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Hundred Oaks volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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When high school senior Maggie realizes there is more to life than swimming, she may be placing her long-term friendship with teammate Levi and her hope of an Olympic tryout at risk.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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When her aunt gets into a car accident, Anise is forced to leave her friends and surfing behind to spend the summer in Nebraska to help care for her cousins, and by doing so, forms familial bonds and new friendships that challenge her feelings of abandonment by her mother.
When her aunt gets into a car accident, Anise is forced to leave her friends and surfing behind to spend the summer in Nebraska to help care for her cousins. In doing so, she forms...
3) Dive smack
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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"Theo Mackey only remembers one thing for certain about the fire that burned his life down: he lit the match. Sure, it was an accident. But the blaze killed his mom and set his dad on a path to self-destruction. Everything else about that fateful night is full of gaping holes in Theo's mind, for good reason. Maybe it's better that way. As captain of the Ellis Hollow diving team, with straight As and solid friends, he's only one semester away from...
4) Wave warrior
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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Ben is determined to learn to surf in the rough North Atlantic waters near his home.
5) Whale Talk
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Intellectually and athletically gifted, TJ, a multiracial, adopted teenager, shuns organized sports and the gung-ho athletes at his high school until he agrees to form a swimming team and recruits some of the school's less popular students.
6) Laguna Cove
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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Seventeen-year-old Anne's new life in Southern California feels more like a death sentence, with a different school, no friends, and family problems, so when she learns to surf in order to fit in, her efforts are not popular with everyone.
7) The Ledge
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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Nick was used to being good at everything. Hockey, football, track, they all came easy to him. Surfing was his latest passion. That is, until the accident.
Now partially paralyzed, Nick is angry, depressed and getting far too fond of his prescription meds. But his frequent visits to his physiotherapist, a Syrian refugee, and a budding friendship with a partial amputee who has also experienced firsthand the horrors of war help him start to piece his...
8) Breathless
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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Beverly gets into serious trouble when her starvation diet interfers with her scuba diving.
9) Stotan!
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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A high school coach invites members of his swimming team to a memorable week of rigorous training that tests their moral fiber as well as their physical stamina.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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"Susannah Ramos has always loved the water. A swimmer whose early talent made her a world champion, Susannah was poised for greatness in a sport that demands so much of its young. But an inexplicable slowdown has put her dream in jeopardy, and Susannah is fighting to keep her career afloat when two important people enter her life: a new coach with a revolutionary training strategy, and a charming fellow swimmer named Harry Matthews. As Susannah...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Set amid the spontaneous, uninhibited surf culture of Malibu and Mexico in the late 1970s, this riveting memoir, written in crisp Hemingwayesque prose, recalls Ollestad's childhood and the magnetic man whose determination and love infuriated and inspired him--and ultimately saved his life.
12) Down the Yukon
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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In the wake of Dawson City's Great Fire of 1899, sixteen year old Jason and his girlfriend Jamie canoe the Yukon River across Alaska in an epic race from Canada's Klondike to the new gold fields at Cape Nome.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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"Ria Williams was an elite diver on track for the Olympics. As someone who struggled in school, largely due to her ADHD, diving was the one place Ria could shine. But while her parents were focused on the trophies, no one noticed how Coach Benny's strict rules and punishments controlled every aspect of Ria's life. The harder he was on her, the sharper her focus. The bigger the bruise, the better the dive. Until a freak accident at a meet changes everything....
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Chloe had a plan: work hard, get good grades, and attend a top-tier college. But after she collapses during cross-country practice and is told that she needs a new heart, all her careful preparations are laid to waste. Eight months after her transplant, everything is different. Stuck in summer school with the underachievers, all she wants to do now is grab her surfboard and hit the waves---which is strange, because she wasn't interested...
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