Chris Barton
22) Muddymania!
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While Clarence and his best friend, Bruno, are at a monster truck rally, disaster looms and Clarence must find a way to transform into Super Truck without revealing his secret identity.
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"A picture book biography on Alton Yates, a Black man who served in the Air Force in the 1950s and contributed to key research on flight safety for pilots and passengers. After returning home, Alton dedicated his life to standing against Jim Crow and fighting for racial equality"--
27) Book or bell?
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Engrossed in a book, Henry decides to ignore the school bell, which sets off a chain reaction.
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"Even as a child growing up in the Fifth Ward of Houston, Barbara Jordan stood out for her big, bold, booming, crisp, clear, confident voice. Barbara took her voice to places few African American women had been in the 1960s: first law school, then the Texas state senate, then up to the United States congress. Throughout her career, she persevered through adversity to give voice to the voiceless and to fight for civil rights, equality, and justice"--...
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How could one teenage boy's life elicit other kids' first experiences — even after he dies? Nine interconnected stories from nine top YA writers.
Kev's the first kid their age to die. And now, even though he's dead, he's not really gone. Even now his choices are touching the people he left behind. Ellen Hopkins reveals what two altar boys (and one altar girl) might get up to at the cemetery. Rita Williams-Garcia follows one aimless