Wendelin Van Draanen
1) Wild bird
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When her behavior escalates out of control, fourteen-year-old Wren is taken away to a wilderness therapy camp where she is forced to develop new skills, including the courage to ask for help.
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When a school bus accident leaves sixteen-year-old Jessica an amputee, she returns to school with a prosthetic limb and her track team finds a wonderful way to help rekindle her dream of running again.
3) Flipped
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In alternating chapters, two eighth-graders describe how their feelings about themselves, each other, and their families have changed over the years.
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Shredderman volume 1
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Fifth-grader Nolan Byrd, tired of being called names by the class bully, has a secret identity--Shredderman!
6) Runaway
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After running away from her fifth foster home, Holly, a twelve-year-old orphan, travels across the country, keeping a journal of her experiences and struggle to survive.
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Sammy Keyes mysteries volume 6
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A Hollywood actress, who had been competing with Sammy's mother for an important role, is murdered, but thirteen-year-old Sammy and her friend Marissa are on the case.
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Shredderman volume 2
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Someone is spray-painting graffiti all over Cedar Valley and it is up to fifth-grader Nolan Byrd, also known as Shredderman, to expose the vandal.
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Sammy Keyes mysteries volume 5
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While celebrating the New Year with a friend, Sammy encounters a mystery involving an elderly neighbor, a pioneer cabin, and a century-old family feud.
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Sammy Keyes mysteries volume 3
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Sammy continues to make life with her grandmother interesting as she tries to discover who is stealing from St. Mary's church, befriends a homeless girl, and plays in a softball tournament against a bitter rival.
12) Meet The Gecko
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Shredderman volume 3
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Nolan Byrd, alias Shredderman, sets out to help the young star of his favorite television show expose a slanderous reporter.
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Sammy Keyes mysteries volume 12
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Thirteen-year-old Sammy meets a mysterious man who dies of a heart attack after telling her to get rid of the large amount of money he is carrying, leading her to investigate who the man was and how he came to be carrying so much cash.
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Sammy Keyes mysteries volume 18
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"Sammy Keyes has spent the last few years solving other people's mysteries; now her friends (and some foes) come together to unmask the fiend who has put Sammy in a coma"--
16) Villain's Lair
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Gecko and Sticky volume 1
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The Gecko & Sticky are a fabulous crime-fighting duo! This quartet of funny adventures will appeal to fans of superheroes both young and old, and would make terrific all-family read-alouds.
Dave Sanchez is an average boy with an after-school job and a pet gecko named Sticky. All very normal—until the day Sticky talks!
Sticky tells Dave a wild tale of a former life of crime, searching for Aztec gold with a treasure hunter named...
Dave Sanchez is an average boy with an after-school job and a pet gecko named Sticky. All very normal—until the day Sticky talks!
Sticky tells Dave a wild tale of a former life of crime, searching for Aztec gold with a treasure hunter named...
17) Enemy spy
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Shredderman volume 4
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When Nolan witnesses a serious crime, he realizes he may not be able to hide behind his Shredderman identity this time.
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Sammy Keyes mysteries volume 8
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Seventh-grade sleuth Sammy Keyes investigates mysterious happenings at a local art gallery.
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"Part writing guide and part memoir, this inspiring book from the author of Flipped and The Running Dream is like Bird by Bird for YA readers and writers. Wendelin Van Draanen didn't grow up wanting to be a writer, but thirty books later, she's convinced that writing saved her life. Or, at least, saved her from a life of bitterness and despair. Writing helped her sort out what she thought and felt and wanted. And digging deep into fictional characters...
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Gecko and Sticky volume 3
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Seventh-grader Dave Sanchez and his talking gecko sidekick Sticky decide they must rescue an odious science teacher who has been kidnapped by the even more villanous Damien Black, who is masquerading as a substitute teacher in order to steal Dave's magic Aztec armband.