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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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An American classic and great bestseller for over thirty years, A Separate Peace is timeless in its description of adolescence during a period when the entire country was losing its innocence to World War II. Nominated as one of Americas best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read. Set at a boys' boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II, A Separate Peace is a harrowing and luminous parable of the dark side of adolescence....
2) Liv, forever
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Soon after an art scholarship gets Liv a place at prestigious Wickham Hall, she becomes the latest victim of a dark conspiracy spanning 150 years, but her ghost, aided by friend Gabe and boyfriend Malcolm, tries to put a stop to the killing.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
For Lucy Wells, who lives on a farm in New Hampshire, the summer of 1910 is filled with helping her mother can fruits and vegetables, enjoying the Fourth of July celebration, and other activities.
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Truly Lovejoy's family moves to a small town to take over a bookstore. Soon, she has to solve two mysteries involving a missing book and an undelivered letter"--
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Claire struggles to cope while her eighteen-year-old brother, Andy, is treated for drug addiction and her family prepares to sell her beloved horses, but finally accepts that change can be good.
6) The big dark
Author
Publisher
The Blue Sky Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When something knocks out everything electrical at midnight on New Year's Eve, the world is plunged into chaos, including the town of Harmony, New Hampshire, where Webster Bragg, a vicious survivalist, sees an opportunity to dominate his fellow citizens--but as the town struggles to maintain order and civilization, young Charlie Cobb sets out on a dangerous journey through the snow to find medicine for his diabetic mother.
7) Yours Truly
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When someone tries to sabotage the maple trees on her friend Franklin's family farm, Truly Lovejoy rallies the Pumpkin Falls Private Eyes to investigate.
8) Granite baby
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Five talented New Hampshire sisters try to care for a baby that one of them has carved out of granite.
Author
Publisher
Scribner's
Pub. Date
c1979
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
The journal of a fourteen-year-old girl, kept the last year she lived on the family farm, records daily events in her small New Hampshire town, her father's remarriage, and the death of her best friend.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
An eleven-year-old Penacook Indian boy living on a reservation faces his father's alcoholism, a controversy surrounding plans for a casino on a tribal island, and insensitivity toward Native Americans in his school and nearby town.
11) Half a chance
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lucy, with her mother and her photographer father, has just moved to a small rural community in New Hampshire, and with her new friend Nate she plans to spend the summer taking photos for a contest, but pictures sometimes reveal more than people are willing to see.
12) First boy
Author
Publisher
Listening Library
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Dragged into the political turmoil of a presidential election year, fourteen-year-old Cooper Jewett, who runs a New Hampshire dairy farm since his grandfather's death, stands up for himself and makes it clear whose first boy he really is.
13) The storyteller
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Jess Morgan discovers her great-great-aunt's diaries, leading her on a quest to uncover whether Aunt Anna was actually a Romanov princess. Includes author's note.
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Lab, a division of Lerner Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Sofie, sixteen, lives alone with her father, a Scottish fisherman, on New Hampshire's coast and is not prepared for the return of her pregnant mother, a Cambodian immigrant, or for the forbidden relationship she has begun with a young Army medic back from Afghanistan.
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape/Listening Library
Pub. Date
©2014
Language
English
Description
Kaboom Academy, a new and alternative school for middle-grade kids, is chock-full of innovative methods of instruction and discipline that are soon to be tested on the middle-school students of Horsemouth, New Hampshire. Now, meet the class of Journalism 1A.
16) Hide and GEEK
Author
Series
Hide and Geek volume 1
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Gina Sparks, aspiring journalist, and her fellow GEEKs, Edgar, Elena, and Kevin, live in Elmwood, New Hampshire, a small town in serious danger of vanishing completely--unless the four friends can find the Van Houten fortune, which was supposedly promised to the town by Maxine Van Houten, a famous toymaker who loved complicated puzzles.
17) Sugaring off
Author
Publisher
Algonquin
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"Owl has always been her freest self in the mountains, tracking, hiking, and exploring the steep forested acres of her aunt and uncle’s maple sugar farm. They never speak of the childhood tragedy that left her partially deaf and sent her father to jail. All Owl wants is to stay safe at the farm, her favorite place in the world, her refuge from those who would treat her differently. Owl’s sheltered existence is blown wide open by Cody—the...
Author
Series
Hide and Geek volume 2
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
After eleven-year-old Gina Sparks and her fellow GEEKs, Edgar, Elena, and Kevin save thier otwn of Elmwood, New Hampshire, someone from the next town says the GEEKS are frauds, but the GEEKs are determined to prove thier-puzzle solving skills.
"Four best friends have the chance to find the ultimate treasure! But someone wants to take down the GEEKS. . . . An exciting new book in the puzzle-filled, action-packed Hide and GEEK series! The GEEKs: After...
Author
Series
Mother-Daughter Book Club volume 7
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Emma, Jess, Megan, Becca, and Cassidy go to Camp Lovejoy in New Hampshire to serve as counselors and when some of the young campers are stricken with homesickness, the friends decide to start a summer camp book club.
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