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Set in 1977, Theo is inspired to do a class project based on space exploration and life on Earth, thus leading him to think about his own life, the mystery surrounding his father in Vietnam, and possibly painful family secrets held by his mother.

Hardcover:

9780439802031 | Scholastic, April 1, 2007, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: In 1977, as twelve-year-old Theo struggles with a science class project on space exploration, questions emerge about why his father never returned from Vietnam and why Theo's mother has been keeping secrets for many years.

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Product Description: The town of Opum Oppidulum is home to the freezing Lake Beluarum and its rumored monster. On an island at the center of the lake is an asylum; no one has ever escaped it. So how will Rex, whose father, Ambrose Grammaticus, has been imprisoned there under false pretenses, prove that Ambrose is not insane? And if Rex can free his father, will his evil stepmother drive them both to madness? Higgins’ fans will devour The Lunatic's Curse, a deliciously scary tale and “polyquel” to her previous books, all of which can be read singly or together...read more

Hardcover:

9780230532328, titled "The Lunatics Curse" | Pan Macmillan, July 2, 2010, cover price $17.40

Paperback:

9781250004796, titled "The Lunatic's Curse" | Square Fish, April 2, 2013, cover price $7.99 | About this edition: The town of Opum Oppidulum is home to the freezing Lake Beluarum and its rumored monster.
9780230752252 | Gardners Books, July 2, 2010, cover price $16.65

School and Library:

9780312566821, titled "The Lunatic's Curse" | 1 edition (Feiwel & Friends, August 2, 2011), cover price $29.99 | About this edition: The town of Opum Oppidulum is home to the freezing Lake Beluarum and its rumored monster.

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Product Description: Jason Smallfield's dad is every kid's ultimate role model―a movie stuntman with a black belt in karate. But to Jason, he's a top-ranking creep for lying and chucking his family. To help make sure he ends up nothing like his dad, Jason is doing all he can to be as different from him as humanly possible...read more

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9780738718972 | Flux, April 8, 2010, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Jason Smallfield's dad is every kid's ultimate role model―a movie stuntman with a black belt in karate.

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Product Description: Noah is the top member of his rock climbing team, the Rock Dogs. Along with Lucas, Noah's best friend, and Eric, his biggest rival, the Rock Dogs win the annual in-house competition, and are rewarded with a three-day camping trip to Rattle Snake Point...read more

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9781552770283 | James Lorimer & Co, April 1, 2010, cover price $16.95

Paperback:

9781552770276 | James Lorimer & Co, April 1, 2010, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Noah is the top member of his rock climbing team, the Rock Dogs.

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Product Description: 'It had happened again. Dad had shouted and yelled, thrown things and smashed things up. And then he had quietly cleaned everything away'. Leo's dad has changed. Since Mum died, his drinking is worse and now he's a different person, someone Leo doesn't recognize...read more

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9780141330037 | Gardners Books, April 1, 2010, cover price $12.65 | About this edition: 'It had happened again.

To make friends at his new school, Jeremy causes all kinds of messes for the new janitor, but he learns that popularity is not everything, especially when it hurts the ones he loves.

Miscellaneous:

9781602708198 | Abdo Pub Co, January 1, 2010, cover price $27.07

Library:

9781602700086 | Abdo Group, July 1, 2007, cover price $28.50 | About this edition: To make friends at his new school, Jeremy causes all kinds of messes for the new janitor, but he learns that popularity is not everything, especially when it hurts the ones he loves.

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A young black boy must decide whether to go along with his father, who is a thief, or reject his father's way of life and risk losing him.

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9780670403011, titled "It Ain't All for Nothin'" | Viking Pr, September 1, 1978, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: A young black boy must decide whether to go along with his father, who is a thief, or reject his father's way of life and risk losing him.

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9780064473118, titled "It Ain't All for Nothin'" | Reprint edition (Amistad Pr, April 1, 2003), cover price $6.99 | About this edition: A Harlem youth is torn between his fear of abandonment and his hatred of his father's life of crime.
9780380476213, titled "It Ain't All for Nothin'" | Avon Books, November 1, 1979, cover price $1.75

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9780606277921, titled "It Ain't All for Nothin'" | Demco Media, April 1, 2003, cover price $14.53 | About this edition: A Harlem youth is torn between his fear of abandonment and his hatred of his father's life of crime.

