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1) Lena
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Lena and her younger sister Dion mourn the death of their mother as they hitchhike from Ohio to Kentucky while running away from their abusive father.
2) The foxman
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
A town boy sent to live on a remote wilderness farm forms a friendship with an elderly, disfigured man who teaches him many things.
3) The sea wolf
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
An epic of action-filled excitement. Rescued from drowning, a pampered gentleman awakes in a special kind of hell. He's aboard the Ghost, a sealing schooner outbound for months of hunting. Wolf Larson, the devilish captain, a fiendish crew, the cruel sea, and unlikely love make this tale immortal
6) Open Boat
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
A classic story of survival.
9) The island
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fifteen-year-old Wil discovers himself and the wonders of nature when he leaves home to live on an island in northern Wisconsin.
Author
Series
Jurassic Park volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
On an island off Costa Rica there exists a hush-hush colony of giant animals which attracts the attention of two expeditions. The first one, including children, is led by a paleontologist, the other is made up of evil scientists who want to do experiments. The animals rout both without much concern for their motives.
11) Purloined Letter
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
The brilliant Dupin uses psychological reasoning to deduce the hiding place of a stolen letter.
12) A summer to die
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Meg isn't thrilled when she gets stuck sharing a bedroom with her sister. Then, suddenly, Molly is rushed to the hospital and their lives change forever. Can Meg show her sister how she really feels?
13) Alice the Brave
Author
Series
Alice McKinley. Main series volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
A month before eighth grade begins, Alice realizes she is going to have to face something she's been afraid of forever. Everybody, she knows, is afraid of something: elevators, dogs, planes, spiders ... but her fear is worse. It's going to bring absolute disaster to the rest of her summer, maybe to the rest of her life. The truth is she's afraid of deep water!
It's a hot August, and everyone in Alice's gang goes to Mark Stedmeister's swimming pool...
Author
Series
Earthsea series volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Arha's isolated existence as high priestess in the tombs of Atuan is jarred by a thief who seeks a special treasure.
16) The great fire
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Photographs and text, along with personal accounts of actual survivors tell the story of the great fire of 1871 in Chicago.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In suburban Georgetown a killer's Reeboks whisper on the floor of a posh home ... in a seedy D.C. porno house a patron is swiftly garroted to death ... The next day America learns that two of its Supreme Court justices have been assassinated."--Colophon.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
When brain surgery makes a mouse into a genius, dull-witted Charlie Gordon wonders if it might also work for him. With more than five million copies sold, Flowers for Algernon is the beloved, classic story of a mentally disabled man whose experimental quest for intelligence mirrors that of Algernon, an extraordinary lab mouse. In poignant diary entries, Charlie tells how a brain operation increases his IQ and changes his life. As the experimental...
19) Far North
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
After the destruction of their float plane, sixteen-year-old Gabe and his Dene friend, Raymond, struggleto survive a winter in the wilderness of the Northwest Territories of Canada.
20) Bull Run
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Northerners, Southerners, generals, couriers, dreaming boys, and worried sisters describe the glory, the horror, the thrill, and the disillusionment of the first battle of the Civil War.
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