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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Description
A crippled boy in fourteenth-century England proves his courage and earns recognition from the King. Ever since he can remember, Robin, son of Sir John de Bureford, has been told what is expected of him as the son of a nobleman. He must learn the ways of knighthood. But Robin's destiny is changed in one stroke: He falls ill and loses the use of his legs. Fearing a plague, his servants abandon him and Robin is left alone.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
"In this Newbery Medal-winning novel, a girl faces prejudice and accusations of witchcraft in seventeenth-century Connecticut. Sixteen-year-old Kit Tyler is marked by suspicion and disapproval from the moment she arrives on the unfamiliar shores of colonial Connecticut in 1687. Alone and desperate, she has been forced to leave her beloved home on the island of Barbados and join a family she has never met. Torn between her quest for belonging and her...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
Billy, Old Dan and Little Ann -- a Boy and His Two Dogs ... A loving threesome, they ranged the dark hills and river bottoms of Cherokee country. Old Dan had the brawn, Little Ann had the brains -- and Billy had the will to train them to be the finest hunting team in the valley. Glory and victory were coming to them, but sadness waited too. And close by was the strange and wonderful power that's only found ... An exciting tale of love and adventure...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
A marine biology student reporting to his summer job on an island off Portugal finds himself at the center of a power struggle between his boss and another group of Americans.
When Adam Eddington, a gifted marine biology student, makes the acquaintance of blond and beautiful Kali Cutter at Kennedy International Airport on his way to Portugal to spend the summer working for the renowned scientist Dr. O'Keefe, he has no idea that this seemingly chance...
7) Dracula
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 25
Lexile measure
HL 1070L
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
This is the classic, hypnotic story of the undead creatures of the night--and the human lives they touch--as they relentlessly seek to satiate an accursed craving for their only sustenance: human blood. A Gothic novel of immense proportions, "Dracula" has only strengthened its grip on the public over the course of the last century.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
Retellings of the ancient Greek myths, arranged in four sections: the Gods, Nature Myths, Demigods, and Fables. Includes a brief section on words from the Greek myths which are part of the English language.
10) The outsiders
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
Rivalry between rich and poor gangs in 1960s Oklahoma leads to the deaths of three teenagers and intense soul-searching for one of the kids involved, a sensitive fourteen-year-old writer named Ponyboy.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
A seventeen-year-old boy, former member of a tough New York gang, a blind and talented twelve-year-old musician, the Austin family, and Canon Tallis are among the key characters who become involved in a frightening and evil scheme relying on the ability of a refined laser to give complete power over people's minds.
13) Johnny Tremain
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Brash young apprentice Johnny Tremain, injured in an accident that leaves him unable to practice his trade, becomes involved with Rab, a Boston printer, who draws Johnny with him into the events of the Revolutionary War.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Mark and Bryon have been like brothers since childhood, but now, as their involvement with girls, gangs, and drugs increases, their relationship seems to gradually disintegrate.
15) Deathwatch
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
990L
Language
English
Description
Needing money for school, a college boy accepts a job as guide on a desert hunting trip and nearly loses his life.
16) The slave dancer
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
Kidnapped by the crew of an Africa-bound ship, a thirteen-year-old boy discovers to his horror that he is on a slaver and his job is to play music for the exercise periods of the human cargo.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
560L
Language
English
Description
As a slag heap, the result of strip mining, creeps closer to his house in the Ohio hills, fifteen-year-old M.C. is torn between trying to get his family away and fighting for the home they love.
19) Carlota
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
A young girl relates her feelings and experiences as a participant in the battle of San Pasqual during the last days of the war between the Californians and Americans.
20) The 290
Author
Series
Publisher
Dell Publishing Co
Pub. Date
1979.
Language
English
Description
A shipyard apprentice finds high adventure aboard the S.S. Alabama, a Confederate ship which sails the Atlantic destroying Union vessels.
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