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Billy
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Bruce Brooks |
With the support of his teammates behind him, Billy tries to find the courage to stand up to his over-bearing, sports-obssessed father and reach his full potential as a hockey player. |
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Vanishing
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Bruce Brooks |
Eleven-year-old Alice is unwilling to return to live with her alcoholic mother and her stern stepfather, so she refuses to eat to the point of slowly starving herself, in order to remain in the hospi… |
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Making sense
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Bruce Brooks |
Discusses animals' six senses--seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, touching, and feeling--and how they use them to perceive and react to the world around them. |
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Shark
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Bruce Brooks |
As Shark's hockey game improves and he becomes a puck-hog, he alienates himself from his teammates and discovers that a nickname must be earned, not taken for granted. |
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Reed
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Bruce Brooks |
When Reed, who considers himself to be a hotshot hockey player, injures a defenseman on his team, he is forced to take his place and comes to a new understanding of sportsmanship and being a team pla… |
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Dooby
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Bruce Brooks |
Fully expecting to be elected captain of his ice hockey team, Dooby is dismayed when the position goes to the new player because she is a girl. |
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The Moves Make the Man
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Bruce Brooks |
A black boy and an emotionally troubled white boy in North Carolina form a precarious friendship. |
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Throwing smoke
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Bruce Brooks |
When his teammates on the Breadhurst Newts baseball team continue their losing ways, Whiz uses an unusual printing press to create several star players in hopes of winning a game. |
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Woodsie
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Bruce Brooks |
At the start of the new ice hockey season, Woodsie alone believes that his teammates can pick themselves up after several key players defect to a rival team. |
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All that remains
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Bruce Brooks |
Three novellas explore the effects of death on young lives. |
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What hearts
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Bruce Brooks |
Recipient of a 1993 Newbery Honor, this novel is an achingly beautiful, powerfully rendered journey through childhood that is not to be missed, now available in a new edition with a striking new cove… |
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Midnight hour encores
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Bruce Brooks |
A sixteen-year-old cellist and musical prodigy travels crosscountry with her father, a product of the 1960s, to meet her mother, who abandoned her as a baby. |
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