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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
At the outset of "King Richard the Second," England stands on the brink of civil war. The King - attempting to fund a war against the Irish rebels - seizes the estate of his cousin, Henry Bolingbroke, and banishes him from England for six years. Bolingbroke, in turn, accuses the king of mismanagement and assembles an army to confront Richard, depose him and place Bolingbroke himself on the throne.
A powerful and celebrated story of loyalty,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Description
When her adoptive parents die in a train crash in Italy, writer Courtney Marsh becomes more determined than ever to find her roots. She was mysteriously abandoned when she was just an infant, and she never knew the truth about her biological parents. The only clues to her past are a golden unicorn pendant she’s had all her life and a tattered newspaper clipping about an artist who hailed from one of the most prominent yet reclusive East Hampton...
5) I am Regina
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
In 1755, as the French and Indian War begins, ten-year-old Regina is kidnapped by Indians in western Pennsylvania, and she must struggle to hold onto memories of her earlier life as she grows up under the name of Tskinnak and starts to become Indian herself.
8) Toughing it
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Shawn must deal with his loss and anger after witnessing his older brother's murder.
Author
Series
Xanth volume 18
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
The latest adventure of Gary Gargoyle in the land of Xanth. It centers on a geis, a magical compulsion, an obligation of honor which the bearer must complete before the spell is lifted. In this case, the hero's geis is to save a river from pollution. By the author of Harpy Thyme.
Author
Series
Xanth volume 19
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Seeking a solution to a personal problem, Metria asks for help. Before she can be helped she must perform a perilous mission to find a suitable jury for the trial of the noble and virtuous bird, Roxanne Roc. This leads her to some surprising truths about herself and Xanth.
Author
Series
Henry II novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 61
Language
English
Description
In the wake of King Henry I's death in 1135, the Countess of Anjou, his beautiful daughter, prepares to claim the throne despite the reservations of the late ruler's barons, but her position is usurped by her cousin. As church bells tolled for the death of England's King Henry I, his barons faced the unwelcome prospect of being ruled by a woman: Henry's beautiful daughter Maude, Countess of Anjou. But before Maude could claim her throne, her cousin...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
560L
Language
English
Description
Lawanda, a high school girl trying to sell magazines in order to earn money for college, stirs up a lot of controversy in her small hometown when her efforts lead to the development of a friendship between her and Garland, a World War II veteran living out of a bus up on Cade's Hill.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
On a snowy Friday night in 1979, just hours after making love for the first time, Richard's girlfriend, high school senior Karen Ann McNeil, falls into a coma. Nine months later she gives birth to their daughter, Megan. As Karen sleeps through the next seventeen years, Richard and their circle of friends reside in an emotional purgatory, passing through a variety of careers-modeling, film special effects, medicine, demolition-before finally reuniting...
15) Imani all mine
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
580L
Language
English
Description
Tasha, a fifteen-year-old mother, is proud of her baby girl and is determined to be a good parent to her child, but she must draw upon her newfound faith to go on when tragedy strikes.
16) Redhanded
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
990L
Language
English
Description
Since he cannot depend on his father, Stephen feels as though his only chance to make it to the big boxing tournament is to go along with the dangerous plan of a local tough guy to whom he has been introduced by a thrill-seeking friend.
17) Gold in the water: the true story of ordinary men and their extraordinary dream of Olympic glory
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
Gold in the Water is a nonfiction sports narrative that chronicles the journey of a group of America's finest swimmers and coaches as they vied to compete in the 2000 Olympic Games.
In California, a team of talented young men begin pursuing the most elusive dream in sports, the Olympic Games. The pressure steadily increases as two best friends (a mentor and his protégé) reach the top of the world rankings and unexpectedly find themselves direct...
18) Magic Time
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Magic Time is vintage Kinsella. It is a novel of hope and promise and baseball that becomes humorous, enchanting fiction.
20) Crossfire
Author
Series
Crossfire volume 01
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
A diverse group of men and women, fleeing a troubled Earth, arrive on the planet Greentrees where they plan to start a colony under the leadership of Jake Holman, but they are dragged into war when they discover the planet is already inhabited by two alien races, the DNA-based humanoids known as the Furs, and their deadly enemies, the Vines, a race of sentient plants.
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