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9780613672030, titled "It Ain't All for Nothin'" | Turtleback Books, December 1, 2003, cover price $17.20 | About this edition: A Harlem youth is torn between his fear of abandonment and his hatred of his father's life of crime.

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Product Description: *“An excellent read.”—School Library Journal, StarredIt's true: After 17-year-old Ben’s father announces he’s gay and the family splits apart, Ben does everything he can to tick him off: skip school, smoke pot, skateboard nonstop, get arrested...read more

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9780375840982 | 1 edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, March 11, 2008), cover price $15.99 | About this edition: It’s true: After 17-year-old Ben’s father announces he’s gay and the family splits apart, Ben does everything he can to tick him off: skip school, smoke pot, skateboard nonstop, get arrested.

Paperback:

9780440239949 | Laurel Leaf, September 8, 2009, cover price $7.99 | About this edition: *“An excellent read.

Library:

9780375940989 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, March 11, 2008, cover price $18.99 | About this edition: Yanked out of his city life and plunked down into a small Montana town with his father and his father's boyfriend, seventeen-year-old Ben, angry and resentful about the changed circumstances of his life, begins to notice that something is not quite rightwith the little boy next door and determines to do something about it.

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By Dotti Enderle and Howard Mcwilliam (illustrator)

Library:

9781602706941 | Abdo Group, August 15, 2009, cover price $27.07

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David Crandall, haunted by his mother's murder, decides to launch his own investigation when he senses that someone knows more than they're letting on, plunging him into a dangerous world where a dark family secret leads him to believe that his own father is the killer.

Hardcover:

9780525478010 | Dutton Childrens Books, September 20, 2007, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: David Crandall, haunted by his mother's murder two years ago, uncovers a dark family secret that leads him to believe that his father, headmaster of the military school in which David is currently a senior, is the killer.

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Product Description: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Miles has only lived in New Orleans for a few months when Hurricane Katrina hits, forcing Miles and his musician father to work through their differences to survive a torturous few days in the Superdome.

Hardcover:

9780670061600 | Viking Childrens Books, June 12, 2008, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: Hurricane Katrina is raging and you are inside the Superdome!

Paperback:

9780142414187 | Reprint edition (Speak, June 25, 2009), cover price $6.99 | About this edition: When Miles's mother remarries, Miles decides to move to New Orleans to be with his father.

Prebinding:

9781442003798 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, June 25, 2009), cover price $15.99
9780606234764 | Turtleback Books, June 25, 2009, cover price $17.20 | About this edition: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY.

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Product Description: Jake has felt fatherless ever since his parents separated, and so he can't wait to spend the summer with his dad. But the house Dad rented is a shabby place next to the railroad tracks, with no friends and nothing to do. Then, through a pickup game of hoops, Jake befriends a neighbor boy...read more

School and Library:

9780525479468 | Dutton Childrens Books, June 11, 2009, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: Jake has felt fatherless ever since his parents separated, and so he can't wait to spend the summer with his dad.

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Product Description: "As an Olympic Gold Medalist myself, and a member of the same team with Muhammad Ali, I think this book would be just what he'd like today's kids to read." -Wilbert "Skeeter" McClure, PhD, 1960 U.S. Olympic Gold Medal Boxing Champion "Felix Rodriguez has scored a KNOCKOUT...read more

Paperback:

9781440146237 | Revised edition (Iuniverse Inc, May 19, 2009), cover price $10.95 | About this edition: "As an Olympic Gold Medalist myself, and a member of the same team with Muhammad Ali, I think this book would be just what he'd like today's kids to read.

