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  • Orbiting Jupiter

    by Gary D. Schmidt ...
    In this riveting novel, two boys discover the true meaning of family and the sacrifices it requires.Two-time Newbery Honor winner Gary D. Schmidt delivers the shattering story of Joseph, a father at thirteen, who has never seen his daughter, Jupiter.After spending time in a juvenile facility, he’s placed with a foster family on a farm in rural Maine. Here Joseph, damaged and withdrawn, meets ... Read more

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    Also available as: Audiobooks

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  • The Wednesday Wars

    A Newbery Honor Award Winner

    by Gary D. Schmidt ...
    In this Newbery Honor–winning novel, Gary D. Schmidt tells the witty and compelling story of a teenage boy who feels that fate has it in for him, during the school year 1968-69.Seventh grader Holling Hoodhood isn't happy. He is sure his new teacher, Mrs. Baker, hates his guts. Holling's domineering father is obsessed with his business image and disregards his family. Throughout the school year, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Okay for Now

    A National Book Award Winner

    by Gary D. Schmidt ...
    2011 National Book Award FinalistAs a fourteen-year-old who just moved to a new town, with no friends and a louse for an older brother, Doug Swieteck has all the stats stacked against him. So begins a coming-of-age masterwork full of equal parts comedy and tragedy from Newbery Honor winner Gary D. Schmidt. As Doug struggles to be more than the “skinny thug” that his teachers and the police think ... Read more

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  • The Labors of Hercules Beal

    by Gary D. Schmidt ...
    From award-winning author Gary D. Schmidt, a warm and witty novel in the tradition of The Wednesday Wars, in which a seventh grader has to figure out how to fulfill a seemingly impossible school assignment—and learns about friendship, community, and himself along the way.Herc Beal knows who he's named after—a mythical hero—but he's no superhero. He's the smallest kid in his class. So when his ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • Just Like That

    by Gary D. Schmidt ...
    In this unforgettable, gently humorous novel, New York Times bestselling, award-winning author Gary D. Schmidt tells two poignant, linked stories: that of a grieving girl and a boy trying to escape his violent past.Meryl Lee Kowalski is sent to a girls' boarding school in fall 1968 to move on from her grief over a close friend's death. Matt Coffin is on the run from a criminal gang, afraid that ... Read more

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  • Pay Attention, Carter Jones

    by Gary D. Schmidt ...
    Carter Jones is astonished early one morning when he finds a real English butler, bowler hat and all, on the doorstep—one who stays to help the Jones family, which is a little bit broken.In addition to figuring out middle school, Carter has to adjust to the unwelcome presence of this new know-it-all adult in his life and navigate the butler's notions of decorum. And ultimately, when his burden of ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

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  • Jupiter Rising

    by Gary D. Schmidt ...
    In this tender, gripping story from the award-winning author of Orbiting Jupiter, a boy starts out running on the track team and ends up running toward his future.When Jack's P.E. coach pairs him up with Jay Perkins for the cross-country team, neither of them is happy about it. Jack is grieving the loss of Joseph, his foster brother, and adjusting to his role as big brother to Jupiter, Joseph’s ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    Okay for Now

    by Gary D. Schmidt ...
    Narrated by Lincoln Hoppe ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 17 min

    “The Dump” is what Doug Swieteck calls his new home in upstate New York. He lands there in the summer of 1968, when the Apollo space missions are under way, Joe Pepitone is slugging for the New York Yankees, and the Vietnam War is raging. At home he lives with a father who has lost his way and a brother accused of robbery. And Doug’s oldest brother is returning from Vietnam. Who knows what wounds ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy

    A Newbery Honor Award Winner

    by Gary D. Schmidt ...
    A 2005 Newbery Honor BookIt only takes a few hours for Turner Buckminster to start hating Phippsburg, Maine. No one in town will let him forget that he's a minister's son, even if he doesn't act like one. But then he meets Lizzie Bright Griffin, a smart and sassy girl from a poor nearby island community founded by former slaves. Despite his father's-and the town's-disapproval of their friendship, ... Read more

    $6.49 USD

  • What Came from the Stars

    by Gary D. Schmidt ...
    The Valorim are about to fall to a dark lord when they send a necklace containing their planet across the cosmos, hurtling past a trillion stars . . . all the way into the lunchbox of Tommy Pepper, sixth grader, of Plymouth, Mass.Mourning his late mother, Tommy doesn't notice much about the chain he found, but soon he is drawing the twin suns and humming the music of a hanorah. As Tommy absorbs ... Read more

    $8.49 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobooks

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    The Wednesday Wars

    by Gary D. Schmidt ...
    Narrated by Joel Johnstone ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 28 min

    In this Newbery Honor-winning novel, Gary D. Schmidt offers an unforgettable antihero. The Wednesday Wars is a wonderfully witty and compelling story about a teenage boy's mishaps and adventures over the course of the 1967-68 school year in Long Island, New York. Meet Holling Hoodhood, a seventh-grader at Camillo Junior High, who must spend Wednesday afternoons with his teacher, Mrs. Baker, while ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    Orbiting Jupiter

    by Gary D. Schmidt ...
    Narrated by Christopher Gebauer ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 19 min

    Publishers Weekly Best BookGolden Sower Award (Nebraska)Maryland Black-Eyed Susan AwardIn this riveting novel, two boys discover the true meaning of family and the sacrifices it requires.Two-time Newbery Honor winner Gary D. Schmidt delivers the shattering story of Joseph, a father at thirteen, who has never seen his daughter, Jupiter.After spending time in ... ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

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