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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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When Michael's father loses his job, he buys a boat and convinces Michael and his mother to sail around the world. It's an ideal trip, even Michael's sheepdog can come along. It starts out as the perfect family adventure, until Michael is swept overboard. He's washed up on an island, where he struggles to survive. Then he discovers that he's not alone. His fellow-castaway, Kensuke, is wary of him. But, when Michael's life is threatened, Kensuke slowly...
2) Over and out
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
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"Sophie has spent her entire life behind the Berlin Wall, guarded by land mines, towers, and attack dogs. A science lover, Sophie dreams of becoming an inventor ... but that's unlikely in East Berlin, where the Stasi, the secret police, are always watching. Though she tries to avoid their notice, when her beloved neighbor is arrested, Sophie is called to her principal's office. There, a young Stasi officer asks Sophie if she'll spy on her neighbor...
3) Thornhill
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Description
"Parallel plotlines set in different times, one told in text and one in art, inform each other as a young girl unravels the mystery of a ghost next door"--
1982: Mary is a lonely orphan at the Thornhill Institute For Children at the very moment that it's shutting its doors. When her few friends are all adopted or re-homed and she's left to face a volatile bully alone, her revenge will have a lasting effect on the bully, on Mary, and on Thornhill...
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