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1) The Testing
Author
Series
Testing volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Its graduation day for sixteen-year-old Malencia Vale, and the entire Five Lakes Colony (the former Great Lakes) is celebrating. All Cia can think about-hope for-is whether shell be chosen for The Testing, a United Commonwealth program that selects the best and brightest new graduates to become possible leaders of the slowly revitalizing post-war civilization. When Cia is chosen, her father finally tells her about his own nightmarish half-memories...
Author
Series
Testing volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Now a freshman at the University in Tosu City with her hometown sweetheart, Tomas, Cia Vale attempts to expose the ugly truth behind the government's grueling and deadly Testing put her and her loved ones in great danger.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
At the height of the Great Depression, Sam Babb, the charismatic basketball coach of tiny Oklahoma Presbyterian College, began dreaming. Like so many others, he wanted a reason to have hope. Traveling from farm to farm, he recruited talented, hardworking young women and offered them a chance at a better life: a free college education if they would come play for his basketball team, the Cardinals. Despite their fears of leaving home and the sacrifices...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In his signature eloquent prose, backed up by thorough research, Russell Freedman tells the story of Austrian-born Hans Scholl and his sister Sophie. They belonged to Hitler Youth as young children, but began to doubt the Nazi regime. As older students, the Scholls and a few friends formed the White Rose, a campaign of active resistance to Hitler and the Nazis. Risking imprisonment or even execution, the White Rose members distributed leaflets urging...
Author
Series
Time quintet volume 5
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Polly's stay with her grandparents in Connecticut becomes an extraordinary experience as she encounters old friends and mysterious strangers and finds herself traveling back in time to play a crucial role in a prehistoric confrontation.
6) Foul
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rhino is one of Bridgewater's best basketball players--except when it comes to making free throws. It's not a big deal, until he begins receiving strange threats. If Rhino can't make his shots at the free throw line, someone will start hurting the people around him. Everyone's a suspect: a college recruiter, Rhino's jealous best friend, and the father Rhino never knew--who recently escaped from prison.
7) Foul trouble
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
"College recruiters are clambering to sign up Terrell Jamerson, the #1 high school basketball player in the country. But not all of these recruiters are straight shooters, and Terrell will have to think fast if he wants to stay in the game"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting to engage reluctant readers! Hannah's sister, Alexis, has been acting different lately. For one thing, she's constantly on her phone when she never used to care that much about it. But after Hannah discovers that Alexis has developed a relationship with a boy she met online, her strange behavior starts to make sense. What's worse, Alexis plans to skip out on college...
11) Game
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
If Harlem high school senior Drew Lawson is going to realize his dream of playing college, then professional, basketball, he will have to improve at being coached and being a team player, especially after a new--white--student threatens to take the scouts' attention away from him.
12) On guard
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"She is the star player on her basketball team, until her sister is injured in a violent crime. Instantly, her game is derailed, and she becomes a second victim. Can she save her scholarship season?"--
13) Dairy queen
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
After spending her summer running the family farm and training the quarterback for her school's rival football team, sixteen-year-old D.J. decides to go out for the sport herself, not anticipating the reactions of those around her.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Ben Carson used to be the class dummy. Today he is one of the world's most brilliant surgeons.Gifted Hands Kids Edition tells the extraordinary true story of an angry, young boy from the inner city who, through faith and determination, grew up to become one of the world's leading pediatric neurosurgeons. When Ben was in school, his peers called him the class dummy. But his mother encouraged him to succeed, and Ben discovered a deep love of learning....
15) The Combination
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dante only thinks about football. Miranda's worried about applying to college. Neither one wants to worry about a locker combination too. But they'll have to learn their combos fast-if they want to survive. Dante discovers that an insane architect designed St. Philomena High, and he's made the school into a doomsday machine. If too many kids miss their combinations, no one gets out alive.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
The thought-provoking and timely new novel from Melissa de la Cruz, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Alex & Eliza: A Love Story, will have you crying with Jasmine as she finds out she's undocumented – then cheering her on as she fights to stay in the country she loves. She had her whole life planned. She knew who she was and where she was going. Until the truth changed everything. Jasmine de los Santos has always done what's expected...
17) The Recruit
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Tessa knows a soccer scholarship is her best chance at going to college. She's the best player on her small-town high school team-but that doesn't mean much in the big world of college soccer. Luckily, her best friend's sister plays for a nearby university. She offers to help Tessa make the team-but not for free. Tessa must join her snobby sorority, and ditch her high school boyfriend, who is simply not fraternity material. Tessa wonders if it's all...
18) Out of Sync
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Since they were six-year-olds, Madison and Dayton have had soccer sync. Maddie doesn't have to see her best friend on the field to know where she'll be. Her passes to Dayton are perfect, as if the two of them can read each other's mind. Together, they're a scoring machine. There's only one problem: lately, Dayton seems more interested in partying than playing soccer. And Dayton's change of heart couldn't have come at a worse time. Now that she and...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
This exciting companion to His Dark Materials tells a not-to-be-missed story about Lyra and her world.
When a witch's daemon crashes onto the roof of Jordan College, Lyra and her daemon, Pan, are eager to help. But as this unlikely trio scours the winding streets of Oxford in search of a famed alchemist, their journey takes a deadly turn...
This volume also includes fascinating extra glimpses of our favorite characters.
Don't...
When a witch's daemon crashes onto the roof of Jordan College, Lyra and her daemon, Pan, are eager to help. But as this unlikely trio scours the winding streets of Oxford in search of a famed alchemist, their journey takes a deadly turn...
This volume also includes fascinating extra glimpses of our favorite characters.
Don't...
20) Elsewhere
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
After fifteen-year-old Liz Hall is hit by a taxi and killed, she finds herself in a place that is both like and unlike Earth, where she must adjust to her new status and figure out how to "live." Is it possible to grow up while getting younger? Welcome to Elsewhere. It's quiet and peaceful. You can't get sick or any older. Elsewhere is where fifteen-year-old Liz Hall ends up, after she has died. Here Liz will age backward from the day of her death...
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