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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Moose Flanagan, who lives on Alcatraz along with his family and the families of the other prison guards, is frightened when he discovers that noted gangster Al Capone, a prisoner there, wants a favor in return for the help that he secretly gave Moose.
2) Grenade
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
On April 1, 1945 with the battle of Okinawa beginning, fourteen-year-old native Okinawan Hideki, drafted into the Blood and Iron Student Corps, is handed two grenades and told to go kill American soldiers; small for his age Hideki does not really want to kill anyone, he just wants to find his family, and his struggle across the island will finally bring him face-to-face with Ray, a marine in his very first battle--and the choice he makes then will...
3) Twerp
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In Queens, New York, in 1969, twelve-year-old Julian Twerski writes a journal for his English teacher in which he explores his friendships and how they are effected by girls, a new student who may be as fast as Julian, and especially an incident of bullying.
4) Willow Run
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Meggie Dillon shares her feelings and experiences on the homefront during World War II after her family moves from Rockaway, New York to Willow Run, Michigan.
5) Nest
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
On Cape Cod in 1972, eleven-year-old Naomi, known as Chirp for her love of birds, gets help from neighbor Joey as she struggles to cope with her mother's multiple sclerosis and its effect on her father and sister.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In rural Indiana in 1904, fifteen-year-old Russell's dreams of quitting school and joining a wheat threshing crew are disrupted when his older sister takes over the teaching at his one-room schoolhouse after mean old Myrt Arbuckle "hauls off and dies."
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Relates the stories of twelve-year-old Ben, who loses his mother and his hearing in a short time frame and decides to leave his Minnesota home in 1977 to seek the father he has never known in New York City; and Rose, who lives with her father but feels compelled to search for what is missing in her life. Ben's story is told in words; Rose's in pictures.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In the early 1960s, Kitty is one of only two white children in her class on Warm Springs Reservation, Oregon, where her father is a government forester, and although past injustices and pain are still very much alive there, she eventually finds friendships and opportunities to make a difference.
Author
Series
Star Wars Jedi Academy volume 9
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"The epic conclusion to the Starspeeder saga in this 9th volume of Jedi Academy by Jarrett Krosoczka and Amy Ignatow! As told through a mix of comics, doodles, and journal entries, Christina Starspeeder takes us on a new adventure at the advanced Jedi Academy campus! There are unfamiliar faces and old ones too, but one thing remains the same: Jedi Academy is full of laughs and warm moments that fans and readers discovering the series for the first...
10) Number the stars
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis.
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