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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
1000L
Language
English
Description
While trying to find a new best friend after feuding with Rowley, middle-school slacker Greg Heffley is warned by older family members that adolescence is a time to act more responsibly and to think seriously about his future.
Author
Publisher
Reycraft Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
What can be learned from a tree? If we watch and listen ... a tree has much to teach us about life--like how you can be small and strong at the same time and how to weather the storms. The author, a philosopher, offers an intriguing look at how children can navigate this thing we call "life" as they grow and change.
Author
Publisher
Enchanted Lion Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
On his first vacation without his parents, eight-year-old Myron faces a scary grandfather, teasing older cousins, his first dive off the ten-foot board, and his grandmother's encouragement to write his mother daily, telling her of his adventures.
Author
Publisher
Quill Driver Books/Word Dancer Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Arguing that adolescence is an unnecessary period of life that people are better off without, this groundbreaking study shows that teen confusion and hardships are caused by outmoded systems that were designed to destroy the continuum between childhood and adulthood. Documenting how teens are isolated from adults and are forced to look to their media-dominated peers for knowledge, this discussion contends that by infantilizing young people, society...
10) Juvenilia
Author
Series
Yale series of younger poets volume 104
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
11) Whiteout
Author
Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
560L
Language
English
Formats
Author
Language
English
Description
"Hank, Leland, Kip and Ronny were all born and raised in the same Wisconsin town--Little Wing--and are now coming into their own (or not) as husbands and fathers. One of them never left, still farming the family's land that's been tilled for generations. Others did leave, went farther afield to make good, with varying degrees of success; as a rock star, commodities trader, rodeo stud. And seamlessly woven into their patchwork is Beth, whose presence...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"From the author of the "lyrical and compelling" (USA Today) novel A Good American comes a powerful story of two friends and the unintended consequences of friendship, loss, and hope. For Robert Carter, life in his coastal Maine hometown is comfortably predictable. But in 1976, on his first day of eighth grade, he meets Nathan Tilly, who changes everything. Nathan is confident, fearless, impetuous--and fascinated by kites and flying. Robert and Nathan's...
16) One more step
Author
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
17) Little faith
Author
Language
English
Description
"In this moving new novel from celebrated author Nickolas Butler, a Wisconsin family grapples with the power and limitations of faith when one of their own falls under the influence of a radical church."--
Lyle Hovde lives a mostly content life in rural Wisconsin with his wife, Peg, daughter, Shiloh, and six-year old grandson, Isaac. After a troubled adolescence, Shiloh has become deeply involved with an extremist church, and the devout pastor courting...
18) The big snapper
Author
Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
[2006]
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
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