Ramón de Ocampo
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
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Description
After fourteen-year-old Andy slips away from his kayaking group to visit the wilderness site of his archaeologist father's death, a storm strands him on Admiralty Island, Alaska, where he manages to survive, encounters unexpected animal and human inhabitants, and looks for traces of the earliest prehistoric immigrants to America.
2) Firestorm
Author
Series
Caretaker trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 11
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Description
After learning that he has been sent from the future for a special purpose, eighteen-year-old Jack receives help from an unusual dog and a shape-shifting female fighter.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Description
After enduring his father's suicide, his own suicide attempt, broken friendships, and more in the Bronx projects, Aaron Soto, sixteen, is already considering the Leteo Institute's memory-alteration procedure when his new friendship with Thomas turns to unrequited love.
5) Punching bag
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 6
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Description
"The companion to Rex Ogle's award-winning Free Lunch is a searing account of adolescence in a household torn by domestic violence. Punching Bag is the compelling true story of a high school career defined by poverty and punctuated by outbreaks of domestic abuse. Rex Ogle, who brilliantly mapped his experience of hunger in Free Lunch, here describes his struggle to survive; reflects on his complex, often paradoxical relationship with his passionate,...