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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
"Best friends Isaac and Marco face various challenges in sixth grade, such as Isaac getting better grades, Marco winning a spot on the basketball team, and both seeing their efforts make a change in their respective family lives. They hope their friendship and support for one another will be enough to help them from falling short"--WorldCat.
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Three guys spent their youth bearing the wrath of schoolyard bullies. They weren't tall, cool, and athletic, so they often got picked on by those who were. But when Gus convinces his two friends Richie and Clark to take some batting practice on a nearby Little League baseball field for old times sake, the three end up challenging a team of eleven-year-olds for the right to play on the field. Gus, often picked on because he was short, is nonetheless...
4) Air
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
Twelve-and-a-half year old Emelyn Ethrige lives with her widowed father in South Carolina, dreams of wheelchair motocross, and makes custom chair bags trying to earn enough money to buy a serious set of wheels; she has been in a wheelchair all her life, and is just fine getting around without help, but it seems that since her mother was killed in an accident everyone (father, grandparents, teachers, and classmates) have started treating her differently:...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
530L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Riley and Blake have been best friends forever, even though Blake is a daredevil and teases Riley. That all ends when Blake finds a new group of friends. Riley joins the swim team and soon finds he doesn't need Blake's friendship to get by. But when Blake tries a crazy stunt at the lake one day, can Riley put the past aside and save his former friend?
7) Pucking wild
Author
Series
Jacksonville Rays volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
While in Florida for six weeks to be close to her best friend, who's the team doc for the NHL's Jacksonville Rays, Tess Owens-when star forward Ryan Langley, in need a place to rehab, arrives on her doorstep-finds her life turned upside down.
Author
Series
EllRay Jakes series volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When one of EllRay's best friends starts skateboarding with the meanest boy in class, EllRay tries to learn how to skateboard to win him back.
10) Darius & Twig
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
"Two best friends, a writer and a runner, deal with bullies, family issues, social pressures, and their quest for success coming out of Harlem"-- Provided by publisher.
11) The sandlot
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It's the early 1960s and fifth-grader Scotty Smalls (Tom Guiry) has just moved into town with his folks (Karen Allen and Denis Leary). Kids call him a dork -- he can't even throw a baseball. But that changes when the leader of the neighborhood gang recruits him to play on the nearby sandlot field. It's the beginning of a magical summer of baseball, wild adventures, first kisses, and fearsome confrontations with the dreaded Beast and its owner (James...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
550L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tabitha has been volunteering with her best friend Rachael at the Rocky Ridge Riding Center for three months, but she keeps getting in trouble because of her lack of focus--can working with the troubled horse, Diamond, help her to save both of them for the Riding Center?
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