Theme: interpersonal relation

Graffiti Moon

By Book Importer | Published: April 10, 2012

Senior year is over, and Lucy has the perfect way to celebrate: tonight, she’s going to find Shadow, the mysterious graffiti artist whose work appears all over the city. He’s out there somewhere—spraying color, spraying birds and blue sky on the night—and Lucy knows a guy who paints like Shadow is someone she could fall [...]

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Kung Fooey

By Book Importer | Published: December 12, 2011

Fourth-grader Cal learns a lot about teasing and standing up for others when a weird new student joins his class, while Stella, the tenth-grader who lives with Cal’s family to help his mother, practices for her driving test.

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Blue like Friday

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

NOT EVERYONE SEES THE WORLD THROUGH THE SAME LENS.  From the author of Something Invisible comes this funny and poignant novel about the hues of friendship.Spunky Olivia and eccentric Hal are an unlikely pair. While Hal suffers from a neurological condition called synesthesia that causes him to associate things with colors, Olivia tends to see [...]

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Red Spikes

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008
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Dani Bennoni

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

In Belgium in the summer of 1939, with his brother serving in the military, ten-year-old Bing asks his older neighbor, Dani, to repay a debt by teaching him to play soccer, but Dani refuses and sets Bing and his friend Lenny on a course for revenge.

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Crazy Diamond

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

That’s Mira M. And this is the story of her unforgettable life — as a kid alone in a junkyard tire swing, to her escape from Croatia at age nine in a Marshall amp road case in the rear of her uncle Lou’s van. A musician, he hands her the key to her future: a [...]

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Night of the Howling Dogs

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

DYLAN’S SCOUT TROOP goes camping in Halape, a remote spot below the volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii. The only thing wrong with the weekend on a beautiful, peaceful beach is Louie, a tough older boy. Louie and Dylan just can’t get along.That night an earthquake rocks the camp, and then a wave rushes [...]

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The Outcasts

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

A much-anticipated school trip to England’s West Country turns into a life-changing adventure for five high school misfits when they fall into another dimension while exploring the house in which they are staying.

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Prince William, Maximilian Minsky, and Me

By Rebecca Ballenger | Published: October 29, 2008

Nelly Sue Edelmeister knows exactly who she is: a skinny, brainy thirteen-year-old Berlin schoolgirl. But that’s before she develops a hopeless crush on a certain British royal. And it’s definitely before she meets the oddly attractive Maximilian Minsky, her last hope for making the basketball team before it heads off to England and she is [...]

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