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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Five-year-old Jack has spent his life living in an eleven-by-eleven foot space his mother calls Room and while Jack uses his imagination to create wondrous fantasies to entertain himself, his mother dreads the day her son begins to question why they must remain in Room and tries to find a way to escape.
4) Rez Ball
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Pub. Date
2023
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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"These days, Tre Brun is happiest when he is playing basketball on the Red Lake Reservation high school team--even though he can't help but be constantly gut-punched with memories of his big brother, Jaxon, who died in an accident. When Jaxon's former teammates on the varsity team offer to take Tre under their wing, he sees this as his shot to represent his Ojibwe rez all the way to their first state championship. This is the first step toward his...
5) The talisman
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 42
Language
English
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Soon to be a Netflix series! The iconic, “extraordinary” (The Washington Post) collaboration between bestselling authors Stephen King and Peter Straub—an epic #1 New York Times bestselling fantasy thriller about a young boy’s quest to save his mother’s life.
Jack Sawyer, twelve years old, is about to begin a most fantastic journey, an exalting, terrifying quest for the mystical Talisman—the...
Jack Sawyer, twelve years old, is about to begin a most fantastic journey, an exalting, terrifying quest for the mystical Talisman—the...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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In a summer that refuses to end, in the deceiving warmth of earliest October, civil war has come to Green Town, Illinois. It is the age-old conflict: the young against the elderly, for control of the clock that ticks their lives ever forward. The first cap-pistol shot heard 'round the town is dead accurate, felling an old man in his tracks, compelling town elder and school board despot Mr. Calvin C. Quartermain to marshal his graying forces and declare...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Eleven-year-old Philip Noble has a big problem. His dad has appeared to him as a member of the Dead Fathers Club, a club for "ghost dads" whose murders are unavenged. His father's road accident, it turns out, was no accident at all. Uncle Alan is responsible for his dad's death, and if Philip doesn't succeed in killing his uncle before his dad's birthday, just ten weeks away, his dad's spirit will never rest. So begins Philip's quest to avenge his...
10) The kite runner
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
The #1 New York Times bestselling novel beloved by millions of readers the world over.“A vivid and engaging story that reminds us how long his people [of Afghanistan] have been struggling to triumph over the forces of violence—forces that continue to threaten them even today." –New York Times Book Review The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father’s servant, caught in...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
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The #1 New York Times bestseller from Stephen King—a novel about the fascination deadly things have for us and about our insistence on answers when there are none…
Since 1979, the state police of Troop D in rural Pennsylvania have kept a secret in the shed out behind the barracks. Ennis Rafferty and Curtis Wilcox had answered a strange call just down the road and came back with an abandoned 1953 Buick Roadmaster. Curt Wilcox...
Since 1979, the state police of Troop D in rural Pennsylvania have kept a secret in the shed out behind the barracks. Ennis Rafferty and Curtis Wilcox had answered a strange call just down the road and came back with an abandoned 1953 Buick Roadmaster. Curt Wilcox...
13) Iron house
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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Michael, an enforcer for a New York organized crime family who fled the Iron Mountain Home for Boys after taking the blame for the murder of another orphan, falls in love with Elena and wishes he can start a new life and build a family with her, but the past and brother he left behind, as well as the vengeful son of the mob boss for whom he works, threaten his chance at happiness and he must confront them in order to have a future with Elena.
14) The tutor
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Julian Sawyer, hired by the Gardners to tutor their troubled teenage son, Brandon, quickly becomes a favorite with the family, providing business advice to mom and stock tips to dad, all the while setting them up for his own purposes, but in his plans, Julian makes the mistake of overlooking eleven-year-old Ruby, the only member of the family to realize Julian is not what he seems.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Jim, living with his mother and three uncles in the small hamlet of Aliceville, North Carolina, comes of age in the Depression years and begins to realize the largeness of the world outside his happy home.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 38
Language
English
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The fate of Bartholomew Lampion, a gifted California child who loses his eyes to cancer at age three and miraculously regains his sight at thirteen, is entwined with the lives of a San Francisco girl born of rape and a man a thousand miles away who learns he has a mortal enemy named Bartholomew.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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An old woman becomes young again and a man regains his severed leg. Two boys watch as strange things happen when a carnival comes to town. They will soon discover the show's awful mystery. It is a mystery that will alter the life of everyone it touches.
20) The King's Fifth
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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A 1967 Newbery Honor Book. While awaiting trial for murder and withholding from the king the obligatory fifth of the gold found in Cibola, Esteban, a seventeen-year-old cartographer, recalls his adventures with a band of conquistadors.
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