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2) Slam
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Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
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At the age of fifteen, Sam Jones's girlfriend gets pregnant and Sam's life of skateboarding and daydreaming about Tony Hawk changes drastically.
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Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2015?]
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English
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Fourteen-year-old outsider Charlie Han, known as "the short Chinese kid" at school, searches for a talent to improve his popularity, but when he discovers skateboarding, much to the disapproval of his overprotective mother, he also uncovers a huge family secret.
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Six friends set out for a fun day of skating in the city of Philadelphia when they stumble upon a mob hit and get caught witnessing the shooting. They get chased through the city on their boards by three black sedans carying gun wielding mobsters. The busy city streets abd sidewalks have no pity for this kind ov action and death lurks at every turn. There's no stopping the gansters as they close in for the kill to rid themselves of loose strings to...
6) Rodeo Snow
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English
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The only thing not ordinary about fifteen-year-old Eugene "Gene" Snow is his nerd name-he's named after a peacenik politician his pathetically earnest parents admired. When some street skaters nickname him Rodeo, he's happy to take on that new, totally cool identity. If only he could win the citywide street skate competition, everyone would see him as who he was born to be: Rodeo Snow, street skater. As Gene tries to nail the skate competition and...
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Evan has always dreamed of being a superhero, and on his sixteenth birthday he discovers the ability to stretch and bend his body in impossible ways. He decides that's it's time to make the most of his super stretchiness and become a real-life superhero-except he can't find any actual crime to fight. When a video of his superpower goes viral, Evan gets a taste of the fame he has ever hoped for, but he knows he hasn't really done anything besides a...
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Sixteen-year-old Michael Callahan is even more confused than the average teenager about who he is, having been born in Bolivia and adopted as a baby by an Irish-American family in New Mexico. Determined to lock in a self-identity, he enrolls in semester abroad in a prestigious Irish high school, where he finds himself in a totally new environment-geographical, social, and academic. He quickly slams into conflict with Irish authorities, with his Irish...
9) The Fall
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English
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When one teen dies in a tragic accident, the lives of three others are forever changed. One turns to alcohol to escape his guilt. Another looks to a gang to replace what he' s lost. Ben must find the strength to break through a growing web of lies and convince everyone at school that he was not to blame. But first he has to convince himself.
10) A Dark Truth
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English
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Riley and Dashawn have been friends since they were three. They got into skateboarding together and have advanced to the point where it's time to create a Sponsor Me tape. They bring a third skater along, Natasha, and try to get some good clips around a new office development. Then the police storm into the lot. The three skaters quickly scatter, trying their best not to get busted. Riley and Natasha arrive at the meet-up spot. They wait and wait,...
11) Crash Landing
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This YA debut is a searing ode to queer identity, growing up in an immigrant community, and carving a place for yourself in the world with the help of your friends.
Jay Wong is spending the last languid days of summer 2010 trying to land a kickflip and begging for something (anything!) to make her senior year different-to finally give her some stories worth telling. When she meets Ash Chan, it seems like she's getting what she asked for. Ash is confident,...
12) Grind
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English
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Philip lives for skateboarding. School is merely the break between trying to land a difficult jump and outrunning the security guards. When he and his best friend Wally meet a professional skateboarder who videotapes himself for his website, Philip thinks they can do it too-and make money at the same time. When they start getting hits on their website-and making money-they start to feel the pressure to do more and more dangerous stunts.
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Pour Phillip, le skate, c'est toute sa vie. L'école est simplement un intermède entre les séances de skate o il essaie des sauts difficiles et déjoue les gardiens de sécurité. Lorsque son meilleur ami Wally et lui rencontrent un skater professionnel qui fait des vidéos pour son site Web, Phillip pense qu'ils peuvent faire la même chose, et faire de l'argent en même temps. Lorsque leur site Web devient populaire, et leur rapporte de
l'argent,...
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Español
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Phillip vive para el skateboarding. La escuela no es más que un paréntesis entre intentar un aterrizaje difícil y escapar de los guardias de seguridad. Cuando él y su mejor amigo, Wally, conocen a un patinador profesional que graba videos de sus mejores trucos para su sitio web, Phillip decide que ellos pueden hacer lo mismo y ganar un poco de dinero. Pero cuando crean una página propia y empiezan a recibir visitas (y a obtener ganancias),...
15) Al límite
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Español
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Phillip vive para el skateboarding. La escuela no es más que un paréntesis entre intentar un aterrizaje difícil y escapar de los guardias de seguridad. Cuando él y su mejor amigo, Wally, conocen a un patinador profesional que graba videos de sus mejores trucos para su sitio web, Phillip decide que ellos pueden hacer lo mismo y ganar un poco de dinero. Pero cuando crean una página propia y empiezan a recibir visitas (y a obtener ganancias),...
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Français
Description
Pour Phillip, le skate, c'est toute sa vie. L'école est simplement un intermède entre les séances de skate o il essaie des sauts difficiles et déjoue les gardiens de sécurité. Lorsque son meilleur ami Wally et lui rencontrent un skater professionnel qui fait des vidéos pour son site Web, Phillip pense qu'ils peuvent faire la même chose, et faire de l'argent en même temps. Lorsque leur site Web devient populaire, et leur rapporte de
l'argent,...
17) SkateFate
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English
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From U. S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera comes the powerful journey of Chicano teen Lucky Z. A former skateboarder who's anything but lucky, he finds triumph and power through his voice. Raw, cool, real-this novel in verse is a shout-out to teens to find the extraordinary in the ordinary, to raise their voice and find strength in the sheer and simple power of expression. Lucky Z has always lived on the edge-he loved to skateboard, to drag race,...
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