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Author
Series
Giver quartet volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Lame and suddenly orphaned, Kira is mysteriously removed from her squalid village to live in the palatial Council Edifice, where she is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to do the bidding of the all-powerful Guardians.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A nine year old boy's mother dies shortly after the death of his father. He is sent to live with his aunt and uncle in a small East-Anglian village, where his uncle is vicar. This uncle holds the boy's significant inheritance for him until he comes of age, giving him unlimited power over the boy.
The novel is considered a masterpiece, and is also highly autobiographical, though Maugham claimed: "This is a novel, not an autobiography, though much
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Series
Publisher
American Girl Pub
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
When Seattle fourth-grader McKenna Brooks' cast comes off she dives back into gymnastics training in hopes of making the competitive team, but after volunteering at a therapeutic horseback riding center, she considers broadening her interests.
5) Small steps
Author
Series
Holes volume 3
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Three years after being released from Camp Green Lake, Armpit is trying hard to keep his life on track, but when his old pal X-Ray shows up with a tempting plan to make some easy money scalping concert tickets, Armpit reluctantly goes along.
6) Freckles
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Orphaned and maimed, Freckles' bitterness about his fate is lessened when he is hired to guard a stretch of lumber in the wild Limberlost and, after meeting the beautiful "Swamp Angel," he determines to find out about his past.
Author
Series
I funny volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
After winning the New York state finals in the Planet's Funniest Kid Comic Contest, Jamie's off to Boston to compete in the national semi-finals. But when one of his best buddies runs into trouble at school and a sudden family health scare rears its head, Jamie has to put his comedic ambitions on hold and stand by the people he cares about.
9) Half a war
Author
Series
Shattered sea volume 3
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Yarvi is the unlikely heir to the throne--a clever, thoughtful boy with a crippled hand who feels out of place in a violent, Viking-like society. Thorn is a young girl, determined to follow in the footsteps of her dead father and become a famous warrior, whatever it takes. Now Yarvi has avenged the murder of his father, and sets out on an epic journey with Thorn that will embroil his kingdom in all-out war. --Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In 1881, sixteen-year-old Mary Ingalls becomes a student at the Iowa College for the Blind, where she studies academic subjects and learns skills that will allow her to be independent and to earn a living.
13) Taking the leap
Author
Series
River Rain volume 3
Publisher
Blue Box Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Alexandra Sharp has been crushing on her co-worker, John "Rix" Hendrix for years. He's her perfect man, she knows it. She's just not his perfect woman, and she knows that too. Then Rix gives Alex a hint that maybe there's a spark between them that, if she takes the leap, she might be able to fan into a flame This leads to a crash and burn, and that's all shy Alex needs to catch the hint never to take the risk again. However, with undeniable timing,...
Author
Series
New Hope Amish volume 1
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Readers of Kelly Irvin's Bliss Creek Amish novels will be overjoyed to discover her new series for lovers of Amish fiction: The New Hope Amish. In the first installment, Love Still Stands, a group of dedicated families leaves Bliss Creek to establish a new community in Missouri. Among them is Bethel Graber, a beautiful young woman with a passion for teaching. But after being disabled in a terrible accident, overseeing a classroom is out of the question...and...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
From the time she was a crippled baby, left in a church, Maggie's life has never been easy but when she glimpses her destiny in a magic mirror, she goes off on a quest to find her father and, along the way, finds happiness, as well.
18) Blind spot
Author
Publisher
Harcourt, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"Tricia Farni was last seen alive the night she fought with Roswell Hart--a night Roz can't remember. Can Roz piece together the events of that night, despite the eye disease that robs her of most of her vision, in order to clear her name and find a murderer?"--
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
For sixteen-year-old Lana life is often difficult, with a flirtatious foster father, an ice queen foster mother, a houseful of special needs children to care for, and bullies harrassing her, until the day she ventures into an antique shop and buys a drawing set that may change her life.
20) Cursed
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge Teen
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"Depicts young teen Ricky Bloom's struggles with her recent chronic illness diagnosis, which comes amid family upheaval and challenges at school."--Provided by publisher.
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