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Ironman by Chris Crutcher

While training for a triathlon, seventeen-year-old Bo attends an anger management group at school which leads him to examine his relationship with his father.

Mistakes That Worked by Charlotte Foltz Jones

Presents the stories behind forty things that were invented or named by accident, including aspirin, X-rays, frisbees, silly putty, and velcro.

You Don’t Know Me by David Klass

Fourteen-year-old John creates alternative realities in his mind as he tries to deal with his mother's abusive boyfriend, his crush on a beautiful, but shallow classmate and other problems at school.

Son of the Mob by Gordan Korman

Seventeen-year-old Vince's life is constantly complicated by the fact that he is the son of a powerful Mafia boss, a relationship that threatens to destroy his romance with the daughter of an FBI agent.

Oh Yuck! The Encyclopedia of Everything Nasty by Joy Masoff 

An alphabetical collection of articles about disgusting things, from acne, ants, and bacteria to worms, x-periments, and zits.

Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelsen

After his anger erupts into violence, Cole, in order to avoid going to prison, agrees to participate in a sentencing alternative based on the native American Circle Justice, and he is sent to a remote Alaskan Island where an encounter with a huge Spirit Bear changes his life.

Monster by Walter Dean Myers

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.

Hidden Evidence: 40 True Crimes and How Forensic Science Helped Solve Them by David Owen

A compelling account of forensic science's role in 40 real crime cases, it brings to light its early development and the amazing sleuthing techniques employed today.

Harris and Me by Gary Paulsen

Sent to live with relatives on their farm because of his unhappy home life, an eleven-year-old city boy meets his distant cousin Harris and is given an introduction to a whole new world.

As Luck Would Have It: Incredible Stories, From Lottery Wins to Lightning Strikes by Joshua Piven

A fascinating survey of the phenomenon, weaving the subjects' own beliefs about their experiences with compelling research on chance, probability, and luck psychology.  It also includes research on how to prepare for luck, how to deal with it when it arrives, and how to make the choices that will help us benefit from luck.

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