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Author
Series
Percy Jackson and the Olympians volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Percy, expelled from six schools for being unable to control his temper, learns the truth from his mother that his father is the Greek god Poseidon, and is sent to Camp Half Blood where he is befriended by a satyr and the demigod daughter of Athena who join him in a journey to the Underworld to retrieve Zeus's lightning bolt and prevent a catastrophic war.
3) Two roads
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In 1932, twelve-year-old Cal must stop being a hobo with his father and go to a Bureau of Indian Affairs boarding school, where he begins learning about his history and heritage as a Creek Indian.
4) East of Eden
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 34
Language
English
Description
The biblical account of Cain and Abel is echoed in the history of two generations of the Trask family in California.
Author
Series
Crossover volume 1
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
�2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
237 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old twin basketball stars Josh and Jordan wrestle with highs and lows on and off the court as their father ignores his declining health.
6) Artemis Fowl
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"In 2001, Eoin Colfer published Artemis Fowl, a hilarious and rip-roaring science-fiction/fantasy adventure about a twelve-year-old criminal mastermind who kidnaps a fairy, Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon Unit. But these aren't the fairies of bedtime stories; these fairies are armed and dangerous. Artemis thinks he has them right where he wants them ... until they stop playing by the rules. The novel was an instant sensation and became the start...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
155 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Nick loves baseball so after a year in the hospital fighting polio and with a brace on one leg, Nick takes a job with the team for which his father is catcher and gets to see the great pitcher, Satchel Paige, play during the 1935 season. Includes historical notes.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tarzan of the Apes is a coming of age story of John Clayton, the son of an English couple who are marooned in the western coastal jungles of equatorial Africa. His father is killed by the savage king ape Kerchak, and his mother dies of natural causes. At one year old, Clayton is adopted by the she-ape Kala and renamed Tarzan, or "white-skin" in the ape language.
Author
Series
Artemis fowl volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When Artemis learns that his father has been kidnapped by the Russian mob, he races to the Arctic Circle to make a daring rescue, where he finds an old acquaintance, Captain Holly Short, who is investigating a plot of the goblin mob.
10) Muckers
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
274 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Felix O'Sullivan, standing in the shadow of his dead brother, an angry, distant father, and racial tension, must lead the last-ever Muckers high school football team to the championship before a mine closing shuts down the town.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
177 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
It is the end of May 1940, the British government has put out a call for fishing boats to help rescue the British soldiers trapped at Dunkirk and Aidan is the son of a fisherman with access to his father's dory--his parents forbid him to go, but Aidan has already lost one brother to the war, and his other brother is somewhere over there with the British Expeditionary Force; so despite his fear of the ocean, he and his best friend Sally set out to...
Author
Series
Percy Jackson and the Olympians volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
When demonic cheerleaders invade his high school, Percy Jackson hurries to Camp Half Blood, from whence he and his demigod friends set out on a quest through the Labyrinth. Meanwhile the war between the Olympians and the evil Titan lord Kronos draws near.
13) Vessel: a memoir
Author
Publisher
HarperVia
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First HarperVia hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
298 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
An unprecedented and heartfelt memoir that illuminates the lives of rural Chinese workers, offering a portrait of generational strife, family, love, and loss that crosses cultures and time. Cai Chongda spent his childhood in a rural fishing village in Fujian province. When his father-a former communist gang leader turned gas station owner-has a stroke that partially paralyzes him, his responsibilities fall to Cai, his only son. Assuming his new role...
14) We bought a zoo
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
Blu-ray + DVD + digital copy [ed.].
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (124 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 computer optical disc (sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.)
Language
English
Description
"When his teenage son gets into trouble, Benjamin Mee ... gives up a lucrative newspaper job to move his family to the most unlikely of places: a zoo! With help from an eclectic staff, and with many misadventures along the way, Benjamin embarks on a fresh beginning to restore the dilapidated zoo to its former glory, while uniting his family"--Container.
15) Dad's cake
Author
Series
Publisher
Crabtree Publishing
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
24 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Dad asks Joey to help him make a cake with strange ingredients which keeps Joey guessing as to who this cake is for.