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1) Red kayak
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
Living near the water on Maryland's Eastern Shore, thirteen-year-old Brady and his best friends J.T. and Digger become entangled in a tragedy which tests their friendship and their ideas about right and wrong.
2) Saving Grace
Author
Publisher
Dutton's Children's Books
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
When Grace's family is evicted from their Washington, D.C., apartment just before Christmas 1932, and she and her younger brothers are sent to the Mission, Grace wonders what will become of her sick older brother, her pregnant mother, and her out-of-workfather.
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
High school freshman Kate has a lot on her mind, what with taking care of her heartbroken mother and looking after the family chicken farm in Maryland, but she promised her dying father to look after her older brother who is just back from juvenile detention--and this year that seems to involve paying off the bullies at school by doing their school work.
4) Blindsided
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
After years of failing eyesight, fourteen-year-old Natalie reluctantly enters a school for the blind, where in spite of her initial resistance she learns the skills that will help her survive in the sighted world.
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
After breaking out of juvenile detention, fourteen-year-old Digger stops his trek across Maryland at a campground where he recovers from injuries, cares for little Luke, works with smart and pretty Nora, and begins to understand how his behavior and choices shape his life.
7) A face first
Author
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Kelley decides to cut off contact with her friends and classmates after suffering third-degree burns to her face and body in a car accident near her home on Maryland's Kent Island.
