Theodore Taylor
1) The cay
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the freighter on which they are traveling is torpedoed by a German submarine during World War II, a twelve-year-old white boy, blinded by a blow on the head, and an old Negro are stranded on a small desert island in the Caribbean where the boy acquires a new kind of vision, courage, and love from his old companion.
4) Woke baby
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Lexile measure
AD 530L
Language
English
Description
"For all the littlest progressives, waking up to seize a new day of justice and activism. Woke babies are up early. Woke babies raise their fists in the air. Woke babies cry out for justice. Woke babies grow up to change the world. This lyrical and empowering book is both a celebration of what it means to be a baby and what it means to be woke. With bright playful art, Woke Baby is an anthem of hope in a world where the only limit to a skyscrapper...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
Having survived being blinded and shipwrecked on a tiny Caribbean island with the old black man Timothy, twelve-year-old white Phillip is rescued and hopes to regain his sight with an operation. Alternate chapters follow the life of Timothy from his days as a young cabin boy.
7) The bomb
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
In 1945, when the Americans liberate the Bikini Atoll from the Japanese, fourteen-year-old Sorry Rinamu does not realize that the next year he will lead a desperate effort to save his island home from a much more deadly threat.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
With his parents in India, sixteen-year-old Ben Jepson is in charge of Los Coyotes Preserve, a refuge for big cats near Los Angeles, when two powerful groups try to shut it down by intimidation, murder, and kidnapping the largest tiger in captivity.
10) The weirdo
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
When sixteen-year-old Sam falls in love with disfigured Chip Clewt and helps him in his campaign to save the black bears in the North Carolina swamp near her home, she gets in deep trouble with her father, an avid hunter.
11) A sailor returns
Author
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
Evan, an eleven-year-old boy in 1914 whose strict father has little time for him, is delighted when his long-lost grandfather returns, relates his many sea adventures, and hobbles around like Evan who has a club foot.
12) Ice drift
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
Two Inuit brothers must fend for themselves while stranded on an ice floe that is adrift in the Greenland Strait.
14) Billy the Kid
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
Young William Bonney is talked into committing his first train robbery, unaware that his cousin and best friend, Willie Monroe, is now sheriff of the nearest town, and that his fellow robbers are already wanted in four states.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When the English girl Ben saved from a shipwreck recovers her memory and speech and reveals to him that two chests full of silver went down with the ship, Ben and his friends try to recover them without arousing suspicions.
16) Teetoncey
Author
Series
Cape Hatteras trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
In this first novel of a trilogy, eleven-year-old Ben rescues an English girl from a shipwreck off the Outer Banks of North Carolina; and, though she becomes part of his family, she never speaks.