Paul Griffin
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Español
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Ben Coffin tiene apenas doce años y nunca fue bueno para hacerse amigos. Acostumbrado a las casas de crianza hasta que es adoptado, sabe que la gente puede desaparecer de su vida en cualquier momento. Tratando de superar los problemas de bullying en la escuela, prefiere usar su tiempo libre en leer libros de sci-fi, que consigue en la bioblioteca de Coney Island, donde encuentra un perrito abandonado. O, mejor dicho, es encontrado por el adorable...
3) Adrift
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English
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"Matt and Mike are best friends, just two working-class guys trying to earn some money in Montauk for the summer. When they meet Driana, JoJo, and Stef, three friends who live a much different life of privilege, Matt and Mike find themselves in a sticky situation where temptation rivals sensibility. Worlds collide when the group ventures out to sea aboard a small boat that Stef sneaks out from her dad's dock. As the waves rise and the fragile vessel...
4) Stay with me
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English
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Fifteen-year-olds Mack, a high school drop-out but a genius with dogs, and Céce, who hopes to use her intelligence to avoid a life like her mother's, meet and fall in love at the restaurant where they both work, but when Mack lands in prison he pushes Céce away and only a one-eared pit-bull can keep them together.
5) Skyjacked
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English
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Cassie, Tim, Emily, Brandon, and Jay-- teenagers from the elite Hartwell Academy-- are on their way back to New York from a camping trip in Idaho. They have a replacement pilot, Cassie falls ill, and Jay notices the play is flying west instead of east. They've been hijacked, and are trapped thirty-seven thousand feet in the air. Their only chance to survive is by working together-- but can they trust each other? -- adapted from jacket
6) Saving Marty
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English
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"When Lorenzo adopts a runt piglet destined for auction, an unexpected, life-changing friendship forms"--
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English
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Tamika, a fifteen-year-old hearing-impaired girl, Jimmi, an eighteen-year-old veteran who stopped taking his antipsychotic medication, and sixteen-year-old Fatima, an illegal immigrant from Africa, meet and connect in their Bronx, New York, neighborhood, with devastating results.
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Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
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Having escaped from juvenile detention centers and foster care, two teenaged boys live on their own in an abandoned shack in a New York City park, making their way by stealing, occasionally working, and trying to keep from being arrested.
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Publisher
Phaidon Press Limited
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A complement to the landmark The Art Book, The 21st-Century Art Book is an accessible guide to best contemporary art made since 2000. Showcasing over 280 artists in alphabetical order, it place established figures like Jeff Wall, Marlene Dumas and Maurizio Cattelan alongside the rising stars of the next generation such as Camille Henrot and Haroon Mirza. International in outlook, it draws together artists from every continent and documents the unprecedented...