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Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Orphaned thirteen year-old Carlos learns what it truly means to be a teammate when he must help save his new wheelchair basketball team's gym from destruction.
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In 1350, a boy with a large hump on his back becomes the servant of a shadowy pilgrim on his way to Rome, who pulls the boy into a dangerous expedition across Europe to gather the seven precious relics of Saint Peter.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Max is determined to investigate the connection between a hacker's online attacks of her grandfather and other town officials and suspicious activity at the supposedly haunted Thornwood Manor, even though her grandfather, who is Blue Creek's police chief, wants to keep Max and her souped-up wheelchair out of police business.
4) Roll with it
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Ellie, who has cerebral palsy, finds her life transformed when she moves with her mother to small-town Oklahoma to help care for her grandfather, who has Alzheimer's Disease.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
In 1970s Ohio, Lenny and her younger brother, Davey, who suffers from a rare form of gigantism, cope with his declining health by poring over each installment of Burrell's Build-It-at-Home Encyclopedia Set.
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
362 p. : ill. ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Eleanor Dross knows a thing or two about the end of the world, thanks to a survivalist grandfather who stockpiles freeze-dried food and supplies just in case. So when she reads about a Harvard scientist s prediction that an asteroid will strike Earth in April, Eleanor knows her family will be prepared. Her classmates? They re on their own!
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
155 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Nick loves baseball so after a year in the hospital fighting polio and with a brace on one leg, Nick takes a job with the team for which his father is catcher and gets to see the great pitcher, Satchel Paige, play during the 1935 season. Includes historical notes.
8) Wonderstruck
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
637 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Having lost his mother and his hearing in a short time, twelve-year-old Ben leaves his Minnesota home in 1977 to seek the father he never knew in New York City, and meets Rose, who is also longing for something missing from her life. Ben's story is told in words; Rose's in pictures.
Author
Series
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
pages cm.
Language
English
Description
"Rip and Red find that fifth grade continues to challenge them in brand-new ways and discover that sometimes radical change is nothing to be afraid of"--
10) As brave as you
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
When Genie and his older brother spend their summer in the country with their grandparents, he learns a secret about his grandfather and what it means to be brave.
11) Show Me a Sign
Author
Series
Show Me a Sign volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
It is 1805 and Mary Lambert has always felt safe among the deaf community of Chilmark on Martha's Vineyard where practically everyone communicates in a shared sign language, but recent events have shattered her life; her brother George has died, land disputes between English settlers and the Wampanoag people are becoming increasingly bitter, and a "scientist" determined to discover the origins of the islands' widespread deafness has decided she makes...