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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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One moonlit night, thirteen-year-old Miles O'Malley slips out of his house, packs up his kayak and goes exploring on the flats of Puget Sound. But what begins as an ordinary hunt for starfish, snails, and clams is soon transformed by an astonishing sight: a beached giant squid. As the first person to ever see a giant squid alive, the speed-reading Rachel Carson-obsessed insomniac instantly becomes a local curiosity. When he later finds a rare deepwater...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
When her favorite patron, a book-loving ten-year-old, runs away from overbearing parents who force him to attend anti-gay classes with a celebrity pastor, children's librarian Lucy Hull flees with the boy and discovers that they are being pursued by an anonymous adversary.
125) Dog days
Author
Publisher
Darby Creek Pub
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Larry is enjoying the summer, playing baseball and taking care of the stray dogs he's brought home. Then his brother Paul finds another stray in an alley under mysterious circumstances, but the dog won't come home with them. When the price of dog food rises and the price paid for scrap falls, Larry has to find a new way to feed his dogs and try to help the dog from the alley.
126) To catch a cat
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Robin's new schoolmates insist that he complete a dare before they let him join the group. They want Robin to kidnap Mrs. Nordling's prize-winning cat
127) Submarine: a novel
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Oliver Tate, a precocious fourteen-year-old boy growing up in Swansea, Wales, is determined to accomplish all of his goals, from losing his virginity before his fifteenth birthday to uncovering the secrets his parents, neighbors, and girlfriend might be hiding.
129) Together with you
Author
Publisher
Bethany House, A division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Responsible for his young daughter and two teenage sons for the summer, Dr. Ryan Tremaine wants to reconnect with his children, but after hiring Carly Mason as his daughter Penny's nanny, Ryan's attraction to Carly complicates his plan"--
Author
Publisher
Dial Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
The rigid moral codes held by mid-twentieth-century preacher Samuel Lake are called into question when his twelve-year-old daughter and his neighbors hide a young boy from his abusive father, a man who lashes out at the community when he learns about the deception.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Moving in with his reclusive artist aunt after his mother's death, 11-year-old Marcus learns the story of a local cottage from which a family disappeared during a hurricane half a century earlier, a tragedy that compels him to explore the cottage, where he meets a ghost with a mysterious agenda. By the National Book Award finalist author of Evensong.
134) The gates
Author
Series
Samuel Johnson tales volume 1
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Young Samuel Johnson witnesses strange goings-on at 666 Crowley Road. The Abernathys don't mean any harm by their flirtation with the underworld, but when they unknowingly call forth Satan himself, they create a gap in the universe. Can one small boy defeat evil and save the world as we know it?
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One Saturday night in Las Vegas, twelve-year-old Newell Ewing goes out with a friend and doesn't come home. In the aftermath of his disappearance, his mother, Lorraine, makes daily pilgrimages to her son's room and tortures herself with memories. Equally distraught, the boy's father, Lincoln, finds himself wanting to comfort his wife even as he yearns for solace, a loving touch, any kind of intimacy. As the Ewings navigate the mystery of what's become...
138) The wasp eater
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Company
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A nine-year-old boy living in a New England mill town dreams of reuniting his separated parents after his mother catches his father having an affair and throws him out, and the father makes nightly returns to plot a reunification with his son.
139) Kim
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Language
English
Description
Fraternizing with a horse trader who doubles as an agent of Her Majesty's Secret Service, helping a Tibetan lama search for a lost river, touring a mystical, magical land that is the shining jewel in the British crown are all in a day's work for Kimball O'Hara, the sly adventurous waif known as Kim.
The adventures of the orphaned Kim as he goes from living from hand to mouth on the streets of Lahore to becoming the guide and protector of a Tibetan...
140) The edge of winter
Author
Publisher
Random House Large Print
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Neve Halloran and her daughter Mickey are starting a new life near a wildlife sanctuary in South County Rhode Island. Mickey becomes friends with a lonely boy who is also fascinated by the creatures of the coasts and Neve is drawn to a man who has devoted his life to the sanctuary.
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