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1) Hatchet
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After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the Canadian wilderness, learning to survive with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce. Includes an introduction and sidebar commentary by the author.
2) 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.
3) Some frog!
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Billy is disappointed when his father doesn't show up to help him catch a frog for the frog-jumping competition at school, but the one he and his mother catch wins the championship and Billy begins to accept his father's absence.
6) My two homes
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Lenny, the class reporter for his second-grade class, follows classmate Skye for a school project and learns about her life with two homes.
7) The river
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Because of his success surviving alone in the wilderness for fifty-four days, fifteen-year-old Brian, profoundly changed by his time in the wild, is asked to undergo a similar experience to help scientists learn more about the psychology of survival.
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Otis feels sure his behavior is what led his parents to get a divorce, but his grandmother assures him he did not cause the divorce, he cannot control it, and he needs to learn to cope with it, and offers additional advice to help make things easier on everyone in the family.