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Books : Teens : Authors, A-Z : ( P ) : Philbrick, Rodman
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A stunning young adult novel by Rodman Philbrick that tells the heartwrenching story of two ³special ed² boys who pair up to form a unique and empowering friendship. Two boys‹a slow learner stuck in the body of a teenage giant and a tiny Einstein in leg braces‹forge a unique friendship when they pair up to create one formidable human force. Made into the film, The Mighty.
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Fourteen-year-old Max helps a younger girl escape from her abusive stepfather by running away with her to the distant town of Chivalry, Montana, searching for her real father.
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It's the story of an epileptic teenager nicknamed Spaz, who begins the heroic fight to bring human intelligence back to the planet. In a world where most people are plugged into brain-drain entertainment systems, Spaz is the rare human being who can see life as it really is. When he meets an old man called Ryter, he begins to learn about Earth and its past. With Ryter as his companion, Spaz sets off an unlikely quest to save his dying sister -- and in the process, perhaps the world.
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Twelve-year-old Skiff Beaman's mom just died, and his fisherman dad is too depressed to drag himself off the couch and go to work. So these days Skiff has to take care of everything himself. But when his dad's boat sinks, Skiff discovers it will cost thousands to buy a new engine. Skiff's lobster traps won't earn him enough, but there are bigger fish in the sea -- bluefin tuna. If he can catch one of those monster fish, Skiff just might save the boat -- and his family.
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The award-winning novel Freak the Mighty is now a holiday major motion picture release! Starring Sharon Stone, Gillian Anderson, Kieran Culkin, Harry Dean Stanton and Gena Rowlands, this is the hilarious, inspirational story of 13-year-old Maxwell Kane, a giant boy in size 14 shoes who's slow in school, short on courage, and long on not fitting in. Then he meets Kevin, a tiny Einstein in leg braces with more smarts, lip and nerve than any kid in town. Together they form an unbeatable combination--an imposing force with an iron will and a wild imagination.
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In a finale to the supernatural trilogy, Nick, Jessie, and Frasier learn that the alien invaders who are terrorizing Earth need fuel for their ship, and the trio must find the fuel or face terrifying consequences. Original."
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Douglas Deeds, a fifteen-year-old orphan, keeps a journal of his travels by wagon train as a member of the ill-fated Donner Party, which became stranded in the Sierra Nevada mountains in the winter of 1846-47.
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Seeing a strange glow hovering over Harley Hills, Nick and his twin sister Jessie are shocked when the adults of their hometown begin talking like robots and eating strange foods. Original."
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When their parents are suddenly called away, Jason and Sally are left with a baby-sitter, and the evil spirits of the Cherry Street house come forth again with a renewed desire for vengeance that leaves the two youngsters unprotected.
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In an attempt to fight back against the alien invaders who have attacked them, Nick, Jessie, and Frasier track down the source of the alien's energy, but when Jessie is captured, the boys must fight an alien in an ancient cave. Original."
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Arthur Woodbury is tired of being called fat. So he's purchased a special product that's supposed to help him lose weight. But when he puts on the helmet like the instructions say, his world vanishes before his very eyes. Now he is trapped in REM World, a place where nothing is as it seems. And it's not enough just to find his way home. By entering REM World, Arthur accidentally released a terrible creature into the real world. It's Nothing, and it's going to eat away everything in the world until all that remains is itself. Arthur's never been the heroic kind - but now it's up to him to save the world.
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In the conclusion to The Werewolf Chronicles trilogy, the wolf boy undergoes a horrible transformation during a full moon and discovers that the wereing will never end.
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Abandoned as a child and raised by wolves, a boy becomes disturbed when the rules of the wild are disrupted by werewolves, who invite the boy to join them and change his life forever.
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When their baby-sitter becomes the latest victim of their haunted house on Cherry Street, Jason and Sally remember the fate of young Bobby, a former resident who suffered a fatal ""accident,"" and fear that the house wants them as well.
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3 unabridged disc -- Two 12-year-old boys--one a giant and a slow learner, the other a two-foot crippled genius--form an extraordinary friendship. With Kevin on his shoulders, Max the giant and the Freak (as Kevin is called) become one being called Freak the Mighty, performing great deeds of derring-do. Through his friendship with Kevin, Max comes out of his shell, and remembers things from his past he would rather forget.
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Planning to spend the summer in an idyllic seaside vacation home, twelve-year-old Jason and his little sister, Sally, are terrorized by a series of ghostly occurrences that target children.
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THE FROZEN BABY
Physician Davis Bentwood, making a lengthy housecall at the Coffin family mansion on the coast of Maine, finds the newborn grandson of Captain Cash Coffin, stiff and cold as a block of ice, in a cradle not ten feet from a roaring fire. Young Davis can find no medical explanation for the baby's death.
After a mysterious accident at the family shipyard caused the simultaneous death of his twin sons, Cash Coffin locked himself in study, and threatened to shoot anyone who approached. Cash's youngest son, the dwarf Jebediah, has asked his old friend Davis to try to help the old man.
Another Coffin son, an experienced ship's master, dies at sea in a freak accident that defies a natural explanation. And on a moonless night, Davis Bentwood is awakened by an eerie light that leads him to the Coffin family's darkest secret.
Cash Coffin traded in slaves.
Davis Bentwood's blood-chilling discovery holds the key to the family's destruction. Can the ancient evil being visited upon the Coffins be stopped?
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Joe Dilly has a secret way with horses--and with fire. His kid brother, Roy, knows about both secrets, but he's not telling. Not when he and Joe hire on at the Bar None, a ranch that has a few secrets of its own. At the ranch Roy, finds a wild pony that can run like the desert wind--and if he can break that pony, he can keep her. In a thrilling scene, Roy's dream comes true when he races the pny of his dreams. (copy continues)But as their past catches up with them, and as terrible things happen at the Bar None, Roy must face the truth about his brother. Here is a heartwrenching, poignant story of love and human frailty from one of America's master storytellers.
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