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1) The big game
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
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Danny Owens is dedicating his seventh-grade football season to his recently-deceased father, an NFL legend, but the pressure to succeed is magnified by his inability to read.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 10
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Description
Twelve-year-old Quijana is a biracial girl, desperately trying to understand the changes that are going on in her life; her mother rarely gets home before bedtime, her father suddenly seems to be trying to get in touch with his Guatemalan roots (even though he never bothered to teach Quijana Spanish), she is about to start seventh grade in the Texas town where they live and she is worried about fitting in--and Quijana suspects that her parents are...
3) QB 1
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
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.
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Series
Hank the Cowdog volume 54
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Unaware that his nemesis Pete the Barncat is playing yet another prank on him, Hank the Cowdog, Head of Ranch Security, tries to save the world from "terradogtail" dinosaur birds armed with bacon-stealing laser tongs.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Description
In central Texas in 1899, eleven-year-old Callie Vee Tate is instructed to be a lady by her mother, learns about love from the older three of her six brothers, and studies the natural world with her grandfather, the latter of which leads to an important discovery.
7) Starfish
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Bullied and shamed her whole life for being fat, twelve-year-old Ellie finally gains the confidence to stand up for herself, with the help of some wonderful new allies.
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Series
Hank the Cowdog volume 51
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Description
"The heat is on! It's summertime, and the weather on Hank's West Texas ranch is hot and dry. So dry, in fact, that everyone is on the lookout for prairie fires. So Hank bravely adds the title of Head of Fire Safety to his already impressive list of responsibilities and gets to work. But patrolling for fires is dull, and it's hard to do on an empty stomach. Despite the distraction - desperate hunger, a cruel trick at the hands of Pete the Cat...
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Series
Hank the Cowdog volume 52
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Description
At the request of his beloved Beulah the collie, Hank the Cowdog puts aside his urge to chew plastic and sets off in search of his nemesis, Plato the wayward bird dog.
10) Last breath
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Series
Morganville vampires volume 11
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
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Description
When college student Claire Danvers learns that three of the vampires in Morganville have disappeared without a trace, only to discover that the last person seen with one of the missing vampires is a mysterious new resident named Magnus, she begins to suspect that Magnus is not a fellow-human.
11) Bite club
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Series
Morganville vampires volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 14
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Description
College student Claire Danvers discovers that an extreme sport pitting vampire against vampire-- and sometimes vampire against human-- is being broadcast on the Internet from Morganville, Texas.
12) Prince of Wolves
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Jaque Pierce was just an ordinary 17-year-old girl getting ready to start her senior year in highschool in Coldspring, Texas. When a mysterious foreign exchange student from Romania moves in across the street, Jacque and her two best friends Sally and Jen, don't realize the last two weeks of their summer were going to get a lot more interesting. From the moment Jacque sets eyes on Fane, she feels and instant connection, a pull like a moth to a flame....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 12
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Description
When Victoria Cruz wakes up in the psychiatric ward of a Texas hospital after her failed suicide attempt, she still has no desire to live, but as the weeks pass, and she meets Dr. Desai and three of the other patients, she begins to reflect on the reasons why she feels like a loser compared with the rest of her family, and to see a path ahead where she can make a life of her own.
14) Canyons
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
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Description
Finding a skull on a camping trip in the canyons outside El Paso, Texas, Brennan becomes involved with the fate of a young Apache Indian who lived in the late 1800s.
15) Butterfly yellow
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Description
A Vietnam War refugee in Texas partners with a city boy with rodeo dreams to track down the younger brother she was separated from six years before when he was evacuated by American troops during the waning days of the Vietnam War
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Series
Hank the Cowdog volume 56
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
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Description
When Hank the Cowdog hears reports that coyotes are planning to go after the chickens, he manages to resist the temptation to join them and instead thwarts their attack, earning Sally May's forgiveness, and persuading Loper to stop feeding him Cheapo brand dog food.
17) Time after time
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Series
Best wishes (Mlynowski) volume 3
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 4
Description
"In this book, written by bestselling author Sarah Mlynowski and three-time Newbery Honor recipient Christina Soontornvat, the magic bracelet comes to a girl in Texas, who ends up in a Groundhog Day-style time loop."--
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Series
Hank the Cowdog volume 57
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
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Description
Hank and Drover are excited when a quick nap in the back of Slim's pickup turns into a trip to town. But the excitement turns to drama when they find themselves at the livestock show, and Drover decides to take off to visit his mother. Can Hank track down his faithful sidekick before Slim heads back to the ranch? Or is he off on a wild goose chase?
19) Just One Drop
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Series
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Jennifer Adams, best friend to Jacque Pierce and Sally Morgan, spicy, out spoken, a little crazy and human...or so she thought. Jen has just found out that human DNA is not the only thing that resides in her veins, she happens to share that little pesky werewolf gene, although it isn't more than just a drop. Now that she and her friends are living in Romania with Fane's pack, she is also oh so conveniently stuck with the object of her affection, the...
Author
Series
Magic bone volume 8
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Yeehaw, Sparky is off to the Texas rodeo to find himself a job! There he eats delicious-smelling BBQ, watches mutton chasing and barrel racing, and even helps a new friend become a rodeo dog. But as Sparky heads home, he still doesn't have a job himself. Wait, he has the very best job of all--being Josh's best friend!"--