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1) Hereafter
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Hereafter trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 13
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Amelia, long a ghost, forms a strong bond with eighteen-year-old Joshua, who nearly drowned where she did and who awakens in her long-forgotten senses and memories even as Eli, a spirit, tries to draw her away.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
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"At the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls "Daniel") stands, trying to tell a story. His story. But no one believes a word he says. To them he is a dark-skinned, hairy-armed boy with a big butt whose lunch smells funny; who makes things up and talks about poop too much. But Khosrou's stories, stretching back years, and decades, and centuries, are beautiful, and terrifying, from the moment his...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
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Written in sparse first-person, free-verse poems, is the compelling tale of Billie Jo's struggle to survive during the dust bowl years of the Depression. With stoic courage, she learns to cope with the loss of her mother and her grieving father's slow deterioration. There is hope at the end when Billie Jo's badly burned hands are healed, and she is able to play her beloved piano again.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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Eleven-year-old Cherokee Zach Feather is going on his first pheasant hunting trip in Oklahoma with his parents, his first ever bird dog (Koda), and his grandfather's shotgun; but when the hunt gets started he discovers that there is a lot more to hunting than he realized and he needs to learn patience--if he survives his encounter with a very annoyed rattlesnake.
6) Trophy buck
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
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Excited to go on his first family hunting trip, twelve-year-old Rodney learns Cherokee traditions, gun safety, and patience.
7) Semiprecious
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
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Uprooted and living with an aunt in 1960s Oklahoma, thirteen-year-old Garnet and her older sister Opal brave their mother's desertion and their father's recovery from an accident, learning that "the best home of all is the one you make inside yourself."
10) Elysium girls
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 16
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Elysium, Oklahoma, is a town like any other--respectable, God-fearing, praying for an end to the Dust Bowl--until the day the people of Elysium are chosen by two sisters: Life and Death. And the Sisters like to gamble against each other with things like time, and space, and human lives. Elysium is to become the gameboard in a ruthless competition between the goddesses.
11) In the woods
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Chrystal's plans for the summer are upended when she joins her journalist father in Oklahoma to investigate a grisly attack, discovering that the only witness is a surprisingly good-looking farm boy named Logan.
12) The springsweet
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
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Moving from Baltimore to Oklahoma Territory in the late 1800s, seventeen-year-old Zora experiences the joys and hardships of pioneer life, discovering new love and her otherworldly power.
13) Tex
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
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The love between two teenage brothers helps to alleviate the harshness of their usually parentless life as they struggle to grow up.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
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"Ten-year-old Isaac, now a ghost, continues with his people as they walk the Choctaw Trail of Tears headed to Indian Territory in what will one day become Oklahoma. There have been surprises aplenty on their trek, but now Isaac and his three Choctaw comrades learn they can time travel--making for an unexpected adventure. The foursome heads back in time to Washington, D.C., to bear witness for Choctaw Chief Pushmataha who has come to the nation's capital...
15) Arise
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Series
Hereafter trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
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"Dark spirits and ill omens arise as Amelia, a ghost still trapped somewhere between life and death, continues to fight for her relationship with the human boy Joshua"--
16) Tornado alley
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Disaster strikes (Marlane Kennedy) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
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Although Wyatt is not happy that he has to entertain his visiting cousin, he soon has much bigger problems to worry about when two tornadoes strike the area.
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Randi Pink's The Angel of Greenwood is a historical YA novel that takes place during the Greenwood Massacre of 1921, in an area of Tulsa, OK, known as the "Black Wall Street."
"Seventeen-year-old Isaiah Wilson is, on the surface, a town troublemaker, but is hiding that he is an avid reader and secret poet, never leaving home without his journal. A passionate follower of W.E.B. Du Bois, he believes that black people should rise up to claim their place...
19) Coyote autumn
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2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
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After moving to the country, thirteen-year-old Brad, who has always wanted a dog, adopts a motherless coyote.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
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In 1957, problems at the mine threaten to ruin Christmas for fifth-grader Don, his family, and the rest of their Oklahoma coal town, but Don's bloodhound, Frank, is determined to do whatever it takes to make the holiday special for Don and his six-year-old sister, Susan. Alternate chapters are told from the human and canine points of view.