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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Eighth-grade star quarterback Nate Brodie's family is feeling the stress of the troubled economy, and Nate is frantic because his best friend Abby is going blind, so when he gets a chance to win a million dollars if he can complete a pass during the halftime of a New England Patriot's game, he is nearly overwhelmed by the pressure to succeed.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Description
In Massachusetts, eighteen-year-old Lyn, who has grown up in the public eye as the daughter of seven gladiators, wants nothing less than to follow her mother's path, but her only way of avoiding marriage to the warrior who killed her last stepfather may be to face him in the arena.
3) Trouble
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Fourteen-year-old Henry, wishing to honor his brother Franklin's dying wish, sets out to hike Maine's Mount Katahdin with his best friend and dog. But fate adds another companion--the Cambodian refugee accused of fatally injuring Franklin--and reveals troubles that predate the accident.
Author
Series
The Penderwicks volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Description
The four Penderwick sisters are faced with the unimaginable prospect of their widowed father dating, and they hatch a plot to stop him.
Author
Series
Clementine volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Description
With her kitten, Moisturizer, missing and having fought with her best friend, Margaret, eight-year-old Clementine finds it hard to concentrate on doing her best as her classmate's Friend of the Week.
Author
Series
Clementine volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Third-grader Clementine's school field trip to Plimoth Plantation leads to all kind of discoveries, from fourth grade eating rules to the source of the stink on the bus.
9) Firehorse
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Spirited fifteen-year-old horse lover Rachel Selby is determined to become a veterinarian, despite the opposition of her rigid father, her proper mother, and the norms of Boston in 1872, while that city faces a serial arsonist and an epidemic spreading through its firehorse population.
10) For keeps
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Just as sixteen-year-old Josie and her mother finally begin trusting men enough to start dating seriously, the father Josie never knew comes back to town and shakes up what was already becoming a difficult mother-daughter relationship.
Author
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Description
French horn virtuoso Elsie Wyatt resents having to join her high school's marching band playing a melliphone, but finally finds a sense of belonging that transcends the pressure she has always felt to be as good as her father, principal french horn player in the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
Author
Pub. Date
[2015].
Description
Just before spending her sixteenth summer on Cape Cod, Sarah's boyfriend breaks up with her and, as a scientist whose focus is on winning a scholarship through her study of a comet, she designs an experiment to become more like her older sister to see if she, too, can be popular.
13) Nightbird
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Twig, aged twelve, is practically ignored by classmates and other residents of Sidwell, Massachusetts, but gets along fine with just her mother and brother, whose presence must be kept secret, until descendants of the witch who cursed her family move in next door and want to be her friends.
Author
Series
The Penderwicks volume 4
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Description
As spring arrives on Gardam Street, there are surprises in store for each Penderwick, from neighbor Nick Geiger's expected return from the war to Batty's new dog-walking business, but her plans to use her profits to surprise her family on her eleventh birthday go astray.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Description
"Twelve-year-old Crow has lived her entire life on a tiny, isolated piece of the starkly beautiful Elizabeth Islands in Massachusetts. Abandoned and set adrift in a small boat when she was just hours old, Crow's only companions are Osh, the man who rescued and raised her, and Miss Maggie, their fierce and affectionate neighbor across the sandbar. Crow has always been curious about the world around her, but it isn't until the night a mysterious fire...
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Sally Gifford, a Patriot shoemaker's daughter, tries to maintain her close friendship with Kitty Lawton, the daughter of a Loyalist official, as pre-Revolutionary War tensions in 1773 Boston increase and push them apart.
17) Soulstruck
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
On Cape Cod seventeen-year-old Rachel desperately wants to get struck by lightning, an act that will reveal her soul mate, as it did for her mother, but complicated relationships with friends and family get in the way.
18) Bounce
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Thirteen-year-old Evyn's world is turned upside-down when her father, widowed since she was a toddler, suddenly decides to marry a woman with six children, move with Ev and her older brother from Maine to Boston, and enroll her in private school.
Author
Series
The dissenters volume 2
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Description
When Cara's brother, Jax, texts her from "smart kids boot camp" in Boston, Cara and her two best friends go to the rescue and discover the camp is a front for her missing mother's organization that is fighting a force out to destroy life on Earth.