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1) Holes
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Description
Stanley Yelnats is under a curse. A curse that began with his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather and has since followed generations of Yelnatses. Now Stanley has been unjustly sent to a boys? detention center, Camp Green Lake, where the boys build character by spending all day, every day digging holes exactly five feet wide and five feet deep. There is no lake at Camp Green Lake. But there are an awful lot of holes. It doesn?t...
Author
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old James, doted on by his three aunts, is haunted by the loss of his mother. He doesn't know where his mother is-only that she is sick and he has to live with his aunts in a shoddy city apartment. One day he skips school to go to his secret place, a deserted house where he is found by three teenage boys who force him to join their dognapping ring. What follows is a roller-coaster-like adventure story ride through the streets of New York...
Series
Popular culture and philosophy volume Volume 91
Publisher
Open Court
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
A group of teens at the Hope Juvenile Treatment Center are shocked to discover their guards have abandoned them, but their joy turns to fear when they learn a catastrophic pandemic has occurred outside their walls, turning their new-found freedom into a fight for survival.
The Hope Juvenile Treatment Center is ironically named: no one has hope for these delinquent teenagers. When the guards don't show up one day, the teens are shocked to learn a...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
A seventeen-year-old boy, former member of a tough New York gang, a blind and talented twelve-year-old musician, the Austin family, and Canon Tallis are among the key characters who become involved in a frightening and evil scheme relying on the ability of a refined laser to give complete power over people's minds.
14) Boot camp
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
After ignoring several warnings to stop dating his teacher, Garrett is sent to Lake Harmony, a boot camp that uses unorthodox and brutal methods to train students to obey their parents. In the middle of the night Garrett is taken from his home to Harmony Lake, a boot camp for troubled teens. Maybe some kids deserve to be sent there, but Garrett knows he doesn't. Subjected to brutal physical and psychological abuse, he tries to fight back, but the...
Author
Series
ERIC reports volume ED384468
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English