Paula Fox
2) One-eyed cat
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ned fired the forbidden rifle just once, at a flickering shadow in the autumn moonlight. But someone -- a face, fleetingly seen staring at him from an attic window -- was watching. And when a one-eyed cat turns up at an elderly neighbor's woodshed, Ned is caught in a web of guilt, fear, and shame that he cannot escape -- until another moonlit night, come spring, brings redemption and surprising revelations.
4) Western wind
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Elizabeth resents being sent to stay on a small Maine island after the arrival of her new baby brother, but the time she spends with her artist grandmother and an unusual young neighbor help her to see things differently.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her father enters the hospital to have open-heart surgery, ten-year-old Emma is sent to Peconic Bay to live with her tormented aunt and finds the experience painful until she meets a friend who suggests making a miniature village in the sand.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eleven-year-old Lily has grown closer to her thirteen-year-old brother Paul during the spring their family has spent on the Greek island Thasos, until the unpredictable behavior of another American boy disrupts their lives.
9) Traces
Author
Publisher
Front Street
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 560L
Language
English
Description
Looks at the traces left behind by a turtle on the sand, a jet in the sky, and even a long-gone dinosaur in loose soil.
Author
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old James, doted on by his three aunts, is haunted by the loss of his mother. He doesn't know where his mother is-only that she is sick and he has to live with his aunts in a shoddy city apartment. One day he skips school to go to his secret place, a deserted house where he is found by three teenage boys who force him to join their dognapping ring. What follows is a roller-coaster-like adventure story ride through the streets of New York...
Author
Series
Cuatro vientos volume 83
Publisher
Noguer y Caralt Editores
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
880L
Language
Español
14) El gato tuerto
Author
Publisher
Noguer
Pub. Date
1991.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
880L
Language
Español
Description
An eleven-year-old shoots a stray cat with his new air rifle, subsequently suffers from guilt, and eventually assumes responsibility for it.
15) A likely place
Author
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
1987.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A little boy who can't spell or ever seem to please his parents spends a week with an odd babysitter and makes a special friend.
19) The eagle kite
Author
Publisher
Bantam Doubleday Dell
Pub. Date
[1996]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Liam's father has AIDS, and his family cannot talk about it until Liam reveals a secret that he has tried to deny ever since he saw his father embracing another man at the beach.