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The gripping international bestseller about motherhood gone awry.
"Eva never really wanted to be a mother -- and certainly not the mother of the unlovable boy who murdered seven of his fellow high school students, a cafeteria worker, and a much-adored teacher who tried to befriend him, all two days before his sixteenth birthday. Now, two years later, it is time for her to come to terms with marriage, career, family, parenthood, and Kevin's horrific...
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The television star and neuroscientist draws on scientific information and personal experience as the mother of sons to share advice on growing from a boy into a man, including physical changes, learning problems, and relationships.
4) Recruit
Author
Series
Bodyguard volume 1
Publisher
Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House House LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"As the son of a bodyguard who sacrificed his life in the line of duty, teenage kickboxing champion Connor Reeves is determined to do his father proud and follow in his footsteps. Recruited into the ranks of a top-secret young bodyguard squad, Connor embarks on a rigorous training course, taking lessons in surveillance, anti-ambush exercises, hostage survival and unarmed combat."--Provided by publisher.
6) Mike
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"Mike is the imaginary friend and projection of a repressed wish that won't go away until Floyd confronts both his greatest fear and greatest desire: to succeed."--Publisher's description.
7) The fallout
Author
Series
Compound volume 2
Publisher
Feiwel & Friends
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
After barely escaping from the compound where Eli's dad kept his family for six years, Eli and his family are are learning to acclimate to "normal" life.
8) Illusion
Author
Series
Chronicles of Nick volume 5
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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"Nick Gautier is tired of his destiny. He doesnt want to be the son of a demon whos fated to end the world. Nor does he want to see another demon or other preternatural creature who wants to kill or enslave him. He just wants to be normal and have normal problems like everyone else"--Provided by publisher.
9) Slither
Author
Series
Last apprentice volume eleven
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2014, c2013
Language
English
Description
Slither lurks in woods and towns, hunting for human blood, but before he can feast on three lovely sisters, their dying father binds the monster to a bargain.
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830L
Language
English
Description
Pi Patel, having spent an idyllic childhood in Pondicherry, India, as the son of a zookeeper, sets off with his family at the age of sixteen to start anew in Canada, but his life takes a marvelous turn when their ship sinks in the Pacific, leaving him adrift on a raft with a 450-pound Bengal tiger for company.
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
The fate of Bartholomew Lampion, a gifted California child who loses his eyes to cancer at age three and miraculously regains his sight at thirteen, is entwined with the lives of a San Francisco girl born of rape and a man a thousand miles away who learns he has a mortal enemy named Bartholomew.
12) I am Alice
Author
Series
Last Apprentice volume 12
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Told from the point of view of Alice, best friend "and true love" to Tom, the spook's last apprentice. Alice is the most powerful witch in the world, and she ventures into the dark itself. Alice Dean's destiny is intertwined with Tom Ward's. But he's going to be the next Spook, and she's a witch, possibly the most powerful one the world has ever seen. To rid the world of its greatest evil, the Fiend, Alice will venture into the depths of the dark...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Until May 1987, fourteen-year-old Billy Marvin of Wetbridge, New Jersey, is a nerd, but a decidedly happy nerd. Afternoons are spent with his buddies, watching copious amounts of television, gorging on Pop-Tarts, debating who would win in a brawl (Rocky Balboa or Freddy Krueger? Bruce Springsteen or Billy Joel? Magnum P.I. Or T.J. Hooker?), and programming video games on his Commodore 64 late into the night. Then Playboy magazine publishes photos...
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Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In Seattle in 1937 two seventeen-year-olds, Henry, who is white, and Flora, who is African-American, become the unwitting pawns in a game played by two immortal figures, Love and Death, where they must choose each other at the end, or one of them will die.
Author
Publisher
Applesauce Press, an imprint of Cider Mill Press Book Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Growing up isn't as easy as it looks. With changing emotions, friends, expectations, and bodies, some days it can seem like life is one big roller coaster ride. [This book is] ... here to help with ... advice, ... tips, fast facts, and answers to ... questions a boy might have"--Amazon.com.
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