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Sixteen-year-old Miles' first year at Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama includes good friends and great pranks, but is defined by the search for answers about life and death after a fatal car crash.

3) Middle school, the worst years of my life

Author

Patterson, James

Series

Middle school (James Patterson) volume 1

Notes

#5 on the Children’s Paperback Books list for 2012-12-09. It has been on the list for 3 week(s).

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When Rafe Kane enters middle school, he teams up with his best friend, "Leo the Silent," to create a game to make school more fun by trying to break every rule in the school's code of conduct.

4) The book thief

Author

Zusak, Markus

Notes

#6 on the Children’s Paperback Books list for 2012-12-09. It has been on the list for 272 week(s).

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Book, Audio, Book on CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Playaway

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Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.

5) Thirteen reasons why: a novel

Author

Asher, Jay

Notes

#7 on the Children’s Paperback Books list for 2012-12-09. It has been on the list for 72 week(s).

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Book, Book on CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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When high school student Clay Jenkins receives a box in the mail containing thirteen cassette tapes recorded by his classmate Hannah, who committed suicide, he spends a bewildering and heartbreaking night crisscrossing their town, listening to Hannah's voice recounting the events leading up to her death.

6) The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian

Author

Alexie, Sherman

Notes

#8 on the Children’s Paperback Books list for 2012-12-09. It has been on the list for 152 week(s).

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Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.

7) Wildwood

Author

Meloy, Colin

Series

Wildwood chronicles volume 1

Notes

#9 on the Children’s Paperback Books list for 2012-12-09. It has been on the list for 9 week(s).

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When her baby brother is kidnapped by crows, seventh-grader Prue McKeel ventures into the forbidden Impassable Wilderness--a dangerous and magical forest in the middle of Portland, Oregon--and soon finds herself involved in a war among the various inhabitants.

8) Out of my mind

Author

Draper, Sharon M

Series

Out of my mind volume 1

Notes

#10 on the Children’s Paperback Books list for 2012-12-09. It has been on the list for 24 week(s).

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Book, Book on CD, eBook, Kindle

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Considered by many to be mentally retarded, a brilliant, impatient fifth-grader with cerebral palsy discovers a technological device that will allow her to speak for the first time.