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"Stanley Potts's uncle Ernie has developed an over-the-top fascination with canning fish in the house, and life at 69 Fish Quay Lane has turned barmy. But there's darkness in the madness, and when Uncle Ernie's obsession takes an unexpectedly cruel turn, Stan has no choice but to leave. As he journeys away from the life he's always known, he mingles with a carnival full of eccentric characters and meets the legendary Pancho Pirelli, the man who swims...
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Clementine is a lab mouse and a genius, but she's lonely. Only with Rosie, a chimpanzee who visits late at night, does she find friendship. When a lab technician frees Clementine, she discovers an outside world and goes in search of a real home--and a way to free her old friends.
83) A hundred horses
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Nell's unhappiness about spending vacation with relatives is turned to curiosity and joy when she meets a half-wild horse and a mysterious girl named Angel. Angel leads Nell on an adventure involving one hundred horses, one of which might be magical, and Nell learns an important truth about life and about herself.
84) The honest truth
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A boy named Mark, tired of being sick with cancer, conceives a plan to climb Mount Rainier, and runs away from home with his dog, Beau--but with over two hundred miles between him and his goal, and only anger at his situation to drive him on, nothing will be easy, and only his best friend, Jessie, suspects where he is heading.
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"Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands is the story of Emily Shepard, a homeless teen living in an igloo made of ice and trash bags filled with frozen leaves. Half a year earlier, a nuclear plant in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom had experienced a cataclysmic meltdown, and both of Emily's parents were killed. Devastatingly, her father was in charge of the plant, and the meltdown may have been his fault. Was he drunk when it happened? Thousands of people are forced...
88) Running wild
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After her mother died, Willa's father moved her and her younger twin brothers deep into the Alaska wilderness in order to live off the land and off the grid. After five years, however, the now twelve-year-old Willa recognizes that her father is growing more reckless and is losing a sense of reality. When their summer garden fails to produce enough to survive the winter, and the meat stores dwindling, Willa knows she must do something to help her family...
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"After discovering shocking truths about his past, as well as the secret origins of Doctor Once, the Patchwork Planet, and the deadly Baalikar, Erik begins a dangerous new quest to defeat Baalikar once and for all. But this is not something Erik can do alone--he must somehow convince the devastated populaces of the planet's cities to come out of hiding and unite against their common foe"--Back cover.
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"Beverly Tapinski has run away from home plenty of times, but that was when she was just a kid. Now that she's fourteen years old, she figures, it's not running away. It's leaving. Determined to make it on her own, Beverly finds a job and a place to live and tries to forget about her dog, Buddy, now buried underneath the orange trees back home; her friend Raymie, whom she left without a word; and her mom, Rhonda, who has never cared about anyone but...
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"Erik's survival instincts better kick in as he faces frightening foes and treacherous terrain on this unforgiving patchwork planet. Erik must reunite with his new friends- to overthrow the vicious Doctor Once. Erik's journey takes him deep undersea to the realm of the Mermidonians and to the flying city of the Sectaurians. But everywhere Erik goes, he encounters never-before-seen dangers. Will Erik survive? And will he ever be able to return to the...
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"Erik has faced one frightening truth after another-from the realization that he will never return to his previous life on Earth to what really happened to his friend Zandra and her shocking connection to Doctor Once-but now he's in the battle of his life, as he attempts to save the Patchwork Planet from the all-powerful, shape-shifting, monster Baalikar! Can Erik and his friends, along with the combined forces from around the globe, even hope to...
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"But was it all just a frightfully realistic dream? That's what Erik thinks when he wakes up at home, no longer on a dangerous patchwork planet populated with monsters. Now he's back in his own bed. Breakfast is ready, freshly prepared by his mom. But something still feels strange. Were the evil duo Doctor Once and Baalikar real or imagined? And what of his friends Princess Thea and Morgan Dwar? Is Erik actually back home or is he really the only...
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"Erik runs away from home only to wake up lost and without his memory. The world he knew has turned into a crazy, patchwork planet under a broken moon. Erik is the last living boy, but he's not alone: The world is filled with dangerous creatures fighting decide who gets eaten and who gets to eat. He'll need help from mermaid warrior Morgan and Thea, an insect princess, to escape the foes pitted against them by the dreaded Baalikar and fiendish Doctor...
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When Emilia de Wit ran away to New York City, she planned everything to a T. Plane ticket, purchased. Cute apartment, rented online. Subway map, printed and highlighted. This was no ordinary trip -- this was Emilia's declaration of independence. Her chance to escape the life her parents were ruining. To get away from the horrible scandal that had rocked Amsterdam, the scandal that was all her dad's fault. To see if her mom, the glamorous, world-famous...
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Desperate to escape his abusive father and the constraints of the civilized life, young Huck Finn fakes his death and, with the help of his slave friend Jim, embarks on a vagabond life rafting down the Mississippi River. Yet life is anything but carefree for Huck and Jim. Their travels bring them into contact with scores of rogues, rascals, ruffians, hucksters, and law-abiding citizens who would as soon seen Jim returned to his owners and Huck to...
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