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A Small-Town Lawyer. Big-City Corruption. Can One Person Truly Make a Difference? T. J. Case, a North Carolina lawyer and politician, takes a stand of integrity that costs him his election. As he considers his future, a morning of quiet reflection is transformed into a remarkable summons that propels him into the middle of Washington politics. And accompanying this commission is an extraordinary sense of divine direction to help reshape twisted lives...
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TJ may not like cats, but that doesn't stop a taxi from showing up at his door bearing his grandmother's four felines. Killer, Cleo, Kink and Maximillian the Emperor-Max for short-invade TJ's life and replace dinosaurs as the topic for his school project. His friend and partner for the project, Seymour, is deeply disappointed; the cats in his drawings all come out looking prehistoric. The animals' presence in TJ's house leads to a series of adventures,...
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In this sequel to TJ and the Cats, TJ and his best friend Seymour are back, joined by a classmate Amanda. TJ does not believe in ghosts, so when he agrees to create a haunted house in his own home as a fundraiser, he does not anticipate problems, at least not until it turns out that a ghost may inhabit the spare room in his century-old house. The ghost, real or imagined, leads TJ to some fascinating family history. TJ finds a way to bring that history...
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TJ overcame his fear of cats in TJ and the Cats and his fear of ghosts in TJ and the Haunted House. Now, he's not so keen on facing his fear of failure. His best friend Seymour is determined to come up with the latest greatest invention and TJ's gran expects TJ to build a rocket. The kittens, T-Rex and Alaska, are eager to get involved. When the first rocket that TJ builds plummets out of the sky, no parachute in sight, TJ is sure that his efforts...
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TJ Barnes is back, playing with his crazy cats, T-Rex and Alaska, helping out in his parents' hardware store and goofing around with his best friend, Seymour. When Seymour announces that he has signed them both up for a football team, TJ fears the worst. Neither of them is huge or mean or able to tackle, catch, throw, run or kick a ball down a field, but Seymour is determined to be a star. With the help of a stack of library books, TJ starts to understand...
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When master fact-gatherers TJ and Seymour are asked to join the school Quiz Kids team, TJ thinks Seymour should take the stage at the upcoming contest against the high-pressure Fairview School team.
TJ is already more than occupied rescuing his cats and helping Gran get ready for her upcoming trip to Belize. When he goes with his dad to help with a renovation job on a huge house on Fairview Hill, he and T-Rex tangle with a rich girl and her giant...
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TJ Trapper bully zapper volume 5
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IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
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When TJ cheats on a history test and gets chosen to represent his school in a contest, he feels horribly guilty--worse, he finds himself being blackmailed for money by one of his classmates.
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IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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When Livvy chooses a goldfish as the class pet, some of the other children decide to freeze her out, and TJ has to choose between his friend and being frozen out himself--or find a way to make them see that their bullying behavior is wrong.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
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TJ Trapper is just an ordinary fourth grader until the new girl, Livvy Armstrong, joins the class. Then trouble starts! Livvy is a bully. She calls kids names, starts rumors, and tries to talk kids out of going to TJ's birthday party. TJ doesn't know what to do, but he knows he doesn't like being bullied. Once he talks to his dad and Auntie Stella, TJ gets some tips on how to stop a bully. He learns about reporting and being an upstander. Soon,...
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IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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TJ's former best friend, Danny, has just returned from London, but TJ finds that he has changed--he is constantly one-upping everybody, and when he uses his cell phone to send an embarrassing picture of TJ to other kids Danny takes it one step too far.
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IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
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All kinds of embarrassing rumors are swirling around TJ's class and mostly he thinks they are pretty funny, until he becomes the target of the gossip--then he needs to find out who started the rumors, and why.
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IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
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TJ and his best friend Ethan are on the basketball team. Although Ethan isn't a starter, Coach Daltry notices he's been improving a lot. Niko notices it, too. If Ethan starts, Niko knows it means that someone will have to sit out and he knows that someone is him! He'll do anything he can to keep Ethan on the bench even if it means hurting Ethan or anyone else who sticks up for him. It's going to take more than one upstander to help TJ Trapper...
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A brother-sister dilemma. Ill-thought-out male-bonding. Bizarre events at the football. And time well spent, alone.
Fifteen oddball and heartfelt short stories from the muddled mind of TJ Bainz, including:
The Sister, She Approaches
Heavy Hangs The Hammer
Return Unopened
Last Giant
You Are Not Gladiators
Nobody Likes A Quitter
When The Prime Minister Sneezes
Match Of The Season: His
Match Of The Season: Hers
Another Night, Another Occasion
Operation
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A rotten business scheme has its advantages. Traditional bails out modern. One last payday . . . one last humiliation. And a classic example of passive-aggressive parenting.
Seventeen oddball and heartfelt short stories from the muddled mind of TJ Bainz, including:
The Lunch Crowd
The Divisive Chorus
Why Pigs Don't Fly
Gotta Have Clean Teeth
Nobody Thinks About Factories
Another Month, Another Death
Bleeding Hearts Club
Nothing Perpetual
Whereas
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Retired detective T. J. Peterson is working the table scraps that his former partner, Danny Little, sometimes throws his way. One of them has Peterson hearing from a snitch about a body buried 30 years ago, the same time a drug kingpin went MIA. Peterson is also ducking an ex-con with a grudge, a hitman who likes playing jack-in-the-box with a 12 gauge. Then a former lover re-enters Peterson's life and begs him to find her daughter, an addict who...
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The third and final installment of the T.J. Peterson mysteries Things have gone from bad to worse for T.J. Peterson. The cops have kicked him off the force, his girlfriend called it quits, his best friend and former partner won't speak to him, and his estranged 20-year-old daughter, Katy, continues to torment him with photos of the hellholes she is living in. Add in a shrink's diagnosis of PTSD, and Peterson is barely holding it together. When he...
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TJ Young has been surrounded by magic his entire life, yet he has never tapped into it… until now. Fourteen-year-old TJ grew up normal in a secret community of gifted diviners in the heart of modern-day Los Angeles. His powerful sister was ordained to lead his people into a new age of prosperity, but her mysterious death in Nigeria threatens to destroy the very foundations of TJ's world. Desperate to pick up where his sister left off and uncover...
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