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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After learning that he is the son of a mortal woman and Poseidon, god of the sea, twelve-year-old Percy is sent to a summer camp for demigods like himself, and joins his new friends on a quest to prevent a war between the gods.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
When fourteen-year-old baseball player Hutch feels threatened by the arrival of a new teammate named Darryl, he tries to work through his insecurities about both Darryl and his remote and silent father, who was once a great ballplayer too.
Author
Series
Baseball great novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
All twelve-year-old Josh wants to do is play baseball but when his father, a minor league pitcher, signs him up for a youth championship team, Josh finds himself embroiled in a situation with potentially illegal consequences.
5) QB 1
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Jake Cullen, fourteen, lives in the shadows of his father and older brother until he becomes the starting quarterback for the high school football team and finally has his chance to shine.
Author
Series
Crossover (Kwame Alexander) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Description
Fourteen-year-old twin basketball stars Josh and Jordan wrestle with highs and lows on and off the court as their father ignores his declining health.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Demi-god Percy Jackson and his friends must journey into the Sea of Monsters to save their camp. But first Percy will discover a secret that makes him wonder whether being claimed as Poseidon's son is an honor or a cruel joke.
Author
Series
Magician trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Gifts from Gwyn's grandmother on his ninth birthday open up a whole new world to him, as he discovers he has magical powers that help him heal the breach with his father that has existed ever since his sister's mysterious disappearance four years before.
Author
Series
Comeback kids volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the wake of his parents' separation, ten-year-old Billy seems to have continual conflicts with his father, who is also his basketball coach, but his quiet, younger brother Ben, a piano prodigy, is having even more trouble adjusting, and only Billy seems to notice.
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fourteen-year-old Mike, whose father is a brilliant mathematician but who has no math aptitude himself, spends the summer in rural Pennsylvania with his elderly and eccentric relatives Moo and Poppy, helping the townspeople raise money to adopt a Romanian orphan.
Author
Series
Merlin's Dragon trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
The dragon Basil, now grown mighty in strength, size, and courage, addresses and seeks the cause of a new series of crises that threaten the stability of Avalon, while his friend Merlin is distracted by problems with his son, Krystallus.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Casey lives with his father and grandfather at their family-run umpire school, and as he deals with middle school and his mother's unwelcome return, he stumbles on a sensational story that has him questioning his dream of becoming a journalist.
13) Cowboy ghost
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Growing up without a mother and with an aloof father on a cattle ranch in Florida in the first part of the 1900s has made Titus very close to his older brother, Micah, and determined to make Micah proud of him when the two go on their first cattle drive together.
14) Kid owner
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Ryan learns his estranged father left him the Dallas Cowboys in his will, it is all Ryan can do to keep his dad's other son from snatching the team away.
Author
Series
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After discovering a secret that makes him question the honor of being the son of Poseidon, demi-god Percy Jackson journeys into the Sea of Monsters in an attempt to save Camp Half-Blood.
Author
Series
Artemis Fowl series volume 2
Publisher
Hyperion Books For Children
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In order to free his father from the Russian Mafiya, Artemis must join forces with the fairy police and his familiar nemesis, Captain Holly Short.
Author
Series
Baseball great novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Josh looks forward to facing a true rival in the Baseball Hall of Fame tournament, but first he and his friends Jaden and Benji put themselves at great risk trying to expose the truth about a conspiracy to bribe the head umpire.
18) Champ
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When Riley causes an accident that costs a show dog his leg, he's determined to adopt the dog and show his father that being different doesn't make something, or someone, worthwhile.
19) The extra yard
Author
Series
Home team novels volume 2
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Teddy has been training all summer with his new friends Jack and Gus to make the new travel football team in Walton, but when his long-absent dad comes back to town and into his life he is faced with a much bigger challenge.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Just before his thirteenth birthday, Jeremy Fink receives a keyless locked box--set aside by his father before his death five years earlier--that purportedly contains the meaning of life.
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