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2) Tex
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Description
The love between two teenage brothers helps to alleviate the harshness of their usually parentless life as they struggle to grow up.
3) I like me!
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Description
By admiring her finer points and showing that she can take care of herself and have fun even when there's no one else around, a charming pig proves the best friend you can have is yourself.
5) The river
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Paulsen takes the wilderness adventure beyond self-preservation & makes teen Brian responsible for saving someone else. Because of his success surviving alone in the wilderness for fifty-four days, fifteen-year-old Brian, profoundly changed by his time in the wild, is asked to undergo a similar experience to help scientists learn more about the psychology of survival. "We want you to do it again."
These words, spoken to Brian Robeson, will change...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Description
When Angel's self-absorbed mother leaves her and her younger brother with their poor great-grandmother, the eleven-year-old girl worries not only about her mother and brother, her imprisoned father, the frail old woman, but also about a mysterious man who begins sharing with her the wonder of the stars.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 7
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Description
Twelve-year-old Addie tries to cope with her mother's erratic behavior and being separated from her beloved stepfather and half-sisters when she and her mother go to live in a small trailer by the railroad tracks on the outskirts of Schenectady, New York.
Author
Series
Pout-pout fish adventures volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Mr. Fish is going on vacation, but what happens when he forgets his favorite toy?"--
11) Salvage
Author
Series
Salvage volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 16
Description
"Ava, a teenage girl living aboard the male-dominated, conservative deep space merchant ship Parastrata, faces betrayal, banishment, and death. Taking her fate into her own hands, she flees to the Gyre, a floating continent of garbage and scrap in the Pacific Ocean. How will she build a future on an Earth ravaged by climate change?"--
13) Brian's Winter
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Instead of being rescued from a plane crash, as in the author's book Hatchet, this story portrays what would have happened to Brian had he been forced to survive a winter in the wilderness with only his survival pack and hatchet.
14) Fishbone's song
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Description
"Deep in the woods, in a rustic cabin, lives an old man and the boy he's raised as his own. This sage old man has taught the boy the power of nature and how to live in it, and more importantly, to respect it. In Fishbone's Song, this boy reminisces about the magic of the man who raised him and the tales that he used to tell--all true, but different each time"--
15) Sisters of glass
Author
Series
Sisters of Glass volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
Description
Halan is a powerless princess. She is heir to the Magi Kingdom, a blazing desert land ruled by ancient magic. But unlike every royal before her, Halan has no magical powers of her own. Nalah is a powerful pauper. The glassblowers daughter, she lives in the land of New Hadar, where magic is strictly outlawed. But Nalah has a powerful force growing within her-one she cant always control. One girl fears magic, one worships it. But when a legendary mirror...
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Series
Aurora County trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
Description
When her quirky grandmother goes to Hawaii for the summer, nine-year-old Ruby learns to survive on her own in Mississippi by writing letters, befriending chickens as well as the new girl in town, and finally coping with her grandfather's death.
18) Lyddie
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Gr 5-9 --In this superb novel, Paterson deftly depicts a Lowell, Massachusetts fabric mill in the 1840s and a factory girl whose life is changed by her experiences there. Readers first meet 13-year-old Lyddie Worthen staring down a bear on her family' debt-ridden farm in the Vermont mountains. With her fierce spirit, she stares down a series of metaphorical bears in her year as a servant girl at an inn and then in her months under grueling conditions...
20) Apartment 4A
Author
Series
Apartment 4A volume Book 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Bree was barely holding it together. Her brother drank. Her boss ws shady. And her aunt was losing it. Then there was the empty apartment next door-- "Who are you?" Bree asked the woman. The woman looked at the living room window. It ws closed. She ran across the room. And jumped through the glass. Apartment 4A follows a struggling teen, Bree, who has to take care of herself in a less than ideal situation. Bree is an orphan living with her aunt who...