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2) Sweetgrass
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Description
Living on the western Canadian prairie in the nineteenth century, Sweetgrass, a fifteen-year-old Blackfoot Indian girl, saves her family from a smallpox epidemic and proves her maturity to her father.
3) Sarah Bishop
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
Left alone after the deaths of her father and brother who take opposite sides in the War for Independence, and fleeing from the British who seek to arrest her, Sarah Bishop struggles to shape a new life for herself in the wilderness.
4) The crossing
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
1150L
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Manny, a street kid fighting for survival in a Mexican border town, develops a strange friendship with an emotionally disturbed American soldier who decides to help him get across the border.
6) One wish
Author
Series
Thunder Point novel volume 7
Language
English
Description
Starting a new life as a flower-shop owner, former champion figure skater Grace Dillon begins a no-strings-attached relationship with high school teacher Troy Headly. When Grace's past comes back to haunt her, Troy doubles down on their relationship and brings it to the next level.
Grace Dillon was a champion figure skater before she moved to Thunder Point to escape that ruthless world. And though she's proud of the self-sufficient life she's created...
8) The chance
Author
Series
Thunder Point novel volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
"With its breathtaking vistas and down-to-earth people, Thunder Point is the perfect place for FBI agent Laine Carrington to recuperate from a gunshot wound and contemplate her future. The locals embraced Laine as one of their own after she risked her life to save a young girl from a dangerous cult. Knowing her wounds go beyond the physical, Laine hopes she'll fit in for a while and find her true self in a town that feels safe. She may even learn...
11) The newcomer
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Single dad and Thunder Point's deputy sheriff Mac McCain has worked hard to keep everyone safe and happy. Now he has found his own happiness with Gina James. The longtime friends have always shared the challenges and rewards of raising their adolescent daughters. With an unexpected romance growing between them, they are feeling like teenagers themselves; suddenly they cannot get enough of one another. And just when things are really taking off, their...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[1992]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Description
A teenage boy accompanies his father, who has recently escaped from prison, on a trip that turns out to be an, often painful, time of discovery for them both.
14) Cop Town
Author
Language
English
Description
"Atlanta, 1974. It's Kate Murphy's first day on the job and the Atlanta Police Department is seething after the murder of an officer. Before the day has barely begun, she already suspects she's not cut out for the job as a cop. Her male uniform is too big, she can't handle a gun, and she's rapidly learning that the APD is hardly a place that welcomes women. Worse still, in the ensuing manhunt, he'll be partnered with Maggie Lawson, a cop with her...
15) A killing frost
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
Ellie and her friends are going on the offensive now, attacking the enemy on land and water. To sabotage the containersip at Cobbler's Bay, they'll need stealth and a very big explosion.
16) Poison
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
When Poison leaves her home in the marshes of Gull to retrieve the infant sister who was snatched by the fairies, she and a group of unusual friends survive encounters with the inhabitants of various Realms, and Poison herself confronts a surprising destiny.
17) Wolf by the ears
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[1991]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
580L
Language
English
Description
Harriet Hemings, rumored to be the daughter of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, one of his black slaves, struggles with the problems facing her--to escape from the velvet cage that is Monticello, or to stay, and thus remain a slave.
18) The Greek gods
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[1966]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
A collection of classic legends of the Greek gods.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old learning-disabled Nick struggles to endure a life in which the other kids make fun of him, he has to take special classes, his date for the prom makes an excuse not to go with him, and he is haunted by the memory of his older sister who drowned while he was watching.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1980]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
Fleeing from a neighbor's assailants, who believe he has identified them to the police, LeRoy leaves his Chicago housing project to live with his grandfather, a shrimp fisherman, in Mississippi. When the Chicago police come for him, LeRoy must decide if he is going to risk his life testifying.