11) Dork on the Run
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Can geeky Jerry Flack win the election for class president, running against the most popular boy around? For the first time in his life, Jerry Flack is OK with being a dork. He has fun new friends, he's on the school science team, and he even has a girlfriend. Everything is going great-until his friends convince him to run for class president against Gabe Marshall, the most popular guy in school. How can Jerry compete, especially when Gabe is doing...