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Children Of The Night
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Enter what is an alternative universe to most of America, a West Oakland, California neighborhood, circa 1990, where 13-year-old Ryo is luckier than many kids because he has a mother, Tracy, who love… |
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The Bridge
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Jess Mowry |
Thirteen-year-old Bilal Taimur was raised as a Muslim but is questioning his faith... as well as many other things that boys of his age often question. His middle-class parents were killed in a car w… |
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Babylon Boyz
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Jess Mowry |
Dante, Pook, and Wyatt, 8th-graders in a rundown West Oakland, California school plagued by guns, gangs, drugs and violence as well as inept or indifferent teachers, don't have many choices in life. … |
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Megacool
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Jess Mowry |
German edition of Way Past Cool |
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Six Out Seven
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Jess Mowry |
Like Way Past Cool, Mowry's powerful third novel tells a story of coming-of-age young, black and poor in America; a tale about a 13-year-old boy from the rural South seeking escape from the ghosts of… |
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Midnight Sons
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Jess Mowry |
Alaska, one of earth's final frontiers, still mostly unspoiled by human beings who've ravaged much of the rest of the planet. This is the voyage of *Arctic Avenger* -- formerly the steam tug, *Rhinoc… |
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Drawing From Life
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Jess Mowry |
Meet Jerry Mathers, who, though resembling the middle-aged “Beaver,” bears no other relation, having been born in the 1970s when that illusion of American life was almost a decade dead. His mother, w… |
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Magic Rats
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Jess Mowry |
Tumbleweed Terrace Desert View Homes somewhere south of Tucson, Arizona -- “A nice place to raise your kids,” as promised by a faded billboard usually used as a vulture perch -- is broiling under a … |
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Spencer's Spirit
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Jess Mowry |
Thirteen-year-old Spencer Dray, an intelligent, well-read, home-schooled boy already offered scholarships by prestigious colleges, is delighted when he and his parents move from their rented West Oak… |
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The Insiders
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Jess Mowry |
In the near future, after many thousands of years of hate, racism, religious and ethnic persecution, bloody conquests, inequality, exploitation and war, the world’s people are finally beginning to co… |
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Ghost Train
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Jess Mowry |
13-year-old Remi DuMont, newly arrived from Port-au-Prince, Haiti, where his family lived in poverty, hopes that life will be different in West Oakland, California, where refrigerators, hot running w… |
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Phat Acceptance
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Jess Mowry |
Some might say that 14-year-old Brandon Williams is an over-privileged white kid. He lives in a million-dollar house overlooking the ocean in Santa Cruz, California, gets a weekly allowance equal to … |
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Rats In The Trees
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Jess Mowry |
Rats In The Trees was Jess Mowry's first book, written in 1989 and published by John Daniel & Co. of Santa Barbara, California in 1990. It's a collection of interrelated stories of many street kids, … |
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Skeleton Key
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Jess Mowry |
13-year-old Jarrett Ross has been no more than a ghost for months, a lonely ghost crying in the darkness where no one can see or hear him. A drug dealer put moves on his mom, got her addicted, and no… |
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Six Out Seven
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Jess Mowry |
Thirteen-year-old Corbitt Wainwright's adolescence is abruptly cut short when his father is imprisoned for attacking a white man. Tragically, dreams of success through good grades and hard work are … |
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