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Sam Krupnik volume 1
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
c1988
Physical Desc
135 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Description
The adventures of Sam, Anastasia Krupnik's younger brother, from his first day as a newborn through his mischievous times as a toddler.
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Huck is a young, naive white boy fleeing from his drunken, dangerous Pa and Jim is a runaway slave longing to be reunited with his family. Flung together by circumstance, they journey down the Mississippi together on a log raft, each in search of his own definition of freedom. Their daring adventures along the way provide both entertainment and a satirical look at the moral values of the Deep South of the 1800s.
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Late October. After midnight. You’re waiting up for your eighteen-year-old son. He’s past curfew. As you watch from the window, he emerges, and you realize he isn’t alone: he’s walking toward a man, and he’s armed. You can’t believe it when you see him do it: your funny, happy teenage son, he kills a stranger, right there on the street outside your house. You don’t know who. You don’t know why. You only know your son is now in custody,...
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Publisher
Newmarket Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
xx, 233 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
Discusses the changes that take place in a boy's body during puberty, including information on the body's changing size and shape, the growth spurt, reproductive organs, pubic hair, beards, pimples, voice changes, wet dreams, and puberty in girls.
8) Boyhood
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (164 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A groundbreaking story of growing up as seen through the eyes of a boy named Mason, who ages from six to eighteen years old on screen.
9) Homeless
Publisher
Dreamscape Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Filmed in a real shelter with real homeless people, this film tells the story of Gosh, a teenage boy lost in the bleak routine of life in a shelter.
10) Lacrosse laser
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Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
65 pages
Description
Now that he has new glasses, fourteen-year-old Jaylin is anxious to put his speed and accurate shot to use on offense, but his lacrosse team has always relied on his stellar defense, and without it too many goals are ending up in their net--so the team needs to come up with a strategy to balance both halves of his game.
12) Room: a novel
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Pub. Date
2010
Description
Narrator Jack and his mother, who was kidnapped seven years earlier when she was a 19-year-old college student, celebrate his fifth birthday. They live in a tiny, 11-foot-square soundproofed cell in a converted shed in the kidnapper's yard. The sociopath, whom Jack has dubbed Old Nick, visits at night, grudgingly doling out food and supplies. But Ma, as Jack calls her, proves to be resilient and resourceful--and attempts a nail-biting escape.
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Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
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A powerful and heartfelt coming-of-age novel that follows Martin Kelso as he grows up in 1980s New York and faces the magic of first experiences, as well as the heartbreak of hard-won life lessons. Martin Kelso's comfortable world starts to change at the age of eleven. Girls get under his skin in ways he never noticed before. His cousin Evie, who used to be Marty's closest confidante--the one who taught him the right way to eat a pizza and how to...
16) Tadpole
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (78 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Most 15-year-old boys are obsessed with the opposite sex, and Oscar is no exception. He is an honor student at an exclusive prep school; he is confident, intelligent, speaks fluent French, and is well versed in literary works. His parents are divorced and his father has recently remarried. Sensing that his stepmother isn't happy in the marriage, Oscar begins waging a low-key but ardent campaign to seduce her. His efforts to bed Eve attract the attention...
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Who could forget the pranks, the adventures, the sheer fun of Tom Sawyer? It's something every child should experience and every child will love. From Tom's sly trickery with the whitewashed fence, when he cleverly manipulates everyone so they happily do his work for him, to his and Becky Thatcher's calamities in the Bat Cave, the enjoyment just never ends.
Author
Publisher
Collins
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
xi, 270 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 26 cm.
Description
For every boy from eight to eighty, covers essential boyhood skills such as building tree houses, learning how to fish, finding true north, and even answering the age-old question of what the big deal with girls is. In this digital age there is still a place for knots, skimming stones and stories of incredible courage. This book recaptures Sunday afternoons, stimulates curiosity, and makes for great father-son activities. The brothers Conn and Hal...
19) Montana 1948
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To 12-year-old David Hayden, his family is comfortable and familiar. But when Sioux housekeeper whispers her darkest fears in the heat of a fever, these statements, and the investigation they spark, will change David and his family forever.
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