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61) Snow angels
Author
Language
English
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Description
Arthur Parkinson tells how his family fell apart, his problems when he turned fifteen, and how the murder of Annie Marchand, his old babysitter affected him.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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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.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Fourteen months after the disappearance of their son, Paul and Carol Gabriel hire private investigator Frank Behr to look into the case and are soon on an adventure which leads them to Mexico in search of a drug-dealing real estate tycoon who may be responsible for abducting the boy.
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Language
English
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Description
A boy searches for his fugitive brother in 1960s Minnesota in this New York Times bestseller—“a stunning debut novel [of] faith, miracles, and family” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
An eleven-year-old asthmatic boy, Reuben Land has reason to believe in miracles. But he will soon learn that life, even when touched by the divine, is never easy. Along with his father and poetically inclined
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
The Madaras growing-up guides are acknowledged by parents, educators, librarians, and doctors for their unique, nonthreatening style, excellent organization, and thorough coverage of both the physical and emotional issues surrounding puberty and adolescence. And kids love them too! As one fan wrote, "Dear Lynda, I can't believe that you, a mom, knew all this stuff!" My Body, My Self for Boys is filled with activities, checklists, illustrations, and...
69) Lads & Jockeys
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Français
Description
In a small village near Paris, 14-year-old boys and girls enter the training center for future lads and jockeys. For these young pupils, the transition between the family environment and this new world is brutal. Though sharing the world of teenagers -- flirting, cell phones and PlayStation -- they enter a world where the comfort of the horses comes before that of the human.
70) The rocket
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Lao
Description
A boy who is believed to bring bad luck to everyone around him leads his family and two new friends through Laos to find a new home. After a calamity-filled journey through a land scarred by the legacy of war, to prove he's not bad luck he builds a giant rocket to enter the most exciting and dangerous competition of the year: the Rocket Festival.
Author
Publisher
Harry N. Abrams
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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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.
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Series
Language
English
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Description
A Grammy nominee. Fourteen-year-old Gary, a self-described tree toad lover of a perfect lawn, the soft-porn masterpiece Carnal Cuties, his Underwood typewriter, and, above all, his rebellious cousin Katelives through one amazing Lake Wobegon summer. Gary preoccupies himself by spinning fantastic yarns about boogers, talking dogs, conversations between God and Jesus, and especially melodramas featuring himself as hero and Kate as distressed damsel.When...
75) Mr. Mac and me
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Language
English
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Description
1914. In the village of Dunwich on the Suffolk coast young Thomas Maggs befriends mysterious Scotsman and artist Charles Rennie Mackintosh whom the locals call Mac. Just as Thomas and Mac's friendship begins to bloom, war with Germany is declared and as the war weighs increasingly heavily on the community, the villagers on the home front become increasingly suspicious of Mac and his curious behavior.
76) Boys To Men?
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In this moving follow-up to the critically-acclaimed Hoop Dreams, award-winning filmmaker Frederick Marx continues his exploration of the lives of ordinary young men and the extraordinary challenges they face. Boys to Men? - the second in a proposed trilogy about masculinity in America - trains its focus on the pressures and expectations faced by a diverse group of young urban males. This program consists of four films. Are You Listening? features...
77) Lower the trap
Author
Series
Lobster chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Graeme is excited about the money that the enormous lobster his father caught could bring in at the auction during the town's annual lobster festival, but even though Graeme likes the idea of using the profit to go to a marine research aquarium with his dad, he begins to wonder if the right thing would be to set the lobster free.
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
"Ever since he nearly drowned in the ocean three years earlier, 10-year-old Jack Peter Keenan has been deathly afraid to venture outdoors. Refusing to leave his home in a small coastal town in Maine, Jack Peter spends his time drawing monsters. When those drawings take on a life of their own, no one is safe from the terror they inspire. His mother, Holly, begins to hear strange sounds in the night coming from the ocean, and she seeks answers from...
Author
Series
Big Nate volume 26
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nate Wright has all kinds of big plans and tricks up his sleeve, including writing a new hit children's book, trying to convince his dad to get him a new dog for Christmas, and helping his friend Chad score a new nickname at P.S. 38. As usual, things never quite turn out exactly like he planned.
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