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Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
After he is involved in a prank that led to an elderly woman's injury, twelve-year-old Mitchell must make amends by participating in a police program in which he chats online with a nursing home resident.
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb/Dell Yearling
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Newbery Honor Book: 2003.
A troublesome twelve-year-old orphan, staying with an elderly artist who needs her, remembers the only other time she was happy in a foster home, with a family that truly seemed to care about her.
3) Petey
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In 1922 Petey, who has cerebral palsy, is misdiagnosed as an idiot and institutionalized; sixty years later, still in the institution, he befriends a boy and shares with him the joy of life.
Author
Series
Norvelt volume 2
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
After an explosion, a new crime by an old murderer, and the sad passing of the founder of Norvelt, Pennsylvania, twelve-year-old Jack accompanies his slightly mental elderly mentor, Miss Volker, on a cross-country run as she pursues the oddest of outlaws.
5) Hoop hustle
Author
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Brian Worth Jr. plans on trying out for his middle school's basketball team, but the trouble is he has always relied on his height to give him an advantage and that is no longer enough--but at the local senior center, where he reluctantly volunteers, he discovers a friend in George, a former player, who sets out to teach him some of the skills he is missing.
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