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1) Stand tall
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
HL 520L
Language
English
Description
Tree, a six-foot-three-inch twelve-year-old, copes with his parents' recent divorce and his failure as an athlete by helping his grandfather, a Vietnam vet and recent amputee, and Sophie, a new girl at school.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
Struggling to confront her grandfather's impending death, sixteen-year-old Vicky Austin finds herself the center of attention for three young men, and, when the inevitable crisis comes, she must rely on the love of others to overcome her grief.
3) Heartbeat
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Annie ponders the many rhythms of life the year that her mother becomes pregnant, her grandfather begins faltering, and her best friend (and running partner) becomes distant.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Description
"Marin hasn't spoken to anyone from her old life since the day she left everything behind. No one knows the truth about those final weeks. Not even her best friend Mabel. But even thousands of miles away from the California coast, at college in New York, Marin still feels the pull of the life and tragedy she's tried to outrun. Now, months later, alone in an emptied dorm for winter break, Marin waits. Mabel is coming to visit and Marin will be forced...
Author
Series
Miss Peregrine volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
HL 750L
Language
English
Description
Jacob Portman is back in Florida and this time Miss Peregrine, Emma, and their peculiar friends are with him, but when he finds a secret underground bunker owned by his grandfather Abe, Jacob is thrust into a new adventure.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
Jack's Grandpa wears his slippers to the supermarket serves up Spam à la Custard for dinner and often doesn't remember Jack's name But he can still take to the skies in a speeding Spitfire and save the day. An exquisite portrait of the bond between a small boy and his beloved Grandpa this book takes readers on an incredible journey with Spitfires over London and Great Escapes through the city in a high octane adventure full of comedy and heart.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Arthur Louis Pullman III is on the verge of a breakdown. He's been stripped of his college scholarship, is losing his grip on reality, and has been sent away to live with his aunt and uncle. It's there that Arthur discovers a journal written by his grandfather, the first Arthur Louis Pullman, an iconic Salinger-esque author who went missing the last week of his life and died hundreds of miles away from their family home. What happened in that week...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
"A horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores its abandoned bedrooms and hallways, it becomes clear that Miss Peregrine's children were more than just peculiar. They may have been dangerous. They may have been quarantined on a deserted island for good reason"--Jacket.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
Clayton feels most alive when he's with his grandfather, Cool Papa Byrd, and the band of Bluesmen -- he can't wait to join them, just as soon as he has a blues song of his own. But then the unthinkable happens. Cool Papa Byrd dies, and Clayton's mother forbids Clayton from playing the blues. And Clayton knows that's no way to live. Armed with his grandfather's brown porkpie hat and his harmonica, he runs away from home in search of the Bluesmen, hoping...
12) Scorched
Author
Series
Scorched trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
HL 740L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixteen-year-old Trinity Foxx does not believe her grandfather's latest treasure is a real dragon's egg until soldiers invade trying to steal it, a strange boy tells her she must work with him to stop an impending dragon war, and the dragon inside the egg begins telling her what to do.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Francine loves her grandfather, but their time together is running out. He has one final wish: to see a male heir carry on the family traditions. Francine knows his ideas are outdated, but she would do anything for him. Her solution? Ask Ollie Tran, a family friend (and former crush, not that it matters), to pretend to be ceremonially adopted and act like the grandson A Gūng never had. Ollie generally avoids the odd, too blunt (and fine, sort of...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
HL 710L
Language
English
Description
Overburdened by his parents' bickering and a bully's attacks, fifteen-year-old Lucky Linderman begins dreaming of being with his grandfather, who went missing during the Vietnam War, but during a visit to Arizona, his aunt and uncle and their beautiful neighbor, Ginny, help him find a new perspective.
16) Struts & frets
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
HL 670L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sammy wants to be a musician, as was his grandfather, but while the band he is in is self-destructing, Sammy is too distracted by his grandfather's decline and confused feelings about his best friend to fix it--and his mother stays too busy to help.
17) Wild swans
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
No summer classes this year, none of Granddad's intense expectations to live up to the family name. The summer before Ivy's senior year is going to be all bonfires, barbecues, and friends. But when the mother who abandoned her returns home with two young daughters in tow, all of the stories Ivy wove to protect her heart start to unravel. And the secrets of the Milbourn past... and the curse that Milbourn women die young and tragically... need to...
18) The wolf and me
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
490L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bunny is in trouble. Again. He's locked in a cold basement room, wearing his skates. Where is he? And why do his kidnappers keep asking about his dead grandpa and some weird national anthem? All Bunny knows is that he has to get home, even if he has to skate all the way.
Author
Series
Seven volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Every family has a black sheep - and Rennie's it. When he puts his mind to something - revenge, proving someone wrong, driving his father crazy - he's unstoppable. Which turns out to be a good thing when the grandfather he barely knew sends him to Iceland, of all places, and his stubbornness and will to survive are put to the ultimate test.
20) Coda
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When his brother Bunny disappears, Spencer finds himself plunged into the stuff of movie thrillers: kidnapping, terrorists and a rogue alligator. As he races the clock to save his brother, he must sort the real from the make believe and unravel a mystery involving his grandfather.
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