Jeff Woodman
1) Crash
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
560L
Language
English
Description
Seventh-grader John "Crash" Coogan has always been comfortable with his tough, aggressive behavior, until his relationship with an unusual Quaker boy and his grandfather's stroke make him consider the meaning of friendship and the importance of family.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
Two years ago, Sam ran away from New York City to live in the Catskill Mountains. Now his younger sister Alice has joined him and is quietly living in a tree house of her own nearby. Their peaceful life is shattered when a conservation officer confiscates Sam's falcon, Frightful, and Alice suddenly vanishes. Sam leaves his home to search for Alice, hoping to find Frightful, too. But the trail to the far side of the mountain may lead Sam into great...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Having been recently dumped for the nineteenth time by a girl named Katherine, recent high school graduate and former child prodigy Colin sets off on a road trip with his best friend to try to find some new direction in life while also trying to create a mathematical formula to explain his relationships.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
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Description
Miles Halter is fascinated by famous last words-and tired of his safe life at home. He leaves for boarding school to seek what the dying poet François Rabelais called the “Great Perhaps.” Much awaits Miles at Culver Creek, including Alaska Young, who will pull Miles into her labyrinth and catapult him into the Great Perhaps.
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Series
Lord John Grey novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
Lord John Grey, while serving with the British Army during the Seven Years' War, is confronted with ghosts from his dead father's past and fights to clear his father's name and find the man responsible for his death.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
A Newbery Medal Winner For over thirty-five years, Ellen Raskin's Newbery Medal-winning The Westing Game has been an enduring favorite. This highly inventive mystery involves sixteen people who are invited to the reading of Samuel W. Westing's will. They could become millionaires-it all depends on how they play the tricky and dangerous Westing game, a game involving blizzards, burglaries, and bombings! Ellen Raskin has created a remarkable cast of...
8) The thief
Author
Series
Queen's thief volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Description
Gen flaunts his ingenuity as a thief and relishes the adventure which takes him to a remote temple of the gods where he will attempt to steal a precious stone.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
A young boy relates his adventures during the year he spends living alone in the Catskill Mountains including his struggle for survival, his dependence on nature, his animal friends, and his ultimate realization that he needs human companionship.
10) The ranger
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Series
Language
English
Description
Now an Army Ranger, Quinn Colson returns to a place overrun by corruption, and finds his uncle, the county sheriff, dead, a suicide, he's told, but others whisper murder. In the days that follow, it will be up to Colson to discover the truth, not only about his uncle, but about his family, his friends, his town, and not least about himself. And once the truth is discovered, there is no turning back.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
"Shots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the misty, early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung oaks and shaded squares. John Berendt's sharply observed, suspenseful, and witty narrative reads like a thoroughly engrossing novel, and yet it is a work of nonfiction. Berendt skillfully interweaves a hugely...
12) The Rosetta key
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Series
Ethan Gage adventures volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Expatriate Ethan Gage, in the Holy Land to save his former lover Astiza and to search for the revered legendary Book of Thoth, is in danger again as Napoleon's army marches towards Jerusalem.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
Charlie embarks on a compelling but dangerous journey from retardation to genius. Oscar-winning film Charly starring Cliff Robertson and Claire Bloom-a mentally challenged man receives an operation that turns him into a genius...and introduces him to heartache. When we first meet Charlie he is about to embark on a compelling but dangerous journey from retardation to genius. He has only a vague understanding of what will happen, but he is aware that...
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Series
Language
English
Description
London, 1760. For Jamie Fraser, paroled prisoner-of-war in the remote Lake District, life could be worse: He's not cutting sugar cane in the West Indies, and he's close enough to the son he cannot claim as his own. But Jamie Fraser's quiet existence is coming apart at the seams, interrupted first by dreams of his lost wife, then by the appearance of Tobias Quinn, an erstwhile comrade from the Rising. Like many of the Jacobites who aren't dead or in...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Matthew Bannon, a poor art student living in New York City, finds a duffel bag filled with diamonds during a chaotic attack at Grand Central Station. Plans for a worry-free life with his gorgeous girlfriend Katherine fill his thoughts--until he realizes that he is being hunted, and that whoever is after him won't stop until they have reclaimed the diamonds and exacted their revenge.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, a solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wide, wild Pacific. The crew of the surviving vessel consists of a hyena, one zebra [with broken leg[, an orangutan, a 450-pound Royal Bengal Tiger named Richard Parker and Pi -- a 16-year-old Indian boy. As the "crew" begin to assert their natural places in the food chain, Pi's fear mounts, and he must use all his wit and daring to develop an understanding with Richard...
17) The rule of four
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
An ivy league murder, a mysterious coded manuscript, and the secrets of a Renaissance prince collide memorably in THE RULE OF FOUR -- a brilliant work of fiction that weaves together suspense and scholarship, high art and unimaginable treachery. It's Easter at Princeton. Seniors are scrambling to finish their theses. And two students, Tom Sullivan and Paul Harris, are a hair's breadth from solving the mysteries of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili--a...
Author
Language
English
Description
After losing virtually everything meaningful in his life, Benjamin trains to be a caregiver, but his first client, a fiercely independent teen with muscular dystrophy, gives him more than he bargained for and soon the two embark on a road trip to visit the boy's ailing father.
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Series
Henry Huggins volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
Henry Huggins feels like he's ready for a paper route of his own--but the newspaper won't hire him because he's too young. Luckily there's a lot happening on Klickitat Street to distract Henry while he waits for his birthday to come around: a box of mischievous kittens, a new boy with a robot, and, as always, the irrepresible Ramona Quimby...who may just get Henry the paper route he so desperately wants.--page 4 cover.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
A New York Times Bestseller ' Named A Best Book of the Year by the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post Book World, Chicago Tribune, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and Rocky Mountain News Nine-year-old Oskar Schell has embarked on an urgent, secret mission that will take him through the five boroughs of New York. His goal is to find the lock that matches a mysterious key that belonged to his father who died in the World Trade Center on the morning of...