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1) Long lost
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Contacted by a woman with whom he had an affair years earlier, Myron Bolitar learns how she has been wrongfully accused of murdering her ex-husband, a situation that is further complicated by a long-hidden family secret.
2) Bleachers
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Presents a novel about high school football in a small Texas town, a place in which football has become a religion.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared--Lt. Louis Zamperini. Captured by the Japanese and driven to the limits of endurance, Zamperini would answer desperation with ingenuity; suffering with hope, resolve, and humor.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Fans of Sarah Dessen and Jenny Han will feel right at home in this heartfelt coming-of-age story about a homesick girl who gives up her summer plans to help her distant family—only to find everything she was looking for, including love.
Ocean breeze in her hair and sand between her toes, Anise can't wait to spend the summer before her senior year surfing and hanging out on the beach with friends. Santa Cruz is more than
...5) Promise me
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
370 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Entertainment agent Myron Bolitar offers a ride home to a young girl to prevent her from accepting a ride from a drunk driver, but when the girl disappears, he is forced to rescue her to prove his innocence.
6) The closer
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
viii, 280 pages, [8] pages of plates : col. ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Mariano Rivera tells his story for the first time: the championships, the bosses (including the Boss), the rivalries, the struggles of being a Latino baseball player in the United States, and of maintaining Christian values in professional athletics. The twelve-time All-Star will discuss what it's like to run up to that mound with the game, or the season squarely on his shoulders.
7) Rez Ball
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
These days, Tre Brun is happiest when he is playing basketball on the Red Lake Indian Reservation high school team--even though he can't help but be constantly gut-punched with memories of his big brother, Jaxon, who died in an accident.
When Jaxon's former varsity teammates offer to take Tre under their wings, he sees this as his shot to represent his Ojibwe rez all the way to their first state championship. This is the first step toward his dream...
8) Gravity
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixteen-year-old Gravity Delgado has been breaking records and competitors since she started boxing with a legendary coach at age twelve, and now will reach the Olympics if her home life and romance do not distract her.
10) The legends club: Dean Smith, Mike Krzyzewski, Jim Valvano, and an epic college basketball rivalry
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
Documents the fierce 1980s rivalry among the coaching legends behind the University of North Carolina, Duke University, and North Carolina State, detailing the covert recruiting wars that shaped each team and the national pressure that complicated their leadership methods.
Author
Series
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
As she grows through the first years of her life in the Catskill Mountains of New York, a peregrine falcon called Frightful interacts with various humans, including the boy who raised her, a falconer who rescues her, and several unscrupulous poachers, as well as with many animals that are part of the area's ecological balance.