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Author
Series
Applewhites volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
Jake, a budding juvenile delinquent, is sent for home schooling to the arty and eccentric Applewhite family's Creative Academy, where he discovers talents and interests he never knew he had.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
In 1918, caring for her family's homing pigeons while her father is away fighting in World War I, twelve-year-old Pam comes to suspect that a mysterious stranger in her small North Carolina town is a German spy.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
950L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the early 1960s, twelve-year-old songwriter Livy Two Weems dreams of seeing the world beyond the Maggie Valley, North Carolina, holler where she lives in poverty with her parents and eight brothers and sisters, but understands that she must put family first.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
960L
Language
English
Description
Because living with "modern-hippy" parents on a goat farm means fourteen-year-old Janie Gorman cannot have a normal high school life, she tries joining Jam Band, making friends with Monster, and spending time with elderly former civil rights workers.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
Living in the family car in their small North Carolina town after their father leaves them virtually penniless, Georgina, desperate to improve their situation and unwilling to accept her overworked mother's calls for patience, persuades her younger brother to help her in an elaborate scheme to get money by stealing a dog and then claiming the reward that the owners are bound to offer.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
After a progression of appalling decisions, eleven-year-old Sunny thinks of an arrangement to reunite her parents, but first must reconcile their past and present or risk losing their future after she finds a photograph that changes everything.
7) Just Gus
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
"After guardian dog Gus is injured defending his flock of sheep, he is sent to recuperate and heal with a young boy, Diego, whom Gus finds he can help by learning how to work as an emotional support animal"--Title verso page.
8) The baptism
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In twentieth-century Occoneechee Neck, North Carolina--an area still affected by its history of slavery--twelve-year-old Leon Curry reflects about whether he wants to give up sinning to be baptized alongside his twin brother.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1947, twelve-year-old Pattie Mae is sustained by her dreams of escaping Rich Square, North Carolina, and moving to Harlem when her Uncle Buddy is arrested for attempted rape of a white woman and her grandfather is diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor.
10) Anybody shining
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
990L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a series of letters to her cousin, twelve-year-old Arie Mae relates her life in a mountain valley of North Carolina in the 1920s.
11) Chestnut
Author
Series
American dog volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"Chestnut is a dog without a family. After being abandoned in the wild, Chestnut is wandering the North Carolina countryside trying to survive. When twelve-year-old Meg stumbles upon him on the outskirts of her family’s Christmas tree farm, she just knows that they’re meant to be together forever. The only problem? The farm is on the brink of closing down, and her family can’t afford a pet. Meg knows she has what it takes to save the business...
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