Catalog Search Results
Author
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Description
Enduring an isolated existence after the death of her mother, 14-year-old Turtle roams the rocky shores and tide pools of the California coast and refutes every outside attempt to engage her before an unexpected friendship with a newcomer helps her realize the vulnerabilities of her life with her charismatic father.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Set in a beautiful seaside town on the Italian Riviera, Disney and Pixar's original feature film Luca is a coming-of-age story about one young boy experiencing an unforgettable summer filled with gelato, pasta and endless scooter rides. Luca shares these adventures with his newfound best friend, but all the fun is threatened by a deeply-held secret: they are sea monsters from another world just below the water's surface."--Amazon
Author
Language
English
Description
"A luminous and wrenching portrait of a frighteningly possible future, The Light Pirate is a hopeful, sweeping story of survival and resilience spanning one extraordinary woman's lifetime as she navigates the uncertainty, brutality, and arresting beauty of a rapidly changing world (Booklist, starred review). Florida is slipping away. As devastating weather patterns and rising sea levels wreak gradual havoc on the state's infrastructure, a powerful...
5) Monster club
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Like almost everything in eleven-year-old Eric "Doodles" King's life, King's Wonderland - the amusement park his great-great grandfather founded - was seriously damaged when a hurricane hit Coney Island neighborhood. Hungry property developers are circling the wreck of the once-awesome King's Wonderland like vultures, and Eric's family is falling apart from the threat of losing it all. If it weren't for Monster Club - the epic role-playing game that...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Harvey Cheyne, the precocious and arrogant son of an American railway tycoon, is rescued from drowning by a New England fishing boat, he is unable to convince the crew to take him to shore and is forced to take a job on board the schooner. With no other choice, he must quickly adapt to life at sea, learning to sail and to fish. Thrown into this unfamiliar environment, he comes to understand the importance of hard work and dignity, and begins...
Author
Series
Rebel Joe volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two Counties has always been a bit peculiar. More unmarked graves are dug there than proper ones, they say. And families keep secrets too. I'd learn that the hard way.Pop and I caught the early train to Mitchell, Indiana, that morning. I was excited to see my cousin Birdy and run around town all day. But after I had an encounter with a cutthroat on the train, and when I found out I had a brother named Ray, I figured things couldn't get any more dangerous...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10 - AR Pts: 68
Lexile measure
1040L
Language
English
Formats
Description
At The Center of Martin Chuzzlewit -- the novel Angus Wilson called "one of the most sheerly exciting of all Dickens stories"--Is Martin himself, very old, very rich, very much on his guard. What he suspects (with good reason) is that every one of Iris close and distant relations. now converging in droves on the country inn where they believe he is dying, will stop at nothing to become the inheritor of Iris great fortune. Having unjustly disinherited...
Author
Language
English
Description
"August, 1943. Fourteen-year-old Massimo is all alone. Newly orphaned and fleeing from Rome after surviving the American bombing raid that killed his parents, Massimo is attacked by thugs and finds himself bloodied at the base of the Montecassino. It is there in the Benedictine abbey's shadow that a charismatic and cryptic man calling himself Pietro Houdini, the self-proclaimed 'Master Artist and confidante of the Vatican,' rescues Massimo and brings...
12) The Dickens boy
Author
Language
English
Description
Edward Dickens, the tenth child of author Charles Dickens, has consistently let down his parents. Unable to apply himself at school and adrift in life, the teenaged boy is sent to Australia in the hopes that he can make something of himself - or at least fall out of the public eye. Determined to prove to his parents and more importantly, himself, that he can succeed in this vast and unfamiliar wilderness, Edward works hard at his new life amidst various...
Author
Series
Ninja's journey volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ophaned at a young age, fifteen-year-old Kata is a trained ninja who works alone and can take care of herself. She is fully prepared for her first solo assignment, that is until she learns she is to be an assassin and she flees with her target and his sister, fighting to survive against skilled samurai warriors, deceptive ninjas, and supernatural beings in order to protect a powerful family secret.
14) The potter's boy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"An odyssey-type adventure and coming-of-age story about family obligation and finding one's path"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Set in a beautiful seaside town on the Italian Rivera, Disney and Pixar's coming-of-age story Luca is about a young boy's unforgettable summer of adventures. Luca shares gelato, pasta and endless scooter rides with his new best friend, but the fun is threatened by a deeply held secret: he is a sea monster from another world just below the water's surface. Luca: the deluxe junior novelization retells the whole extraordinary story and features eight...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Formats
Description
When twelve-year-old cartography genius T.S. Spivet receives a prestigious award, he leaves his quiet ranch home in Montana for Washington, D.C., and he learns more about himself and the world around him on his journey.
17) The last legacy
Author
Series
World of the Narrows volume 3
Language
English
Description
When a letter from her uncle Henrick summoning her back to Bastian arrives on Bryn Roth's eighteenth birthday, Bryn is eager to prove herself to the family, even as she learns the Roths are still engtangled in the kind of dirty business that got her parents killed years ago.
Summoned back to Bastian by her uncle Henrik, Bryn Roth is eager to prove herself and finally take her place in her long-lost family. Henrik has plans for Bryn, but she must...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Set in a beautiful seaside town on the Italian Riviera, Disney and Pixar's original feature film Luca is a coming-of-age story about one young boy experiencing an unforgettable summer filled with gelato, pasta and endless scooter rides. Luca shares these adventures with his newfound best friend, but all the fun is threatened by a deeply-held secret: they are sea monsters from another world just below the water's surface."--
19) Finn
Author
Lexile measure
1150L
Language
English
Description
Relates the story of the life of Huckleberry Finn's father, detailing his relationships with his dad, brother, and son; affair with an African-American woman; problems with money and drinking; and death.
Author
Series
Waffle hearts volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In this sequel to Adventures with Waffles, best friends Trille and Lena find their seaside escapades disrupted by a new soccer coach, who puts Lena's goalkeeping dreams on hold, and a new girl on whom Trille has a crush.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request