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6) The giver
Author
Series
Giver quartet volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
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
...Author
Series
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
c1962
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
The story of the adventures in space and time of Meg, Charles Wallace, and Calvin O'Keefe (athlete, student, and one of the most popular boys in high school). They are in search of Meg's father, a scientist who disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government on the tesseract problem.
10) King of the wind
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
THE STORY OF THE GOLDEN-RED STALLION BEGINS AT THE SULTAN'S COURT. UPON HIS HEEL WAS THE WHITE SPOT - SYMBOL OF SPEED; BUT UPON HIS CHEST WAS THE MARK OF THE WHEAT EAR - A SIGN OF MISFORTUNE. AND THESE TWO SIGNS SEEMED TO GOVERN HIS LIFE IN FRANCE AND ENGLAND.
11) Hello universe
Author
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.
12) Dicey's song
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Now that the four abandoned Tillerman children are settled in with their grandmother, Dicey finds that their new beginnings require love, trust, humor, and courage.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
First published in 1928, this book introduces the legend that in the 13th century (1241), a Polish boy was killed by the arrow of an invading Tartar from the East, silencing his trumpet a few notes short of completion of the "Heynal," the Hymn to Our Lady, as he stood on a little balcony of the Church of Our Lady Mary in Krakow, Poland. Ever since that event subsequent trumpeters have stopped at the same point in the Heynal as it is sounded four times...
16) Strawberry girl
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ten-year-old Birdie can not wait to pick the strawberries her family has planted at their new home in the Florida backwoods.
17) 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.
19) Onion John
Author
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
1984
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Andy and old Onion John are good friends. Then Andy's father tries to change Onion John's way of life, and the problems begin.
20) Bud, not Buddy
Author
Publisher
Delacorte
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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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.
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