John Kroft
1) Sidetracked
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English
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"Seventh-grader Joseph Friedman is friendless and puny, with ADD to boot. He spends most of his time avoiding the class bully and hiding out in the Resource Room. But the Resource Room teacher encourages (i.e., practically forces) him to join the school cross country team, and he meets Heather, a new student who's tough and athletic and refuses to be pushed around by anybody"--
2) Checked
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Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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"To help his dog through cancer treatment, Conor gives up hockey and finds himself considering who he is without the sport that has defined him, and connecting more with his family and best friend." --
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Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
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In a future where the law limits a family to only two children, third-born Luke has been in hiding for the entire twelve years of his life, until he enters boarding school under an assumed name and is forced to face his fears.
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Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
When thirteen-year-old Luke Garner unwittingly sets off a rebellion which sweeps the country and ousts the Population Police from power, he quickly realizes that the new regime is corrupt and he may hold the only key to true freedom.
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Series
Pride wars ; 1
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"In the distant future, when a new species rules the earth, thirteen-year-old Prince Leo struggles to hide a dangerous and forbidden power he cannot control while trying to unlock the mysteries of his origins"--
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
The untold story of an eccentric Wall Street tycoon and the circle of scientific geniuses he assembled before World War II to develop the science for radar and the atomic bomb. Together they changed the course of history. Legendary financier, philanthropist, and society figure Alfred Lee Loomis gathered the most visionary scientific minds of the twentieth century-Albert Einstein, Werner Heisenberg, Niels Bohr, Enrico Fermi, and others-at his state-of-the-art...
13) Getting air
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
After foiling a terrorist hijacking aboard their airplane, fourteen-year-old Jimmy, his younger sister, and two skateboarding friends crash-land the plane and try to survive in a forest wilderness until help arrives.
Author
Series
Pride wars ; 2
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Prince Leo's identity as a Spinner, once thought to be his greatest curse, may become his greatest weapon when his devious cousin siezes control of Singara, forcing Leo to flee into enemy territory. --
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Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Struggling with looks that she thinks do not reflect her name, Beauty meets a gangly youth who lives in the shadow of his older brother and who a witch enchants to assume the form of a beast until a girl willingly dances with him.
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English
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"On the night of December 2, 1943, the Luftwaffe bombed a critical Allied port in Bari, Italy, sinking seventeen ships and killing over a thousand servicemen and hundreds of civilians. Caught in the surprise air raid was the John Harvey, an American Liberty ship carrying a top-secret cargo of 2,000 mustard bombs to be used in retaliation if the Germans resorted to gas warfare. After young sailors began suddenly dying with mysterious symptoms, Lieutenant...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Shuster/BFYR
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Cameron Carter goes straight from high school in small-town California to a summer internship with powerful U.S. Congressman Billy Beck, whom he admires. Though he lacks connections and Beltway polish, he finds a friend and mentor in fellow staffer Ariel Lancaster. That is, until she winds up dead. As rumors and accusations fly around Capitol Hill, Cameron's low profile makes him the perfect candidate for an FBI investigation. With his family's future...
19) Restart
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English
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Chase does not remember falling off the roof, in fact he does not remember anything about himself, and when he gets back to middle school he begins to learn who he was through the reactions of the other kids--trouble is, he really is not sure he likes the Chase that is being revealed, but can he take the opportunity amnesia has provided and restart his life?