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Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, a stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie Laure lives with her father in Paris within walking distance of the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of the locks (there are thousands of locks in the museum). When she is six,...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Formats
Description
Unable to express himself socially but possessing a savant-like knack for investigating crimes, a teenage boy with Asperger's Syndrome is wrongly accused of killing his tutor when the police mistake his autistic tics for guilty behavior.
6) Toughlove
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1982
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
210 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Plume
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
viii, 229 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Dave Pelzer, victim of one of the worst child abuse cases in California history, tells the story of his adolescent years after he was removed from his home and placed in foster care, and discusses the influence on his life of Dan Brazell, the man he came to regard as his father.
8) Cyber ethics
Author
Publisher
Rosen Central
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
48 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Provides advice on using the Internet safely and in an ethical manner, discussing such topics as computer etiquette, online plagiarism, guarding private information, and avoiding viruses and spam.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 17
Physical Desc
vii, 264 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Biographies of dozens of young people who made a mark in American history, including explorers, planters, spies, cowpunchers, sweatshop workers, and civil rights workers.
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 25 x 30 cm.
Language
English
Description
In Knob Creek, Kentucky, in 1816, seven-year-old Abe Lincoln falls into a creek and is rescued by his best friend, Austin Gollaher.
12) Kickoff!
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When Tiki and Ronde move up to seventh grade football, they learn that seniority rules over skills, and they must decide whether to stay with the team even if it means being bench warmers, in this book based on the childhood experiences of football players Tiki and Ronde Barber.
13) Night
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie's wife and frequent translator, presents this seminal memoir in the language and spirit truest to the author's original intent. And in a substantive new preface, Elie reflects on the enduring importance of Night and his lifelong, passionate dedication...
Author
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
348 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"An anonymous letter from a Very Disappointed Reader sends a novelist back to the lake where she spent her childhood summers in order to prove that what she wrote happened the way she'd remembered. But the truth turns out to be far more complicated, showing that sometimes the story we think we're telling is another story altogether"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
pages cm.
Language
English
Description
"In 1811, while exploring the cliffs near Lyme Regis, England, 12-year-old Mary Anning made the find of a lifetime. There in the rocks was the skeleton of a strange creature. Mary's find was later named Ichthyosaurus, a reptile that lived more than 250 million years ago. Anning went on to have a long career finding and identifying dinosaur fossils. However, her work often went unrecognized by male scientists of the time, and she received little credit...
17) The radioactive boy scout: the frightening true story of a whiz kid and his homemade nuclear reactor
Author
Publisher
Villard
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st.
Physical Desc
209 p.
Language
English
Description
A portrait of a gifted boy whose science experiments with nuclear reactors got him into a great deal of trouble.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
65 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Relates events in the childhood of architect Secundino Fernandez, who left his beloved Havana, Cuba, with his parents, first to spend a year in Spain, and later to move to New York City.
19) The good lion
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
An account of the time in the pilot Beryl Markham's childhood in Kenya when she was attacked by a lion that her neighbors kept as a pet.
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Here, in high style, is the story of a wisecracking adventurer who came of age in the untamed West. A rebel who surprised himself by becoming the most famous American of his time.