Orbiting Jupiter

Orbiting Jupiter

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  • Author: Gary D. Schmidt
  • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • ISBN: 054446222X
  • Category : Juvenile Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 197

The two-time Newbery Honor winner Gary D. Schmidt delivers the shattering story of Joseph, a father at thirteen, who has never seen his daughter, Jupiter. After spending time in a juvenile facility, he's placed with a foster family on a farm in rural Maine. Here Joseph, damaged and withdrawn, meets twelve-year-old Jack, who narrates the account of the troubled, passionate teen who wants to find his baby at any cost. In this riveting novel, two boys discover the true meaning of family and the sacrifices it requires.


Pay Attention, Carter Jones

Pay Attention, Carter Jones

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  • Author: Gary D. Schmidt
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 0544790855
  • Category : Juvenile Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 229

Sixth-grader Carter must adjust to the unwelcome presence of a know-it-all butler who is determined to help him become a gentleman, and also to deal with burdens from the past.


Game Changer

Game Changer

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  • Author: Tommy Greenwald
  • Publisher: Abrams
  • ISBN: 1683353927
  • Category : Juvenile Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 206

A mysterious football accident sends a high school reeling in this award-winning multimedia-format novel from Tommy Greenwald Thirteen-year-old Teddy Youngblood is in a coma, fighting for his life after an unspecified football injury at training camp. His family and friends flock to his bedside to support his recovery—and to discuss the events leading up to the tragic accident. Was this the inevitable result of playing a violent sport, or did something more sinister happen on the field that day? Told in an innovative multimedia format combining dialogue, texts, newspaper articles, interview transcripts, an online forum, and Teddy’s inner thoughts, Game Changer explores the joyous thrills and terrifying risks of America’s most popular sport.


What Came from the Stars

What Came from the Stars

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  • Author: Gary D. Schmidt
  • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • ISBN: 0547612133
  • Category : Juvenile Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 308

In a desperate attempt for survival, a peaceful civilization on a faraway planet besieged by a dark lord sends its most precious gift across the cosmos into the lunchbox of Tommy Pepper, sixth grader, of Plymouth, Massachusetts.


The Wednesday Wars

The Wednesday Wars

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  • Author: Gary D. Schmidt
  • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • ISBN: 0618724834
  • Category : Juvenile Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 313

In this Newbery Honor-winning novel, Gary D. Schmidt tells the witty and compelling story of a teenage boy who feels that fate has it in for him, during the school year 1968-68. Seventh grader Holling Hoodhood isn't happy. He is sure his new teacher, Mrs. Baker, hates his guts. Holling's domineering father is obsessed with his business image and disregards his family. Throughout the school year, Holling strives to get a handle on the Shakespeare plays Mrs. Baker assigns him to read on his own time, and to figure out the enigmatic Mrs. Baker. As the Vietnam War turns lives upside down, Holling comes to admire and respect both Shakespeare and Mrs. Baker, who have more to offer him than he imagined. And when his family is on the verge of coming apart, he also discovers his loyalty to his sister, and his ability to stand up to his father when it matters most.


Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy

Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy

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  • Author: Gary D. Schmidt
  • Publisher: Yearling
  • ISBN: 0553494953
  • Category : Clergy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 226

Turner Buckminster is purely miserable. Not only is he the son of the new minister in a small Maine town, but he is shunned for playing baseball differently from the local boys.


Trouble

Trouble

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  • Author: Gary D. Schmidt
  • Publisher: HarperCollins
  • ISBN: 0547487738
  • Category : Young Adult Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 305

“Henry Smith’s father told him that if you build your house far enough away from Trouble, then Trouble will never find you.” But Trouble comes careening down the road one night in the form of a pickup truck that strikes Henry’s older brother, Franklin. In the truck is Chay Chouan, a young Cambodian from Franklin’s preparatory school, and the accident sparks racial tensions in the school—and in the well-established town where Henry’s family has lived for generations. Caught between anger and grief, Henry sets out to do the only thing he can think of: climb Mt. Katahdin, the highest mountain in Maine, which he and Franklin were going to climb together. Along with Black Dog, whom Henry has rescued from drowning, and a friend, Henry leaves without his parents’ knowledge. The journey, both exhilarating and dangerous, turns into an odyssey of discovery about himself, his older sister, Louisa, his ancestry, and why one can never escape from Trouble.


Leviathans of Jupiter

Leviathans of Jupiter

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  • Author: Ben Bova
  • Publisher: Macmillan
  • ISBN: 1429929618
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 478

In Ben Bova's novel JUPITER, physicist Grant Archer led an expedition into Jupiter's hostile planetwide ocean, attempting to study the unusual and massive creatures that call the planet their home. Unprepared for the hostile environment and crushing pressures, Grant's team faced certain death as their ship malfunctioned and slowly sank to the planet's depths. However one of Jupiter's native creatures--a city-sized leviathan--saved the doomed ship. This creature's act convinced Grant that the huge creatures were intelligent, but he lacked scientific proof. Now, several years later, Grant prepares a new expedition to prove once and for all that the huge creatures are intelligent. The new team faces dangers from both the hostile environment and from humans who will do anything to make sure the mission is a failure, even if it means murdering the entire crew. One of Library Journal's Best SF/Fantasy Books of 2011 At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.


Just Like That

Just Like That

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  • Author: Gary D. Schmidt
  • Publisher: Clarion Books
  • ISBN: 0544084772
  • Category : Juvenile Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 403

In this poignant, perceptive, witty novel, Gary D. Schmidt brings authenticity and emotion to multiple plot strands, weaving in themes of grief, loss, redemption, achievement, and love. Following the death of her closest friend in summer 1968, Meryl Lee Kowalski goes off to St. Elene's Preparatory Academy for Girls, where she struggles to navigate the venerable boarding school's traditions and a social structure heavily weighted toward students from wealthy backgrounds. In a parallel story, Matt Coffin has wound up on the Maine coast near St. Elene's with a pillowcase full of money lifted from the leader of a criminal gang, fearing the gang's relentless, destructive pursuit. Both young people gradually dispel their loneliness, finding a way to be hopeful and also finding each other.


The Trouble in Me

The Trouble in Me

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  • Author: Jack Gantos
  • Publisher: Macmillan
  • ISBN: 0374379955
  • Category : Juvenile Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 223

"Fourteen-year-old Jack falls under the spell of a delinquent Florida neighbor and gets way more trouble than he bargained for"--