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Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Frustrated by his inability to learn the truth about a beloved uncle's death years earlier, fifteen-year-old guitarist Rich accidentally travels back in time to his father's youth and attends Woodstock in 1969, where he witnesses a tragic event.
22) Crackback
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Miles barely recalls when football was fun after being singled out by a new coach, constantly criticized by his father, and pressured by his best friend to take performance-enhancing drugs.
23) Caged warrior
Author
Series
Caged warrior volume 1
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
From age three, McCutcheon Daniels, now sixteen, has been trained in Mixed Martial Arts and must keep winning to feed his five-year-old sister and father, but chance presents an opportunity to get out of the Detroit slums using his brain instead of his fighting skills.
Author
Series
Billy Baggs novels volume 1
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
1999, c1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Since the death of his older brother, thirteen-year-old Billy Baggs has had a distant relationship with his father, but life on their farm in northern Minnesota begins to change when he starts to play baseball.
25) Wolf rider
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2008, c1986
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
After receiving an apparent crank call from a man claiming to have committed murder, fifteen-year-old Andy finds his close relationship with his father crumbling as he struggles to make everyone believe him.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Since his father's suicide, Will, sixteen, has mainly walked, worked at Dollar Only, and tried to replicate his father's cornbread recipe, but the rape of his childhood friend shakes things up.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jazz Dent, who has been shot and left to die in New York City, his girlfriend, Connie, who is in the clutches of Jazz's serial killer father, Billy, and his best friend, Howie, who is bleeding to death on the floor of Jazz's own home in tiny Lobo's Nod, must all rise above the horrors their lives have become and find a way to come together in pursuit of Billy.
29) Biggie
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Henry "Biggie" Abbott has hidden behind his weight for years, and although he is the son and stepson of two of Finch, Minnesota's most famous athletes, he prefers academic success until the girl of his dreams suggests he join the baseball team, and, with his stepbrother's help, he discovers he is a great pitcher.
30) Live in infamy
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
It has been eighty years since the Axis won World War II, and America was divided between the victors: the Nazis in the East and Imperial Japan in the West; but now resistance is growing in the Eastern territories and sixteen-year-old Chinese American Ren Cabot, who has every reason to hate the Japanese who executed his mother, finds himself drawn into a resistance group and confronted with choices that could lead to freedom--or death.
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