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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
740L
Description
It was a dark and stormy night. Meg Murry, her small brother Charles Wallace, and her mother had come down to the kitchen for a midnight snack when they were upset by the arrival of a most disturbing stranger. "Wild nights are my glory," the unearthly stranger told them. "I just got caught in a downdraft and blown off course. Let me sit down for a moment, and then I'll be on my way. Speaking of ways, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract."...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Description
A young Native American walks between the lonesome forest where he was raised and the complicated modern world he must navigate to survive Thomas Black Bull's parents forsook the life of a modern reservation and took to ancient paths in the woods, teaching their young son the stories and customs of his ancestors. But Tom's life changes forever when he loses his father in a tragic accident and his mother dies shortly afterward. When Tom is discovered...
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Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Young Adam Eddington becomes entangled in international intrigue involving murder and kidnapping when he takes a summer job in Portugal assisting a noted marine biologist whose scientific findings are fought for by world powers.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 4
Formats
Description
Ramon Salazar knows that someday he will become a partner with his father, pearling in the waters off Baja California. But at sixteen, he's more interested in pearling alone. Ramon wants to find the Pearl of Heaven, for with it comes untold riches. But what Ramon doesn't realize is that the pearl brings more than riches. It brings danger, jealousy and even death. He must ask himself: how much is the pearl really worth?
10) Number the stars
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Description
In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis.
12) Ransom
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Description
It was just another bus ride home from school, until Bruce, Glenn, Dexter, Marianne and Jesse realize they are on an unfamiliar road. Why would someone want to kidnap them?
13) The river
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 4
Description
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. Sequel to "Hatchet."
14) Ironman: a novel
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
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Description
While training for a triathlon, seventeen-year-old Bo attends an anger management group at school which leads him to examine his relationship with his father.
15) The rifle
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 3
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Description
A priceless, handcrafted rifle, carried throughout the American Revolution, is passed down through the years until it fires on the fateful Christmas Eve of 1994.
17) Brian's winter
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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.
18) Crash
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 4
Formats
Description
Seventh-grader John "Crash" Coogan has always been comfortable with his tough, aggressive behavior, until his relationship with an unusual Quaker boy and his grandfather's stroke make him consider the meaning of friendship and the importance of family.