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"The astrobiologist Theo Byrne searches for life throughout the cosmos while single-handedly raising his unusual nine-year-old, Robin, following the death of his wife. Robin is a warm, kind boy who spends hours painting elaborate pictures of endangered animals. He's also about to be expelled from third grade for smashing his friend in the face. As his son grows more troubled, Theo hopes to keep him off psychoactive drugs. He learns of an experimental...
3) Night chills
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
c1976
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Glenn drove the Land Rover into a stone wall at just over 100 mph. Alice stuck a meat fork through her hand and pinned it to the chopping board. Brenda took off all her clothes. She did whatever she was told. They were compelled by a fear too great to be remembered, enslaved by a power no man should ever wield.
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Series
Publisher
Formac Publishing Company Limited
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Maximus Todd, the clever kid who can't sit still at school, invents a game to keep his fidgeting under control, his arch enemy Mandy Beth learns his secret plan and tries to foil it.
Author
Series
Publisher
Formac Publishing Company Limited
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Max's soccer team plays the school bully's team, Max must come up with a secret game to calm his Super Fidgets or it may cost his team the championship.
8) Off trail
Author
Publisher
Wise Wolf Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Daniel grew up in the shadow of his older sister, the brash, self-assured, and utterly reckless Jackie, now living with her dirtbag boyfriend and wandering through dead-end jobs. When his parents find her marijuana stash in his closet and decide they do not want him to turn out like his sister, Daniel suffers the “trickle-down parenting” effect and is sent to Quest Trail. Surrounded by other similarly uprooted teens, Daniel endures a series of...
Author
Publisher
Formac Publishing Company Limited
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Max and his friends are on a camping trip at Camp Everpines when he's stung by a wasp. Max gets a case of the Super Fidgets and devises a clever game to distract himself. Max finds that while it's not always easy being a kid -- especially if you're a bit different -- there is often humour, kindness and love in the most unexpected places."-- Provided by publisher
11) 1984
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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A dictatorship called Big Brother rules the people in a collectivist society where Winston Smith works in the Ministry of Truth. Winston joins the underground where he becomes involved in a forbidden love affair.