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One Fat Summer
Robert Lipsyte
Paperback (HarperTeen, Aug. 10, 2004)The acclaimed book behind the new major motion picture Measure of a Man, starring Donald Sutherland, Judy Greer, Luke Wilson, and Blake Cooper. A New York Times Outstanding Book and ALA Best of the Best Books for Young AdultsFor Bobby Marks, summer does not equal fun. While most people are happy to take off their heavy jackets and long pants, Bobby can't even button his jeans or reach over his belly to touch his toes. Spending the summer at Rumson Lake is sheer torture.This particular summer promises to be worse than usual. His parents can't stop fighting. His best friend, Joanie, goes home to New York City and won't tell him why. Dr. Kahn, a rich, stingy estate owner who hires him to manage an enormous lawn, is working him to death. And to top it off, a local bully won't stop torturing him.Bobby is about to find out just how terrifying and exhilarating one fat summer can be.
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May I visit?
Charlotte Zolotow
Hardcover (Harper & Row, March 15, 1976)A little girl asks if she may return home to visit when she grows up and no longer spills powder in the bathroom or knocks over the plants.
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Near the Window Tree: Poems and Notes
Karla Kuskin
Library Binding (HarperCollins, April 1, 1975)Thirty-two poems by the acclaimed children's writer, with explanations and descriptions of their origins and inspirations, show that poems can begin anywhere and from any impulse
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One Fat Summer
Robert Lipsyte
Library Binding (Perfection Learning, Aug. 10, 2004)For Bobby Marks, summer does not equal fun. While most people are happy to take off their heavy jackets and long pants, Bobby can't even button his jeans or reach over his belly to touch his toes. Spending the summer at Rumson Lake is sheer torture. This particular summer promises to be worse than usual. His parents can't stop fighting. His best friend, Joanie, goes home to New York City and won't tell him why. Dr. Kahn, a rich, stingy estate owner who hires him to manage an enormous lawn, is working him to death. And to top it off, a local bully won't stop torturing him. Bobby is about to find out just how terrifying and exhilarating one fat summer can be.
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ESP TV
Mary Rodgers
Paperback (HarperColl, May 19, 1999)Previously published as A Billion for BorisAnnabel Andrews is back in her body, but life is still anything but normal. When her brother, Ape Face, and her boyfriend, Boris, discover a TV that airs its programs a day early, they're suddenly faced with lots of opportunities. Boris wants to make billions of dollars, but Annabel wants to help mankind. They've got to decide what to do before someone figures out what's going on.... An ALA Notable Children's Book
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One Fat Summer
Robert Lipsyte
School & Library Binding (Turtleback Books, Aug. 10, 2004)FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Two hundred pound Bobby Marks hated summers because he couldn't hide his fat body in heavy clothes until the year he decided to get a job and a strange combination of events changes his life.
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