Greg Ruth
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
HL 570L
Language
English
Description
In 1893 New York, thirteen-year-old Maks, a newsboy, teams up with Willa, a homeless girl, to clear his older sister, Emma, from charges that she stole from the brand new Waldorf Hotel, where she works. Includes historical notes.
Author
Publisher
Disney*Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
530L
Language
English
Description
When Tai Shan and his father, Baba, are separated during China's Cultural Revolution, they are able to stay close by greeting one another every day with flying kites until Baba, like the kites, is free. Includes historical note.
Series
Goosebumps graphix volume 1
Publisher
Graphix
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
GN 260L
Language
English
Description
"3 goulish graphix tales"--Cover.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Set against the quiet and unassuming city of Huntsville, Texas, Jack "Meadowlark" Johnson, and his teenage son, Cooper, embark on a journey of epic proportions. Told over the course a single day, this electrifying graphic novel recounts Cooper's struggle to survive the consequences of his father's mistakes and the dangers they have brought home to his estranged family. As Cooper and his father desperately navigate cascading threats of violence, they...
5) Coming home
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Follows the emotions of a young boy as he waits at an airport for a family member to return home from serving in the military.
6) The lost boy
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
GN 410L
Language
English
Description
When Nate finds a tape recorder and note addressed to him in his new home, he is thrust into a dark mystery about a boy who went missing long ago, and must team with local girl Tabitha to uncover the truth.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The year is 1872. The place, the Apache nations, a region torn apart by decades of war. The people, like Goyahkla, lose his family and everything he loves. After having a vision, the young Goyahkla approaches the Apache leader Cochise, and the entire Apache nation, to lead an attack against the Mexican village of Azripe. It is this wild display of courage that transforms the young brave Goyakhla into the Native American hero Geronimo. But the war...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Told in rhyming text, a boy accompanies his grandfather on the Rolling Thunder Ride for Freedom, a demonstration in Washington, DC, on Memorial Day that pays tribute to American veterans.
10) Other worlds
Series
Guys read volume 4
Publisher
Harpercollins Childrens Books
Pub. Date
[2013].
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
An anthology of original science fiction and fantasy stories.
12) The wild
Author
Series
Secret journeys of Jack London volume 1
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
970L
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Jack London makes the arduous journey to the Yukon's gold fields in 1893, becoming increasingly uneasy about supernatural forces in the wilderness that seem to have taken a special interest in him.
13) The sea wolves
Author
Series
Secret journeys of Jack London volume 2
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Jack London is captured returning from the Yukon and taken aboard a pirate ship where the captain, the crew, and their navigator all have dark secrets.