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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
620L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Xavier's father returns to Boston after serving ten years in federal prison, tensions quickly mount and Xavier's anger explodes on the baseball field, making it less likely that he will achieve his dream of playing in the major leagues than that he will follow his father's path.
82) Wirewalker
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Fourteen-year-old Clarence Feather tries to survive in his impoverished neighborhood in the aftermath of his mother's murder"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
To a thirteen-year-old Vermont farm boy whose father slaughters pigs for a living, maturity comes early as he learns "doing what's got to be done," especially regarding his pet pig who cannot produce a litter.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"After being caught stealing one too many times, Benjamin Waterfalls is sent to a "boot camp" at the Ojibwe reservation where he searches for answers as he tries to turn his life around and embrace this second chance"--WorldCat.
89) Dark sons
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
Alternating poems compare and contrast the conflicted feelings of Ishmael, son of the Biblical patriarch Abraham, and Sam, a teenager in New York City, as they try to come to terms with being abandoned by their fathers and with the love they feel for their younger stepbrothers.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Description
Max and his dad love their time together. Weekends mean pancakes, pizza, spy games, dog walking, school projects, and interesting neighbors! Every weekend brings a small adventure as third-grader Max gets to know his dad's new neighbor - and learns some new ways of thinking about home.
91) A brave bear
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Language
English
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Description
After suggesting he and his father go to the river to cool down, a little bear tries to impress his father along the way.
92) All shook up
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
When thirteen-year-old Josh goes to stay with his father in Chicago for a few months, he discovers--to his horror--that his dad has become an Elvis impersonator.
93) Blue-ribbon dad
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Squirrels dad is coming home soon and squirrel is making his dad a blue- ribbon surprise because he is the best dad!
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"Ten-year-old Anthony Joplin has made it to double digits! Which means he's finally old enough to play in the spades tournament every Joplin Man before him seems to have won. So while Ant's friends are stressing about fifth grade homework and girls, Ant only has one thing on his mind: how he'll measure up to his father's expectations at the card table. Then Ant's best friend gets grounded, and he's forced to find another spades partner. And Shirley,...
Author
Series
Joey Pigza books volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
Joey, who is still taking medication to keep him from getting too wired, goes to spend the summer with the hard-drinking father he has never known and tries to help the baseball team he coaches win the championship.
96) Papasaurus
Author
Series
Babysaurus volume 2
Lexile measure
AD 510L
Language
English
Description
Babysaurus loves to play hide-and-seek in the jungle with his Papasaurus, but one day Papasaurus hides and Baby cannot find him--so he asks the other dinosaurs--Stego, Anky, Velo, and others--for help finding his father.
97) Caged warrior
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Formats
Description
From age three, McCutcheon Daniels, now sixteen, has been trained in Mixed Martial Arts and must keep winning to feed his five-year-old sister and father, but chance presents an opportunity to get out of the Detroit slums using his brain instead of his fighting skills.
99) Billy Christmas
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Language
English
Formats
Description
When Billy's father mysteriously disappears and his mother responds by becoming more and more reclusive, Billy maintains hope that his father's absence is not by choice-- espite the rumors and taunts of his classmates who believe otherwise. Twelve days before Christmas, Billy acquires a magical tree with a dozen ornaments, each of which holds a clue to finding his father. In order to do so, however, Billy must solve one puzzle each day, so he enlists...
100) Worst-case Collin
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the two years since his mother was killed in an automobile crash, Colin has been anticipating further disasters, writing down what to do in the event of an avalanche or mentally practicing the Heimlich maneuver just in case--but the real trouble is that his mathematician father is obsessed with a classic math problem and has a hoarding problem that is spiraling out of control, leaving Colin desperate to hide this chaos from his friends and everyone...
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