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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: 3.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
Twelve-year-old Addie tries to cope with her mother's erratic behavior and being separated from her beloved stepfather and half-sisters when she and her mother go to live in a small trailer by the railroad tracks on the outskirts of Schenectady, New York.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
When she is almost sixteen years old, Rosemary decides she is sick of being overweight, mocked at school and at Heavenly Hair--her mother's beauty salon--and feeling out of control, and as she slowly loses weight, she realizes that she is able to cope with her mother's cancer, having a boyfriend for the first time, and discovering that other people's lives are not as perfect as they seem from the outside.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
While working at pleasant but mundane summer jobs in San Francisco, fifteen-year-old twins, Sophie and Josh, suddenly find themselves caught up in the deadly, centuries-old struggle between rival alchemists, Nicholas Flamel and John Dee, over the possession of an ancient and powerful book holding the secret formulas for alchemy and everlasting life.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
In October, 1942, seventeen-year-old Helmuth Hübener, imprisoned for distributing anti-Nazi leaflets, recalls his past life and how he came to dedicate himself to bring the truth about Hitler and the war to the German people.
Author
Series
So B. it volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Living with her mentally disabled mother who only knows just over twenty words, young Heidi has learned to live in her special world until a new word is suddenly used and repeated by her mother; causing Heidi to think it might be a key to a secret past about which she knows so little.
8) Side effects
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Everything changes for Isabelle, not quite fifteen, when she is diagnosed with lymphoma--but eventually she survives and even thrives.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Tennis has a new "it" girl and her name is Grace Kincaid. The only problem is -- Grace has suddenly realized that being a teen sensation isn't all it's cracked up to be. With fame and fortune just a backswing away, all she really wants is to be ... NORMAL!
10) Cover-up
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Fledgling fourteen-year-old sports reporters Susan Carol and Stevie investigate suspicious activities at the Super Bowl after Stevie gets fired from his co-anchor job on a ground-breaking teen sports show.
11) Firestorm
Author
Series
Caretaker trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Frances Foster Books
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
After learning that he has been sent from the future for a special purpose, eighteen-year-old Jack receives help from an unusual dog and a shape-shifting female fighter.
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.
Author
Series
Alfred Kropp adventures volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Through a series of dangerous and violent misadventures, teenage loser Alfred Kropp rescues King Arthur's legendary sword Excalibur from the forces of evil.
16) Football genius
Author
Series
Football genius novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Troy, a sixth-grader with an unusual gift for predicting football plays before they occur, attempts to use his ability to help his favorite team, the Atlanta Falcons, but he must first prove himself to the coach and players.
Author
Series
Books of Ember volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Having escaped to the Unknown Regions, Lina and the others seek help from the village people of Sparks.
18) Elephant run
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Nick endures servitude, beatings, and more after his British father's plantation in Burma is invaded by the Japanese in 1941, and when his father and others are taken prisoner and Nick is stranded with his friend Mya, they plan a daring escape on elephants, risking their lives to save Nick's father and Mya's brother from a Japanese prisoner of war camp.
19) The magic thief
Author
Series
Magic thief volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
A young thief is drawn into a life of magic and adventure after picking the pocket of the powerful wizard Nevery Flinglas, who has returned from exile to attempt to reverse the troubling decline of magic in Wellmet City.
20) Red kayak
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Living near the water on Maryland's Eastern Shore, thirteen-year-old Brady and his best friends J.T. and Digger become entangled in a tragedy which tests their friendship and their ideas about right and wrong.
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