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"School's out, and Miles and Niles are running wild in the woods outside town: climbing trees, exploring caves, and, yes, pranking. But these leafy, lazy days of mischief darken when bully Josh Barkin and his cadets from a nearby kids' boot camp discover the merrymakers--and vow to destroy them"--Provided by publisher.
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When eighth-grade school bully Tod and his friends get caught committing a crime on school property, his penalty--staying after school and writing in a journal under the eye of the school guidance counselor--reveals aspects of himself that he prefers to keep hidden.
4) The league
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Fourteen-year-old Wyatt, hoping to impress a girl and ward off a bully, decides to join his older brother's summer football league, "The League of Pain," against the advice of his parents, who think golf is the right sport for him.
7) I am enough
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Shares a story of loving who you are, respecting others and being kind to one another.
9) You go first
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Charlotte, twelve, and Ben, eleven, are highly-skilled competitors at online Scrabble and that connection helps both as they face family issues and the turmoil of middle school.
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"Getting in trouble is what Hector does best. He knows that not much is expected of him. In fact, he gets some of his most brilliant prank ideas while sitting in detention. But how far is too far? When Hector plays a prank on a homeless man and is seen and shamed by a schoolmate, he reaches a turning point. He wants to be viewed differently and decides to do something that will change his fate for the better. But will anyone take him seriously?"--Dust...
11) Shadow of a pug
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When Marvin asks middle-school detectives Howard Wallace and Ivy Mason to prove his nephew, bully Carl Dean, innocent of taking the school mascot, complications arise that could pull them apart.
12) Room of shadows
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"Ever since his dad left, David Cray has had anger issues. So after he beats up school bully Jake Bragg, his mom grounds him in their creepy new house. Bored, David discovers a secret room with an old-fashioned desk, a chest, and a carving of a raven. Suddenly he's having strange dreams about the room and the house, and violence seems to follow him wherever he goes"--Provided by publisher.
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"Mallory Moss knows the rules of middle school. The most important one? You have to fit in to survive. But then Jennifer Chan moves in across the street, and that rule doesn't seem to apply. Jennifer doesn't care about the laws of middle school ... Then Jennifer goes missing. Using clues from Jennifer's journals, Mallory goes searching. But the closer she gets, the more Mallory has to confront why Jennifer might have run ... and face the truth within...
14) The bully book
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While providing lessons on the nature of bullying and why it occurs, chronicles the exploits of sixth-grader Eric Haskins, who finds the mysterious "Bully Book" and tries to discover where it came from and what purpose it is really meant to serve.
18) Unleashed
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Former attack Doberman Luthor is trying to behave himself after being adopted by a kind girl named Savannah, but he has difficulties staying out of trouble when he becomes caught up in a vicious invention contest between lifelong enemies Griffin Bing and Darren Vader.
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The only thing Rosalind Ling Geraghty loves more than watching NASA launches with her dad is building rockets with him. When he dies unexpectedly, all Ro has left of him is an unfinished model rocket they had been working on together. Benjamin Burns doesn't like science, but he can't get enough of Spacebound, a popular comic book series. When he finds a sketch that suggests that his dad created the comics, he's thrilled. Too bad his dad walked out...
20) Valkyrie
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When Freya takes up her position as a Valkyrie, she's not excited to reap the souls of fallen soldiers as required of her. She'd prefer to avoid humans and their wars altogether. And when she reaps her first soldier, she finds herself thrust into the mortal world where she begins to find friendship with the humans and realizes she could be wrong about them. But she'll soon have to choose between her immortal and mortal friends, and it won't be an...