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1) The big game
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Danny Owens is dedicating his seventh-grade football season to his recently-deceased father, an NFL legend, but the pressure to succeed is magnified by his inability to read.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
A Vietnam War refugee in Texas partners with a city boy with rodeo dreams to track down the younger brother she was separated from six years before when he was evacuated by American troops during the waning days of the Vietnam War
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In central Texas in 1899, eleven-year-old Callie Vee Tate is instructed to be a lady by her mother, learns about love from the older three of her six brothers, and studies the natural world with her grandfather, the latter of which leads to an important discovery.
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Quijana is a biracial girl, desperately trying to understand the changes that are going on in her life; her mother rarely gets home before bedtime, her father suddenly seems to be trying to get in touch with his Guatemalan roots (even though he never bothered to teach Quijana Spanish), she is about to start seventh grade in the Texas town where they live and she is worried about fitting in--and Quijana suspects that her parents are...
5) QB 1
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Jake Cullen, fourteen, lives in the shadows of his father and older brother until he becomes the starting quarterback for the high school football team and finally has his chance to shine.
6) Green queen
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books/Capstone
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Earth Day is coming, and Kylie Jean and the other second graders decide that the perfect way to celebrate is to clean up and beautify the school playground--and the whole town.
Author
Series
Hank the Cowdog volume 54
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Unaware that his nemesis Pete the Barncat is playing yet another prank on him, Hank the Cowdog, Head of Ranch Security, tries to save the world from "terradogtail" dinosaur birds armed with bacon-stealing laser tongs.
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Kylie Jean's grandparents fiftieth wedding anniversary is on Valentine's Day, and the whole family is planning a surprise party--but Kylie also wants her class to spread valentine cheer to Oak Manor, the local assisted living facility.
Author
Series
Hank the Cowdog volume 57
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hank and Drover are excited when a quick nap in the back of Slim's pickup turns into a trip to town. But the excitement turns to drama when they find themselves at the livestock show, and Drover decides to take off to visit his mother. Can Hank track down his faithful sidekick before Slim heads back to the ranch? Or is he off on a wild goose chase?
10) Come Juneteenth
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Luli and her family face tragedy after failing to tell their slaves that President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation made them free.
11) Illegal
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Nora, a fifteen-year-old Mexican girl, faces the challenges of being an illegal immigrant in Texas when she and her mother cross the border in search of Nora's father.
Author
Publisher
KingCake Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
Español
Description
Sofia grows up in the close-knit community of the barrio in McAllen, Texas, then finds that her experiences as a scholarship student at an Episcopal boarding school in Austin only strengthen her ties to family and her "comadres."
13) Behind the eyes
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Hector is the hope of his family, but when he seeks revenge after his brother's gang-related death and is sent to a San Antonio reform school, it takes an odd assortment of characters to help him see that hope is still alive.
14) Tumbleweed Baby
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Long ago in Nowhere, Texas, Mama and Papa Upagainstit agree to take in the wild baby their five children find in a passing tumbleweed, despite the objections of the one who used to be "the littlest-of-all girl."
15) In the same boat
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Sadie Scofield is entered in the Texas River Odyssey, 260 miles of brutal canoeing, but a chance to finally make up for ruining her father's chance of winning the previous year; but her brother Tanner suddenly opts to paddle for a different team, and she is left with Cully, a young man who was her best friend years ago, but no longer--260 miles in the same boat to sort out her relationship with the boy she once tried to defend from his abusive father,...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
A twelve-year-old girl keeps a journal of her family's and friends' difficult experiences in the Texas Panhandle, part of the "Dust Bowl," during the Great Depression. Includes a historical note about life in America in 1935.
17) Picture perfect
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When her mother leaves her family suddenly to take a new job, fourteen-year-old Phoebe tries to deal with her own confused feelings and, in the process, learns some things about love and the complicated ties that bind families together.
18) Fashion queen
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Inspired by the beautiful dresses at the Academy Awards show, Kylie Jean decides to try her hand at fashion--and Lilly recruits her to model the dress she is making for a school fund raising auction.
19) Starfish
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Bullied and shamed her whole life for being fat, twelve-year-old Ellie finally gains the confidence to stand up for herself, with the help of some wonderful new allies.
Author
Publisher
Bright Sky Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Rhyming text invites the reader to a Texas dance hall on a Saturday night, when a community gathers to share news and fun. Includes historical notes about dance halls, particularly Gruene Hall in Gruene, Texas, and the dance known as the Two-Step.