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1) Tangerine
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Paul, who lives in the shadow of his football hero brother Erik, fights for the right to play soccer despite his near blindness and slowly beings to remember the incident that damaged his eyesight. [YOUNG ADULT READING]
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
Raised by an unstable father who keeps constantly on the move, Sam Border has long been the voice of his silent younger brother, Riddle, but everything changes when Sam meets Emily Bell and, welcomed by her family, the brothers are faced with normalcy for the first time.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
GN 750L
Language
English
Description
"With a bolt of lightning on my kicks...The court is SIZZLING. My sweat in DRIZZLING. Stop all that quivering. Cuz tonight I'm delivering," announces 12-year-old Josh Bell. He and his twin brother Jordan are awesome on the court. Josh has basketball in his blood, but he's got mad beats, too, that tell his family's story in verse in this fast and furious novel. Josh and Jordan must come to grips with growing up on and off the court to realize...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Legally-blind college reporter Mike Mavic hopes to get a story about a body found in Steepleton, believed to be that of long-missing teen Christopher Creed, but finds something odd about the town, including Justin Creed's obsessive drive to learn what really happened to his older brother.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thirteen-year-old Kaleb has always looked up to his older stepbrother, Luke, in snowboarding and everything else, so when Luke is wounded in Afghanistan Kaleb is devastated--and to honor his brother he is set on competing on the difficult slopestyle course.
Author
Series
Wilder boys volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Jake, thirteen, and Taylor, eleven, learn that their mother is still alive but facing grave danger if they do not return the money they took from her abusive boyfriend, Bull, they leave their father, who is not eager to help, and set off on their ownagain for a late autumn trek from Wyoming to Pittsburgh.
7) Red zone
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Identical twins Ronde and Tiki Barber's excitement over the approaching state championship football game turns to worry when there is a chicken pox outbreak at Hidden Valley Junior High.
8) Wild card
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Through the course of a difficult season, Ronde learns that his coach is right about football being a mental game, as he tries to fill in as kicker while he and his identical twin, Tiki, help Adam improve his grades.
13) Back home
Author
Series
Lexile measure
HL 790L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Southcentral Alaska, Sam Barger tries to help his Marine Corps brother Joe, just back from Vietnam, who struggles with alcoholism and post-traumatic stress disorder in the turmoil of the 1960s.
15) Suckerpunch
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Shy, seventeen-year-old Marcus and his sixteen-year-old brother, Enrique, accompanied by two friends, drive from their home in southern California to Monterey to confront the abusive father who walked out a year earlier, and who now wants to return home.
16) Knockout
Author
Series
House arrest volume 02
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Levi was once a premature baby who suffered from respiratory problems; he recovered, and now in seventh grade, he struggles to demonstrate to his divorced mother and overprotective brother that he is okay--so when his father suggests he take up boxing he falls in love with the sport, but he still must find a way to convince his family to set him free to follow his dream.
17) Movie mayhem
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Frank and Joe Hardy must keep movie star Anya Archer and all the other Hollywood stars attending the Big Apple Awards at Radio City Music Hall safe from a bomb threat.
18) The toy brother
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 590L
Language
English
Formats
Description
An apprentice alchemist finds that his despised little brother is the only one who can help him when he concocts a potion which makes him the size of a peanut.
19) Movie menace
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Frank and Joe Hardy are assigned to pose as extras on the set of the an upcoming teen movie, Deathstalker. The star, an ingenue named Anya, believes that someone is out to get her--and she's got proof. Someone tried to burn down her trailer! The Undercover Brothers need to get to the bottom of the arson, and other mayhem surrounding the filming of the hit comic book."--Publisher.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Samuel and his younger brother, Joshua, are free black boys living in an orphanage during the Civil War, but when Samuel takes the blame for his brother's prank, he is sent South, given a new name, and sold into slavery--and somehow he must survive both captivity and the war, to find his way back to his brother.
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