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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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After years of wandering, Larten has finally found his way back to his vampire family and resumed the vigorous, brutal training to become a General. But there are vampires determined to pull Larten into starting a war that could have global implications and casualties. Vampires who will stop at nothing. Vampires who would betray Larten in the most cutting way.
2) Crazy
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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His mother has died. His father is going crazy. For fifteen-year-old Jason, the only relief as he tries to hold things together is the group of imaginary friends who offer guidance as he tries not to draw attention to his father's deteriorating condition-or to himself. But between the traumas of his childhood and the squalor and stress he's dealing with right now, Jason's attempts to remain invisible may not be enough. To find a solution to this very...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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A new hilarious novel from the author of The Greatest Zombie Movie Ever and Stranger Things Have Happened. Rod's life doesn't suck. If you ask him, it's pretty awesome. He may not be popular, but he and his best friends play in a band that has a standing gig. Yeah, it's Monday night and they don't get paid, but they can turn the volume up as loud as they want. And Rod's girlfriend is hot, smart, and believes in their band-believes in Rod. Aside from...
4) Peak
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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A fourteen-year-old boy attempts to be the youngest person to reach the top of Mount Everest.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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"The best Vietnam War novels yet for this age range." -- Kirkus Reviews
Morris, Rudi, Ivan, and Beck were best friends. So when one of them was drafted into the Vietnam War, the others signed up, too. They promised to watch out for one another. They pledged to come home together.Now, that pledge has been broken. One of the four has been killed in action. And the remaining three are the only men alive who know the awful truth about their friend's...
Author
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
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English
Description
"The best Vietnam War novels yet for this age range." -- Kirkus Reviews
Morris, Rudi, Ivan, and Beck are best friends for life. So when one of the teens is drafted into the Vietnam War, the others sign up, too. Although they each serve in a different branch, they are fighting the war together -- and they promise to do all they can to come home together.Of the four, it's Beck that has the most to lose. He's the smart one of the bunch, and he could...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 11
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English
Description
Shipwrecked on the shore of Japan, twelve-year-old Jack Fletcher is wounded and alone. His father and the entire crew have been slaughtered by ninja pirates. Jack's last remaining possession is his father's rudder, an invaluable book of maps and notes about the world's uncharted oceans. Masamoto-sama, one of Japan's greatest samurai, rescues Jack, adopts him, and sends him to samurai school, where Jack will be trained in the Way of the Warrior. Will...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 13
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English
Description
After being shipwrecked in Japan, adopted, and taught the Way of the Warrior at samurai school, Jack is ready to embark on the next chapter of his training: the Way of the Sword. His lessons involve fighting blindfolded, using a b-o staff, and finding messages in origami-all while withstanding the constant pressure of being a foreigner. The stakes are raised even higher when the school holds a contest. The winners will learn the great samurai Masamoto-sama's...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Four best friends. Four ways to serve their country.
Morris, Rudi, Ivan, and Beck are best friends for life. So when one of the teens is drafted into the Vietnam War, the others sign up, too. Although they each serve in a different branch, they are fighting the war together -- and they promise to do all they can to come home together.Rudi is perhaps the most concerned about whether or not he'll be able to keep that promise. After all -- and he'd...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Four best friends. Four ways to serve their country.
Morris, Rudi, Ivan, and Beck are best friends for life. So when one of the teens is drafted into the Vietnam War, the others sign up, too. Although they each serve in a different branch, they are fighting the war together--and they pledge to do all they can to come home together.Haunted by dreams of violence and death, Morris makes it his personal mission to watch over his friends--and the best...
11) Sharpshooter
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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"The best Vietnam War novels yet for this age range." -- Kirkus Reviews
Of all his friends, Ivan is the only one looking forward to war.That's because Ivan has never backed down from a fight--especially when it comes to fighting for what's right. He has protected his friends from bullies for years. And now, as war erupts in Vietnam, Ivan wants nothing more than to fight for his country, just as his father did in World War II.Enlisting in the United...
12) Gutless
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
From the author of Gym Candy comes a novel of football and bullying, finding friends and finding courage.
With both good speed and good hands, wide receiver Brock Ripley should be a natural for the varsity team, but he shies away from physical contact. When he gets cut from varsity, he also loses his friendship with star quarterback Hunter Gates who begins lashing out at not only Brock, but also Brock's friend, the quiet and smart Richie Fang. Brock...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Billy Bartholomew has an audacious soul, and he knows it. Why? Because it's all he has left. He's dead. Eddie Proffit has an equally audacious soul, but he doesn't know it. He's still alive. These days, Billy and Eddie meet on the sledding hill, where they used to spend countless hours -- until Billy kicked a stack of Sheetrock over on himself, breaking his neck and effectively hitting tilt on his Earthgame. The two were inseparable friends. They...
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Publisher
Mercury Ink/Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Michael, Taylor, Ostin, and the rest of the Electroclan head to Taiwan in search of nine-year-old child prodigy Lin Julung, or Jade Dragon, who the Elgen kidnapped for Hatch's army of electric children.
15) Flip the Bird
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Mercer Buddie wants two things in this world: a girlfriend and the chance to prove to his master falconer father that he's not a flake. With hunting season fast approaching, fourteen-year-old Mercer has only a short time to work with Flip, a red-tailed hawk he irreverently named to show his dad that falconers don't have to be so serious all the time.
When Mercer meets Lucy, he falls hard for her gorgeous looks and bubbly personality. He thinks his...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Jacky Faber embarks on another rousing adventure to delight her ever-growing legion of fans. The irrepressible Jacky Faber, condemned for life to the English penal colony in Australia for crimes against the Crown, has once again wriggled out of the grasp of British authorities. Back on her flagship, the Lorelei Lee, she eagerly heads back to England in the company of friends and her beloved Jaimy Fletcher. But when the voyage is waylaid by pirates,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
This book is about the Stonewall Riots, a series of spontaneous, often violent demonstrations by members of the gay (LGBTQ+) community in reaction to a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. The Riots are attributed as the spark that ignited the LGBTQ+ movement. The author describes American gay history leading up to the Riots,
...18) The Edge
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
The International Peace Ascent is the brainchild of billionaire Sebastian Plank: Recruit a global team of young climbers and film an inspiring, world-uniting documentary. The adventure begins when fifteen-year-old Peak Marcello and his mountaineer mother are helicoptered to a remote base camp in the Hindu Kush Mountains on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. When the camp is attacked and his mother taken, Peak has no choice but to track down the perpetrators...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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A gorgeously written account of a freeborn black boy sold into slavery during the Civil War; think 12 Years a Slave for young adults.
Well-mannered Samuel and his mischievous younger brother Joshua are free black boys living in an orphanage during the end of the Civil War. Samuel takes the blame for Joshua's latest prank, and the consequence is worse than he could ever imagine. He's taken from the orphanage to the South, given a new name -- Friday...
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