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Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
During a trip to visit both sets of grandparents in Mississippi, brothers Eli, Cooper, and Peyton, and their father, former NFL star Archie Manning, take advantage of every opportunity to play football, practice plays, or play sports trivia games
2) End zone
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Co-captains Tiki and Ronde Barber lead their junior high teammates to the Virginia state football championship
3) Red zone
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Identical twins Ronde and Tiki Barber's excitement over the approaching state championship football game turns to worry when there is a chicken pox outbreak at Hidden Valley Junior High
4) The dreamer
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized biography of the Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, who grew up a painfully shy child, ridiculed by his overbearing father, but who became one of the most widely-read poets in the world
5) Jump shot
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When the Tiki and Ronde make the junior high school basketball team, they see that they each have their own skills and the most important skill is teamwork
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
After enduring his father's suicide, his own suicide attempt, broken friendships, and more in the Bronx projects, Aaron Soto, sixteen, is already considering the Leteo Institute's memory-alteration procedure when his new friendship with Thomas turns to unrequited love
7) Okay, Cupid
Author
Language
English
Description
As a cupid Jude's job is to bring couples together, and their new assignment involves a couple of teenagers--except Jude's attraction to a certain human boy keeps getting in the way, and threatening their career
8) Me...Jane
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Holding her stuffed toy chimpanzee, young Jane Goodall observes nature, reads Tarzan books, and dreams of living in Africa and helping animals. Includes biographical information on the prominent zoologist
Author
Series
J. P. Beaumont mysteries volume 20
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seattle P.I. J. P. Beaumont uncovers a crime that has a devastating effect on two troubled teens and becomes even more of a firestorm when it reaches into the halls of state government
10) Projekt 1065
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
It is 1943, and thirteen-year-old Michael O'Shaunessey, son of the Irish ambassador to Nazi Germany in Berlin, is also a spy for the British Secret Service, so he has joined the Hitler Youth, and pretending that he agrees with their violence and book-burning is hard enough--but when he is asked to find out more about "Projekt 1065" both his and his parents' lives get a lot more dangerous
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Relates the experiences of children's author Giselle Potter when, at the age of seven, she toured Italy with her family's tiny theater company, The Mystic Paper Beasts
12) Bad intentions
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Konrad Sejer must face down his memories and fears as he struggles to determine why the corpses of troubled young men keep surfacing in local lakes. As Sejer begins to feel his age weigh on him, he wonders if he has the strength to pursue the elusive explanations for human evil
14) Wild bird
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her behavior escalates out of control, fourteen-year-old Wren is taken away to a wilderness therapy camp where she is forced to develop new skills, including the courage to ask for help
Author
Series
Hardy boys undercover brothers volume 7
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Frank and Joe try to determine the cause of recent injuries and deaths at a camp for troubled teens in the wilderness surrounding Moosehead Lake in Maine
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In nineteenth-century Concord, Massachusetts, seven-year-old Louisa May Alcott joins other local children on the varied excursions led by teacher and naturalist Henry David Thoreau, and is inspired to write her first poem
18) Odette's secrets
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When Odette's father becomes a Nazi prisoner-of-war and the Paris police begin arresting Jews, her mother sends Odette to hide in the Catholic French countryside where she must keep many secrets to survive
Author
Language
English
Description
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Small Great Things and the modern classics My Sister's Keeper, The Storyteller, and more, comes a "complex, compassionate, and smart" (The Washington Post) novel about a family torn apart by a murder accusation.
When your son can't look you in the eye...does that mean he's guilty?
Jacob Hunt is a teen with Asperger's syndrome. He's hopeless...
When your son can't look you in the eye...does that mean he's guilty?
Jacob Hunt is a teen with Asperger's syndrome. He's hopeless...
20) Violet ghosts
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Loner Dani and her best friend Sarah, the ghost of a teen murdered decades earlier, team up to help other murdered women who are still tethered to this life
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