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(0)Michael De Guzman
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
560L
Language
English
Description
Having spent his life trying to escape the foster care system, eventually becoming mute to keep out of trouble, twelve-year-old Newboy finally hits the streets, where a discarded ventriloquist's dummy gives him back his voice and his hope.
Author
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
Description
Tired of the frequent moves that he and his father must make, twelve-year-old Beekman begins to make connections with neighbors and classmates after settling in a small, unusual New York City neighborhood.
4) Melonhead
Author
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Tired of living with his uncaring, divorced parents, Sidney, a twelve-year-old boy with an unusually large head, takes a bus trip across the United States which becomes a journey of self-discovery.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The now widowed Ellen Brody finds herself reliving the horrors of the past when a mammoth shark kills her son. Grief-stricken, she travels to the Bahamas to be with her other son, a marine biologist, and his family. There she meets and falls for a carefree airplane pilot. Just as she is starting to put her life back together, the nightmare of the past returns when her granddaughter is attacked by an all-too-familiar great white shark.
