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41) Buddy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old "Li'l T" and his family face great losses caused by Hurricane Katrina, including leaving Buddy, their very special, three-legged dog, behind when they must evacuate.
42) Wonderstruck
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
637 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Having lost his mother and his hearing in a short time, twelve-year-old Ben leaves his Minnesota home in 1977 to seek the father he never knew in New York City, and meets Rose, who is also longing for something missing from her life. Ben's story is told in words; Rose's in pictures.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
184 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
American Girl Pub
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Rebecca Rubin is injured during a strike at the sweatshop where her uncle and cousin work when she tries to give a speech, while keeping a big secret from her family.
Author
Series
Theodore Boone volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When his best friend disappears from her bedroom in the middle of the night, thirteen-year-old Theo uses his legal knowledge and investigative skills to chase down the truth and save April.
46) Wintering well
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Will Ames and his sister Cassie go to stay with their sister in nearby Wiscasset, Maine, after a disabling accident ruins Will's plans for a career in farming.
47) The bicycle spy
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
197 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Marcel loves riding his bicycle, and dreams of competing in the Tour de France, but it is 1942 and German soldiers are everywhere, stopping him as he delivers bread from his parents' bakery around Aucoin--then one day he discovers that it is not just bread he is delivering, and suddenly he finds himself in possession of dangerous secrets about his parents and his new friend from Paris, Delphine.
48) Poached
Author
Series
Funjungle volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Teddy Fitzroy is the prime suspect when FunJungle's newly-acquired koala goes missing, thanks to a prank staged by middle school bully Vance Jessup.
49) New from here
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Knox works to keep his family together as they move from Hong Kong back to northern California during the initial outbreak of the coronavirus.
50) Blue Bay mystery
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The Aldens are excited to visit a deserted South Seas island. But soon they discover clues that they are not alone. Is someone watching them?
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Isabel dreams of seeing the world but has never left Oregon, and so when her best friend, Sophie, tells her of a baking contest whose winners travel to New York City, she eagerly enters despite concerns about her mother, who is opening a cupcake bakery. Includes recipes.
Author
Publisher
Children's Book Press, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"A child dreams of a life without borders after he and his parents are forced to leave their home during the Mexican Repatriation."--
53) Salt magic
Author
Publisher
Margaret Ferguson Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
238 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Vonceil Taggart, willing to risk everything to set things right, leaves her family's Oklahoma farm in 1919 seeking the salt witch who cast a spell that turned their spring to saltwater.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In central Texas in 1899, eleven-year-old Callie Vee Tate is instructed to be a lady by her mother, learns about love from the older three of her six brothers, and studies the natural world with her grandfather, the latter of which leads to an important discovery.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sister Bernadette Ignatius (the former Bernie Sullivan), Mother Superior at the coastal Connecticut Star of the Sea Academy, travels to Dublin with Tom Kelly, the academy's ombudsman, seeking James, the son they gave up over 20 years ago. In a parallel narrative set up in a prologue, young James and Kathleen, raised together as orphans, are devastated when they are forced to separate when Kathleen is 13. While Bernie and Tom look for James (now calling...
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...
57) City of schemes
Author
Series
(Victoria E.).Counterfeit lady novel volume 4
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Language
English
Description
"Elizabeth Miles is preparing for her wedding to Gideon Bates, when a menacing shadow from her past threatens to destroy the life she has built for herself in this all-new Counterfeit Lady Novel from USA Today bestselling author Victoria Thompson. The Great War is over, and Elizabeth and Gideon are busily planning their wedding and welcoming home old friends now discharged from the army. One of them, Captain Logan Carstens, the son and heir of a wealthy...
58) Strawberry girl
Author
Language
English
Description
In 1945, in Florida, ten-year-old Birdie Boyer and her family struggle to make their new farm prosper despite heat, droughts, cold snaps, and rowdy neighbors.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Before there was 'tourism' or 'leisure time;' before souvenir ashtrays became 'camp' and 'kitsch;' before Goofy Golf became an 'attraction' and today's colossal theme parks could even be imagined, there was 'Beautiful Lake of the Ozarks -- Family Vacationland,' where to this day the ashtrays remain devoid of irony. It was here, at Arrowhead Lodge at Lake of the Ozarks, where Bill Geist spent his summers between high school and college working at...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
xviii, 156 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
This narrative biography describes more of the details of the young Laura's real life as a young pioneer homesteading with her family on many adventurous journeys.