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Author
Publisher
Coffee House Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"In Stephen Florida, Gabe Habash has created a coming-of-age story with its own, often explosive, rhythm and velocity. Habash has a canny sense of how young men speak and behave, and in Stephen, he's created a singular character: funny, ambitious, affecting, but also deeply troubled, vulnerable, and compellingly strange. This is a shape-shifter of a book, both a dark ode to the mysteries and landscapes of the American West and a complex and convincing...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
990L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker's classroom where they read the plays of William Shakespeare and Holling learns much of value about the world he lives in.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 34
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Burdened with the dark, dangerous, and seemingly impossible task of locating and destroying Voldermort's remaining Horcruxes, Harry, feeling alone and uncertain about his future, struggles to find the inner strength he needs to follow the path set out before him.
13) Skip
Author
Publisher
Nobrow
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A colorful, unpredictable postapocalyptic world comes alive in Skip, when two unlikely friends, Bloom and Gloopy, find themselves tossed from dimension to dimension. Gloopy is running toward adventure, and away from their home and friends who don't understand their creative talent. Bloom is desperately trying to return home to their lake, and avoid the terrible violence of the city. Instead, both Bloom and Gloopy find what they need in each other,...
14) The kite runner
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
An epic tale of fathers and sons, of friendship and betrayal, that takes us from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy to the atrocities of the present. The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father's servant, The Kite Runner is a beautifully crafted novel set in a country that is in the process of being destroyed. It is about the power of reading, the price of betrayal, and...
15) The bee tree
Author
Publisher
Cinco Puntos Press
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
NC 1090L
Language
English
Description
In the rain forests of Malaysia, Nazam waits anxiously to climb the bee tree, proving that he is capable of succeeding his grandfather as leader of the traditional honey-hunting clan, followed by a text containing facts about Malaysia.
18) Heart's delight
Author
Publisher
Front Street
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
As a sixteen-year-old looks at and systematically destroys each of his mementos of Ann-Kathrin, he replays scenes from their relationship and realizes that it was not the great romance he believed it to be.
19) Wringer
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
1997.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
As Palmer comes of age, he must either accept the violence of being a wringer at his town's annual Pigeon Day or find the courage to oppose it.
Author
Lexile measure
1160L
Language
English
Description
"Based on [the author']s own experiences as a young man, the book's two novellas and short story are set in the small towns and mountains of western Montana. It is a world populated with drunks, loggers, card sharks, and whores, but also one rich in the pleasures of fly-fishing, logging, cribbage, and family. By turns raunchy and elegiac, these superb tales express, in [the author']s own words, 'a little of the love I have for the earth as it goes...