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1) The grave
Author
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year old Tom, an unhappy foster child in Liverpool, falls into a massive open grave and is transported to Ireland in 1847, where he finds himself in the midst of the deadly potato famine.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
The infant princess Briar Rose is cursed on her name day by Pernicia, an evil fairy, and then whisked away by a young fairy to be raised in a remote part of a magical country, unaware of her real identity and hidden from Pernicia's vengeful powers.
Author
Series
Santa Fe Trail trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In 1845, when he leaves the Cheyenne village where he has been living and sets out from Bent's Fort along the Santa Fe Trail in search of his white grandfather, Julio faces danger from renegade Texans, the Pawnee Indians, and a grizzly bear, before finding where he truly belongs.
Author
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When serial killer Hank Miller is killed in a shoot-out with police, his abused son Cameron adopts the identity of one of his father's victims in order to find a better life. But when his father's old accomplice tracks him down, will Cameron give up his new identity to protect the victim's family?
9) Hostage
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When eleven-year-old Kaci interrupts burglars in the process of robbing her house, she and her nosy elderly neighbor Mrs. Banducci are kidnapped and held hostage by the desperate and ruthless criminals.
10) Shallow graves
Author
Series
John Pellam mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2000, c1992
Language
English
11) Ghostwritten
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Interconnecting tales of nine lives in nine different countries from east to west.
13) Beijing coma
Author
Language
English
Description
Dai Wei has been unconscious for almost a decade. A medical student and a pro-democracy protestor in Tiananmen Square in June 1989, he was struck by a soldiers bullet and fell into a deep coma. As soon as the hospital authorities discovered that he had been an activist, his mother was forced to take him home. She allowed pharmacists access to his body and sold his urine and his left kidney to fund special treatment from Master Yao, a member of the...
15) Vroomaloom zoom
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Daddy takes Carmela on an imaginary car ride, lulling her to sleep with various sounds, from the wurgle lurgle of swamps to the hoopty doopty swoopty loopty of driving in circles.
16) Borrowed light
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
A sixteen-year-old feels alienated from her family while struggling with the difficult decisions surrounding her unplanned pregnancy.