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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Five-year-old Jack has spent his life living in an eleven-by-eleven foot space his mother calls Room and while Jack uses his imagination to create wondrous fantasies to entertain himself, his mother dreads the day her son begins to question why they must remain in Room and tries to find a way to escape.
6) The woods
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
When a boy can't find his favorite stuffed bunny, he heads into the woods to find it.
10) The borrower
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Lucy Hull and Ian Drake travel from Missouri to Vermont, and while Ian is running away from his parents, Lucy contemplates if she is also fleeing from something rather than just helping Ian on his journey.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eleven-year-old Philip Noble has a big problem. His dad has appeared to him as a member of the Dead Fathers Club, a club for "ghost dads" whose murders are unavenged. His father's road accident, it turns out, was no accident at all. Uncle Alan is responsible for his dad's death, and if Philip doesn't succeed in killing his uncle before his dad's birthday, just ten weeks away, his dad's spirit will never rest. So begins Philip's quest to avenge his...
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Language
English
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Fifteen-year-old Bernie Karp inadvertently thaws out the frozen body of a nineteenth-century rabbi who had been encased in ice for over one hundred years and protected by Bernie's family, and, while the rabbi attempts to enjoy life in 1999, Bernie sets out on his own journey to understand his heritage.
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Language
English
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Henry Childs is just seventeen when he falls into a love affair so intense it nearly destroys him. To escape the wrath of the young girl's father, Henry joins the Marines, arriving in Korea on the eve of the brutal battle of the Chosin Reservoir-the defining moment of the Korean War. There he confronts an enemy force far beyond the scope of his imagining, but the challenges he meets upon his return home, scarred and haunted, are greater by far.
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15) Iron house
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
Michael, an enforcer for a New York organized crime family who fled the Iron Mountain Home for Boys after taking the blame for the murder of another orphan, falls in love with Elena and wishes he can start a new life and build a family with her, but the past and brother he left behind, as well as the vengeful son of the mob boss for whom he works, threaten his chance at happiness and he must confront them in order to have a future with Elena.
Author
Publisher
Harry N. Abrams
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
When the Plucker, a malevolent spirit, is set loose upon the world of make-believe, Jack, and abandoned toy, finds himself thrust into the role of defending Thomas, the very child who abandoned him.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Collects four stories recounting the adventures of Horrid Henry as he torments his younger brother, ruins Moody Margaret's sleepover, irritates his teacher, and tries to trick his family into seeing his favorite band.
20) The kid
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Abdul, having been left on his own after his mother died when he was nine, struggles to form an identity he can stand behind as he reaches adulthood and faces challenges along the way.
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