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These classic novels will grab a student's attention from the first page. Included are eight pages of end-of-book activities to enhance the reading experience. Freedom is everything to Huckleberry Finn. How can he avoid being "civilized" by the good-hearted Widow Douglas? But just now Huck has more important things on his mind-- like helping his friend Jim escape the slave-catchers! --Publisher.

In 1940, David Sparsholt--a handsome, charismatic, and athletic young man--arrives at Oxford University to get a degree in engineering. Unaware of how his presence affects others, especially Evert Dax, a lonely son of a famous novelist who will become a novelist himself, David and Evert become friends, and that friendship will influence both their lives and the lives of others for generations.

Eric Bittle may be a former junior figure skating champion, vlogger extraordinaire, and very talented amateur patissier, but being a freshman on the Samwell University hockey team is a whole new challenge. It is nothing like co-ed club hockey back in Georgia! First of all? There's checking. And then, there is Jack---his very attractive but moody captain.

Twelve-year-old Patryk knows little of the world beyond his tiny Polish village; the Russians have occupied the land for as long as anyone can remember, but otherwise life is unremarkable. Patryk and his friends entertain themselves by coming up with dares until the Germans drop a bomb on the schoolhouse and the Great War comes crashing in. As control of the village falls from one nation to another, Jurek, the ringleader of these friends, devises the best dare yet: whichever boy steals the finest military button will be king. But as sneaking buttons from uniforms hanging to dry progresses to looting the bodies of dead soldiers, Patryk begins to wonder whether their "button war" is still just a game. When devastation reaches their doorstep, the lines between the button war and the real war blur, especially for the increasingly callous Jurek. Master of historical fiction Avi delivers a fierce account of the boys of one war-torn village who are determined to prove themselves with a simple dare that spins disastrously out of control.

Huck, in flight from his murderous father, and Jim, in flight from slavery, pilot their raft down the Mississippi River in search of freedom.

For Shion, an elite student in city No. 6, life is carefully choreographed. School, study and occasional visits with his friend Safu are the order of the day. One fateful day however he takes a misstep, sheltering an injured boy from a typhoon. But this boy is a fugitive living outside the tapestry of control of the city.

"With Rat critically injured protecting him, Shion finally returns to No. 6. But what he find there is not the tranquil utopia he left behind, but a city in the grip of panic and chaos. As the 'holy city' collapses in on itself, Shion and Rat put the future of humanity--and their future together--on the line"--Back cover.

"An epic novel of intertwining friendships and families set against the backdrop of a beloved Boy Scout summer camp in the Northwood of Wisconsin"--Provided by publisher.

Sixteen-year-old Larry, a Dogrib Indian living in northern Canada, must deal with past losses and abuses, as well as the typical teenage issues of lust and love, while struggling toward adulthood, but he gets help along the way from Johnny Beck, a Metis newcomer from the city.

Over the course of a weekend, a group of twenty-two men get together to reveal their secret hopes, fears, and passions to reenact what ESPN dubbed the most shocking play in NFL history.