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* How Lamar's Bad Prank Won a Bubba-Sized Trophy
Crystal Allen. HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray, $16.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-06-199272-8
Cocky, sharp-tongued, and a known prankster, 13-year-old Lamar Washington is a protagonist readers won't soon forget. Lamar lives for bowling, the sport his mother helped him discover before she died of cancer. Hoping to earn some money--both to court "superfine" Makeda Phillips and to buy a "Pro Thunder" ball before his bowling idol, Bubba Sanders, comes to town--Lamar starts hustling games with a local bad boy. Lamar's father lavishes much of his attention on Lamar's older …