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Josh feels like he's starting to make it big! Jaden, the school reporter, says he's going to take the baseball team to number one. Then his dad pulls him off the field and signs him up with Coach Rocky Valentine's youth championship team, the Titans. He says Josh has what it takes to be a baseball great—and the Titans will help him get there. Now Josh is gulping down Rocky's "Super Stax" milkshakes to build muscle and trying to fit in with his new teammates—older, tougher kids who can suddenly become violent. All Josh really wants to do is play ball, but as he gets in deeper with the Titans, there are questions he's just got to ask. As Josh and his new friend Jaden investigate their suspicions, they find themselves in a dangerous struggle with a desperate man who doesn't want them to expose the nasty secrets they uncover. Pulsing with action, baseball great offers a baseball story attuned to today's headlines, a totally involving, character-driven, sports-centered thriller.

Hardcover:

9780061626869 | 1 edition (Harpercollins Childrens Books, April 1, 2009), cover price $16.99

Paperback:

9780061626883 | Reprint edition (Harpercollins Childrens Books, February 23, 2010), cover price $6.99

Library:

9780061626876 | Harpercollins, April 1, 2009, cover price $18.89 | About this edition: Josh feels like he's starting to make it big!

Prebinding:

9780606103565 | 1 edition (Turtleback Books, February 23, 2010), cover price $17.20 | About this edition: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY.

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Product Description: Hal's life is in upheaval: trouble at school; problems at home; a quarrel with friends. Then Hal is sent to his grandfather's seaside home. Soon, his anger is absorbed by the pull of the crashing waves, buffeted by the tides, smoothed by the endless sands...read more

Paperback:

9781842555484 | Gardners Books, February 5, 2009, cover price $11.20 | About this edition: Hal's life is in upheaval: trouble at school; problems at home; a quarrel with friends.

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School and Library:

9781596433496 | Roaring Brook, September 2, 2008, cover price $16.95

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Product Description: The author of acclaimed novel LONGLEAF continues the saga of teenage sleuth Jason Caldwell. Set at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, SPACE incorporates factual information about astronomy and America's space program into its intriguing tale of suspicion and pursuit...read more

Hardcover:

9781588382306 | New South Inc, August 1, 2008, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The author of acclaimed novel LONGLEAF continues the saga of teenage sleuth Jason Caldwell.

Miles barely recalls when football was fun after being sidelined by a new coach, constantly criticized by his father, and pressured by his best friend to take performance-enhancing drugs.

Hardcover:

9780439697330 | Scholastic Pr, November 1, 2005, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: Miles barely recalls when football was fun after being sidelined by a new coach, constantly criticized by his father, and pressured by his best friend to take performance-enhancing drugs.

Paperback:

9780439697347 | Reprint edition (Scholastic, September 1, 2007), cover price $6.99 | About this edition: Miles barely recalls when football was fun after being sidelined by a new coach, constantly criticized by his father, and pressured by his best friend to take performance-enhancing drugs.

Prebinding:

9781439510810 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, July 10, 2008), cover price $15.99
9781417792795 | Turtleback Books, September 1, 2007, cover price $17.20

Seventh-grader Jesse Baron not only misses his father, a popular professonal wrestler who is often on the road, he faces simple family outings that turn into fan-frenzy events, teachers who contrive excuses for parent-teacher conferences, and friendshipsthat are all suspect.Seventh-grader Jesse Baron not only misses his father, a professonal wrestler, he faces family outings that turn into fan-frenzy events, teachers who contrive excuses for parent-teacher conferences, and suspicious friendships.

Paperback:

9781558854666 | Pinata Books, October 31, 2006, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Seventh-grader Jesse Baron not only misses his father, a popular professonal wrestler who is often on the road, he faces simple family outings that turn into fan-frenzy events, teachers who contrive excuses for parent-teacher conferences, and friendshipsthat are all suspect.

Prebinding:

9781435288904 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, May 22, 2008), cover price $18.95
9781417757336 | Turtleback Books, October 31, 2006, cover price $20.80 | About this edition: Seventh-grader Jesse Baron not only misses his father, a popular professonal wrestler who is often on the road, he faces simple family outings that turn into fan-frenzy events, teachers who contrive excuses for parent-teacher conferences, and friendshipsthat are all suspect.

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In his continuing adventures, Twig, now sixteen years old, joins the crew of his father's sky pirate ship and embarks on a dangerous mission to collect the powerful stromphrax, a substance that purifies water and also prevents the city of Sanctaphrax from floating away.Sixteen-year-old Twig joins the crew of his father's sky pirate ship and embarks on a mission to collect stormphrax, a substance that purifies water and also prevents the city of Sanctaphrax from floating away.

