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42) Keep quiet
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Jake Whitmore is enjoying a rare bonding moment with his sixteen-year-old son, Kurt, when disaster strikes. They get in a terrible car accident that threatens to derail not only Kurt's chances at college, but his entire future. Jake makes a split-second decision that saves his son from formal punishment, but plunges them both into a world of guilt, lies, and secrecy. Just when Jake thinks he has everything under control, a malevolent outsider comes...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Peggy Orenstein's Girls & Sex broke ground, shattered taboos, and galvanized conversations about young women's right to pleasure and agency in sexual encounters. It also had an unintended effect on its author: Orenstein realized that talking about girls is only half the conversation. To understand girls and sex, we also need to talk about boys and sex. Today's young men are subject to the same cultural forces as their female peers. They are steeped...
Author
Series
Hardy Boys adventures volume 3
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First Aladdin hardcover edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
134 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
While attending an amusement park under the new ownership of their friend Daisy, Joe and Frank investigate the disappearance of a patron who was last seen riding a hit attraction, an event that has threatened Daisy's family's livelihood.
46) Oliver Twist
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Oliver Twist is a poor orphan boy cruelly treated in the public workhouse. Pennyless and hungry, he runs away to London, only to fall into the clutches of a gang of thieves and pickpockets led by the master criminal, Fagin. Befriended by a man robbed by the gang, Oliver ultimately learns his true identity and gains a home, a fortune, and a family. --Amazon.com
48) Redwoods
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young city boy, riding the subway, finds an abandoned book about redwoods. He finds himself in the very forest described in the book. After finishing the book, he leaves it for someone else to read.
49) Sea you, sea me
Author
Series
Hardy Boys volume 5
Publisher
Papercutz
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Frank and Joe Hardy go undercover as part of a crew on an old commercial fishing boat; their mission is to discover why teen seamen mysteriously vanish while fishing.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Mr. Peabody is an inventor, scientist and genius who just happens to be a dog. With his son Sherman, he will embark on the most extraordinary adventure imaginable as they race against time to repair history and save the future.
Author
Series
Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children volume 1
Publisher
Quirk Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
A horrific family tragedy sends sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of an old orphanage that was home to children who were more than just peculiar, but possibly dangerous--and who may still be alive. Illustrated with vintage found photographs.
Author
Series
Encyclopedia Brown volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Idaville's secret weapon against lawbreakers, ten-year-old Leroy "Encyclopedia" Brown, helps the police force solve ten new cases, the solutions to which are found in the back of the book.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
A new hilarious novel from the author of The Greatest Zombie Movie Ever and Stranger Things Have Happened.
Rod's life doesn't suck. If you ask him, it's pretty awesome. He may not be popular, but he and his best friends play in a band that has a standing gig. Yeah, it's Monday night and they don't get paid, but they can turn the volume up as loud as they want. And Rod's girlfriend is hot, smart, and believes in their band—believes
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Series
Hardy boys mystery stories volume 27
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When a crime syndicate takes over Bayport's reservoir Frank and Joe Hardy help their detective father solve the sinister mystery.
55) The hypnotist
Author
Series
Inspector Joona Linna volume 1
Publisher
Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
503 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Fiery Ramona Quimby and the well-meaning Henry Huggins may clash, but in this delightful and hilarious novel by Newbery Medal–winning author Beverly Cleary, it's an unlikely compromise that wins the day.
Henry and his friends are building a no-girls-allowed clubhouse. With a private space of their own away from everyone else-and even a top secret entry password-they're all thrilled with their boy fort. But Henry's about to find out that nothing-not...
58) Boyhood
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (164 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A coming-of-age story that chronicles a boy's life from age six to eighteen.
Author
Publisher
Sterling Children's Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Bear is a persistent bear and keeps coming back to the boy's home, even though he is told to go away. One day bear does go away, and the little boy then realizes how much he misses him and wishes the bear would return.
60) The rope walk
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
321 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
At her tenth birthday party in the garden of her Vermont village home, Alice meets two people unlike any she's known before: Theo is a mixed-race New York City kid visiting his white grandparents for the summer; Kenneth is a cosmopolitan artist with AIDS who has come home to convalesce. Alice and Theo form an instant bond and almost as quickly find themselves drawn into the orbit of the magisterial artist. But Kenneth is losing his eyesight, and when...