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Boys

A Separate Peace

John Knowles

Gene Forrester looks back fifteen years to a World War II year in which he and his best friend Phineas were roommates in a New Hampshire boarding school.

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Tom Sawyer

Mark Twain

Mark Twain's classic novel about the adventures and misadventures of Tom Sawyer and his friends along the banks of the Mississippi River.

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Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain

Mark Twain's classic novel "Huckleberry Finn" about the adventures and misadventures of a young boy who attempts to help Jim, a runaway slave, find freedom in the North.

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The Minds of Boys

Michael Gurian

Reveals the obstacles and failures boys face in the classroom and offers parents and teachers a variety of practical strategies to help boys fulfill themselves, use their intelligence, work with their

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The Unthinkable Thoughts of Jacob Green

Joshua Braff

Jacob Green, an adolescent boy with an over-active imagination, learns about life, love, religion, sex, and growing up from his brother and his nanny.

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A Christmas Memory, One Christmas, & the Thanksgiving Visitor

Truman Capote

Collects three autobiographical fiction stories by Truman Capote, two of them telling of holidays spent with distant relatives in Alabama, and one recalling a Christmas spent in New Orleans with his e

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Pay It Forward

Catherine Ryan Hyde

A twelve-year-old boy in a small California town accepts the challenge that his teacher gives his class, a chance to earn extra credit by coming up with a plan to change the world for the better and t

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Mark Twain

An adaptation of the classic novel in which young Tom Sawyer embarks on a series of adventures along the Mississippi River with his friends Huck Finn and Becky Thatcher, including witnessing a murder,

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Mark Twain

The adventures of a mischievous young boy and his friends growing up in a Mississippi River town in the nineteenth century.

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Joanne Suter

An adaptation of the classic novel in which Huck Finn, the son of the town drunk, and Jim, an escaped black slave, make a break for freedom down the vast Mississippi River on a raft.

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