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1) Tracker
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Only thirteen, John must track a deer in the Minnesota woods for his family's winter meat, and in doing so finds himself drawn to the doe who leads him and coming to hate his role as hunter.
Author
Series
Spy school volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
After getting expelled from spy school for accidentally shooting a live mortar into the principal's office, thirteen-year-old Ben finds himself recruited by evil crime organization SPYDER.
3) Homecoming
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
In Voigt's first novel--and the introduction to her Tillerman saga--the four Tillerman children, abandoned by their emotionally ill mother, travel on foot from New England to their paternal grandmother's Maryland farm in search of a place to call home. An ALA Best of the Best for Young Adults.
4) Brisingr
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 45
Language
English
Formats
Description
Following the colossal battle against the Empire's warriors on the Burning Plains, Eragon and his dragon, Saphira, have narrowly escaped with their lives. Still there is more at hand for the Rider and his dragon, as Eragon finds himself bound by a tangle of promises he may not be able to keep.
5) Shiloh
Author
Series
Shiloh quartet volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Description
When he finds a lost beagle in the hills behind his West Virginia home, Marty tries to hide it from his family and the dog's real owner, a mean-spirited man known to shoot deer out of season and to mistreat his dogs.
6) Far North
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
After the destruction of their floatplane, sixteen-year-old Gabe and his Dene friend, Raymond, struggle to survive a winter in the wilderness of the Northwest Territories of Canada.
Author
Series
The Indian in the Cupboard series volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
After the family moves to the country to a house recently inherited by his mother, Omri finds many secrets revealed to him when he accidentally discovers the link between the house and the magic cupboard. Sequel to "The Secret of the Indian."
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
From the Publisher: Donalyn Miller says she has yet to meet a child she couldn't turn into a reader. No matter how far behind Miller's students might be when they reach her 6th grade classroom, they end up reading an average of 40 to 50 books a year. Miller's unconventional approach dispenses with drills and worksheets that make reading a chore. Instead, she helps students navigate the world of literature and gives them time to read books they pick...
Author
Series
Heroes of Olympus volume 2
Publisher
Disney * Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Demigod Percy Jackson, still with no memory, and his new friends from Camp Jupiter, Hazel and Frank, go on a quest to free Death, but their bigger task is to unite the Greek and Roman camps so that the Prophecy of Seven can be fulfilled.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Formats
Description
In 1937, during the Depression, fifteen-year-old Mary Alice, initially apprehensive about leaving Chicago to spend a year with her fearsome, larger-than-life grandmother in rural Illinois, gradually begins to better understand and admire her grandmother's unusual qualities.
13) After the rain
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
After discovering her grandfather is dying, fifteen-year-old Rachel gets to know him better than ever before and finds the experience bittersweet.
14) Maniac Magee
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
Jeffrey Lionel "Maniac" Magee might havelived a normal life if a trolley accident hadn't made him an orphan. After living with his unhappy and uptight aunt and uncle for eight years, he decides to run-- and not just run away, but run. And this is where the myth of Maniac Magee begins, as he changes the lives of a racially divided small town with his amazing and legendary feats.
15) One fat summer
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
c1977
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
An overweight fourteen-year-old boy experiences a turningpoint summer in which he learns to stand up for himself.
Author
Series
Tales to Tickle the Funnybone volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Jacob Freisten, often in a fog, tries to ease through high school unnoticed; but a beautiful classmate takes notice of him and his life begins to change.
17) Witness
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
A serious of poems express the views of various people in a small Vermont town, including a young black girl and a young Jewish girl, during the early 1920s when the Ku Klux Klan is trying to infiltrate the town.
19) The Lost Stories
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
In 1896, an archaeological dig unearths an ancient trunk containing manuscripts that confirm the existence of Araluen Rangers Will and Halt and tell of their first meeting and some of their previously unknown exploits.
20) The fire pony
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Roy lets himself find a loving family and a new home on the horse ranch which he and his older half-brother happen to come upon.