Michael Crouch
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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When his poor sharecropper father is killed in an accident and leaves the family in debt, twelve-year-old Little Charlie agrees to accompany fearsome plantation overseer Cap'n Buck north in pursuit of people who have stolen from him; Cap'n Buck tells Little Charlie that his father's debt will be cleared when the fugitives are captured, which seems like a good deal until Little Charlie comes face-to-face with the people he is chasing.
2) The best man
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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"Archer has four important role models in his life--his dad, his grandfather, his uncle Paul, and his favorite teacher, Mr. McLeod. When Uncle Paul and Mr. McLeod get married, Archer's sixth-grade year becomes one he'll never forget"--
3) Otherwood
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
"'Hatred combined with lies and secrets can break the world." Grandpa Zach used to say that before he died, but Stuey never really knew what he meant. It was kind of like how he used to talk about quantum physics, or how he used to say ghosts haunted the overgrown golf course. But then one day, when Stuey and his best friend, Elly Rose, are playing in the deadfall in the middle of the woods, something totally unbelievable happens. As Stuey and Elly...
Author
Series
Potion Masters volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Description
It has been nine months since Gordy and his friends, Max and Adilene, stopped Esmerelda from destroying B.R.E.W. and the Vessel. Gordy is starting the eighth grade, where he meets another Dram, Sasha Brexil, whose mother is the new President of B.R.E.W. Gordy has also been practicing new brewing techniques, and has even taken some of his potions to school--something expressly forbidden--but when he starts zoning out during practice, he knows something...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rafe isn't exactly considered a winner in Hills Village Middle School, to say the least, but everything's about to change. He's won a school-wide art competition, and the fabulous prize is getting to jet-set off to Australia for a whirlwind adventure! But Rafe soon finds that living in the Land Down Under is harder than he could've ever imagined. His host-siblings are anything but welcoming, the burning temperatures are torturous, and poisonous critters...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Description
Returning to the dreaded Hills Village Middle School, Rafe joins the school's football team only to find himself alongside bully Miller the Killer, a situation that is complicated by Rafe's secret plans for a school art project.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Description
Join Max's quest to become a knight in this laugh-filled, New York Times bestselling adventure from the author of the Big Nate series! "Max is epic fun!" --JEFF KINNEY, New York Times bestselling author of the DIARY OF A WIMPY KID series. Max wants to be a knight! Too bad that dream is about as likely as finding a friendly dragon. But when Max's uncle Budrick is kidnapped by the cruel King Gastley, Max has to act...and fast! Joined by a band of brave...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
A young boy relates his adventures during the year he spends living alone in the Catskill Mountains including his struggle for survival, his dependence on nature, his animal friends, and his ultimate realization that he needs human companionship.
10) Felix Yz
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Thirteen-year-old Felix Yz chronicles the final month before an experimental procedure meant to separate him from the fourth-dimensional creature, Zyx, with whom he was accidentally fused as a young child.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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All Together Now - Ages 6-11
Nevada Reading Week Grades 8-12
One World, Many Stories 6th - 8th
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Nevada Reading Week Grades 8-12
One World, Many Stories 6th - 8th
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Description
Tells the story of Julian's Grandmére's childhood as she, a Jewish girl, was hidden by a family in a Nazi-occupied French village during World War II and how the boy she once shunned became her savior and best friend.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Unhappy about being sent to the same summer camp after their fathers start dating, Bett and Avery, eleven, eventually begin scheming to get the couple back together after a break-up, in a story told entirely through emails.