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2) Rules
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Frustrated at life with an autistic brother, twelve-year-old Catherine longs for a normal existence but her world is further complicated by a friendship with an young paraplegic.
3) Small steps
Author
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Three years after being released from Camp Green Lake, Armpit is trying hard to keep his life on track, but when his old pal X-Ray shows up with a tempting plan to make some easy money scalping concert tickets, Armpit reluctantly goes along.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eighth-grade star quarterback Nate Brodie's family is feeling the stress of the troubled economy, and Nate is frantic because his best friend Abby is going blind, so when he gets a chance to win a million dollars if he can complete a pass during the halftime of a New England Patriot's game, he is nearly overwhelmed by the pressure to succeed.
Author
Series
Deaf child crossing volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Megan, a popular and outgoing fourth-grader, is sure that the "perfect" new girl dislikes her because she is deaf, but persistence and a joint science fair project help Megan see that the two girls have something in common after all.
Author
Series
Maggie Valley series volume 1
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In the early 1960s, twelve-year-old songwriter Livy Two Weems dreams of seeing the world beyond the Maggie Valley, North Carolina, holler where she lives in poverty with her parents and eight brothers and sisters, but understands that she must put family first.
Author
Series
Deaf child crossing volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Despite the fact that Megan is deaf and Cindy can hear, the two girls become friends when Cindy moves into Megan's neighborhood, but when they go away to camp, their friendship is put to the test.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When his wealthy uncle, a champion bridge player who has lost his vision, asks seventeen-year-old Alton to be a cardturner for him, Alton has no idea how much he will ultimately learn from his eccentric relative. Includes appendix by Syd Fox with information about bridge.
Author
Publisher
Cobblehill Books/Dutton
Pub. Date
[1996]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When an earthquake hits the isolated island in northern California where his family had been camping, twelve-year-old Jonathan Palmer must find a way to keep himself, his partially paralyzed younger sister, and their dog alive until help arrives.
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
When thief and swindler Nacky Patcher and orphaned eleven-year-old Teedie Flinn discover a huge wrecked boat in a small mountain lake near their town, they try to unite all the inhabitants to help rebuild the vessel--an endeavor that forever changes all of their lives.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Having lost his mother and his hearing in a short time, twelve-year-old Ben leaves his Minnesota home in 1977 to seek the father he never knew in New York City, and meets there Rose, who is also longing for something missing from her life. Ben's story is told in words; Rose's in pictures.
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Phillip's dream of running away from the circus comes true when his parents allow him to stay with relatives in Hardington, Pennsylvania, where dodgeball is practically a religion and life is anything but normal.
Author
Series
Million dollar series (Dan Gutman) volume 5
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Assisted by his neighbor, Birdie, blind thirteen-year-old Ed "Bogie" Bogard will win one million dollars if he can sink a ten-foot putt in Hawaii's fifth annual Angus Killick Memorial Tournament.
Author
Series
I funny volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
As the Planet's Funniest Kid Comic finals near, Jamie faces a whirlwind of attention at school and in the media and the fame starts to go to his head, but in Hollywood with Uncle Frankie, some of his fellow comedians quickly show him what competition and pressure are all about.
Author
Publisher
Baker Book House
Pub. Date
1992.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Although mute since the death of his parents in a fire, a young Nez Perc ̌Indian boy has a happy and adventurous life with his adopted family until the growing conflict between the white man and the Indians erupts into war in the summer of 1877 and changes his life forever.
Author
Series
I funny volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Can I, Jamie Grimm, teach other kids how to be super funny? Think it's hard being a stand-up comedian in a wheelchair? Try teaching a comedy class to bored middle schoolers! I have no idea where to start. Do I assign homework? Should I give tests? Or do I just fall flat on my face and hope that gets a laugh?
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