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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
A high school rebel and a minister's daughter find strength in each other in this star-crossed tale of "young but everlasting love" (Chicago Sun-Times).There was a time when the world was sweeter....when the women in Beaufort, North Carolina, wore dresses, and the men donned hats.... Every April, when the wind smells of both the sea and lilacs, Landon Carter remembers 1958, his last year at Beaufort High. Landon had dated a girl...
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Set against the turbulent backdrop of the 1960s, Noah Bly's evocative debut explores prejudice, loss, and redeeming courage through the prism of an unlikely friendship.
When fifty-four-year-old Julianna Dapper slips out of a mental hospital in Bangor, Maine, on a June day in 1962, it's with one purpose in mind. Julianna knows she must go back to the tiny farming community in northern Missouri where she was born and raised. It's the place where she...
3) Keep quiet
Author
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
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
An epic tale of fathers and sons, of friendship and betrayal, that takes us from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy to the atrocities of the present day. The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy Afghan youth and the son of his father's servant, The Kite Runner is a beautifully crafted novel set in a country that is in the process of being destroyed. It is about the power of reading, the price of...
Author
Language
English
Description
Melanie Starks and her seventeen-year-old son, Charlie, have been running one con job or another for as long as she can remember. Worried about Charlie, though, Melanie is ready to start over. Then her brother, Jared, reappears in her life.
Released on a technicality, Jared Barnett is just out of prison and feeling more invincible than ever. He has the perfect plan to rob a local Nebraska bank, but he needs Melanie's and Charlie's help.
...7) 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"--
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Gopal and his family leave their rural Indian village for life with his uncle in Mumbai, but when they arrive his father goes missing and Gopal ends up locked in a sweatshop from which there is no escape.
9) Sound off!
Author
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
Description
"Legendary storyteller Stephen King goes into the deepest well of his imagination in this spellbinding novel about a seventeen-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be higher--for that world or ours"--
Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, a decent student. But he carries a heavy load. His mom was killed in a hit-and-run accident...
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Preferring to be a dog instead of a boy despite his parents' efforts to convince him otherwise, Harry barks, bites, and rolls around until he is sent to an academy for dogs, where he struggles to follow the school's dog-training methods.
12) Doomsday
Author
Series
Phoenix files volume 6
Publisher
Kane Miller
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
With less than a day to go until the end of the world, things are seeming hopeless to Luke and Jordan when an offer of help unexpectedly arrives from the last place anyone would have expected.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Presents the adventures of a boy and a runaway slave as they travel down the Mississippi River on a raft. Universally acclaimed as one of the greatest creations of American fiction, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is one of those few books that are read over and over again, with ever increasing enjoyment.
14) Flat Stanley
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
[c1964]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Based on the original Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown"--T.p. verso.
A picture book version of the story in which a bulletin board falls on Stanley while he is sleeping, and he finds that being flat has its advantages.
15) Demon Copperhead
Author
Language
English
Description
The teenage son of an Appalachian single mother who dies when he is eleven uses his good looks, wit, and instincts to survive foster care, child labor, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses.
Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, this is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father's good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival....
16) Eggs
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Mourning the loss of his mother, nine-year-old David forms an unlikely friendship with independent, quirky thirteen-year-old Primrose, as the two help each other deal with what is missing in their lives.
17) 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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Whether he's fast-talking his way out of trouble or unleashing the contents of his lock on unsuspecting classmates, Nate does it with gusto. And every time he swings into action, the crowd goes wild"-- Page 4 of cover
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"In the spirit of The Bartender's Tale, a lively and poignant coming-of-age story about a boy and his great-uncle on a cross-country odyssey. Donal Cameron is being raised by his grandmother, the cook at the legendary Double W ranch in Doig's beloved Two Medicine Country of the Montana Rockies, a landscape that gives full rein to an eleven-year-old's imagination. But when Gram has to have surgery for "female trouble" in the summer of 1951, all she...
Author
Publisher
Templar books, an imprint of Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Every day, Oliver goes to the shops and every day Troll tries to eat him. But Troll finds catching an Oliver is very tricky - he's too fast, too sneaky and too plain clever! It is only when it looks like Troll has given up and Oliver celebrates winning that - CHOMP!
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