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61) Hole in my life
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Description
The author explains how, as a young adult, he became a drug user and smuggler, was arrested, did time in prison, and eventually got out and went to college, all the while hoping to become a writer.
63) Hoot
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Roy, who is new to his small Florida community, becomes involved in another boy's attempt to save a colony of burrowing owls from a proposed construction site.
66) Criss cross
Author
Series
Newbery medal book volume 2006
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
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Description
Teenagers in a small town in the 1960s experience new thoughts and feelings, question their identities, connect, and disconnect as they search for the meaning of life and love.
Author
Series
Heaven trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
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Description
Bobby's carefree teenage life changes forever when he becomes a father and must care for his adored baby daughter.
69) Wemberly worried
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A mouse named Wemberly, who worries about everything, finds that she has a whole list of things to worry about when she faces the first day of nursery school.
70) Saffy's angel
Author
Series
Casson family volume 1
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Description
After learning that she was adopted, thirteen-year-old Saffron's relationship with her eccentric, artistic family changes, until they help her go back to Italy where she was born to find a special momento of her past.
71) Show way
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
The making of "Show ways," or quilts which once served as secret maps for freedom-seeking slaves, is a tradition passed from mother to daughter.
72) Elsewhere
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Description
After fifteen-year-old Liz Hall is hit by a taxi and killed, she finds herself in a place that is both like and unlike Earth, where she must adjust to her new status and figure out how to "live."
75) Thunder Rose
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Unusual from the day she is born, Thunder Rose performs all sorts of amazing feats, including building fences, taming a stampeding herd of steers, capturing a gang of rustlers, and turning aside a tornado.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10
Description
In 1911, Turner Buckminster hates his new home of Phippsburg, Maine, but things improve when he meets Lizzie Bright Griffin, a girl from a poor, nearby island community founded by former slaves that the town fathers--and Turner's--want to change into a tourist spot.
Author
Series
Birchbark house volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Nine-year-old Omakayas, of the Ojibwa tribe, moves west with her family in 1849. Her name is Omakayas, or Little Frog, because her first step was a hop, and she lives on an island in Lake Superior. One day in 1850, Omakayas's island is visited by a group of mysterious people. From them, she learns that the chimookomanag, or white people, want Omakayas and her people to leave their island and move farther west. That day, Omakayas realizes that something...
78) How I live now
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 8
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Description
To get away from her pregnant stepmother in New York City, fifteen-year-old Daisy goes to England to stay with her aunt and cousins, with whom she instantly bonds, but soon war breaks out and rips apart the family while devastating the land. "Every war has turning points and every person too." Fifteen-year-old Daisy is sent from Manhattan to England to visit her aunt and cousins she's never met: three boys near her age, and their little sister. Her...
79) Copper sun
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
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Formats
Description
Two fifteen-year-old girls--one a slave and the other an indentured servant--escape their Carolina plantation and try to make their way to Fort Moses, Florida, a Spanish colony that gives sanctuary to slaves.
80) The skin I'm in
Author
Series
The skin I'm in novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Maleeka suffers every day from the taunts of the other kids in her class. If they're not getting at her about her homemade clothes or her good grades, it's about her dark, black skin. When a new teacher, whose face is blotched with a startling white patch, starts at their school, Maleeka can see there is bound to be trouble for her too. But the new teacher's attitude surprises Maleeka. Miss Saunders loves the skin she's in. Can Maleeka learn to do...
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