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3) Tap Out
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After his father is sentenced to prison for assault, Darwin is transferred from an inner-city school to an elite academy, but he soon begins competing in an illegal fight club, threatening his chances of escaping his father's fate.
5) War
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Presents a collection of essays selected from the New York Times that looks at World War I, World War II, the Vietnam War, the Iraq war, and the war on terror.
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Battles, protests, standoffs, strikes. We hear about them all the time. On the surface, a battle and a protest don't seem to have much in common, but they're really just two ways of handling a dispute. One uses violence, the other uses signs and picket lines. But both start as a disagreement between two groups of people. Both are conflicts. Using real world examples, Why Do We Fight? teaches kids to recognize the structures, factors, and complex histories...
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Emlen takes us outside the lab and deep into the forests and jungles where he's been studying animal weapons in nature for years, to explain the processes behind the most intriguing and curious examples of extreme animal weapons. As singular and strange as some of the weapons we encounter on these pages are, we learn that similar factors set their evolution in motion. Emlen uses these patterns to draw parallels to the way we humans develop and employ...
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Sophomore Frankie finally finds the courage to ask his long-term friend, Julianne, to the Homecoming dance, which ultimately leads to a face-off between a tough senior whose family owns most of their small, New Mexico town, and Frankie's soccer-star older brother and his gang-member friends.
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"Mo and Jo love the same superhero--but can't stand each other! When the mighty Mojo decides to give his powerful costume to them, Mo and Jo fight so much that they rip it in half. Now each twin is only half as strong! Can they find a way to combine their powers, fight the evil Saw-jaw and save their town?"--Back cover.
16) Catfight
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A reunion between two former college friends sparks a no-holds-barred war of attrition in this outrageously madcap black comedy.
18) Food fight!
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Late one night, the salad greens declare "Lettuce have a party!" and food emerges from cabinets and cupboards to join in, until the tuna fish band tells garlic it stinks and things start to go bad.
19) My Quiet Ship
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When his parents yell, Quinn escapes in his Quiet Ship but one day, the ship is broken and he must find a way to stop the fighting.
20) The upstairs cat
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The fights between a mean, old cat and a lean, young cat always end in a draw and result in a waste of energy which proves the futility of war.