Will
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
"Jeremy is not excited about the prospect of spending the summer with his dad and his uncle in a seaside cabin in Oregon. It's the first summer after his parents' divorce, and he hasn't exactly been seeking alone time with his dad. He doesn't have a choice, though, so he goes...and on his first day takes a walk on the beach and finds himself intrigued by a boy his age running by. Eventually, he and Runner Boy (Evan) meet--and what starts out as friendship...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixteen-year-old Robbie Daniels, happy to get a job aboard a troller fishing for king salmon off southeastern Alaska, finds himself in danger when he discovers that his mysterious captain is searching for long-buried Russian plaques that lay claim to Alaska and the Northwest.
3) Full service
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the summer of 1965, teenager Paul Sutton, a northern Minnesota farm boy, takes a job at a gas station in town, where his strict religious upbringing is challenged by new people and experiences.
4) Defect
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Formats
Description
After spending most of his life in Minnesota foster homes hiding a bizarre physical abnormality, fifteen-year-old David is offered a chance at normalcy, but must decide if giving up what makes him special is the right thing to do.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a small town in northern Minnesota, the much-anticipated Saturday night dirt-track race at the old-fashioned, barely viable Headwaters Speedway becomes, in many ways, an important life-changing event for all the participants on and off the track.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Trace Bonham knows he is fortunate to be offered a chance at being a paid super stock driver when he is still in high school, but regrets that he must leave his friends and home track and wonders if the sponsor is legitimate.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Trace Bonham, a teenaged professional stock car racer, blows away the competition wherever he races, but with every victory Trace is increasingly aware that his winning is due to more than just his driving skills.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
980L
Language
English
Description
Based on James L. Swanson's bestselling adult book Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer, this version, written especially for young people, is a fascinating look at the assassination of the sixteenth president of the United States. But there's more to the story. Here, readers will meet Abraham Lincoln the man, the father, the husband, the friend. And they will get a firsthand look at how Lincoln's death impacted those closest to him.
Author
Series
Bone witch volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Description
Tea's gift for death magic means that she is a bone witch, a title that makes her feared and ostracized by her community, but when an older bone witch trains her to become an asha--one who can wield elemental magic--Tea will have to overcome her obstacles and make a powerful choice in the face of danger as dark forces approach.
11) The water seeker
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Traces the hard life, filled with losses, adversity, and adventure, of Amos, son of a trapper and dowser, from 1833 when his mother dies giving birth to him until 1859, when he himself has grown up and has a son of his own.
12) Triskellion
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
When fourteen-year-old twins Adam and Rachel go to visit their grandmother in an unwelcoming and ancient English village, they realize that there is something unnatural about it and are swept up in an archaeological mystery.
13) Hunted
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
1000L
Language
English
Description
Yeva knows that the forest holds secrets and that her father is the only hunter who's ever come close to discovering them. Out in the wilderness there's no pressure to make idle chatter with vapid baronessas, or to submit to marrying a wealthy gentleman. When her father goes missing in the woods, Yeva sets her sights on one prey: the Beast he'd been obsessively tracking just before his disappearance. As Yeva hunts, she finds a cursed valley, a ruined...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
Description
In 2004, four Latino teenagers arrived at the Marine Advanced Technology Education Robotics Competition at the University of California, Santa Barbara. They were born in Mexico but raised in Phoenix, Arizona, where they attended an underfunded public high school. No one had ever suggested to Oscar, Cristian, Luis, or Lorenzo that they might amount to much--but two inspiring science teachers had convinced these impoverished, undocumented kids from...