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| Setting Suburban Cleveland |
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| "The most boring twelve-year olds on the planet." |
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| Will not have time to change history if they have to be in the house by 8 on weekdays. |
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| Scheming for years to slip iguana poop in the beef stew in the lunchroom. |
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| Breaking records and the possibility of death go hand in hand. |
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| Break a record using a bike and a swimming pool. |
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| Setting a record ends with a character crashing into garbage bins full of diapers. |
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| The smell of doody = the smell of victory |
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| "Spontaneity adds excitement to an event." |
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| A character spends the afternoon in the library researching nuts and berries. |
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| A character talks a lot when they are nervous. |
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| Characters are not sure whether a tiger is being friendly or tasting them. |
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| A tiger looks like an enormous house cat. |
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| Traveling Wild Animal Show |
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| Someone brings food and water to the MC even though they won't rescue the M.C. |
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| Fate in life depends on a "lucky strike" and being smart. |
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| A parent does drugs and drinks then beats his son. |
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| MC hides in a cave with a friend during a storm |
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| Finding silver on a clipper means great wealth. |
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| MC struggles over the wisdom of saving a girl's life. |
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| MC's parent steals a treasure the MC found. |
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| Whether you are rich or poor the world has evil people in it wishing to harm you. |
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| Set partially in New Orleans |
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| Characters hide under a docks from a parent. |
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| The MC gets his wish to sail on a ship. |
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| "Augments: are very loyal to their masters. |
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| Knowledge gained in a job saves the MC's life. |
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| Discover what the initials S.H.A. stand for. |
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| Read about Mr. Plum, Queen Frostine, and Candyland. |
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| MC steals beer in his trench coat. |
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| A video camera shows the MC stealing |
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| Someone gets lost in a hospital |
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| The term "cycle, cycle, cycle." |
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| MC is mad at his dad for committing suicide. |
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| There is a Korean transfer student. |
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| MC has rolls of heat roll through him. |
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| Celebrate at Zeek's with pizza. |
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| Younger sister waits with a plate of Oreos and a glass of milk. |
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| MC and his sister watch "The Lord of the Rings" while police search their home. |
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| MC plays Frisbee with his sister at a picnic |
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| MC goes out for baseball instead of going to a psychologist. |
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| Calls a hospital to check if someone is going to die or have brain damage. |
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| MC refuses to join the soccer team. |
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| MC's dad buys glow sticks for the kids to play at a camp ground. |
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| MC uses a computer and internet at the library. |
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| MC's Mom doesn't want anything from him but want everything for him. |
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| MC put on probation for a year. |
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| MC lost a shoe because his laces are untied. |
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| MC tries to correct a typo with correction fluid. |
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| Someone solders wires together to re-start a car. |
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| Includes pen and ink drawings |
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| A series of unrelated events cause an entire family to become lost. |
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| MC helps repair a water damaged kitchen floor. |
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| Two people drove to someones house to get them to fly them somewhere. |
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| MC helps two friends replace a wing that had broken off an airplane. |
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| Argument about building a wall. |
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| One choice determines your friends, beliefs and loyalties forever. |
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| A test helps you choose where you belong. |
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| Setting - Futuristic Chicago |
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| MC chooses to be brave over selfless |
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| Each Faction values a different core trait. |
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| MC gets knives thrown at a target behind her in order to save a friend. |
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| MC gets a tattoo of three birds flying toward their heart to represent family. |
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| MC is one of a very few who is able to manipulate simulations because of a special trait. |
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| MC's old faction frowns upon looking in the mirror. |
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| MC discovers a dangerous secret about her mother. |
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| Primary theme loyalty vs. power. |
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| The "smart" ones turns out to be the "bad" ones. |
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| A character is covered in more ink than skin. |
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| The ability to see things from many points of view and not be controlled equals a death sentence. |
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| MC's mother dies protecting her. |
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| MC kills a friend to save themselves. |
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| One group creates a sleepwalking army from members of another group. |
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| Discovers a brother is a spy. |
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| MC loses both parents on the same day in two different gun battles. |
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| MC refuses to look at the moon and concentrates on the dogwood trees. |
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| President of the US is spoken of but not called by name. |
