Alan Lawrence Sitomer
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Nerd girls volume 1
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English
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Three misfit middle school students team up to try to beat out the catty and mean "ThreePees"--pretty, popular, and perfect girls--at the school talent show.
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Nerd girls volume 2
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English
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As punishment for their perpetual infighting, the Nerd Girls and the ThreePees (Pretty, Popular, Perfect) must compete together in the Academic Septhalon.
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Caged warrior volume 1
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English
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From age three, McCutcheon Daniels, now sixteen, has been trained in Mixed Martial Arts and must keep winning to feed his five-year-old sister and father, but chance presents an opportunity to get out of the Detroit slums using his brain instead of his fighting skills.
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Caged warrior volume 2
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English
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"Mixed martial arts phenom McCutcheon Daniels is recruited to help the FBI but then he is disavowed by the government and abandoned in one of America's most notorious prisons"--
5) Homeboyz
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Hoopster trilogy volume 3
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English
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Seventeen-year-old Teddy Anderson, who is known on the streets as T-Bear, decides to seek revenge on the person responsible for his little sister's death, which was caused by a stray bullet from a semiautomatic handgun.
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Hoopster trilogy volume 2
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English
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Andre Anderson's sister Theresa tells in her own hip-hop flava'd voice how she comes from behind to go up against one of the baddest monsters of high school --the SAT -- and wins!
7) The hoopster
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Hoopster trilogy volume 1
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English
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Andre Anderson is a black teenager who loves to play basketball, When he is viciously attacked, it calls his whole world into question--even his deadly jumpshot.
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Since their highly-contested battle over the middle school talent show, the Nerd Girls and the ThreePees have been engaged in an all-out prank war. So naturally, their principal decides that they must compete in the academic septathlon-as a team. Can they come together and win, or will their squabbles ruin everything?
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Here Sitomer shares modern methods for keeping students engaged in the "boring" classroom. It's understandable how school comes second to adolescents dealing with weighty issues in everyday life. That is why it's necessary to teach teens how to get involved in their education and take responsibility for it. Discover new ways-whether it be through hip-hop music or contemporary literature-to help students connect the outside world to life in the classroom....
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Award-winning educator and author Alan Lawrence Sitomer's engaging young adult novels have been named among the ALA's Best Books of the Year. This first tale in his planned Nerd Girls series follows 13-year-old self-proclaimed "dorkasaurus" Maureen and her fellow social outcasts Alice and Barbara. When Maureen discovers that the Pretty, Popular, Perfect girls are planning a mean trick on Alice, she decides it's finally time to take a stand. Signing...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Award-winning educator and author Alan Lawrence Sitomer's engaging young adult novels have been named among the ALA's Best Books of the Year. This first tale in his planned Nerd Girls series follows 13-year-old self-proclaimed "dorkasaurus" Maureen and her fellow social outcasts Alice and Barbara. When Maureen discovers that the Pretty, Popular, Perfect girls are planning a mean trick on Alice, she decides it's finally time to take a stand. Signing...