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1) Finding Moon
Author
Language
English
Description
Tony Hillerman's bestselling Navajo mysteries have thrilled millions of readers with their taut, intricate plotting, sensitive, subtle characterizations and lyrical evocations of landscapes and cultures. Now he departs his trademark terrain and applies his talents to a story he has wanted to tell for decades about an ordinary man thrust into total chaos.Until the telephone call came for him on April 12, 1975, the world of Moon Mathias had settled...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In 1975 after American troops pull out of Vietnam, a thirteen-year-old boy and his beloved elephant escape into the jungle when the Viet Cong attack his village.
3) Go long!
Author
Series
Barber twins volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When Coach Spangler leaves at the start of their second year of junior high school, thirteen-year-old twins Tiki and Ronde wonder if his replacement, science teacher Mr. Wheeler, can coach the Eagles to another winning football season. Inspired by the childhood of NFL stars Tiki and Ronde Barber.
6) Kickoff!
Author
Series
Barber twins volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old twin brothers Tiki and Ronde are ready to leave Peewee League to play football for their junior high school team, but the competition for starting positions is tough and they face the possibility of spending a year on the bench.
8) Undiscovered
Author
Publisher
HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"An award-winning Peruvian journalist and writer delivers her stunning English breakthrough in an autobiographical novel that explores colonialism through one woman's family ties to both the colonized and colonizer. Alone in a museum in Paris, Gabriela Wiener confronts her complicated family heritage. She is visiting an exhibition of pre-Columbian artifacts, spoils of European colonialism, many stolen from her homeland of Peru. As she peers at countless...
9) Wild card
Author
Series
Barber twins volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Through the course of a difficult season, Ronde learns that his coach is right about football being a mental game, as he tries to fill in as kicker while he and his identical twin, Tiki, help Adam improve his grades.
10) End zone
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Co-captains Tiki and Ronde Barber lead their junior high teammates to the Virginia state football championship.
11) Teammates
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"A story of teamwork and perserverance based on the childhood of National Football League stars and twin brothers Tiki and Ronde Barber"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Introduces twin brothers Tiki and Ronde Barber, who worked hard to overcome obstacles and became National Football League stars, one as runningback for the New York Giants, the other as cornerback for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
13) Goal line
Author
Series
Barber twins volume 5
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When identical twin brothers Ronde and Tiki Barber grow at different rates the summer before their last year at Hidden Valley Junior High, their relationship both on and off the football field changes.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
A romance in Vietnam between a returning American and his Amerasian tourist guide. As they get to know each other the question arises, is she the daughter of the bar girl he slept with? The guide cannot tell, she was abandoned by her mother, but a trip to the country will provide an answer. By the author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain.
15) Extra innings
Author
Series
Barber twins volume 8
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
©2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"Tiki and Ronde have their sights set on a big diamond--a baseball diamond! Sure, they're experienced athletes, but they've never played baseball before. Do they have what it takes to make the team?"--
16) Jump shot
Author
Series
Barber twins volume 7
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When the Tiki and Ronde make the junior high school basketball team, they see that they each have their own skills and the most important skill is teamwork.
17) Game day
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Twin brothers Tiki and Ronde Barber share a story of perserverance and teamwork from when they were growing up and playing for the Cave Springs Vikings before they became NFL superstars. Ronde and Tiki are a team. They are twins, they are each other's best friends and biggest fans, and they play on the same football team, the Cave Spring Vikings. Ronde is #21 and Tiki is #22, always side by side. Tiki has had seven long touch-down runs this season,...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Comedian and movie star Russell Brand mines his own wild story and shares the advice and wisdom he has gained through his fourteen years of recovery. Brand speaks to those suffering along the full spectrum of addiction--from drugs, alcohol, caffeine, and sugar addictions to addictions to work, stress, bad relationships, digital media, and fame. Brand understands that addiction can take many shapes and sizes and how the process of staying clean,...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"As a child in Izmir, Turkey in the 1980 and 90s, Ozge Samanci watched as her country struggled between its traditional religious heritage and the new secular westernized world of brand-name products and television stars. In Ozge's own family, she struggled to figure out the place where she belonged, too. Her older sister was a perfect student, and her dad hoped Ozge would study hard, go to good schools, and become an engineer to find stability in...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A few decades before the gold rush in the 1870s, there are prospectors out in the Pacific Northwest trying to make a name for themselves. One of them suddenly finds himself in a world of trouble when a notorious pair of brothers marks him for death. The Sisters brothers are known all throughout the area for their wicked ways, and now they believe that he has crossed them. In order to escape their wrath, he'll need to draw upon resources he's not even...