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Big Slick High quality books Big Slick By:Eric Luper Published on 2007-09-18 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) All in all, sixteen-year-old Andrew Lang has been dealt a pretty good hand in life. Sure, he has to spend his afternoons slaving away in the hellhole that is his dad's dry-cleaning business, but even that's not so bad with Jasmine, the seriously hot Goth-chick senior, working right beside him. So what if she's got a boyfriend? Plus, Andrew's got an ace up his sleeve – he's good at poker. Very good. Unfortunately, all it takes is one bad beat at Shushie's illegal poker club to turn Andrew's bankroll from huge to nonexistent. And Andrew's pretty sure that sooner or later his dad's going to notice that $600 he |borrowed| from the register. Andrew thinks he may know how to get the money back, but it's a little bit crazy, and a little bit dangerous . . . In this breakneck-paced novel about gambling and growing up, the stakes are high, and An...

The Outsiders High quality books The Outsiders By:S. E. Hinton Published on 2012-05-15 by Penguin 50 years of an iconic classic! This international bestseller and inspiration for a beloved movie is a heroic story of friendship and belonging. No one ever said life was easy. But Ponyboy is pretty sure that he's got things figured out. He knows that he can count on his brothers, Darry and Sodapop. And he knows that he can count on his friends—true friends who would do anything for him, like Johnny and Two-Bit. But not on much else besides trouble with the Socs, a vicious gang of rich kids whose idea of a good time is beating up on “greasers” like Ponyboy. At least he knows what to expect—until the night someone takes things too far. The Outsiders is a dramatic and enduring work of fiction that laid the groundwork for the YA genre. S. E. Hinton's classic story of a boy who finds himself on the outskirts of regular society remains as powerful today as it was the day it was first pub...

The Bones Of Wrath: Horrors High quality books The Bones Of Wrath: Horrors By:T.K. Wrathbone Published on 2019-10-31 by Royal Star Publishing Horrors; fears that aren’t always as bad as they seem... Blood Donors Wanted: There’s a monster on the prowl and the local townspeople refuse to walk alone at night for fear of having their throats ripped out. Dr Acula needs his personal supply of life-saving fluid stocked up and needs to make the townspeople trust him enough to give him what he wants. A personal donation... Dance Night Fright: Westwood High is having its yearly Halloween Dance Night and Brooke Bonefield is confident she’ll be crowned Halloween Queen to Bradford Jennings’ Halloween King. But when the recently deceased decide to spend the night dancing away, it’s not Brooke who’s taking home the crown. Don’t Scream It’s Over: Banshees are known for their wailing and screaming, so when Eugenie gets her first sore throat in her entire one hundred and three years of life, she freaks ...