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Author
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
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Pulga has his dreams. Chico has his grief. Pequena has her pride. And these three teens have one another. But, none of them have illusions about the town they've grown up in and the dangers that surround them. Even with the love of family, threats lurk around every corner. And when those threats become all too real, the trio knows they have no choice but to run: from their country, from their families, from their beloved home. Crossing from Guatemala...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
314 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In the very white, very Christian world of Atlanta society in 1958, New York transplant Ruth decides not to tell her new high school friends and boyfriend that she is Jewish, but when a violent act rocks the city, Ruth must figure out where her loyalties lie.
Summer, 1958. After her father's death, Ruth Robb's family moves from New York City to Atlanta. Ruth quickly figures out she can be Jewish or she can be popular, but she can't be both, and decides...
4) Coraline
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Looking for excitement, Coraline ventures through a mysterious door into a world that is similar, yet disturbingly different from her own, where she must challenge a gruesome entity in order to save herself, her parents, and the souls of three others.
Author
Series
Hazel Wood volume 3
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Journey into the Hinterland, a brutal and beautiful world where a girl spends a night with Death, brides are wed to a mysterious house in trees, and an enchantress is killed twice, and lives. In this companion book to "The Hazel Wood" and "The Night Country," the author presents a collection of dark fairy tales by Alice's reclusive grandmother Althea Proserpine.
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
In the late 1950s in the Midwest, a serial killer has been draining their victims of blood, leaving them otherwise undisturbed in their cars and homes. When a fifteen-year-old girl is found covered in blood amidst the latest corpses, she confides only in the sheriff's son but her story is unbelievable at best.
8) Intentions
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
263 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After fifteen-year-old Rachel overhears her rabbi committing infidelity, she must come to terms with the fact that adults make mistakes, too--and that she's old enough to be held responsible for her own mistakes.
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Jamie Goldberg, who chokes when speaking to strangers, and Maya Rehrman, who is having the worst Ramadan ever, are paired to knock on doors and ask for votes for the local state senate candidate.
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
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
351 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Various diaries, letters, and other manuscripts chronicle the experiences of Octavian, a young African American, from birth to age sixteen, as he is brought up as part of a science experiment in the years leading up to and during the Revolutionary War.
12) The War Outside
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
318 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Teens Haruko, a Japanese American, and Margot, a German American, form a life-changing friendship as everything around them starts falling apart in the Crystal City family internment camp during World War II.
13) Runaway Max
Author
Series
Stranger Things volume 3
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
232 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Don't miss this gripping, emotional prequel to the hit Netflix series, Stranger Things! The never-before-told backstory of the beloved Dig Dug maven, Max Mayfield, written by New York Times bestselling author Brenna Yovanoff. This must-read novel, based on the hit Netflix series, Stranger Things, explores Max's past--the good and the bad--as well as how she came to find her newfound sense of home in Hawkins, Indiana"--
14) Ballad & Dagger
Author
Series
Outlaw Saints volume 1
Publisher
Disney/Hyperion
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
372 pages : 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When sixteen-year-old Mateo and Chela discover each other and their powers during a political battle between neighborhood factions, they set aside their differences to unravel the mystery behind their sunken homeland and to stop a dangerous political operative who is trying to harness their gifts to unleash terror on the world.
Author
Publisher
Peachtree Teen, an imprint of Peachtree Publishing Company Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition ;
Physical Desc
227 pages : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
1836, Wisconsin.
Catalina lives with her pa and brother in a ramshackle cabin on the edge of the wilderness. Mama died years ago, and the harsh winters have brought the family to the brink of starvation. Catalina has replaced her poet's soul with an unyielding determination to keep Pa and her brother alive, period.
When Pa takes suddenly ill, Catalina tries everything to revive him. But as soon as the illness claims him, a strange man appears--a...
16) Hello Girls
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
322 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Best friends are forged by fire. For Winona Olsen and Lucille Pryce, that fire happened the night they met outside the police station, both deciding whether to turn their families in for abuse and mistreatment. They realize they can't wait until graduation to start their new lives. They need out. Now. All they need is three grand, fast. And really, a stolen convertible to take them from Michigan to Las Vegas can't hurt.
17) Salt
Author
Publisher
Frances Foster Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
138 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-olds Anikwa, of the Miami village of Kekionga, and James, of the trading post outside Fort Wayne, find their friendship threatened by the rising fear and tension brought by the War of 1812.
18) I Am Here Now
Author
Publisher
Imprint
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
348 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In the Bronx in the early 1960s, fourteen-year-old Maisie and her longtime friend Richie start high school, as each struggles with an abusive parent.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
With the recent death of her mother and the possibility of her family losing their farm, Samantha Sakamoto does not have space in her life for dreams, but when faced with prejudice and violence in her Washington State community after Pearl Harbor, she is determined to use her photography to document the bigotry around her.
20) Out of the dust
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression.