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1) The fort
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Five middle schoolers find a fully stocked bomb shelter constructed decades ago in the local woods by an eccentric tycoon and lost until a hurricane exposes the entrance. So, how to keep the hideout secret from interfering grown-ups--and, more particularly, from scary teen psychopath, Jaeger Devlin.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Description
Every Falling Star, the first book to portray contemporary North Korea to a young audience, is the intense memoir of a North Korean boy named Sungju who is forced at age twelve to live on the streets and fend for himself. To survive, Sungju creates a gang and lives by thieving, fighting, begging, and stealing rides on cargo trains. Sungju richly re-creates his scabrous story, depicting what it was like for a boy alone to create a new family with his...
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Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, this is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father's good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. In a plot that never pauses for breath, relayed in his own unsparing voice, he braves the modern perils of foster care, child labor, derelict schools, athletic success, addiction, disastrous loves,...
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Series
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Attracted to shy Mary Anne, Logan asks to become a member of the Baby-Sitters Club and gets Mary Anne as his "checker" on his trial job, but Mary Anne is plagued by a series of embarassing episodes.
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English
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"What is the boy crisis? It's a crisis of education. Worldwide, boys are 50 percent less likely than girls to meet basic proficiency in reading, math, and science. It's a crisis of mental health. ADHD is on the rise. And as boys become young men, their suicide rates go from equal to girls to six times that of young women. It's a crisis of fathering. Boys are growing up with less-involved fathers and are more likely to drop out of school, drink, do...
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Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Donal Cameron is being raised by his grandmother. But when Gram has to have surgery in the summer of 1951, she sends Donal off to her sister in Manitowoc, Wisconsin. There Donal is in for a rude surprise: Aunt Kate, bossy, opinionated, and tyrannical is nothing like her sister. She henpecks her good-natured husband, Herman the German (as Donal discovers him to be), and Donal can't seem to get on her good side either. After one contretemps too many,...
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English
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A boy searches for his fugitive brother in 1960s Minnesota in this New York Times bestseller—“a stunning debut novel [of] faith, miracles, and family” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
An eleven-year-old asthmatic boy, Reuben Land has reason to believe in miracles. But he will soon learn that life, even when touched by the divine, is never easy. Along with his father and poetically inclined sister,
10) Room
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
A five-year-old narrates a story about his life growing up in a single room where his mother aims to protect him from the man who has held her prisoner for seven years since she was a teenager.
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
A man returns to the site of his childhood home where, years before, he knew a girl named Lettie Hempstock who showed him the most marvelous, dangerous, and outrageous things, but when he gets there he learns that nothing is as he remembered.
13) Boyhood
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A story of growing up as seen through the eyes of a boy named Mason, who ages from six to eighteen years old on screen.
14) The night birds
Author
Publisher
Soho Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
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For Asa the summer of 1876 was a time of fear and uncertainty, when his mysterious aunt, Hazel, arrives and turns his entire life upside-down with her tales and secrets from the past.
15) Kim
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Language
English
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The orphan Kim, whose father was an Irish soldier, makes his living by begging on the streets of Lahore and running errands. An aged Tibetan Lama is on a journey to find the mythical "River of the Arrow" and in doing so free himself from the Wheel of Things. Becoming his disciple, Kim joins the Lama to travel along the Grand Trunk Road. But Kim also gets himself involved in the Great Game, Russia and Britain's political conflict in Central Asia,
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
"Now with a brand-new look, this is an edition that collectors won't want to miss! In The Secret of the Caves, the seventh book in the incredibly popular, long-running series, Frank and Joe Hardy discover the secret of the Honeycomb Caves while searching for a missing professor. A special treat for Hardy Boys fans and any reader who's new to the series!"-- Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"What is my son doing behind his constantly closed door? What's with his curt responses, impulsiveness, newfound obsession with gaming, and...that funky smell? As pediatrician and mother of two teenagers Cara Natterson explains, puberty starts in boys long before any visible signs appear, which causes confusion about their changing temperaments for boys and their parents alike. Often, they also grow quieter as they grow taller, which leads to less...
19) The wonder of boys: what parents, mentors, and educators can do to shape boys into exceptional men
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
20) The best of Iggy
Author
Series
Iggy volume 1
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Relates three times that nine-year-old Iggy got into trouble, two of which he does not regret and one for which he is very, very sorry.
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