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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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"As a young boy, Bao Phi awoke early, hours before his father's long workday began, to fish on the shores of a small pond in Minneapolis. Unlike many other anglers, Bao and his father fished for food, not recreation. Between hope-filled casts, Bao's father told him about a different pond in their homeland of Vietnam"--
6) Onion John
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
His friendship with the town odd-jobs man, Onion John, causes a conflict between Andy and his father.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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When fourteen-year-old baseball player Hutch feels threatened by the arrival of a new teammate named Darryl, he tries to work through his insecurities about both Darryl and his remote and silent father, who was once a great ballplayer too.
Author
Series
Publisher
Miramax Books/Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
After learning that he is the son of a mortal woman and Poseidon, god of the sea, twelve-year-old Percy is sent to a summer camp for demigods like himself, and joins his new friends on a quest to prevent a war between the gods.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2003, c1998
Language
English
Description
In his prime, Edward Bloom was an extraordinary man. He could outrun anybody. He never missed a day of school. He saved lives and tamed giants. He was an inspired salesman-a visionary, in fact-and a beneficent real estate magnate who once bought a whole town just to make sure it would never change. Animals loved him. People loved him. Women loved him (and he loved them back). And he knew more jokes than any man alive. Or at least that's what he's...
11) Stormchaser
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
In his continuing adventures, Twig, now sixteen years old, joins the crew of his father's sky pirate ship and embarks on a dangerous mission to collect the powerful stromphrax, a substance that purifies water and also prevents the city of Sanctaphrax from floating away.
13) Poppy and Rye
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When their home next to a brook is destroyed by beavers, a large family of golden mice is aided by Poppy the deer mouse and her grumpy porcupine friend, who in the process forges a relationship with the son he had abandoned.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the legendary author of Hatchet , a laugh-out-loud eco-friendly adventure about a boy, his free-thinking dad, and the puppy-training pamphlet that turns their summer upside down. Twelve-year-old Carl is fed up with his father's single-minded pursuit of an off-the-grid existence. His dad may be brilliant, but dumpster-diving for food, scouring through trash for salvageable junk, and wearing clothes fully sourced from garage sales is getting old....
15) Just like dad
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Series
Crossover (Kwame Alexander) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Description
Fourteen-year-old twin basketball stars Josh and Jordan wrestle with highs and lows on and off the court as their father ignores his declining health.
20) Baseball fever
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Ezra tries to convince his scholarly father that his baseball fever is not wasting his mind.