Stephen Wunderli
1) Little Boo
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
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Progressively larger groups of animals try to share a limited number of scooters, cookbooks, nap mats, and underwear. -- publisher.
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"Pull out the best adjectives for a luminous comic novel--Wunderli's first--about two boys coming of age in 1939 in Thistle, Utah. At his grandfather's wish, Two Moons--a Navajo--lives with Matt's family in order to go to school. When the boys are 11, Two Mooms goes through the Navajo ceremony to become a man. Matt's induction into adulthood is wilder and funnier, a wonderfully realized fantasy...The story is memorably tuned to the need for fantasy...
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Thirteen-year-old Wing is sick of losing. The Mighty Titans haven't won a football game in ages, and Fat Ed, the school bully, doesn't look like he's going to stop dumping on Wing and his friends anytime soon. But, above all else, Wing just can't understand why the man who taught him everything about football, his father, is no longer there for him.
As Wing struggles to accept his father's impending death from cancer, and his team fights its way...
4) Isle of Hope
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Michael Hawkes was born in England to an Irish mother. She returned with Michael and his twin sister to Ireland only to be taken by the Catholic Church. They then trafficked him to California where he was abused by the most powerful priest in Los Angeles, The Right Rev. Monsignor Benjamin Hawkes. Michael's powerful inspirational memoir Isle of Hope follows his search for his birth family, and to find redemption and peace. A gripping and powerful story....