Hardcover:

9780385750707 | David Fickling Books, June 1, 2004, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: In his continuing adventures, Twig, now sixteen years old, joins the crew of his father's sky pirate ship and embarks on a dangerous mission to collect the powerful stromphrax, a substance that purifies water and also prevents the city of Sanctaphrax from floating away.

Paperback:

9780440420880 | Reprint edition (Yearling Books, May 13, 2008), cover price $8.99

CD/Spoken Word:

9780307281753 | Unabridged edition (Listening Library, November 22, 2005), cover price $37.00 | About this edition: In his continuing adventures, Twig, now sixteen years old, joins the crew of his father's sky pirate ship and embarks on a dangerous mission to collect the powerful stromphrax, a substance that purifies water and also prevents the city of Sanctaphrax from floating away.

Library:

9780385750714 | David Fickling Books, June 1, 2004, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: In his continuing adventures, Twig, now sixteen years old, joins the crew of his father's sky pirate ship and embarks on a dangerous mission to collect the powerful stromphrax, a substance that purifies water and also prevents the city of Sanctaphrax from floating away.

Product Description: Since his millionaire father never gives him any money, slacker genius Evan Macalister "liberates" equipment from Dad’s business and sells it on line. But then a man is murdered and Mr. Macalister is accused. Evan alone can clear his father’s name—but only by revealing his own theft operation...read more

Hardcover:

9781595140210 | Razorbill, June 16, 2005, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: When his father is framed for murder and bioterrorism, high-school junior Evan, using clues from a stolen laptop, travels from Seattle to Paris with two friends to find the real culprit.

Paperback:

9781595140753 | Reprint edition (Razorbill, May 18, 2006), cover price $8.99 | About this edition: When his father is framed for murder and bioterrorism, high-school junior Evan, using clues from a stolen laptop, travels from Seattle to Paris with two friends to find the real culprit.

Prebinding:

9781435267459 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, May 9, 2008), cover price $17.99 | About this edition: Since his millionaire father never gives him any money, slacker genius Evan Macalister "liberates" equipment from Dad’s business and sells it on line.

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Product Description: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Losing his spot as shortstop on the team to a new arrival named D-Will, Hutch finds the transition difficult.

Hardcover:

9780399246258 | Philomel Books, March 4, 2008, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: When fourteen-year-old baseball player Hutch feels threatened by the arrival of a new teammate named Darryl, he tries to work through his insecurities about both Darryl and his remote and silent father, who was once a great ballplayer too.

Paperback:

9780142419106 | Reprint edition (Puffin, February 5, 2009), cover price $7.99 | About this edition: From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Heat, Travel Team and Million-Dollar Throw.

Miscellaneous:

9781436200318 | Puffin, March 4, 2008, cover price $6.99
9781101200759 | Puffin, March 4, 2008, cover price $6.99

Prebinding:

9781439588895 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, April 9, 2009), cover price $16.99 | About this edition: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY.

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A father comforts his son at bedtime by singing the turtledove song his own mother once sang to him, in hopes that the child will awake refreshed and secure in the knowledge that he is loved.
By Jose Ramirez (illustrator) and Victor Villasenor

Hardcover:

9781558854673 | Bilingual edition (Pinata Books, November 30, 2007), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A father comforts his son at bedtime by singing the turtledove song his own mother once sang to him, in hopes that the child will awake refreshed and secure in the knowledge that he is loved.

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In the wake of his parents' separation, ten-year-old Billy seems to have continual conflicts with his father, who is also his basketball coach, but his quiet, younger brother Ben, a piano prodigy, is having even more trouble adjusting, and only Billy seems to notice.

Hardcover:

9780399247149, titled "Hot Hand: A Comeback Kids Novel" | Philomel Books, September 20, 2007, cover price $9.99 | About this edition: In the wake of his parents' separation, ten-year-old Billy seems to have continual conflicts with his father, who is also his basketball coach, but his quiet, younger brother Ben, a piano prodigy, is having even more trouble adjusting, and only Billy seems to notice.

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