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  • Know the Score

    Gloria Skurzynski

    Hardcover (Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, March 1, 1994)
    Provides a close-up look at how diverse types of electronic games are created, explaining how they work, the invention and historical development of such games, and new trends in this high-tech field. Jr Lib Guild.
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  • Mysteries in Our National Parks 8-book set: Wolf Stalker

    Gloria Skurzynski

    Hardcover (National Geographic Society, )
    A series of mystery stories that take place in National Parks, featuring Jack and Ashley Landon.
  • Two Fools and a Faker: Three Lebanese Folk Tales

    Gloria Skurzynski

    Library Binding (William Morrow, Oct. 15, 1977)
    Retells three Lebanese folktales concerning the making of two fools and the undoing of a clever faker.
  • Afterwar by Gloria Skurzynski

    Gloria Skurzynski

    Paperback (Atheneum Books for Young Readers, March 8, 2011)
    Excellent Book
  • Devastation

    Gloria Skurzynski

    Paperback (Atheneum Books for Young Readers, March 15, 1656)
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  • Virtual War: The Virtual War Chronologs--Book 1

    Gloria Skurzynski

    Mass Market Paperback (Simon Pulse, Dec. 23, 2003)
    Imagine a life of virtual reality -- a childhood contained in a controlled environment, with no human contact or experiences outside of the world of computer-generated images.Corgan has been genetically engineered by the Federation for quick reflexes, high intelligence, and physical superiority. Everything Corgan is, everything he has ever seen or done, was to prepare him for one moment: a bloodless, computer-controlled virtual war.When Corgan meets his two fellow warriors, he begins to question the Federation. Now Corgan must decide where his loyalties lie, what he's willing to fight for, and exactly what he wants in return. His decisions will affect not only these three virtual warriors, but all the people left on earth.
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  • The Stepping Stone Minstrel in Tower #

    Gloria Skurzynski

    Paperback (Modern Library Inc, Nov. 30, 1989)
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  • Zero Gravity

    Gloria Skurzynski

    Hardcover (Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, Aug. 1, 1994)
    Full-color photographs and a clear, explanatory text help young readers understand the nature of gravity, its impact on human life, and what life would be like in a zero-gravity environment.
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  • the minstrel in the tower

    gloria skurzynski

    Hardcover (Random House, Aug. 16, 1988)
    In the year 1195, eleven-year old Roger and his eight-year-old sister Alice must travel the French countryside in search of their ailing mother's estranged brother, a wealthy baron.
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  • Dangerous Ground

    Gloria Skurzynski

    Library Binding (Simon & Schuster, March 1, 1989)
    While taking one last driving tour of Wyoming before moving out of state, eleven-year-old Angela accompanies her beloved seventy-eight-year-old great-aunt Hil to Yellowstone National Park, where Hil's strange behavior suggests she may be losing her sanity.Confronted with the possibility of separation from her beloved Aunt Hil to rejoin her parents in Texas, Angel keeps her pain to herself until Hil's life is threatened in Yellowstone Park
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  • Good-bye, Billy Radish

    Gloria Skurzynski

    Paperback (Aladdin, Oct. 1, 1996)
    In 1917, as the United States enters World War I, Hank sees changes in his western Pennsylvania steel mill town and feels his older Ukrainian friend Billy drifting apart from him
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  • caught in the moving mountains

    gloria skurzynski

    Hardcover (Lothrop, March 15, 1984)
    Young adult fiction based on real mega earthquake centered in Mt. Borah Idaho in 1983.