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Author
Series
Brotherband chronicles volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
With their honor restored, Hal and his fellow Herons leave Skandia again on a new mission--to track down and stop Hal's nemesis, Tursgud, a bullying youth-turned vicious pirate and slave trader.
3) The hunters
Author
Series
Brotherband chronicles volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Determined to recover the Adomal and to prevent the pirate Zavac from doing more damage, Hal and his brotherband crew persue Zavac to the lawless fortress of Ragusa where, if Hal is to succeed, he will have to go beyond his brotherband training and face the pirate one-on-one in a fight to the finish.
Author
Series
Brotherband chronicles volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
When a massive storm at sea blows the Brotherband crew off course to a land so far west Hal cannot recognize it from his maps, they face an unknown enemy.
5) The outcasts
Author
Series
Brotherband chronicles volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Hal, who does not fit into Skandian society, ends up in a brotherband, a group of boys learning the skills that they need to become warriors, with other outcasts, and they compete with other brotherbands in a series of challenges.
6) The invaders
Author
Series
Brotherband chronicles volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Hal and the Herons have done the impossible. This group of outsiders has beaten out the strongest, most skilled young warriors in all of Skandia to win the Brotherband competition. But their celebration comes to an abrupt end when the Skandians' most sacred artifact, the Andomal, is stolen--and the Herons are to blame. To find redemption they must track down the thief Zavac and recover the Andomal. But that means traversing stormy seas, surviving...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Now a full-fledged Ranger responsible for a sleepy fief, Will finds a new adventure seeking the traitors who poisoned the king, investigating rumors of sorcery, and trying to rescue his friend Alyss, who is taken hostage.
9) Rain reign
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Struggling with Asperger's, Rose shares a bond with her beloved dog, but when the dog goes missing during a storm, Rose is forced to confront the limits of her comfort levels, even if it means leaving her routines in order to search for her pet.
10) Red dog
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c1987
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Living with his family in the rugged, often dangerous, Wyoming mountains in the 1860's, twelve-year-old Adam finds his courage put to the test when he is left in charge of the household during his stepfather's absence.
11) Donuthead
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Franklin Delano Donuthead, a fifth-grader obsessed with hygiene and safety, finds an unlikely friend and protector in Sarah Kervick, the tough new student who lives in a dirty trailer, bonds with his mother, and is as "irregular" as he is.
12) Wringer
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[1997]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
As Palmer comes of age, he must either accept the violence of being a wringer at his town's annual Pigeon Day or find the courage to oppose it.
13) Amal unbound
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Forced to leave school to care for her siblings in accordance with Pakistani village tradition, a disappointed Amal suffers an accidental run-in with the son of a corrupt landlord and is forced into indentured servitude, where her witness to her master's nefarious dealings compels her to make risky alliances in support of change. By the author of Written in the Stars.
14) Winter sky
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Almost twelve-year-old Siria, who chases firetrucks in the middle of the night to ensure her fire fighter dad's safety, learns about bravery one winter as she tries to mend a broken friendship.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Continues the epic tale of Gyllus, a talking pig, as he and his friends, ex-priestess Sibyl and poet Homer, set off on the high seas in search of Circe, who can return Gryllus to his human state, but first they must free some captive gods and, perhaps, save the world again.
16) Lone wolf
Author
Series
Wolves of the Beyond volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Abandoned by his pack, a baby wolf with a mysterious mark on his deformed paw survives and embarks on a journey that will change the world of the wolves of the Beyond.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Eight-year-old Henry and nine-year-old Chin love to read about heroes in popular "penny dreadful" novels, until they both witness real courage while trying to survive the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
18) As brave as you
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"When two brothers decide to prove how brave they are, everything backfires--literally"--
19) The wind tamer
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Archie learns on his tenth birthday that he is about to inherit the family curse of cowardice unless he fights the powerful hurricane that will take his bravery.
20) Dragon keeper
Author
Series
Dragonkeeper volume 1
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
An orphan slave girl becomes a Dragon Keeper when she heroically comes to the aid of an aging dragon and both go on a dangerous journey across China to protect a mysterious stone vital to the dragon's legacy.
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