Harry Mazer
3) City Light
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George feels as if he's going through life with his eyes half closed-but sometimes that's how you bump into the best surprises George has been in love with Julie since they were twelve years old. For six years, they've barely taken a step without each other, and and every time George imagines his future, he sees Julie in it. She'll be a doctor and they'll stay in their small town and always be able to see the bright lights of New York City across...
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Nobody said New York City was easy, but for Tolley Holtz, it's home Tolley Holtz would rather be exploring the city with his friends, talking about the Yankees, and discussing what President Roosevelt is going to do about the Depression than watching his little brother, Bubber. With his mother working all day in a garment factory and his father looking for work in Baltimore, Tolley's family depends on him. But suddenly, things go from hard to unthinkable....
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Can Marcus be friends with a girl without thinking about sex all the time? Marcus Rosenbloom wants to be a writer almost as much as he doesn't want to be a virgin anymore. At seventeen years old, Marcus thinks, shouldn't he have done it already? Crossed over to the other side, where everyone is different, more adult, more . . . experienced? His friend Alec is smooth and charming around girls; Marcus definitely can't talk to him about his...
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Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 3
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While fishing with his friends off Honolulu on December 7, 1941, teenaged Adam is caught in the midst of the Japanese attack and through the chaos of the subsequent days tries to find his father, a naval officer who was serving on the U.S.S. Arizona when the bombs fell.
10) The last mission
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Pub. Date
c1979
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
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In 1944 a 15-year-old Jewish boy tells his family he will travel to the West but instead, enlists in the United States Air Corps and is subsequently taken prisoner by the Germans.
13) The wild kid
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Pub. Date
2000, c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 2
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Twelve-year-old Sammy, who is mildly retarded, runs away from home and becomes a prisoner of Kevin, a wild kid living in the woods.