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Cooney, Caroline B.
Slacker Mitty finds a 100 year old small pox scab in an old book while doing research, and fears he may infect all of New York City with the disease. A terrorist group soon makes a plan to use Mitty as a biological weapon.
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Hobbs, Will.
Fourteen-year-old Brady and his cousin Quinn are challenged to their limits when a meteorite after it crashes into Brady's bedroom.
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Mac, Carrie, 1975-
Zane is carjacked by a masked gunman and tries to save himself by discovering what the gunman really wants.
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Yee, Paul.
Jason has recently immigrated from China to a small town. As he tries to adjust, he comes face-to-face with racism.
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McClintock, Norah.
Daniel gets caught up in a convenience store robbery while he's there doing some snooping of his own.
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Lowry, Lois.
Matty's community has always prided itself on being accepting, but when it's threatened by intolerant attitudes, Matty has to use his newly-discovered healing powers to save his village.
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Volponi, Paul.
A black teenaged boy is beaten up by a white thug in an Italian neighbourhood, and the beating is treated as a hate crime. Everyone involved is caught up in questions of race and right and wrong.
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Gonzalez, Julie, 1958-
Three teenaged boys. One gun. One bully. One dare with huge consequences.
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Chamberlain, Adrian, 1958-
When Duncan joins a heavy metal band, he tries to change himself completely in order to fit in. Will he lose all his old friends, or find a way to be in the band and be himself?