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Lawn Boy returns

Paulsen, Gary.


Having expanded his summer lawn mowing job into an ever-growing business conglomerate, a twelve-year-old boy gets involved in high finance thanks to his hippie stockbroker, takes on sponsorship of a boxer, and becomes a media sensation.
Date Published:2011

The Schernoff discoveries

Paulsen, Gary.


Harold and his best friend, both hopeless geeks and societal misfits, try to survive unusual science experiments, the attacks of the football team, and other dangers of junior high school.
Date Published:2010

The modern nerd's guide to LARPing

Sciandra, Michael.


Heard of it? --The story of LARP --What theme interests you? --Choosing your LARP --Time to study! --Creating a character --Choose a race --Props --Staying in character --Let the larping begin! --Glossary. LARPing, or live-action role playing, is one of the hottest hobbies today. Its devoted participants develop detailed characters, inventing names and personalities, as well as costumes and props. The improvisational nature and opportunity for creativity at LARP events makes for a new experience every time. Readers will dive headfirst into this fascinating pastime, guided by experienced LARPer and writer Michael Sciandra through the ins and outs of participation.
Date Published:2018

Heard of it? --The story of LARP --What theme interests you? --Choosing your LARP --Time to study! --Creating a character --Choose a race --Props --Staying in character --Let the larping begin! --Glossary. LARPing, or live-action role playing, is one of the hottest hobbies today. Its devoted participants develop detailed characters, inventing names and personalities, as well as costumes and props. The improvisational nature and opportunity for creativity at LARP events makes for a new experience every time. Readers will dive headfirst into this fascinating pastime, guided by experienced LARPer and writer Michael Sciandra through the ins and outs of participation.

Date Published:2018

A modern nerd's guide to comic books

Horning, Nicole.


Featuring informative and engaging text, fun sidebars, and an eye-catching design that includes helpful graphic organizers, this essential resource encourages readers to appreciate the past, enjoy the present, and help shape the future of comic books.
Date Published:2020

Tim Burton's the nightmare before Christmas

Asuka, Jun, 1978-


Reads from right to left. When Jack Skellington becomes tired of Halloween and stumbles upon a secret door that leads to Christmas, he becomes excited with the new holiday and decides to take over.
Date Published:2019

The whispering skull

Stroud, Jonathan,


Junior Library Guild. Lockwood & Co. are hired to investigate Edmund Bickerstaff, a Victorian doctor who reportedly tried to communicate with the dead, while Lucy is distracted by urgent whispers coming from the skull in a ghost jar.
Date Published:2015

Gertie Milk & the keeper of lost things

Van Booy, Simon,


As the newest Keeper of Lost Things, Gertie Milk travels through time to return missing objects to famous figures at key moments in history, following the directives of the B.D.B.U.--a book that contains the knowledge of the world--and searching for cluesto her past.
Date Published:2017

Baseball haiku : American and Japanese haiku and senryu on baseball /


Library Journal Starred, February 2007. Booklist, March 2007. A collection of over 200 haiku poems from both the United States and Japan about the game of baseball.
Date Published:2007

Roots & flowers : poets and poems on family /


An anthology of essays and poems, featuring contributions from forty poets in which they discuss their feelings about family and poetry, share personal photographs, and provide one or more poems about the transitions that come with being part of a family.
Date Published:2001

Native American resistance

Deibel, Zachary,


The United States grew rapidly from the time of the Louisiana Purchase to the building of the Transcontinental Railroad. All of this expansion came at the expense of Native American populations that had either lived in the region for centuries or been forced there from ancestral homes in the East. Tribes memorably fought on their own and together in an doomed effort to retain the land and a lifestyle that had long sustained their families. This book outlines some of the major conflicts of the Westward Expansion, and of the treaties and were signed, and often broken, by representatives of the tribes and the government of the United States.
Date Published:2018

The United States grew rapidly from the time of the Louisiana Purchase to the building of the Transcontinental Railroad. All of this expansion came at the expense of Native American populations that had either lived in the region for centuries or been forced there from ancestral homes in the East. Tribes memorably fought on their own and together in an doomed effort to retain the land and a lifestyle that had long sustained their families. This book outlines some of the major conflicts of the Westward Expansion, and of the treaties and were signed, and often broken, by representatives of the tribes and the government of the United States.

Date Published:2018

Spyglass : an autobiography /

Deschamps, Helene.


Includes index.
Date Published:1995

Through a night of horrors : voices from the 1900 Galveston storm /



Date Published:2000

Skin deep and other teenage reflections : poems /


"Poems read by the author"--cassette label. An insightful collection of easy-to-read poems about the problems and frustrations of being a teenager.
Date Published:1997

Famous cryptographers

Freedman, Jeri.


Looks at the lives of eight cryptographers throughout history.
Date Published:2017

Winnipeg Jets

Temple, Ramey.


Includes index. Did you know that the Winnipeg Jets moved to Phoenix and became the Coyotes in 1996? In 2011, the Jets were revived when the Atlanta Thrashers moved to Winnipeg. Learn fascinating facts about the teams history, players, coaches, and more in Winnipeg Jets, an Inside the NHL book.
Date Published:2016

Outrageous hockey rivalries

Hetrick, Hans, 1973-


Details the greatest rivalries past and present in pro hockey.
Date Published:2015

Piracy

Peppas, Lynn.


This modern-day pirate tale details the recent hijacking and daring rescue of the Maersk Alabama and places its gripping story in context with the evolution of piracy on the high seas.
Date Published:2013

Snow White stories around the world : 4 beloved tales /

Gunderson, Jessica,


Retells the classic German version of Snow White, together with three similar tales--Marigo of the Forty Dragons from Albania, The unnatural mother and the girl with a star on her forehead from Mozambique, and The magic needle from Turkey.
Date Published:2015

Exo

Lee, Fonda,


Junior Library Guild. For a century now, Earth has been a peaceful colony of an alien race, and Donovan Reyes is a loyal member of the security forces, while his father is the Prime Liaison. But when a routine search and seizure goes wrong, Donovan finds himself a captive of the human revolutionary group, Sapience. These terrorists seem to prefer war to alien rule...and killing Donovan just might be the incident they are looking for.
Date Published:2017

Junior Library Guild. For a century now, Earth has been a peaceful colony of an alien race, and Donovan Reyes is a loyal member of the security forces, while his father is the Prime Liaison. But when a routine search and seizure goes wrong, Donovan finds himself a captive of the human revolutionary group, Sapience. These terrorists seem to prefer war to alien rule...and killing Donovan just might be the incident they are looking for.

Date Published:2017

The surfing corpse

Zindel, Paul.


"VOLO." New York teenager P. C. Hawke and his buddy Mackenzie suspect insurance fraud when the mother of a recently departed classmate suddenly starts living a very extravagant lifestyle.
Date Published:2001