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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
It began for our narrator forty years ago when the family lodger stole their car and committed suicide in it, stirring up ancient powers best left undisturbed. Dark creatures from beyond the world are on the loose, and it will take everything our narrator has just to stay alive: there is primal horror here, and menace unleashed - within his family and from the forces that have gathered to destroy it. His only defense is three women, on a farm at the...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
To the Chandler family in 1950's Black Oak, Arkansas, the cotton season means hard work, an influx of temporary workers -- and a host of complications. Hank Spruill, one of the hired hands has a violent temper that has gotten him into trouble with the law. Tally, his sister, is smitten with Cowboy, a Mexican laborer Hank despises. And with all the turmoil, 7-year-old Luke Chandler has seen a lot more than most kids his age.
Author
Language
English
Description
The teenage son of an Appalachian single mother who dies when he is eleven uses his good looks, wit, and instincts to survive foster care, child labor, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses.
Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, this is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father's good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The adventures of a spirited boy growing up in a Mississippi River town in the nineteenth century, as he tries a new method for curing warts, witnesses a murder, runs away to an island and pretends to be a pirate, watches his own funeral, and falls for the new girl in the neighborhood.
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
After his police trooper father is killed in an auto accident, young Ned Wilcox starts investigating a mysterious vintage vehicle, kept locked in the station barracks, in the hope of uncovering the sinister secrets surrounding it.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
339 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Noah Selvaggio is a retired chemistry professor and widower living on the Upper West Side, but born in the South of France. He is days away from his first visit back to Nice since he was a child, bringing with him a handful of puzzling photos he's discovered from his mother's wartime years. But he receives a call from social services: Noah is the closest available relative of an eleven-year-old great-nephew he's never met, who urgently needs someone...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
After his mother's death, eleven-year-old Marcus is sent to live on a small South Carolina island with his great aunt, a reclusive painter with a haunted past. Aunt Charlotte, otherwise a woman of few words, points out a ruined cottage, telling Marcus she had visited it regularly after she'd moved there thirty years ago because it matched the ruin of her own life. Eventually she was inspired to take up painting so she could capture its utter desolation.The...
Author
Publisher
Jossey-Bass
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
x, 351 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents a detailed learning program in which parents, teachers, and coaches can work together to provide an effective environment which can facilitate a boy's ability to learn basic academic skills in math, science, reading, and writing.
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
123 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In these ten easy-to-read stories there is a mixed-up cow that says "miaow," a mole called Noel who plays rock 'n' roll in a hole, and a boy named Mike who rides a bike with a very big spike!
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Henry Childs is just seventeen when he falls into a love affair so intense it nearly destroys him. To escape the wrath of the young girl's father, Henry joins the Marines, arriving in Korea on the eve of the brutal battle of the Chosin Reservoir-the defining moment of the Korean War. There he confronts an enemy force far beyond the scope of his imagining, but the challenges he meets upon his return home, scarred and haunted, are greater by far.
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13) A thousand steps
Author
Language
English
Description
"A Thousand Steps is a beguiling thriller, an incisive coming-of-age story, and a vivid portrait of a turbulent time and place by three-time Edgar Award winner and New York Times bestselling author T. Jefferson Parker. Laguna Beach, California, 1968. The Age of Aquarius is in full swing. Timothy Leary is a rock star. LSD is God. Folks from all over are flocking to Laguna, seeking peace, love, and enlightenment. Matt Antony is just trying get by. Matt...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Description
Possessing encyclopedia-like intelligence, unusual zookeeper's son Pi Patel sets sail for America, but when the ship sinks, he escapes on a life boat and is lost at sea with a dwindling number of animals until only he and a hungry Bengal tiger remain.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Published in 1850, David Copperfield is Charles Dickens' eighth novel and the one that most closely follows the author's own life. A coming of age story, it describes David's life from childhood with a difficult stepfather, his schooling, his entry into the workforce, his courtship and marriage(s) and his eventual success as an author. Filled with colorful characters like Wilkins Micawber and Betsey Trotwood, and unforgettable villains like Uriah...
Author
Publisher
Collins
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
xi, 270 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
A guide for males of any age provides instructions for engaging in a wide range of classic boyhood projects and activities, from building go-carts and constructing treehouses to identifying insects and flying the most effective paper airplanes.
17) The kite runner
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
A graphic novel adaptation of the author's novel about Amir, a forty-year-old novelist living in the U.S., who returns to his native Afghanistan to right a terrible wrong that ended his boyhood friendship with Hassan, a member of the persecuted Hazara people.
18) Keep quiet
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Jake Whitmore is enjoying a rare bonding moment with his sixteen-year-old son, Kurt, when disaster strikes. They get in a terrible car accident that threatens to derail not only Kurt's chances at college, but his entire future. Jake makes a split-second decision that saves his son from formal punishment, but plunges them both into a world of guilt, lies, and secrecy. Just when Jake thinks he has everything under control, a malevolent outsider comes...
