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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12 - AR Pts: 32
Language
English
Description
The wild rush of action in this classic frontier adventure story has made The Last of the Mohicans the most popular of James Fenimore Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales. Deep in the forests of upper New York State, the brave woodsman Hawkeye (Natty Bumppo) and his loyal Mohican friends Chingachgook and Uncas become embroiled in the bloody battles of the French and Indian War. The abduction of the beautiful Munro sisters by hostile savages, the treachery...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 10.8 - AR Pts: 41
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on the true story of Alexander Selkirk, who survived alone for almost five years on an uninhabited island off the coast of Chile, The Mysterious Island is considered by many to be Jules Verne's masterpiece. Published in French as L'Île Mystérieuse in 1874, this novel is a sequel to Verne's earlier Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas. After hijacking a balloon from a Confederate camp, a band of five northern prisoners escape the American...
Author
Series
Chocolate War volume 1
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[1974]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
253 p. 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A high school freshman discovers the devastating consequences of refusing to join in the school's annual fund raising drive and arousing the wrath of the school bullies.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
When Bastian happens upon an old book called The Neverending Story, he's swept into the magical world of Fantastica--so much that he finds he has actually become a character in the story! And when he realizes that this mysteriously enchanted world is in great danger, he also discovers that he is the one chosen to save it. Can Bastian overcome the barrier between reality and his imagination in order to save Fantastica? --Amazon
5) Rumble Fish
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[1975]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
122 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A junior high school boy idolizes his older brother, the coolest, toughest guy in the neighborhood, and wants to be just like him.
Author
Series
Summer of My German Soldier volume 1
Publisher
Dial Press
Pub. Date
[1973]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
230 p. 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sheltering an escaped German prisoner of war is the beginning of some shattering experiences for a 12-year-old Jewish girl in Arkansas.
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"A publisher in New York asked me to write down what I know about the Greek gods, and I was like, Can we do this anonymously? Because I don't need the Olympians mad at me again. But if it helps you to know your Greek gods, and survive an encounter with them if they ever show up in your face, then I guess writing all this down will be my good deed for the week. So begins Percy Jackson's Greek Gods, in which the son of Poseidon adds his own magic--and...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The struggle of three brothers to stay together after their parent's death and their quest for identity among the conflicting values of their adolescent society. When it was first published in 1967, The Outsiders defied convention with its immediate, deeply sympathetic portrayal of Ponyboy and his struggle to find a place for himself in a difficult world. Thirty years later, it speaks to teenagers as powerfully as ever.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Winner of Newbery Award, 1995. After her mother leaves home suddenly, thirteen-year-old Sal and her grandparents take a car trip retracing her mother's route. Along the way, Sal recounts the story of her friend Phoebe, whose mother also left.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xl, 392 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
An anniversary edition of the classic story follows the adventure, romance, and off-kilter foibles of the faithful Westley, beautiful farm girl-turned-princess Buttercup, and their intrepid companions.
Author
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
"Who cut off Medusa's head? Who was raised by a she-bear? Who tamed Pegasus? It takes a demigod to know, and Percy Jackson can fill you in on the all the daring deeds of Perseus, Atalanta, Bellerophon, and the rest of the major Greek heroes. Told in the funny, irreverent style readers have come to expect from Percy --