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Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
After Owen captures an enormous bullfrog, names it Tooley Graham, then has to release it, he and two friends try to use a small submarine that fell from a passing train to search for Tooley in the Carter, Georgia, pond it came from, while avoiding nosy neighbor Viola.
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Author
Publisher
Atheneum/Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the close friendship between two Japanese-American sisters growing up in rural Georgia during the late 1950s and early 1960s, and the despair when one sister becomes terminally ill.
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins Children's Books
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old football stars Troy White and Ty Lewis are eager to face each other in a seven-on-seven tournament being held at the Super Bowl in Miami, unaware that bad choices made by members of their families will put both boys in danger.
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
It is June first and twelve-year-old Mary does not really understand what is happening: she does not understand the hatred and greed of the white men who are forcing her Cherokee family out of their home in New Echota, Georgia, capital of the Cherokee Nation, and trying to steal what few things they are allowed to take with them, she does not understand why a soldier killed her grandfather--and she certainly does not understand how she, her sister,...