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  • Prince

    Bruce Brooks

    Paperback (Harpercollins Childrens Books, Feb. 1, 1998)
    When the grade-school basketball coach approaches Prince and asks him to join the team, Prince finds himself facing a serious dilemma as he must decide whether to pursue the sport he loves, hockey, or choose the game everyone else thinks he should play. Simultaneous.
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  • Throwing smoke

    Bruce Brooks

    Paperback (Scholastic, March 15, 2001)
    children
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  • Boot

    Bruce Brooks

    Library Binding (HarperCollins, Jan. 1, 1998)
    The Wolfbay Wings get a new weapon to use this season, bodychecking, and all the members in the league are using it, but Boot does not feel comfortable doing this to other players, decides to take a stand against it, and, in the process, risks his place on the team.
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  • Nature by Design

    Bruce Brooks

    Hardcover (Farrar Straus & Giroux, May 1, 1994)
    Describes functional structures built by such animals as the beaver, termite, and tailorbird.
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  • Making Sense: Animal Perception and Communication

    Bruce Brooks

    Hardcover (Farrar Straus & Giroux, Oct. 1, 1993)
    The author of The Moves Make the Man discusses the five senses--seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, and touching--and how animals are blessed with a variety of equipment to use the senses.
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  • Dooby

    Bruce Brooks

    Paperback (Trophy Pr, Sept. 1, 1998)
    Dooby hopes he will be elected team captain at the start of the Wings' Peewee season, but when the new girl on the hockey team gets the position, Dooby's anger hinders his performance and he soon realizes that the new captain isn't doing such a good job. Original.
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  • Cody

    Bruce Brooks

    Paperback (Trophy Pr, Nov. 1, 1997)
    When Zip and Cody--the coach's son, Wing's captain, high scorer, and guitar player--are hired for a musical gig the night before an important hockey game, Cody is forced to decide between team morale or a lot of money. Simultaneous.
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  • Woodsie

    Bruce Brooks

    Library Binding (HarperCollins, Oct. 1, 1997)
    At the start of the new ice hockey season, Woodsie alone believes that his teammates can pick themselves up after several key players defect to a rival team
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  • Predator!

    Bruce Brooks

    Hardcover (Farrar Straus & Giroux, May 1, 1994)
    A close-up look at the timeless struggle between predator and prey discusses the delicate balance of the food chain, the dangers of human interference, and the special characteristics and talents of predators
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  • Subtle

    Bruce Brooks

    Paperback (Harpercollins Childrens Books, Jan. 1, 1999)
    When the Wings start playing clean, there's suddenly no room for the hard-hitting antics of the team's goon, Subtle, but when the team starts playing pretty, they also start losing. Simultaneous.
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  • Vanishing

    Bruce Brooks

    Hardcover (HarperCollins, June 4, 1999)
    Alice just can't stop crying. To her, it seems as if it should be simple. If your parents split up, you live with the one who understands you best. Alice's father had always been the one to "get" her. But somehow she had ended up living with her mom, who drank too much, and her stepfather, who didn't like her and didn't care who knew it. So when a bout with bronchitis lands her in the hospital, she decided she just can't face going home again--ever.What if she simply stops eating--goes on a hunger strike? They would have to keep her there, wouldn't they? It seems like the simplest solution, even when the hallucinations start, even when they kind of take over. But suppose she goes into a coma--or dies? If that happens, she'll have her new friend Rex, the mysterious boy who says he's dying, but whose jaunty ways have brought Alice to life.Once again, Bruce Brooks tells an intriguing story that puts new twists on the oldest, biggest issues--love, death, and taking charge of your own life as you move toward adulthood.
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  • Everywhere

    Bruce Brooks

    Paperback (Harpercollins Childrens Books, Oct. 1, 1992)
    Afraid that his beloved grandfather will die after suffering a heart attack, a nine-year-old boy agrees to join ten-year-old Dooley in performing a mysterious ritual called soul switching
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