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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.5 - AR Pts: 66
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A classic tale of an orphan growing up in the 1800's of England. Intimately rooted in the author's own biography and written as a first-person narrative, "David Copperfield" charts a young man's progress through a difficult childhood in Victorian England to ultimate success as a novelist, finding true love along the way. Jeremy Tambling's provocative Introduction reveals subtle themes relevant today in Dickens' favorite work.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
1070L
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"One of the great American novels-and one of America's most popular-featuring a new foreword by Min Jin Lee, the New York Times bestselling author of Pachinko Jay Gatsby seemingly has everything. Everybody who's anybody is seen at his glittering parties. Day and night his West Egg, Long Island, mansion buzzes with bright young things drinking, dancing, and debating his mysterious character. For Gatsby--young, handsome, fabulously rich--always seems...
3) Kidnapped
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 14
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'Originally written as a boys' adventure novel, Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped has received praise from a range of writers, including Henry James and Jorge Luis Borges. Set around events in eighteenth century Scotland, such as the "Appin Murder" that happened in the wake of the Jacobite Rising, it skillfully and sympathetically portrays the political situation of the time. A sequel, titled Catriona, was published in 1893.'-From Amazon
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
930L
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When a twist of fate makes Jamie Sullivan his date at the homecoming dance, Landon Carter never dreamed they would fall in love, but as he comes to realize his true feelings for Jamie, he learns of a terrible secret that will take his love away from him forever.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
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"William Golding's unforgettable classic of boyhood adventure and the savagery of humanity comes to Penguin Classics in a stunning Graphic Deluxe Edition with a new foreword by Lois Lowry As provocative today as when it was first published in 1954, Lord of the Flies continues to ignite passionate debate with its startling, brutal portrait of human nature. William Golding's compelling story about a group of very ordinary boys marooned on a coral island...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
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As high school graduation nears, Wren Gray is surprised to connect with gentle Charlie Parker, a boy with a troubled past who has loved her for years, while she considers displeasing her parents for the first time and changing the plans for her future.
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Maze runner trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
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After surviving horrific conditions in the Maze, Thomas is entrapped, along with nineteen other boys, in a scientific experiment designed to observe their responses and gather data believed to be essential for the survival of the human race. The group has two weeks to cross through the Scorch -- the most burned-out section of the world. And the observers will continuously adjust the variables and stack the odds against them.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
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When Monroe Blackwell, who is spending the summer at her grandmother's Louisiana bed-and-breakfast, meets Nathan Everets, who has a court-appointed job there, they share, and begin to recover from, their respective feelings of loss and guilt.
10) Silent Night
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
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In New York, a thief steals a woman's wallet with a medal of St. Christopher she was taking to her husband in the hospital. One of her young sons gives chase, only to be abducted by a killer as a hostage for a getaway to Canada. But St. Christopher spoils his plan.
11) Half bad
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
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In modern-day England, where witches live alongside humans, Nathan, son of a White witch and the most powerful Black witch, must escape captivity before his seventeenth birthday and receive the gifts that will determine his future.
12) The yearling
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure
750L
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A young boy living in the Florida backwoods is forced to decide the fate of a fawn he has lovingly raised as a pet.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 33
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"Legendary storyteller Stephen King goes into the deepest well of his imagination in this spellbinding novel about a seventeen-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be higher--for that world or ours." --
Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, a decent student. But he carries a heavy load. His mom was killed in a hit-and-run accident...
14) The longest ride
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 20
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Ira Levinson is in trouble. At ninety-one years old, in poor health and alone in the world, he finds himself stranded on an isolated embankment after a car crash. Suffering multiple injuries, he struggles to retain consciousness until a blurry image materializes and comes into focus beside him: his beloved wife Ruth, who passed away nine years ago. Urging him to hang on, she forces him to remain alert by recounting the stories of their lifetime together...
15) Badger boy
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
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Returning to his Texas farm after the Civil War, Rusty discovers that home is not what it used to be. Then real trouble starts when Rusty finds Badger Boy, a white child raised by Comanche and agrees to return him to his Indian family.
16) Local girls
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 7
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An anthology of interconnected short stories captures the lives and destinies of the Samuelsons, a family struggling with tragedy and divorce, in a series of portraits that chronicle Gretel Samuelson's journey through betrayal, grief, conflicting loyalties, friendship, and loss.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
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An overweight, timid fifteen-year-old boy and his popular fourteen-year-old sister begin to overcome their guilt over their father's death and reconnect with each other and their emotionally-distant mother when they accompany her on a two-week speaking tour.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
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"Antony and Cleopatra. Helen of Troy and Paris. Romeo and Juliet. And now... Henry and Flora. For centuries Love and Death have chosen their players. They have set the rules, rolled the dice, and kept close, ready to influence, angling for supremacy. And Death has always won. Always. Could there ever be one time, one place, one pair whose love would truly tip the balance? Meet Flora Saudade, an African-American girl who dreams of becoming the next...
20) Fifteen
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
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Jane longs for a more interesting boy friend than George, dependable and an inch shorter than she. And then she meets the boy who works as delivery man for the Doggy Diner.
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