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The Boy Who Couldn't Sleep and Never Had To (Vintage Contemporaries)

by DC Pierson

Published: 2010-01-26

Paperback: 226 pages

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A wildly original and hilarious debut novel about the typical high school experience: the homework, the awkwardness, and the mutant creatures from another galaxy. When Darren Bennett meets Eric Lederer, there's an instant connection. They share a love of drawing, the bottom rung on the cr...

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The Boy Who Fell to Earth

by Kathy Lette

Published: 2012-04-09

Hardcover: 320 pages

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Meet Merlin. He's Lucy's bright, beautiful son - who just happens to be autistic. Since Merlin's father left them in the lurch shortly after his diagnosis, Lucy has made Merlin the centre of her world. Struggling with the joys and tribulations of raising her eccentrically adorable yet challenging child,...

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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

by William Kamkwamba

Published: 2009

Paperback: 273 pages

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Amazon Best of the Month, September 2009: Discarded motor parts, PVC pipe, and an old bicycle wheel may be junk to most people, but in the inspired hands of William Kamkwamba, they are instruments of opportunity. Growing up amid famine and poverty in rural Malawi, wind was one of the few abundant resources...

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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope

by William Kamkwamba, Bryan Mealer

Published: 2009-10-01

Hardcover: 273 pages

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William Kamkwamba was born in Malawi, a country where magic ruled and modern science was mystery. It was also a land withered by drought and hunger, and a place where hope and opportunity were hard to find. But William had read about windmills in a book called Using Energy, and he dreamed ...

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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope (P.S.)

by William Kamkwamba, Bryan Mealer

Published: 2010-07-27

Paperback: 320 pages

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William Kamkwamba was born in Malawi, a country where magic ruled and modern science was mystery. It was also a land withered by drought and hunger. But William had read about windmills, and he dreamed of building one that would bring to his small village a set of luxuries that only 2 perc...

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The Boy Who Loved Anne Frank: A Novel

by Ellen Feldman

Published: 2006-05-22

Paperback: 288 pages

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"An appealing and inventive novel…original and cathartic."—Dana Kennedy, New York TimesOn February 16, 1944, Anne Frank recorded in her diary that Peter, whom she at first disliked but eventually came to love, had confided in her that if he got out alive, he would reinvent himsel...

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The Boy Who Met Jesus: Segatashya of Kibeho

by Immaculee Ilibagiza, Steve Erwin

Published: 2011-11-28

Hardcover: 219 pages

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     It's the greatest story never told: that of a boy who met Jesus and dared to ask Him all the questions that have consumed mankind since the dawn of time.    His name was Segatashya. He was a shepherd born into a penniless and illiterate pagan family in the most remote region of...

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The Boy Who Sneaks In My Bedroom Window

by Kirsty Moseley

Published: 2012-04-09

Paperback: 274 pages

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Amber Walker and her older brother, Jake, have an abusive father. One night her brother's best friend, Liam, sees her crying and climbs through her bedroom window to comfort her. That one action sparks a love/hate relationship that spans over the next eight years. Liam is now a confident, flirty player...

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The Boyfriend School

by Sarah Bird

Published: 1990-09-01

Paperback: 309 pages

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Gretchen Griner is an underpaid, underappreciated photographer for the Austin (that's Texas) Grackle, part-time lover of Peter Overton Treadwell III (known as ?Trout?), and major consumer of Cup O? Soup. That is, until she meets Lizzie Potts?otherwise known as Viveca Lamoureaux, romance wr...

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Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life

by J. M. Coetzee

Published: 1998

Paperback: 176 pages

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J.M. Coetzee grew up in a new development north of Cape Town, with a father he despised and a mother he both adored and resented. Bold and telling, this masterly evocation of a young boy's life under apartheid is the book Coetzee's many admirers have been waiting for. "Exceptional. . . . A scorched...