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Delacorte Press/Random House

1745 Broadway, New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
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Brittany is supposed to spend the first few weeks of her summer vacation Summer vacation (also called summer holidays or summer break) is a vacation in the summertime between school years in which students are off for 3 months, depending on the country and district.  with her elderly grandmother while her parents are in Alaska--but her grandmother has other plans, and nothing will prevent her from attending her 65th college reunion in Maine. But Nannie needs Brit to drive, and Brit's only had her license eleven days. Their unusual roadtrip in Caroline B. Cooney's Hit The Road (0395729448 $15.95) will uncover new talents, changing attitudes, and more as Brit embarks on an adventure her parents never planned. Frank Portman's King Dork King Dork is a young adult novel by Frank Portman (otherwise known as Dr. Frank) that was published in 2006 (ISBN 0-385-73291-0). The storyline follows a disillusioned teenager named Tom Henderson as he attempts to survive the daily sadism of high school, understand the  (0385732910, $16.95) tells of one Tom Henderson Thomas Edward "Tom" Henderson (born January 26, 1952 in Newberry, South Carolina) is an American former professional basketball player.

A tough-minded 6'4" guard from the University of Hawaii, Henderson was selected by the Atlanta Hawks in the first round of the 1974
 aka King Dork, a typical American high American High School may refer to the following:
  • American High School (Fremont, California), the school in Fremont, California
  • American High School (Miami-Dade County, Florida), the school in unincorporated Miami-Dade County, Florida
 school teen with no special life or athletic skills, but many dreams. When Tom discovers The Catcher In The Rye, it's not Salinger's writing which will change his world, but a secret code, a funeral card, and a receipt which will lead him into a series of conspiracies, otherworldly encounters, and clues which will help him with his father's death. Two new issues of Trixie Belden are just in time for summer leisure pursuit. The Mystery Of The Emeralds (0375803545, $6.99) tells of a hidden necklace and an old plantation house. Trixie thinks the necklace is buried in a secret passageway there, but thwarting her search are ruins and a possible old curse. Mystery On The Mississippi (0375830553, $6.99) has Trixie traveling down the Mississippi River Mississippi River

River, central U.S. It rises at Lake Itasca in Minnesota and flows south, meeting its major tributaries, the Missouri and the Ohio rivers, about halfway along its journey to the Gulf of Mexico.
 by boat. Someone's trying to steal the papers she found in a trash can in her Memphis hotel room: mystery and intrigue play cat-and-mouse down the river.
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Title Annotation:Hit the Road; King Dork; The Mystery of the Emeralds; Mystery on the Mississippi
Publication:Children's Bookwatch
Article Type:Book review
Date:Aug 1, 2006
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