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Korman - Hamish Mactivish is Eating a Bus

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from The Hero Next Door

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How to Transform an Everyday, Ordinary Hoop Court into a Place of Higher Learning and You at the Podium

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How to Transform an Everyday, Ordinary Hoop Court into a Place of Higher Learning and You at the Podium

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from Flying Lessons

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Poem in Collections Grade 6 page 157

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from Fresh Ink

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from Take the Mic

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from Flying Lessons

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Seventy-Six Dollars and Forty-Nine Cents

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Seventy-Six Dollars and Forty-Nine Cents

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from Flying Lessons

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from Hero Next Door

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Brown Girl Dreaming Poetry – Jacqueline Woodson

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Choctaw Bigfoot, Midnight in the Mountains

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Choctaw Bigfoot, Midnight in the Mountains

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from Flying Lessons

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commonlit.org

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from Fresh Ink

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commonlit.org

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145th Street (ebook)
Autobiography of My Dead Brother (ebook)
Bad Boy (ebook and book)
The Cruisers (ebook)
Fallen Angels (book)
The Greatest: Muhammad Ali
Hoops (book)
Invasion (ebook)
Monster (ebook and book)
Slam! (ebook and book)
Sunrise Over Fallujah (ebook)

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commonlit.org

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commonlit.org

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commonlit.org

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commonlit.org

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commonlit.org

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Crispin
Nothing But the Truth
True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle

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Brown Girl Dreaming
Feathers (ebook)
Locomotion (ebook)
Miracle's Boys (ebook and book)

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Gone Crazy in Alabama

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Ball Don't Lie (ebook and book)
I Will Save You
The Living (ebook and book)
Mexican White Boy (ebook and book)
We Were Here (ebook and book)

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Booked (ebook and book)
The Crossover (ebook and book)
Rebound (ebook and book)
Solo (ebook and book)
Swing (ebook)

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I've written mostly novels in my career, but over the years I have authored a handful of shorter works for various magazines and anthologies. Here are a few of my all-time favorites ....
A REASONABLE SUM
I originally wrote A REASONABLE SUM for a contest when I was 14. I lost the contest, but the piece has been published at least half a dozen times since then. It's the story of the first day of high school, penned when I was just weeks past my own first day of high school.
HOMICIDE MEETS MR. GOLD MEDAL
I haven't written much for the stage, but HOMICIDE MEETS MR. GOLD MEDAL is a "reader's theater" play, first published in Scholastic's Scope magazine.

READ HOMICIDE MEETS MR. GOLD MEDAL ...
WIMP OF SPARTA
WIMP OF SPARTA was written for an anthology called THIS FAMILY IS DRIVING ME CRAZY, featuring stories about families. The "crazy" in the title wasn't meant to be taken literally, but I set out to create a clan that was truly out there. How do you think I did?

READ WIMP OF SPARTA
HAMISH MACTAVISH IS EATING A BUS
I originally wrote this story for an anthology called FROM ONE EXPERIENCE TO ANOTHER that focused inspired by real experiences. When I was growing up, there really was a news story about a guy who was eating a bus. And while my parents found it pretty funny, I was enthralled. I couldn't understand why this Herculean feat didn't dominate every headline and newscast.

HAMISH MACTAVISH IS EATING A BUS began when I looked back and tried to figure out why such an odd stunt had so activated me back then.

READ HAMISH MACTAVISH IS EATING A BUS
THE TROPHY
When Jon Scieszka approached me about contributing to a short story collection spun from his wildly successful Guys Read program, he originally had me in mind for the anthology focusing on humor. But I had another idea - sports.

I've written a lot about sports over the years, from my young adult novel POP, to the SLAPSHOTS series, all the way back to MACDONALD HALL days and THE ZUCCHINI WARRIORS. THE TROPHY is my latest - originally published in GUYS READ: THE SPORTS PAGES.
SECRETS OF SPLAT NIGHT (A RESTART STORY)
Calling all RESTART fans!

I originally wrote this story as part of a Scholastic anthology called THE TIME WE RAN AWAY. But since then, RESTART has become so popular that readers have been clamoring for more.

This isn't a prequel or a sequel. It's a companion story that offers an extra glimpse into what Chase goes through during RESTART.

READ SECRETS OF SPLAT NIGHT

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I've written mostly novels in my career, but over the years I have authored a handful of shorter works for various magazines and anthologies. Here are a few of my all-time favorites .... A REASONABLE SUM I originally wrote A REASONABLE SUM for a contest when I was 14.

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The Juvie Three
Pop
Restart
Schooled
Swindle
Ungifted

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Chapter from Library Card, which RSD owns

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from Knots in My Yo-Yo String

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Guts the True Stories Behind Hatchet and the Brian Books
Hatchet 9-12
My life in dog years
Soldier's Heart

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from Fresh Ink

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from Flying Lessons

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All American Boys (ebook and book)
Ghost (ebook and book)
Long Way Down (ebook and book)
Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks (ebook and book)
Patina (ebook and book)
Sunny (book)
When I was the Greatest (book)

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Wonder

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Begging For Change
Money Hungry
The Skin I'm In

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How I Became a Ghost
When a Ghost Talks Listen

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Boxers
Saints

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Merci Suarez Changes Gears
Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass

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from Flying Lessons

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Better Nate Than Ever
Five, Six, Seven, Nate!

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from Fresh Ink

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from Knots In My Yo-Yo String

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from Knots in My Yo-Yo String

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from Hero Next Door

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Long Walk to Water
A Single Shard

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The Man in the Moon_ A Short Story - The Toast  Nicola Yoon

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Crash
Library Card
Loser
Love, Stargirl
Maniac Magee
Milkweed
Stargirl
Wringer

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American
Black
Male

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American
White
Male

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Korean-American
2nd Generation Immigrant
Female

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British
White
Male

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Mexican-American
Male

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American
Male
LGBTQ

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American
Black
Female

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American
Black
Female

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Canadian-American
White
Male

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American
White
Female

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Cuban-American
Female

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American
Black
Male

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American
White
Male

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American
Black
Male

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American
White
Male

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American Indian/Indigenous
Choctaw of Oklahoma
Male

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American
Black
Female
LGBTQ

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Chinese American
Male

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Jamaican American
Jamaican
Female

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Columbian American
2nd Generation Immigrant
Female

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Epic

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Acoustic Rooster and His Barnyard Band Kwame Alexander (EPIC)

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The Elsewhere Boutique | Storyman Virtual Reading Series