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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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"The Tower Treasure" is the first installment in the "Hardy Boys" series of mysteries. Written by Canadian author Charles Leslie McFarlane and published under the pen name, Franklin W. Dixon, in 1927, "The Tower Treasure" ranks as one of the best works in the series. In this thrilling and suspenseful work, readers are introduced to Frank and Joe Hardy, two clever and resourceful teenage boys, who find themselves in the middle of a strange case involving...
2) Pinocchio
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Pinocchio, a wooden puppet full of tricks and mischief, with a talent for getting into and out of trouble, wants more than anything else to become a real boy.
Pinocchio, a wooden puppet full of tricks and mischief, with a talent for getting into and out of trouble, wants more than anything else to become a real boy
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Series
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.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Huck escapes from the lonely cabin in which his drunken, brutal father had imprisoned him; on Jackson's island he meets Jim, a runaway slave. Together they float down the Mississippi River on a raft, occasionally stopping at the banks. In these brief episodes Huck participates in the lives of others, witnessing corruption, moral decay, and intellectual impoverishment. He learns from Jim of the dignity and worth of a human being.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
A high school rebel and a minister's daughter find strength in each other in this star-crossed tale of "young but everlasting love" (Chicago Sun-Times).There was a time when the world was sweeter....when the women in Beaufort, North Carolina, wore dresses, and the men donned hats.... Every April, when the wind smells of both the sea and lilacs, Landon Carter remembers 1958, his last year at Beaufort High. Landon had dated a girl...
7) Kim
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English
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In Rudyard Kipling's 1901 novel Kim an orphan boy of poor Irish parents makes his living on the streets of Lahore running errands. After befriending a Tibetan monk, Kim undertakes several adventures which ultimately put him at the heart of The Great Game the geopolitical struggle between Britain and Russia for the control of India and Afghanistan. Notable for its vivid descriptions of the people, culture and landscape of India.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"This is YA nonfiction. It's the memoir of a boy named Sungju who grew up in North Korea and, at the age of twelve, was forced to live on the streets and fend for himself after his parents disappeared. Finally, after years of being homeless and living with a gang, Sungju is reunited with his maternal grandparents and, eventually, his father"--
"Every Falling Star, the first book to portray contemporary North Korea to a young audience, is the intense...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Through his imaginative journey, Alexander discovers how great men become heroes: a tough president has a soft spot for nature, a proud warrior is also the most peaceful, and sometimes, being brave about what makes you different will not only help you break records, but inspire others.
11) Lowboy
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Language
English
Description
Early one morning in New York City, Will Heller, a sixteen-year-old paranoid schizophrenic, gets on an uptown B train alone. Like most people he knows, Will believes the world is being destroyed by climate change; unlike most people, he's convinced he can do something about it. Unknown to his doctors, unknown to the police-unknown even to Violet Heller, his devoted mother, Will alone holds the key to the planet's salvation. To cool down the world,...
12) Farming fear
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Series
Hardy Boys mystery stories volume 188
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
SOMETHING ROTTEN IS LURKING AT THIS RANCH!
It's winter in Bayport, but things are heating up at the Morton family farm. It looks like someone is wreaking havoc with the property, and Chet and Iola Morton are worried that their grandparents are in danger of losing it! With their parents out of reach, the Mortons call on Frank and Joe Hardy for help. They need to figure out who's behind the trouble-and fast.
The Hardys are hot on the trail, but...
13) Snow angels
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English
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Now a major motion picture from Warner Independent starring Sam Rockwell and Kate Beckinsale
In Stewart O'Nan's Snow Angels, Arthur Parkinson is fourteen during the dreary winter of 1974. Enduring the pain of his parents' divorce, his world is shattered when his beloved former babysitter, Annie, falls victim to a tragic series of events. The interlinking stories of Arthur's unraveling family, and of Annie's fate, form the backdrop of this intimate...
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Told through a central character, Alex, the disturbing novel creates an alarming futuristic vision of violence, high technology, and authoritarianism. A modern classic of youthful violence and social redemption set in a dismal dystopia whereby a juvenile deliquent undergoes state-sponsored psychological rehabilitation for his aberrant behavior.
15) Into thin air
Author
Series
Hardy Boys adventures volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Hardy Boys are determined to find their friend when she vanishes into thin air.
16) Punished!
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Logan and his friend Benedict are playing tag in the library. Logan gets caught when he runs into a mysterious man. When Logan doesn't apologize sincerely, the mysterious gentleman punishes him by causing him to speak in puns. Only finding seven examples each of oxymorons, anagrams and palindromes within the time limits will return Logan to normal.
17) The red pony
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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This cycle of coming-of-age stories tells of a spirited adolescent boy whose encounters with birth and death teach him about loss and profound emptiness, instead of giving him the more conventional hero's pragmatic "maturity."--Publisher's description.
18) Mop top
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
An almost-six-year-old with a mass of floppy red hair tries to postpone the inevitable trip to Mr. Barberoli's barber shop.
19) The Boy Game
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The truth is all boys suffer under cultural codes that demand toughness and silence. This is the landscape in which kids who bully (who have often been targeted themselves) thrive but lose their emotional wholeness, the unspoken harness that keeps targets from speaking up, and that leaves the many bystanders watching, conflicted, but too scared to act. Boys desperately need a way to talk about the painful gender straitjacketing they are subject to,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Billy, Old Dan and Little Ann -- a Boy and His Two Dogs ... A loving threesome, they ranged the dark hills and river bottoms of Cherokee country. Old Dan had the brawn, Little Ann had the brains -- and Billy had the will to train them to be the finest hunting team in the valley. Glory and victory were coming to them, but sadness waited too. And close by was the strange and wonderful power that's only found ... An exciting tale of love and adventure...
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