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Author
Publisher
Warner
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of love stories, a heartfelt romance about a widower sheriff and divorced schoolteacher searching for a second chance at love--only to be threatened by long-held secrets of their small town.
Miles Ryan's life seemed to end the day his wife was killed in a hit-and-run accident two years ago. As deputy sheriff of New Bern, North Carolina, he not only grieves for her and worries about their young son Jonah...
2) Rebound
Author
Series
Crossover volume 0.5
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1988, twelve-year-old Chuck Bell is sent to stay with his grandparents, where he discovers jazz and basketball and learns more about his family's past.
3) Paperboy
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When an eleven-year-old boy takes over a friend's newspaper route in July, 1959, in Memphis, his debilitating stutter makes for a memorable month.
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In 1961 after Castro has come to power in Cuba, fourteen-year-old Lucia and her seven-year-old brother are sent to the United States when her parents, who are not in favor of the new regime, fear that the children will be taken away from them as others have been.
5) O pioneers!
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Swedish farmer John Bergson's daughter Alexandra encourages the family members to help keep his dream alive after his death.
Author
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Gwyn Hillerman acts as a nurse at her father's medical practice in 1935 rural Alaska. Her mother, hating Alaska, had returned to Chicago with Gwyn's younger sister. There Sophia's engagement to Dr. Jeremiah Vaughan ends when he loses his medical license after the death of an affluent patient. Then the government decides to send a group of families to Alaska for a better life, and Dr. Hillerman urges Jeremiah to join his practice.
Author
Series
Under northern skies volume 4
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In Minnesota in 1911, Nilda Carlson is torn between society life in the city of Blackduck and spending time with her family back home on the farm. Her employer, Mrs. Schoenleber, gives her more and more responsibility and experience, including recommending new opportunities for her philanthropy. Still new to America herself, Nilda focuses on the area's immigrant community, but she'll have to fight to get her ideas accepted by the locals and donors...
9) Dune
Author
Series
Publisher
Ace
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 28
Language
English
Description
"Science fiction's supreme masterpiece, Dune will be forever considered a triumph of the imagination. Set on the desert planet Arrakis, it is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, who will become the mysterious man known as Muad'Dib. Paul's noble family is named stewards of Arrakis, whose sands are the only source of a powerful drug called "the spice." After his family is brought down in a traitorous plot, Paul must go undercover to seek revenge, and...
10) Superfudge
Author
Series
Fudge volume 3
Publisher
Dell
Pub. Date
c1980
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Description
Peter describes the highs and lows of life with his younger brother, Fudge.
11) A night divided
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
With the rise of the Berlin Wall, twelve-year-old Gerta finds her family suddenly divided. She, her mother, and her brother Fritz live on the eastern side, controlled by the Soviets. Her father and middle brother, who had gone west in search of work, cannot return home. Gerta knows it is dangerous to watch the wall, to think forbidden thoughts of freedom, yet she can't help herself. She sees the East German soldiers with their guns trained on their...
12) Starfish
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Bennington Summer Passport Books
Golden Sower Nominees 2023-2024
Library Novel-in-Verse
Summer Passport
Golden Sower Nominees 2023-2024
Library Novel-in-Verse
Summer Passport
Description
Bullied and shamed her whole life for being fat, twelve-year-old Ellie finally gains the confidence to stand up for herself, with the help of some wonderful new allies.--
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Annabelle must learn to stand up for what's right in the face of a manipulative and violent new bully who targets people Annabelle cares about, including a homeless World War I veteran"--
14) The crossover
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Thirteen-year-old twin basketball stars Josh and Jordan wrestle with highs and lows on and off the court as their father ignores his declining health.
15) Fudge-a-mania
Author
Series
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
[1990]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Brother Peter and Fudge must spend the summer with the dreaded Sheila the Great. Peter Hatcher describes his family's Maine vacation highlighted by the antics of his younger brother Fudge and the presence of his sworn enemy Sheila Tubman and her family.
16) Loser
Author
Publisher
Joanna Cotler/HarperCollins/Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Even though his classmates from first grade on have considered him strange and a loser, Daniel Zinkoff's optimism and exuberance and the support of his loving family do not allow him to feel that way about himself.
17) Grenade
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
On April 1, 1945 with the battle of Okinawa beginning, fourteen-year-old native Okinawan Hideki, drafted into the Blood and Iron Student Corps, is handed two grenades and told to go kill American soldiers; small for his age Hideki does not really want to kill anyone, he just wants to find his family, and his struggle across the island will finally bring him face-to-face with Ray, a marine in his very first battle--and the choice he makes then will...
18) Old Yeller
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
[c1956]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In the late 1860's in the Texas hill country, a big yellow dog and a fourteen year-old boy form a close, loving relationship.
19) Someday
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[c2007]
Language
English
Description
A mother reflects on the all the milestones, from walking in a deep wood to holding someone else's hand, that her child will achieve during life.