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Author
Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
Younger Brother, a Navaho Indian boy, feels the calling to become a medicine man. He undergoes eight years of training in the ancient religion of his Navaho people and the practical knowledge of living on the desert land that is his tribe's homeland.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
The world already knows Meg and Charles Wallace Murry, Calvin O'Keefe, and the three Mrs-Who, Whatsit, and Which-the memorable and wonderful characters who fight off a dark force and save our universe in the Newbery award-winning classic A Wrinkle in Time. But in 50 years of publication, the book has never been illustrated. Now, Hope Larson takes the classic story to a new level with her vividly imagined interpretations of tessering and favorite...
6) The giver
Author
Series
Giver quartet volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In Lois Lowry's Newbery Medal–winning classic, twelve-year-old Jonas lives in a seemingly ideal world. Not until he is given his life assignment as the Receiver does he begin to understand the dark secrets behind his fragile community.
Life in the community where Jonas lives is idyllic. Designated birthmothers produce newchildren, who are assigned to appropriate family units. Citizens are assigned their partners and
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
When his colleague Long Arrow disappears, Dr. Dolittle sets off with his assistant, Tommy Stubbins, his dog, Jip, and Polynesia the parrot on an adventurous voyage over tropical seas to floating Spidermonkey Island.
Author
Publisher
Aladdin Books
Pub. Date
[1987], c1979
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
The journal of a fourteen-year-old girl, kept the last year she lived on the family farm, records daily events in her small New Hampshire town, her father's remarriage, and the death of her best friend.
11) Criss cross
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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.
12) Call it courage
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on a Polynesian legend, this is the story of a youth who overcomes his fear of the sea and proves his courage to himself and his tribe.
13) Bud, not Buddy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids.
Coretta Scott King author award book : 2000.
14) Shiloh
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
When he finds a lost beagle in the hills behind his West Virginia home, Marty tries to hide it from his family and the dog's real owner, a mean-spirited man known to shoot deer out of season and to mistreat his dogs.
15) Hello universe
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
Lives of four misfits are intertwined when a bully's prank lands shy Virgil at the bottom of a well and Valencia, Kaori, and Gen band together in an epic quest to find and rescue him.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kit Tyler must leave behind shimmering Caribbean islands to join the stern Puritan community of her relatives. She soon feels caged, until she meets the old woman known as the Witch of Blackbird Pond. But when their friendship is discovered, Kit herself is accused of witchcraft!
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"An epic fantasy about a young girl raised by a witch, a swamp monster, and a Perfectly Tiny Dragon, who must unlock the powerful magic buried deep inside her. Every year, the people of the Protectorate leave a baby as an offering to the witch who lives in the forest. They hope this sacrifice will keep her from terrorizing their town. But the witch in the forest, Xan, is kind and gentle. She shares her home with a wise Swamp Monster named Glerk and...
19) The grey king
Author
Series
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
A strange boy and dog remind Will Stanton that he is an immortal, whose quest is to find the golden harp which will rouse others from a long slumber in the Welsh hills so they may prepare for the ultimate battle of Light versus Dark.
20) Shadow of a bull
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Manolo Olivar has to make a decision: to follow in his famous father's shadow and become a bullfighter or to follow his heart and become a doctor. independence.