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| Characters do not talk about the future for fear of jinxing it. |
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| Parents are asked to send a flashlight to school with their kids. |
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| MC loves chocolate chips but they make her sick |
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| MC turns the kitchen into a bedroom because it was a better place to stay warm |
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| MC fascinated with a figure skater from her home town. |
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| One of the characters receives a ruby brooch from her neighbor. |
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| MC hopes that when they get closer to death they can face it with courage. |
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| MC dreams of going to Paris, London, and Tokyo. |
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| A character believes that "chocolate with an ashy taste is better than no chocolate at all." |
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| Written in a journal format |
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| Characters eat tulip bulbs to stay alive. |
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| MC sometimes thinks that their family are the last surviving people on earth. |
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| MC says "Supper in the microwave" are the most beautiful words ever written. |
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| MC has a stuffed animal named Hershel |
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| A parent suggests "test your hypothesis" when a child is uncertain about trying something new. |
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| A character wears a white nightshirt throughout the story. |
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| Men laying stones for a basement say there is "something funny" about what the are doing. |
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| Someone has tea with a woman who has icy cold hands when shaken. |
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| A person claims to have been lured out of bed and into a forest. |
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| A black and white photo of a menacing person found by a main character. |
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| Someone knocks on walls in hopes of finding a hollow sound and a possible hidden staircase. |
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| Parents are an expert in a field that their child struggles with. |
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| Chaos arises as two animals race through a house, breaking things along the way. |
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| A pendant is placed around the neck and is unable to be removed. |
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| A person throws rocks through a window and watches it re-mend itself. |
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| Someone is surprised and frightened to discover what is contained in the foundation of a house. |
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| Someone is warned not to "lose the spectacles." |
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| A main character sings songs about light |
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| MC learns Arabic at school but speaks a different language at home. |
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| Boys in the MC's family go to school when they reach ten years old |
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| Boys take the cows to water holes, watch them graze, and then make their own herds from clay. |
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| Dinka and Nuer fighting each other for hundreds of years. |
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| MC given two handfuls of peanuts by an old woman. |
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| MC's father wedge mangoes into the spokes of his bicycle. |
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| Two men arrive in a jeep to meet with the village chief. |
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| Iron giraffe, a tall drill used to drill for water. |
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| Group of boys hides during the day and travels at night. |
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| MC tells himself, "One step at a time...one day at a time. Just today-just this day to get through." |
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| On the 3rd day the workers get wet from a spray of water that shot high into the air. |
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| MC learns to read and play volleyball |
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| Coca-Cola reminds the MC of his family. |
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| The temperature rarely falls below seventy degrees. |
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| It takes four days to travel to NY. |
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| The village people build a school because the children no longer need to walk to get water. |
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| The father's digestive system was riddled with worms because of contaminated water. |
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| The MC raises money in America to help people in Sudan get water. |
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| MC uses hope and perseverance to overcome difficult situations. |
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| Empire State Building built out of a box of adult diapers. |
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| Character trying to get fired from a summer job. |
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| The light of a flashlight transplants a face from a character's childhood dreams to the present. |
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| A character has to wear a night guard to keep from grinding his teeth. |
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| A character told they need a "brain shrinker." |
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| An entire week's dream journal is fabricated to avoid the truth. |
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| A characters is not excited to turn 16. |
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| A character would rather spend a summer in a Siberian labor camp than live with their uncle and his spoiled kids. |
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| The only vehicles in town are tractors. |
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| An inn named the "Priest Hole?" |
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| A character worships their grandfather. |
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| Compared a room to one found in Sleeping Beauty's castle. |
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| Character nicknamed "The Bird." |
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| "When one tries to pinch you four times, I'm pretty sure that's flirting." |
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| A character creates and plays with clay soldiers. |
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| Children play a game of "Raid the Village" |
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| Finding a box is like waving red underwear at a bull. |
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| An island surrounded by shipwrecks. |
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| An underwater adventure compared to being like "astronauts floating in a starless universe." |
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| Characters who lack pupils. |
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| Two characters seek shelter in a building full of sheep and their muck. |
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| A character gives a self description of "a fish on a hook" when they realize they're in trouble? |
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| "Someone's got to be the hero" are "famous last words." |
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