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Books with author Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer

  • The Moves Make the Man

    Bruce Brooks

    Hardcover (HarperCollins, Oct. 16, 1984)
    A black boy and an emotionally troubled white boy in North Carolina form a precarious friendship.
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  • Midnight hour encores

    Bruce Brooks

    Hardcover (Harper & Row, Aug. 16, 1986)
    A sixteen-year-old cellist and musical prodigy travels crosscountry with her father, a product of the 1960s, to meet her mother, who abandoned her as a baby.
  • Boot

    Bruce Brooks

    Paperback (Harpercollins Childrens Books, 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. Simultaneous.
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  • Zip

    Bruce Brooks

    Paperback (Trophy Pr, Oct. 1, 1997)
    Zip and Kenny had been close friends, until Kenny left the Wolfbay Wings to play for the rival team, now Zip must control his anger and channel it to become the best goalie possible to save his team from finishing in last place. Original.
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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)
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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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