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1) 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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
940L
Language
English
Description
In 1945, thirteen-year-old Levi is sent to find the father he has not seen in three years, going from Chicago, to segregated North Carolina, and finally to Pendleton, Oregon, where he learns that his father's unit, the all-Black 555th paratrooper battalion, will never see combat but finally has a mission. Includes historical notes.
3) Abduction!
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Bonnie has a feeling of foreboding on the very day that her six-year-old brother Matt and their dog Pookie are abducted, and she becomes involved in a major search effort as well as a frightening adventure. Matt is missing. Bonnie's brother left his classroom to use the bathroom --and disappeared. A police dog traces his scent to the curb, where he apparently got into a vehicle. But why would Matt go anywhere with a stranger? Overwhelmed...
4) QB 1
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
990L
Language
English
Description
Jake Cullen, fourteen, lives in the shadows of his father and older brother until he becomes the starting quarterback for the high school football team and finally has his chance to shine.
5) Crazy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fifteen-year-old loner Jason struggles to hide his father's declining mental condition after his mother's death, but when his father disappears he must confide in the other members of a therapy group he has been forced to join at school.
6) Hero
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Zach learns he has the same special abilities as his father, who was the President's globe-trotting troubleshooter until "the Bads" killed him, and now Zach must decide whether to use his powers in the same way at the risk of his own life.
7) Honestly Ben
Author
Series
Openly straight volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
HL 660L
Language
English
Description
Ben Carver returns for the spring semester at the exclusive Natick School in Massachusetts determined to put his relationship with Rafe Goldberg behind him and concentrate on his grades and the award that will mean a full scholarship--but Rafe is still there, there is a girl named Hannah whom he meets in the library, and behind it all is his relationship with his distant, but demanding father.
8) Gym candy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
Mick Johnson works hard for a placement on the varsity team during his freshman year, and decides to use steroids in order to hold onto his edge, despite the consequences to his health and social life.
Author
Series
Warriors (Erin Hunter). Dawn of the clans volume 2
Warriors dawn of the clans volume 02
Warriors. Dawn of the clans volume 2
Warriors dawn of the clans volume 2
Warriors dawn of the clans volume 02
Warriors. Dawn of the clans volume 2
Warriors dawn of the clans volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
The mountain cats followed the sun trail to a new territory, convinced that in a land with more prey, their lives would be free from strife. But while no cat has gone hungry, tensions are rising -- and the once firmly united group has split in two. Caught in the middle is a young cat named Thunder. Orphaned after his father, Clear Sky, rejected him, Thunder has thrived under Gray Wing's watchful eye. But Thunder cannot escape the memory or hurt of...
10) Travel team
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
Description
After he is cut from his travel basketball team--the very same team that his father once led to national prominence--twelve-year-old Danny Walker forms his own team of cast-offs that might have a shot at victory.
11) I'll be there
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: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
HL 680L
Language
English
Description
When brothers Max and Jay help a classmate in trouble, they struggle with the consequences of their violent actions and worry they may be more like their abusive father than they thought, so the brothers turn to their Bribri roots to find their way forward.
13) Muckers
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Felix O'Sullivan, standing in the shadow of his dead brother, an angry, distant father, and racial tension, must lead the last-ever Muckers high school football team to the state championship before a mine closing shuts down his entire town"-- Provided by publisher.
14) Loveboat reunion
Author
Series
Loveboat volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"Sophie Ha and Xavier Yeh have what some would call a tumultuous past, but at least they're friends now. They left the drama behind them at the summer program in Taipei. Sophie is determined to be the best student Dartmouth's ever had. Xavier just wants to stay under his overbearing father's radar, collect his trust fund when he turns eighteen, and concentrate on what makes him happy, for the first time ever. But Sophie's college professor thinks...
15) The lying woods
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
HL 760L
Language
English
Description
Owen Foster is pulled from his elite New Orleans boarding school when his father's assets are seized and, back in his small town, begins to piece together his father's past despite mounting danger.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
"Jeremy is not excited about the prospect of spending the summer with his dad and his uncle in a seaside cabin in Oregon. It's the first summer after his parents' divorce, and he hasn't exactly been seeking alone time with his dad. He doesn't have a choice, though, so he goes...and on his first day takes a walk on the beach and finds himself intrigued by a boy his age running by. Eventually, he and Runner Boy (Evan) meet--and what starts out as friendship...
17) Above all else
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Eighteen-year-olds Rose and Tate are best friends and climbing buddies, and now they are embarking on the greatest climb of all--Mount Everest; but as the climbers encounter physical and emotional challenges the higher they go, the expedition starts to slide toward disaster, testing the teens' courage, determination, and their feelings for each other."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Millicent Min series volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Formats
Description
After flunking sixth-grade English, basketball prodigy Stanford Wong must struggle to pass his summer-school class, keep his failure a secret from his friends, and satisfy his academically demanding father.
19) Grandmaster
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
"A father-son chess tournament reveals the dark side of the game"--
20) Bloody Seoul
Author
Lexile measure
HL 560L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Supremely loyal, sixteen-year-old Rocky expects to take over his father's notorious gang, Three Star Pa, one day but after catching his father in a lie, discovers they are not as alike as he believed.
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