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(0)Sonya Hartnett
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
970L
Language
English
Description
A young woman, looking back on her childhood, recounts her farm family's poverty, her father's cowardice, and her younger brother's obsession for digging tunnels and living underground.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
In France during World War I, four French children learn about honesty, loyalty, and courage from an English army deserter who tells them a series of stories related to his small, silver donkey charm.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
1010L
Language
English
Description
Satchel O'Rye, devoted son of an impoverished couple in a dying rural town, must weigh in balance the life of his most cherished dog and the freedom of a rare striped tiger.
5) Surrender
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
HL 710L
Language
English
Description
As he is dying, a twenty-year-old man known as Gabriel recounts his troubled childhood and his strange relationship with a dangerous counterpart named Finnigan.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
990L
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Andrej, nine-year-old Tomas, and their baby sister Wilma flee their Romany encampment when it is attacked by Germans during World War II, and in an abandoned town they find a zoo where the animals tell their stories, helping the children understand what has become of their lives and what it means to be free.
7) Butterfly
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
In 1980s Australia, nearly fourteen-year-old Ariella "Plum" Coyle fears the disapproval of her friends, feels inferior to her older brothers, and hates her awkward, adolescent body but when her glamorous neighbor befriends her, Plum starts to become what she wants to be--until she discovers her neighbor's ulterior motive.
8) Golden boys
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Lexile measure
960L
Language
English
Description
Rex and Tabby Jenson and their sons, Colt and Bastian, arrive in Freya Kiley’s Australian neighborhood with little fanfare, but their presence sends fissures throughout their modest community.
In their Australian working-class suburb, the Jensons are different. Rex Jenson showers his sons Colt and Bastian with a pool; toys and bikes that make them the envy of the neighborhood. Especially to Freya and Declan Kiley, whose father is an abusive wife-beater....
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
While the residents of his town concern themselves with the disappearance of three children, a lonely, rejected nine-year-old boy worries that he may inherit his mother's insanity.
