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Author
Series
Adventures in Odyssey. Young Whit volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Johnny and his friends are out trick-or-treating on Halloween when they see a light in the window of a deserted mansion. When they investigate, they make a shocking discovery. Can Johnny uncover what's going on?
Author
Series
Adventures in Odyssey. Young Whit volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Whit and his family (father, Harold; stepmother, Fiona; half-sister, Charlie) have just moved to Provenance, NC, in the middle of the Great Depression. Harold will be teaching at nearby Duke University. Not-quite-10-year-old Johnny soon makes a friend in Emmy, who lives across the street and joins him in his adventures. At his new school, he encounters a bully who makes his life miserable, and he makes a new friend in Huck, the custodian.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
December 6, 1941: Best friends Frank and Stanley have it good. Their dads are Navy pilots stationed at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, and the boys get a front-row view of the huge battleships and the sparkling water. Yes, World War II is raging in Europe and in Asia, but the US isn't involved in the war, and the boys are free to dream about becoming comic book creators. They've even invented a superhero of their own, in the style of Batman, Superman, Captain...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Quarantined with his family as a global plague ravages the world, Clay retreats to the woods where he meets a special little dog who leads him on surreal adventures where choosing the wrong path could cause them both to lose their way forever.
Author
Publisher
Knopf Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When a blue-haired boy (Ryan) meets a pink-haired boy (Avery) at a dance--a queer prom--both feel an inexplicable but powerful connection. Follow them through their first ten dates as they bridge their initial shyness and fall in love--through snowstorms, groundings, meeting parents (Avery's) and not (Ryan's), cast parties, heartbreak, and every day and date in between.
Author
Series
Adventures in Odyssey. Young Whit volume 5
Publisher
Tyndale House Pub
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
In Young Whit and the Cloth of Contention, the fifth book in the series, Young Johnny Whittaker's friend Huck is still in jail. The Confederate gold stolen from the bank is still missing. And Professor Mangle is still determined to get his hands on Johnny's special cloth, which seems to have the power to heal. What will Johnny and his father do?
Author
Series
Pokémon world championship volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Join Ash and his Pokémon as they continue to battle their way up through the ranks of the World Coronation Series tournament. As he advances into the Ultra Class, he faces a rematch against a powerful Gym Leader he’s struggled against before. Can he emerge victorious and keep forging ahead to ultimately win it all?
9) Nils
Author
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Nils is a lanky American boy who dreams of becoming a cowboy. One day a package arrives from his grandmother in Norway: she has sent him a pair of stockings she knit herself. Nils is excited to wear his stockings to school-only to be teased by the other children and embarrassed by his new gift. He later gets the last laugh one snowy day when the other boys at school shiver in the cold while he is warm, wearing his lovely stockings.
Author
Publisher
Rocky Pond Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Lawrence stays close to home because out there is too big and loud. Sophia stays high up in the tree branches because down there is too dark and dangerous. When they meet and become friends, they find ways to enjoy each other's company without leaving their own safe spots . . . until a storm comes, and both are so worried about the other that they are finally able to take a huge, scary leap into the unknown. Together they feel brave, and the future...
12) Redemption
Author
Series
Journey to impossible places volume 3
Publisher
Scripturo
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Dive into the final showdown in the world of Lumina and on the Island as Charlie races to return light to a world of darkness. New revelations about his identity surface, presenting Charlie with what seem to be impossible choices. Time is running out in both worlds. Take the final steps with Charlie and discover the only power that can bring light into the darkness wherever it is found.
14) My name
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
An Indian American boy's excitement for his first day of school is tempered when his classmates can't pronounce his name. Their "wrinkled foreheads" and the giggles that follow make the young boy shrink into himself. He worries that his name conjures "far-off smells," "the hot sun," and "sweaty crowds," and he feels lost in their "frosty stares." With downcast eyes, he turns to his parents for an embrace. His parents turn each of his hurt feelings...
Author
Series
Pokémon world championship volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
The first installment in a trilogy that follows Ash in his final quest to be crowned world champion! Join Ash and his Pokémon as they are introduced to the World Coronation Series and begin to battle their way up through the ranks of the tournament. He makes friends and encounters Gym Leaders and powerful Pokémon Trainers, each bringing him one step closer to his goal of victory. As Ash faces some epic battles and his first defeat of the tournament,...
16) Do you remember?
Author
Publisher
Neal Porter Books/Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Tucked in bed at a new apartment, a boy and his mother trade favorite memories. Some are idyllic, like a picnic with Dad, but others are more surprising: a fall from a bike into soft piled hay, the smell of an old oil lamp when a rainstorm blew the power out. Now it's just the two of them, and the house where all those memories happened is far away. But maybe someday, this will be a favorite memory, too: happy and sad, an end and a beginning intertwined....
17) The great divide
Author
Series
Journey to impossible places volume 2
Publisher
Scripturo
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Thrust into a world that lives without a sun, Charlie is desperate to recover three keys hidden away in three powerful strongholds. Without the keys, the world will be forever lost in darkness. Even worse, that darkness will enter this world and destroy all that is good. With bitter enemies closing in fast, Charlie throws himself into the quest, facing his own doubts and fears in ways he could never have guessed. Meanwhile on the island, the other...
18) Rez ball
Author
Publisher
Heartdrum
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
These days, Tre Brun is happiest when he is playing basketball on the Red Lake Reservation high school team--even though he can't help but be constantly gut-punched with memories of his big brother, Jaxon, who died in an accident. When Jaxon's former teammates on the varsity team offer to take Tre under their wing, he sees this as his shot to represent his Ojibwe rez all the way to their first state championship. This is the first step toward his...
19) The fall
Author
Series
Journey to impossible places volume 1
Publisher
Scripturo
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Charlie is just an ordinary boy attending a special school in Montana where he feels like an outsider. He is hated by some and ignored by most. That all changes on a vacation to the Caribbean when the plane the students are flying on crashes on an island and vanishes without a trace. Cut off from the world and desperate to survive, the students must find a way to work together despite never ending conflict. But this is no ordinary island. It changes...
Author
Series
I survived volume 23
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
It was 1964 in the brand-new state of Alaska, a vast land of staggering beauty and heart-stopping dangers. Eleven-year-old Jack had grown up living happily with his parents in an off-the-grid cabin, miles from their closest neighbors. Grizzlies and wolves outnumbered people, and dark winter days were 30 degrees below zero. Jack had always thought of himself as strong -- “Alaska tough”. But then the most powerful earthquake in American history...
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