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Catch that pass!

Matt Christopher

Everyone knows Jim will be the star linebacker on the team if he can only conquer his fear of being tackled, but it takes a boy in a wheelchair to teach him that kind of courage

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Tight end

Matt Christopher

A high school football player believes the harassment he is experiencing on and off the field is due to his father's prison record

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Long-arm quarterback

Matt Christopher

"Twelve-year old Cap Wadell wants to play on a "real" football team, but his middle school in a small Texas town does not have enough players- until his grandfather revives interest in the game of six

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Heat

Mike Lupica

Pitching prodigy Michael Arroyo is on the run from social services after being banned from playing Little League baseball because rival coaches doubt he is only twelve years old and he has no parents

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The rivers of Zadaa

D. J MacHale

Taking advantage of a severe drought and the long-standing distrust between two tribes, the demonic Saint Dane attempts to take over Loor's home planet of Zadaa, opposed once again by the teenaged Pen

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Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane

Suzanne Collins

In his second adventure, eleven-year-old Gregor returns to the world beneath New York City to rescue his kidnapped sister, Boots, and fulfill a prophecy that will restore peace to the people, bats, ra

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Sacagawea

Connie Roop, Peter Roop

Presents a fictional memoir in which Sacagawea tells her young son how she came to be a part of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, where she served as an interpreter and guide, and survived many dangerou

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Eragon

Christopher Paolini

In Aagaesia, a fifteen-year-old boy of unknown lineage called Eragon finds a mysterious stone that weaves his life into an intricate tapestry of destiny, magic, and power, peopled with dragons, elves,

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Chasing Vermeer

Blue Balliett, Brett Helquist

When seemingly unrelated and strange events start to happen and a precious Vermeer painting disappears, eleven-year-olds Petra and Calder combine their talents to solve an international art scandal

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Ferret in the bedroom, lizards in the fridge

Bill Wallace

Liz tells her zoologist father he must get rid of all the homeless animals he keeps at their house or she'll never win the sixth-grade class presidency, but when they're gone she misses them and learn

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