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3) I can help
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"Zahra loves spending time with Kyle at school, but when her other classmates start teasing her for helping him she starts making choices she regrets"--
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Sixteen-year-old Torey Adams embarks on a path of terror and pain when he sets out to investigate the disappearance of Christopher Creed, a weird kid who vanished from his small hometown of Steepleton, leaving only a cryptic E-mail message as a possible clue to what happened to him.
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Mallory volume 8
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When Mallory cannot decide what to be on Career Day, it makes her feel like she is not good at anything and she ends up telling a lie that quickly gets out of control.
9) Old hat
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After buying one outrageous hat after another in an attempt to keep up with the latest fashions set by his teasing animal friends, Harbet the dog learns that true happiness comes from being yourself.
10) Pants on fire
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Having become a proficient liar in order to keep everyone happy, rising high school senior Katie Ellison is stunned when her old middle school friend and local pariah Tommy Sullivan returns to town, and suddenly things start looking a lot different to her.
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To celebrate the sale of two million chocolate bunnies, company president Nebby K. Nezzer announces that his workers may eat as many bunnies as they like! But, Rack, Shack and Benny soon relaize that their parents taught them not to eat too much candy; their actions teach kids how to resist peer pressure.
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Diary of a wimpy kid volume 1
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Greg records his sixth -grade experiences in a middle school where he and his best friend, Rowley, undersized weaklings amid boys who need to shave twice daily, hope just to survive. But when Rowley grows more popular, Greg must take drastic measures to save their friendship.
14) Cross-check
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Dr. Blackgaard shows he will stop at nothing to get what he wants. Evil Dr. Regis Blackgaard is desperate to gain ownership of a building not far from Whit's End. To get it, he and his henchmen will resort to corruption and blackmail. Why is that building so important to him? Meanwhile, Connie longs to make things right with Whit. Can she convince him she has learned her lesson and deserves to be trusted again? Then Blackgaard and his pawns go even...
15) Jake, reinvented
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Rick becomes friends with the popular new boy, Jake Garrett, football player and host of superlative parties, and in the process discovers the true nature of his schoolmates and uncovers the mystery of Jake's past.
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"Jill loves playing with her friends. But sometimes she doesn't always want to do what they want to do. Jill is afraid if she says 'No' and doesn't go along with her friends, they won't like her anymore and won't want to play with her. So she keeps quiet and doesn't dare speak up. How Jill gains the confidence to say 'No' and earns the respect of her friends at the same time is the heart of this encouraging story."
17) Monster
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While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken.
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After a year in exile on an Alaskan island as punishment for severely beating a fellow student, Cole Matthews returns to school in Minneapolis having made peace with himself and his victim--but he finds that surviving the violence and hatred of high school is even harder than surviving in the wilderness.
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A gripping thriller about three young girlfriends, a dark obsession and a chilling crime that shakes up a quiet Iowa town. For twelve-year-old Cora Landry and her friends Violet and Jordyn, it was supposed to be an ordinary sleepover--movies and Ouija and talking about boys. But when they decide to sneak out to go to the abandoned rail yard on the outskirts of town, little do they know that their innocent games will have dangerous consequences. Later...
20) Trust me
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Kim, 15, wants to go away with two girlfriends for the weekend. It transpires that boys will be present and no adults. Do Kim's parents forbid her to go and make her feel that they don't trust her? An audience also watches the drama and discusses the family's quandary with psychologist Peter Quarry. An outstanding award winning DVD that stimulates great discussion.--Kanopy.
