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1) Trapped
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Imagine the horror of being trapped in a deadly place! People have been trapped in many ways-trapped by fire, by water, or underground. Some have even been trapped in molasses! Sometimes they escape...and sometimes they didn't.
2) Smiles to go
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Will Tuppence's life has always been ruled by science and common sense but in ninth grade, shaken up by the discovery that protons decay, he begins to see the entire world differently and gains new perspective on his relationships with his little sister and two closest friends.
3) Shot down
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
HL 590L
Language
English
Formats
Description
One minute the plane is flying high. Next a bullet or a missile hits the plane, and it begins to fall from the sky. Sometimes the airplane explodes and all is lost, sometimes the crew can eject. Read about the heroism, the tragedies, and a very big question: When is it OK to shoot down a plane?
4) Last chance
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Robyn's scared of dogs--like, really scared. But she agrees to spend her summer working at an animal shelter anyway. (It's a long story.) Robyn soon discovers that many juvenile offenders also volunteer at the shelter--including Nick Di'Angelo, a boy from Robyn's past. A boy she hoped never to see again. Nick has a talent for getting into trouble, but after his latest arrest, Robyn suspects that he just might be innocent. And she sets out to prove...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
He's handsome. He's charming. He's a total gentleman . . . and he's totally outgunned and outnumbered. He's Michael Patrick Obañon-a role that has Antonio Banderas written all over it. Obañon's lost his inheritance-a 100,000-acre New Mexico spread-and he could lose his life if he's not careful. A ruthless band of renegades have seized his land, and he's determined to get it back.. Obañon's got one secret weapon: his fierce intelligence. He...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
Lance Gordon's running out of room and time. Back in the Sierras he killed the man who murdered his father. Unfortunately that man turned out to be a Deputy Marshal, and now Lance has a price on his head. Like Alan Ladd as Shane, Lance wants only to live in peace, but he'll have to go through hell to get there. Running from the law and the cavalry, Lance heads for the one place no sheriff or soldier will go-into the territory ruled by The Baron of...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Forged in the hot sun and sand of the Arizona desert, Chinook Shannon is as tough as they come-as steely-eyed and tall in the saddle as Randolph Scott. But Chinook is far from home-in the north country of Montana-and facing a challenge as big as the territory itself. Following his grandfather's suspicious death, he's come to Montana to claim his inheritance-the family's cattle ranch. But the territory's crawling with bandits and bankers, and they...
10) Out of the cold
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a homeless man is found dead, Robyn wants to honor his memory by uncovering his identity before he became homeless, but when her search heats up she finds herself in danger.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Robyn just wants time with her boyfriend, Nick, but he's always busy. Morgan thinks hot transfer student James Derrick could take Nick off her mind. Then Robyn realizes she and James share a hidden connection.
12) Last dance
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
HL 520L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rachel Deering, a 13-year-old aspiring ballerina from Miami, finds herself in the hospital, diagnosed with diabetes, and has to learn how to manage her disease, cope with being different from her friends, and wonder if she ever dance again.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the classic western movie The Searchers Jeffrey Hunter plays a young man with a mission in his heart and a chip on his shoulder. The character might well have been modeled on eighteen-year-old Lee Thompson, a trail-hand on a mission of his own-to save his dad, Diehard Thompson, the aging sheriff of Wolf River, Montana.Old Diehard's lost control of his town, and it seems every outcast and outlaw west of the Mississippi is on the prowl in Wolf...
14) If I were you
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Family friendly Un-Adult-A-rated fun! Does size matter? Is bigger better? That's no small question to Tom Little-the circus midget with giant dreams. Tom may be king of the midgets, but he's got far grander ambitions-to become the muscleman at the top, the ringmaster. Now, drawing on some dark ancient secrets and mystic texts, he's about to get his wish. Imagine a pint-sized Mickey Rooney on steroids, trading up into a body like Burt Lancaster's....
15) Change of heart
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her best friend Morgan's hockey player boyfriend is murdered, Robyn investigates to prove her other best friend's innocence.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fortune hunter Billy Newman is not a man of great strength or physical courage. Like a young Johnny Depp, he gets by on his wit, wiles and good looks. And he's had quite a good run-striking gold in the Philippines and buying his very own island in the South Seas. . . .But there's trouble in paradise, and Billy's in the thick of it. The island's crops are failing. The island's people are dying. And the island's owner-Billy-is taking the heat....
17) In too deep
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Robin's boyfriend Nick arrives in the town where she has a summer job to investigate whether his friend's brother, a student at a home for boys with problems with the law, really committed suicide, Robin decides to help.
18) The crossroads
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
950L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Frustrated with a government that pays him to bury surplus produce while city people starve, Eben Smith loads his wagon with fruits and heads for the city with the intention of bartering them. However, his way soon becomes uncertain, and after falling into a nexus in time, Eben is soon bartering much more than produce with cultures in a series of alternate realities, accidentally wreaking havoc in each one.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Although she longs to be an all-American girl, Roxanne, a timid, Israeli-born thirteen-year-old who idolizes Wonder Woman, begins to see things differently when the supremely confident Liat, also from Israel, moves into the "cursed house" next door and they become friends.
20) Captured
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
HL 660L
Language
English
Description
Read about some of history's most exciting captures! Are these cases of tragedy or triumph? It all depends on who-or what-is captured. The captive might be a runaway slave during the Civil War, or a war criminal caught long after World War II.
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