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41) Safe at Home
Author
Series
Comeback kids volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Playing baseball was the one thing that made twelve-year-old Nick Crandall feel at home until he found acceptance with adoptive parents, but he faces a new struggle to fit in when he becomes the first seventh-grader ever to make the varsity baseball team.
42) One came home
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Description
In 1871 Wisconsin, thirteen-year-old Georgia sets out to find her sister Agatha, presumed dead when remains are found wearing the dress she was last seen in, and before the end of the year gains fame as a sharpshooter and foiler of counterfeiters.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Having survived being blinded and shipwrecked on a tiny Caribbean island with the old Black man Timothy, twelve-year-old white boy Phillip is rescued and hopes to regain his sight with an operation. Alternate chapters follow the life of Timothy from his days as a young cabin boy.
45) Lost in the sun
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Description
"As Trent Zimmerman struggles to move past a traumatic event that took place several months earlier, he befriends class outcast Fallon Little, who helps him understand that he can move on"--
46) Cowboys
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Description
Profiles the legendary heroes of the American West, including accounts of the exploits of Wyatt Earp, Annie Oakley, Wild Bill Hickock, and other famous figures.
47) Dogs of war
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Three fictional stories, told in graphic novel format, about soldiers in World War I, World War II, and the Vietnam War who were aided by combat dogs. Based on true stories.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
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Description
Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan, which entails enduring the taunting and fear of his classmates as he struggles to be seen as just another student.