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2) Duel
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 2
Formats
Description
Sixth grader Lucy is brand-new to middle school, and when her older sister GiGi--the undisputed queen bee of eighth grade--humiliates her in the cafeteria, Lucy snaps and challenges her to a fenncing duel
3) On guard
Author
Pub. Date
[1997]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Excited by a fencing demonstration he happens to see, fourth grader Mikey starts taking lessons in hopes that the sport will make him special like his brother and sisters.
5) Open wounds
Author
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
After an abusive childhood in 1930s New York, Cedric Wymann, now orphaned, is taken in by a cousin suffering from mustard gas poisoning who becomes a father, helps him reconnect with friends, and finds him a fencing teacher, giving Cedric a means to avenge past wrongs and forge a better future.
6) Allegiant
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 17
Description
The faction-based society that Tris Prior once believed in is shattered -- fractured by violence and power struggles and scarred by loss and betrayal. So when offered a chance to explore the world past the limits she's known, Tris is ready. Perhaps beyond the fence, she and Tobias will find a simple new life together, free from complicated lies, tangled loyalties, and painful memories. But Tris's new reality is even more alarming than the one she...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Appears on list
Description
"Mark Twain's classic The Adventures of Tom Sawyer has been enjoyed by generations of readers across the world since its publication in 1876. With its humorous glimpses into life in nineteenth-century, small-town America, this novel has provided unique social commentary that continues to be discussed in classrooms today. Tom Sawyer, a mischievous boy growing up in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, Missouri, is constantly getting in and out of...
Author
Series
Vanderbeekers volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Formats
Description
"When catastrophe strikes their beloved upstairs neighbors, the Vanderbeeker children set out to build the best, most magical healing garden in Harlem--in spite of a locked fence, thistles and trash, and the conflicting plans of a wealthy real estate developer"--
11) Blood circus
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"At the end of the twenty-first century, climate change and famine almost ended humanity--until the discovery of the Klujns, a barbaric, humanoid species with strangely colored eyes and even stranger abilities. Their crystal claws and bones fertilize barren soil, and their tender meat is a super-protein. Klujns are both humans' saviors and natural-born enemies, meant to be hunted and used. When sixteen-year-old Ava finds herself on the wrong side...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 23
Description
Serene was a word you could put to Brooklyn, New York. Especially in the summer of 1912. Somber, as a word, was better. But it did not apply to Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Prairie was lovely and Shenandoah had a beautiful sound, but you couldn't fit those words into Brooklyn. Serene was the only word for it; especially on a Saturday afternoon in summer. Late in the afternoon the sun slanted down into the mossy yard belonging to Francie Nolan's house,...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Formats
Description
Thirteen-year-old Piper Davis records in her diary her experiences beginning in December 1941 when her brother joins the Navy, the United States goes to war, she attempts to document her life through photography, and her father--the pastor for a Japanese Baptist Church in Seattle--follows his congregants to an Idaho internment camp, taking her along with him. Includes historical notes.
14) Wilder girls
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Formats
Description
Friends Hetty, Byatt, and Reece go to extremes trying to uncover the dark truth about the mysterious disease that has had them quarantined at their boarding school on a Maine island.
15) One for all
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 17
Formats
Description
In 1655 sixteen-year-old Tania is the daughter of a retired musketeer, but she is afflicted with extreme vertigo and subject to frequent falls; when her father is murdered she finds that he has arranged for her to attend Madame de Treville's newly formed Académie des Mariées in Paris, which, it turns out, is less a school for would-be wives, than a fencing academy for girls--and so Tania begins her training to be a new kind of musketeer, and to...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Description
On the last night of summer, Emma and her Maine game warden father rescue a small domestic rabbit stuck in a fence; the very next day Emma starts fifth grade after years of being home schooled, excited and apprehensive about making new friends, but she is paired with Jack, a hyperactive boy, who does not seem to fit in with anyone--except that they share a love of animals, which draws them together, because of the rabbit.
17) 10 fat turkeys
Author
Formats
Description
The antics of ten fat turkeys on a fence illustrate counting from ten to one.
18) Eden west
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Formats
Description
Tackling faith, doubt, and transformation, National Book Award winner Pete Hautman explores a boy's unraveling allegiance to an insular cult. Twelve square miles of paradise, surrounded by an eight-foot-high chain-link fence: this is Nodd, the land of the Grace. It is all seventeen-year-old Jacob knows. Beyond the fence lies the World, a wicked, terrible place, doomed to destruction. When the Archangel Zerachiel descends from Heaven, only the Grace...
19) Chasing Redbird
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Thirteen-year-old Zinnia Taylor uncovers family secrets and self truths while clearing a mysterious settler trail that begins on her family's farm in Kentucky.
Author
Series
Spiderwick chronicles volume 4
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
After Mallory is kidnapped at her fencing meet, Jared and Simon search for her near an old quarry and find themselves amidst dwarves and goblins.