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Into Thin Air : A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer

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• ISBN-13: 9780385494786
• Sales Rank: 2,427
• Pub. Date: October 1999

A childhood dream of someday ascending Mount Everest, a lifelong love of climbing, and an expense account all propelled writer Jon Krakauer to the top of the Himalayas last ...  More

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Smack by Melvin Burgess

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• ISBN-13: 9780380732234
• Sales Rank: 11,858
• Pub. Date: May 1999

Winner of the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Prize for fiction, two of England's most prestigious awards, Smack tells a penetrating story about heroin use. Insightful, ...  More

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Swallowing Stones by Joyce McDonald

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• ISBN-13: 9780440226727
• Sales Rank: 11,928
• Pub. Date: July 1999

Dual perspectives reveal the aftermath of seventeen-year-old Michael MacKenzie's birthday celebration during which he discharges an antique Winchester rifle and unknowingly ...  More

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Parrot in the Oven : Mi Vida by Victor Martinez, Steve Scott (Illustrator)

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• ISBN-13: 9780064471862
• Sales Rank: 14,079
• Pub. Date: March 1998

Winner of the National Book Award for Young People's Literature, PARROT IN THE OVEN tells the story of a Mexican American boy's coming-of-age in the face of poverty, abuse, ...  More

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Whirligig by Paul Fleischman

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• ISBN-13: 9780440228356
• Sales Rank: 9,004
• Pub. Date: November 1999

When 16-year-old Brent Bishop inadvertently causes the death of a young woman, he is sent on an unusual journey of repentance, building wind toys across the land. In a unique ...  More

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Into Thin Air : A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer

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• ISBN-13: 9780307475251
• Sales Rank: 11,633
• Pub. Date: August 2009

A childhood dream of someday ascending Mount Everest, a lifelong love of climbing, and an expense account all propelled writer Jon Krakauer to the top of the Himalayas last ...  More

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The Cobra Event by Richard Preston

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• ISBN-13: 9780345409973
• Sales Rank: 22,399
• Pub. Date: September 1998

"A PAGE-TURNER . . . THOROUGHLY FRIGHTENING." --Newsweek "ENORMOUSLY ENTERTAINING." --The New York Times Book Review "THIS BOOK SCARED THE LIVING ...  More

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The Transall Saga by Gary Paulsen

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• ISBN-13: 9780440219767
• Sales Rank: 29,781
• Pub. Date: October 1999

While backpacking in the desert, thirteen-year-old Mark falls into a tube of blue light and is transported into a more primitive world, where he must use his knowledge and ...  More

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