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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Percy Jackson is a good kid, but he can't seem to focus on his schoolwork or control his temper. And lately, being away at boarding school is only getting worse -- Percy could have sworn his pre-algebra teacher turned into a monster and tried to kill him. When Percy's mom finds out, she knows it's time that he knew the truth about where he came from, and that he go to the one place he'll be safe. She sends Percy to Camp Half-Blood, a summer camp for...
Author
Series
Artemis Fowl (Graphic novels) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In order to free his father from the Russian Mafiya, Artemis must join forces with the fairy police and his familiar nemesis, Captain Holly Short.
In his second adventure, the youngest, brightest, and most dangerous criminal mastermind is at boarding school when he receives an urgent e-mail from Russia. It's from a man Artemis never thought he'd see again: his father, who has been kidnapped by the Russian mafia and pleads for Artemis's help.
3) Rebound
Author
Series
Crossover (Kwame Alexander) volume Prequel
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
From the New York Times bestselling author Kwame Alexander comes Rebound, a dynamic novel in verse and companion to his Newbery Award-winner, The Crossover, illustrated with striking graphic novel panels. Before Josh and Jordan Bell were streaking up and down the court, their father was learning his own moves. In this prequel to Newbery Medal winner The Crossover, Chuck Bell takes center stage, as readers get a glimpse of his childhood and how he...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
In 1993, twelve-year-old Becca, who struggles with a anxiety disorder, visits her divorced father in Vienna, Austria, where she befriends a Muslim refugee fleeing the Bosnian genocide.
5) Replay
Author
Publisher
Joanna Cotler Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
While preparing for a role in the school play, twelve-year-old Leo finds an autobiography that his father wrote as a teenager and ponders the ways people change as they grow up. Includes the text for the play, "Rumpopo's Porch."
7) Rotters
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
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Grave-robbing. What kind of monster would do such a thing? It's true that Leonardo da Vinci did it, Shakespeare wrote about it, and the resurrection men of nineteenth-century Scotland practically made it an art. But none of this matters to Joey Crouch, a sixteen-year-old straight-A student living in Chicago with his single mom. For the most part, Joey's life is about playing the trumpet and avoiding the daily humiliations of high school. Everything...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Living with his religious father, feminist mother, and racist grandmother in Denver, Colorado, during the early 1980s, twelve-year-old Samuel Gerard relates his school adventures and deals with his own prejudices towards Mexican immigrants.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Raj's father signs him up for piano lessons so he can learn to play properly, Raj begins to lose his joy in creating music, and eventually stops playing altogether, but when his father becomes ill, he asks Raj to play again, from the heart.
10) Cold skin
Author
Publisher
Front Street
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In a rural Australian coal mining town shortly after World War II, teenaged Eddie makes a startling discovery when he investigates the murder of a local high school girl.
11) Hot hand
Author
Series
Comeback kids volume 1
Publisher
Walden Media
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In the wake of his parents' separation, ten-year-old Billy seems to have continual conflicts with his father, who is also his basketball coach, but his quiet, younger brother Ben, a piano prodigy, is having even more trouble adjusting, and only Billy seems to notice.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Nick loves baseball so after a year in the hospital fighting polio and with a brace on one leg, Nick takes a job with the team for which his father is catcher and gets to see the great pitcher, Satchel Paige, play during the 1935 season. Includes historical notes.
Author
Publisher
Speak
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
In 1904, sixteen-year-old Maggie Bennet's father tears her away from their elegant Newport, Rhode Island, home on an ill-advised excursion to Yellowstone in Montana to look for her mother, who has disappeared and is presumed dead, and once there, she finds herself drawn to the son of a park geologist, and to the wild beauty of Yellowstone itself.
14) The outcast
Author
Series
Guardians of Ga'Hoole volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
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Nyroc has exiled himself from the Pure Ones. He flies alone, feared and despised by those who know him as Kludd's son, hunted by those whose despotism he has rejected, and haunted by ghostly creatures conjured by Nyra to lure him back to the Pure Ones. He yearns for a place he only half believes in -- the great tree -- and an uncle -- the near-mythic Soren -- who might be a true father to him. Yet he cannot approach the tree while the rumor of evil...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Four years after Alfie Summerfield's father left London to become a soldier in World War I he has not returned but Alfie, now nine, is shining shoes at King's Cross Station when he happens to learn that his father is at a nearby hospital being treated for shell shock.
Author
Series
Joel Gustafson series volume 3
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Now almost fourteen, Joel becomes a local hero to his small Swedish town when he saves an old man from freezing to death in the woods.
Author
Series
Home team novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Last spring Teddy's life changed for the better. He started working out, shaping up, and even earned a spot on the Walton baseball team, and with the team he went all the way to the Little League World Series. But the best things to come out of that season were his friendships with Jack, Cassie, and Gus, and the confidence to finally try out for football. But Teddy learns that his father, who left them a long time ago, is back in Walton and back in...
19) Finding Langston
Author
Series
Finding Langston volume 1
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
In a debut historical novel about the Great Migration a boy discovers Chicago's postwar South Side and the poetry of Langston Hughes. When 11-year-old Langston's mother dies in 1946, he and his father leave rural Alabama for Chicago's brown belt as a part of what came to be known as the Great Migration. It's lonely in the small apartment with just the two of them, and at school Langston is bullied. But his new home has one fantastic thing. Unlike...
Author
Series
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
Return to Al Capone's Alcatraz with Newbery Honor-winning author Gennifer Choldenko in this charming addition to the beloved series about the son of a prison guard. Moose Flanagan lives on a famous island in California: Alcatraz, home to some of the most dangerous prisoners in the United States in the 1930s. It's the summer before he starts high school, and Moose is going to play a lot of baseball and win a spot on the high school team. But he still...
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