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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
In 1899, ten-year-old Robbie, son of a preacher in a small Vermont town, gets himself into all kinds of trouble when he decides to give up being a Christian in order to make the most of his life before the end of the world.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
All twelve-year-old Josh wants to do is play baseball, but when his father, a minor league pitcher, signs him up for a youth championship team, Josh finds himself embroiled in a situation with potentially illegal consequences.
5) Kid owner
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Ryan learns his estranged father left him the Dallas Cowboys in his will, it is all Ryan can do to keep his dad's other son from snatching the team away"--
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
620L
Language
English
Description
When their home next to a brook is destroyed by beavers, a large family of golden mice is aided by Poppy the deer mouse and her grumpy porcupine friend, who in the process forges a relationship with the son he had abandoned.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
When Milo Speck enters Ogregon, a land populated with hungry ogres, enormous turkeys, children needing rescue, and his own, ordinary, salesman-father, his top priority is to escape--but only after thwarting a plot to turn children everywhere into ogre snack food.
8) Babe & me
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Description
With their ability to travel through time using vintage baseball cards, Joe and his father have the opportunity to find out whether Babe Ruth really did call his shot when he hit that homerun in the third game of the 1932 World Series against the Chicago Cubs.
9) The dogs
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Cameron is used to moving at a moment's notice because he and his mother are always running away from his supposedly violent father, but he is disturbed by their latest refuge, a creepy, deserted farmhouse, haunted by bloodthirsty dogs--and when he sees a boy hiding in the barn, and finds an old picture of the same boy, he starts wondering about the possibility of human ghosts.
10) Framed in fire
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
530L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When his stepfather conspires to keep thirteen-year-old Peter at a mental institution, Peter begins to piece together secrets about his past with the help of his younger brother's strangely prophetic dreams.
11) Rivals
Author
Series
Baseball great novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Josh looks forward to facing a true rival in the Baseball Hall of Fame tournament, but first he and his friends Jaden and Benji put themselves at great risk trying to expose the truth about a conspiracy to bribe the head umpire.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
While preparing for a role in the school play, twelve-year-old Leo finds an autobiography that his father wrote as a teenager and ponders the ways people change as they grow up. Includes the text for the play, "Rumpopo's Porch."
13) First team
Author
Series
New kids novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The companion novel to New Kid, where Brock is in another new town after being on the run with his dad again, and this time, he joins the football team"--
14) A different pond
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
620L
Language
English
Description
"As a young boy, Bao Phi awoke early, hours before his father's long workday began, to fish on the shores of a small pond in Minneapolis. Unlike many other anglers, Bao and his father fished for food, not recreation. Between hope-filled casts, Bao's father told him about a different pond in their homeland of Vietnam"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Author Kevin Emerson channels Frank Cottrell Boyce in this tween sci-fi adventure about two kids from opposite sides of the country who find themselves on a road trip to save the world from an impending alien attack. Haley and Dodger have nothing in common. But that was before they learned about the strange, unexplainable phenomena in Juliette, Arizona. Before they both received summer research grants from a mysterious foundation and discovered their...
Author
Series
Football genius novels volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Troy always dreamed of meeting his father, but when the man finally appears his mother's anger, his father's shady business dealings, and Troy's own feelings make the reunion difficult and confusing.
17) Game changers
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
When the coach's son, shawn o'brien, is chosen to play quarterback, eleven-year-old ben mcbain is not surprised--but when he tries to be a good teammate and help the inconsistent shawn, he is startled to learn that his new friend does not really want the position.
Author
Series
Timeless volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Description
"In a world where past, present, and future have collided, Diego and his friends must rescue Diego's father from an evil group of renegades, otherwise their whole existence is threatened"--
19) Eruption
Author
Series
Storm runners volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Chase and his friend Nicole Rossi attempt to rescue the Rossi Brothers' Circus--lions, tigers, elephants, and all--in Mexico, where a massive earthquake has struck, leading to the imminent eruption of a volcano.
20) The water seeker
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Traces the hard life, filled with losses, adversity, and adventure, of Amos, son of a trapper and dowser, from 1833 when his mother dies giving birth to him until 1859, when he himself has grown up and has a son of his own.
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