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Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Douglas Spalding and his friends wage a sort of war against the elderly men of Green Town, Illinois in the unusually warm October of 1928. When Calvin C. Quartermain, an eighty-one-year-old bachelor decides to fight back, the boys steal the old men's chess pieces and destroy the town's clock in attempt to stop time and remain young forever.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Description
For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. She's barefoot and wild; unfit for polite society. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark. But Kya is not what they say. Abandoned at age ten, she has survived on her own in the marsh that she calls home. A born naturalist with just one day of school, she takes life lessons from the...
Author
Publisher
Tor Teen
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
In his last year of high school, seventeen-year-old virgin Cliff Sparks has to figure out what to do with his life, including how to meet new girl Jillian and how to deal with old issues with his unemployed father.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 35
Language
English
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Description
In graphic novel format, retells Dickens' classic in which Pip, a young orphaned boy enabled by a mysterious benefactor to rise in Victorian society, is educated as a gentleman and snobbishly neglects his childhood friends.
Author
Series
44 Scotland Street volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Pat rents a room from the handsome and cocky Bruce, at 44 Scotland Street, and discovers that she has also acquired some colorful new neighbors, including Domenica, an eccentric widow.
6) The body
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's 1960 in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine. Ray Brower, a boy from a nearby town, has disappeared, and twelve-year-old Gordie Lachance and his three friends set out on a quest to find his body along the railroad tracks. During the course of their journey, Gordie, Chris Chambers, Teddy Duchamp, and Vern Tessio come to terms with death and the harsh truths of growing up in a small factory town that doesn't offer much in the way of a future....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"In this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize, and National Book Award-winning The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida. As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segregated Tallahassee, Elwood Curtis takes the words of Dr. Martin Luther King to heart: He is...
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