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41) As ever, Gordy
Author
Series
Publisher
Clarion
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When he and his younger sister move in with their older brother after their grandmother dies, thirteen-year-old Gordy finds himself caught between the boy he was when he lived with his abusive father and the boy his grandmother was helping him become.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize, and National Book Award-winning The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida. As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segregated Tallahassee, Elwood Curtis takes the words of Dr. Martin Luther King to heart: He is "as...
44) Brave like that
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Cyrus knows he is not cut out to be a football hero or fireman like his adopted father, but it takes a skittish stray dog to teach him that he, too, can be brave.
45) Big shoulders
Author
Publisher
Pine Stump Publishing
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Faced with the choice of serving out probation or joining the Civilian Conservation Corps, seventeen-year-old Nick Radzinski arrives at Camp Raco in Michigan's Upper Peninsula on a cold April day in 1937 with one chance to shed his reputation as a thief.
46) Keep quiet
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Jake Whitmore is enjoying a rare bonding moment with his sixteen-year-old son, Kurt, when disaster strikes. They get in a terrible car accident that threatens to derail not only Kurt's chances at college, but his entire future. Jake makes a split-second decision that saves his son from formal punishment, but plunges them both into a world of guilt, lies, and secrecy. Just when Jake thinks he has everything under control, a malevolent outsider comes...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A Coretta Scott King and Printz honor book now in paperback. A Wreath for Emmett Till is "A moving elegy," says The Bulletin.
In 1955 people all over the United States knew that Emmett Louis Till was a fourteen-year-old African American boy lynched for supposedly whistling at a white woman in Mississippi. The brutality of his murder, the open-casket funeral held by his mother, Mamie Till Mobley, and the acquittal of the men tried for the crime drew...
Author
Publisher
Back Bay Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"The hero-narrator of this novel is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days. The boy himself is at once too simple and too complex for us to make any final comment about him or his story. Perhaps the safest thing we can say about Holden is that he...
49) Stay: a novel
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"An unforgettable novel about the power of friendship and kindness by the New York Times bestselling author of Pay It Forward. In the summer of 1969, fourteen-year-old Lucas Painter carries a huge weight on his shoulders. His brother is fighting in Vietnam. His embattled parents are locked in a never-ending war. And his best friend, Connor, is struggling with his own family issues. To find relief from the chaos, Lucas takes long, meandering walks,...
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Super Bowl-winning coach and #1 New York Times best selling author Tony Dungy reveals lessons on achieving significance that he has learned from his remarkable parents, his athletic and coaching career, his mentors, and his journey with God. A particular focus of the book: what it means to be a man of significance in a culture that is offering young men few positive role models.
51) Ground Zero
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Brandon is visiting his dad on the 107th floor of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 when the attack comes; Reshmina is a girl in Afghanistan who has grown up in the aftermath of that attack but dreams of peace, becoming a teacher and escaping her village and the narrow role that the Taliban believes is appropriate for women--both are struggling to survive, both changed forever by the events of 9/11.
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Connecticut middle-schooler Jake and his older sister Kady are transported by a Mayan artifact to a strange world inhabited by a mix of people from long-lost civilizations who are threatened by prehistoric creatures and an evil alchemist, the Skull King.
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Discover the unexpected beginnings of author Robert Louis Stevenson in this story about following your dreams.
Inspired by Robert Louis Stevenson's letters and life, this book imagines the author as a child with dreams of becoming a writer. As he and his father visit one of the many lighthouses along the Scottish coast that were built by their family, young Louis begins composing a story in his head-one with storms, shipwrecks, and pirates-that will...
54) Grandmaster
Author
Publisher
Frances Foster Books, Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"A father-son chess tournament reveals the dark side of the game"--
55) Free throw
Author
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Since Derek is now the tallest player on his basketball team, the coach decides to have him play center but Jason, the former center, has little confidence in Derek and will not pass him the ball.
Author
Publisher
Clarion
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker's classroom where they read the plays of William Shakespeare and Holling learns much of value about the world he lives in.
58) Peak
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
A fourteen-year-old boy attempts to be the youngest person to reach the top of Mount Everest.
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"When the dawn breaks, a hero rises. Clark Kent has always been faster, stronger--better--than everyone around him. But it's not like he's earned his powers . . . yet. Lately it's difficult to hold back and keep his heroics in the shadows. When Clark follows the sound of a girl crying, he comes across Gloria Alvarez and learns that people are disappearing from the Mexican-American and undocumented worker community in Smallville. Teaming up with his...
60) The lizard war
Author
Series
Battle bugs volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Bug Island is under attack! The lizard army is invading and the Battle Bugs are losing. Their only hope against the intruders is a strange creature they've never seen before--a human being named Max. Max doesn't know how he ended up on Bug Island--but he does know the Battle Bugs need his help!"--Page [4] of cover.
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