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A Comedy & A Tragedy is the story of one young man's effort to teach himself to read. Complex and many-leveled, this book is also a manifesto about the acquisition of intellectual independence. It is a plea for better understanding of the impact of dysfunctional family dynamics in education, and a passionate indictment of a broken school system that lets so-called problem kids slip through the cracks.
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Hardy boys undercover brothers volume 7
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Frank and Joe try to determine the cause of recent injuries and deaths at a camp for troubled teens in the wilderness surrounding Moosehead Lake in Maine.
43) Wzburzone fale
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"Cameron, Ethan i Philip mają za sobą trudne dzieciństwo. Bici i wykorzystywani przez biologicznych rodziców, znaleźli prawdziwy dom u Stelli i Raymonda Quinnów. Cameron został kierowcą wyścigowym. Mieszka w Europie i wiedzie beztroskie życie. Niespodziewanie otrzymuje wiadomość, że ojciec - człowiek, który go wychował i pokochał - leży na łożu śmierci. Ray Quinn zobowiązuje synów do opieki nad przygarniętym przez niego czwartym...
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Wally Rose, a brooding, sporadically up-beat, old-time social worker, is juggling a convoluted caseload of troubled youth. An old file comes back to bedevil him. A habitual line-crosser, he may have pushed his luck one too many times. Wally has been "nurturing" kids and fellow workers for decades. He has little patience for red tape and is a thorn in the side of his employer. He is also running out of gas. He hopes he can fill his tank one more time,...
46) Samurai summer
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A boy sent to a camp for unwanted children adopts the samurai lifestyle in order to protect himself and his friends from the sadistic camp overseer, Matron, and her adult son who is stalking one of the female campers.
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Contributors describe proven ways to reduce juvenile delinquency by targeting specific risk factors and strengthening young people's personal, family, and community resources. Thorough yet concise, the book reviews exemplary programs and discusses theoretical, empirical, and practical issues in assessment and intervention. It also provides best-practice recommendations for working with special populations: violent offenders; gang members; sexual offenders;...
50) Hotshot
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Dark Ops volume 2
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English
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"Major Vince Deluca may have just accepted his most difficult recon mission ever--keeping an eye on Shay Bassett. As a pilot in the air force's top secret test unit, Vince keeps a cool head at the controls. But ever since they were teens, Shay's had a way of jamming his radar. Vince owes it to her dad, his old mentor, to keep her safe--but can he keep her at arm's length? Once young and desperate herself, Shay cares deeply about the troubled teens...
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"The prize-winning author of Fire Season returns with the heartrending story of his troubled years of flight. Philip Connors's Fire Season, an account of the decade he spent working in a fire-lookout tower high above the remotest part of New Mexico, won the Banff Mountain Book Grand Prize and the Reading the West Book Award, and Amazon named it the Best Nature Book of the Year. Now Connors returns with the story of what drove him up to the tower in...
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