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Nutty runs for a second term as student council president against his arch-rival Mindy and encounters dirty tricks.

Eleven-year-old Lucky is worried that the nomadic life he and his father share will come to an end in Provo, Utah, when his father begins seeing a woman with a hostile twelve-year-old son.

Lucky, a new and unusual pupil in the sixth grade, decides to befriend the class outcast, finds they share an interest in skateboarding, and tries to enlist the other Mormons in the class to join his campaign to gain his new friend some self-esteem.

In an easy-to-read format, here is a collection of useful pointers for the Little League set.

Disaster strikes when goalie Nate Metheson is injured. Can Jared Trajillo be ready to play goalie in time for the championship game--and will Nate let him?

Seventh grader Ollie loses his self-confidence as a pitcher when his weird habit of talking to himself on the mound signals his pitches to the batters and draws the anger of some of his teammates.

Presents the lives and accomplishments of Latter-Day Saints missionaries past and present.

As the Scrappers continue to advance toward the summer championship, Jeremy and his fellow players work to improve their baseball skills.

A person with a million ideas, most of which don''t work out, Jelly''s latest is to have a circus--only his friends have problems learning their roles.

Because Gloria chews out her team members whenever they mess up, she sets the tone for infighting which in turn causes the coach to quit and leaves the future of the team in question.

After finding mysterious plans in their hotel bathroom, Nutty and his friends must avoid impostors who want the papers while tangling with danger on the ski slopes.

The Dodgers make their way to the regional championship, up against the toughest team in California.

"Young Gene Thomas, son of Alex and Anna, has everything going for him: his natural good looks, his family''s prosperity, and his reputation as the best athlete at East High in Salt Lake City. But now that world events are affecting his family, things may not be so rosy after all."--Jacket.

Sixth grader Jenny Roper, the Dodgers'' star first baseman, suddenly becomes concerned about her reputation as a jock.

Fifth-grader, Nutty Nutsell, produces another memorable science fair project when his partner, William Bilks, transfers photons of light to Nutty''s brain, causing a personality change and his head to glow in the dark.

When his father is nearly killed in the aftermath of an earthquake, the incident helps Lucky accept the possibility that his father may remarry.

During a visit to Hawaii, twelve-year-old Lucky gets windsurfing lessons from an older, more muscular boy and tries to build up his own body after meeting a beautiful girl at the local Mormon church.

The Angel Park Pride must learn to play not as a group of talented individuals, but as a single unit, if they are to win the championship.

For nine months, Darci Pierce, an infertile 19-year-old woman, managed to convince her husband that she was pregnant. On the day she said her baby was due, Pierce strangled Cindy Lynn Ray, a nine-months-pregnant woman chosen for her resemblance to Pierce, cut open Ray''s abdomen and womb with a car key, and took her nearly full-term baby.

In this concluding volume to the Come to Zion series Will and Liz, 19th century Mormon pioneers, leave Nauvoo, Illinois and cross the plains to reach the Salt Lake Valley. Meanwhile Jeff and Abby, living in the 21st century Midwest, face decisions about moving from Nauvoo to go to graduate school.

Fifth-grader Ben Riddle is a brown belt in karate, but when the school bully starts hassling him, Ben must look within himself to learn his true strength.

Three tense, action-packed, and thought-provoking war stories from acclaimed author Dean Hughes are together for the first time in a collectible boxed set. In Soldier Boys, Spencer Morgan and Dieter Hedrick are on opposite sides of World War II and fighting for the same thing. Search and Destroy finds Rick Ward enlisting with the Charlie Rangers special unit in Vietnam. He wanted to go to war—but this war is far bigger, scarier, and more complicated than anything he ever could have imagined. And in Missing in Action, Jay Thacker works hard to convince everyone, and maybe even himself, that his dad—who is missing in action as he fights in World War II—is really a POW and military hero, and not gone forever. These three stand-alone stories take a searing look at war and its consequences, examining what it means to be a hero, what it means to be a friend, and what it means to be a man.

This novel follows the events of WWII as they affect the Thomases, a Mormon family from Salt Lake City, Utah. The parents have sent three of their children into the armed forces, and Sister Thomas has had to go to work, helping her husband run their family businesses. Their role as parents is being reevaluated as their children become more independent and the hardships and realities of the war impact their traditional LDS lifestyle and beliefs.

Will and Liz struggle to deal with their new life in Nauvoo, Illinois as they witness important events in the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Meanwhile Jeff and Abby, living in 21st century Nauvoo, face their own challenges as they learn about Jeff''s ancestors.

Two twelve-year-old boys, one black and one white, train for and compete in the 400 meter race, but find it hard to become friends because of racial differences and their fathers'' past relationship.

SUB TITLE:Coming in First Across the Wrong Finish Line

Adam plays first base more than he pitches, so he has managed to avoid pitching to his cousin who plays on the rival Pit Bulls.

Just when things seem to be looking better for Hans in East Germany, an encounter with his old roommate threatens to destroy everything. Diane and Gene also face destructive influences in their lives--Diane with her husband''s aggressive temper, and Gene with the war in Vietnam. For Kathy, though, the answers she has been seeking all her life seem to be appearing at last. The saga continues!

Recently settled in the Mormon community of Far West in northern Missouri, sixteen-year-old Joseph Williams begins to fear that the growing hostility of the old settlers towards the Mormons will force them to move again.

Lucky and his father move to a new town where the middle school kids seem to care only about looking cool, while Lucky wants to find a way to help a needy local man.

Feeling unwanted, an eleven-year-old orphan runs away from his foster home and lives on the streets until he finds a new type of family at a hotel.

Nine-year-old Joseph seeks to understand his family, his non-Mormon friend, and his special mission during the persecution of the Latter-day Saints on the Missouri frontier in the early 1830''s.

Is there such a thing as playing it too safe? Angel Park Pride fullback Sterling Malone finds that the sweetest victories sometimes come from taking major chances. Angel Park Soccer #3.