Dean Hughes
1) Soldier boys
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Description
At age fifteen, Dieter's blind devotion gets him promoted from the Hitler youth into the German army. Spence, just sixteen, drops out of school to train as a paratrooper. Their worst fear is the war would end too soon, then they have to confront the reality of battle.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 7
Description
While his father is missing in action in the Pacific during World War II, twelve-year-old Jay moves with his mother to small-town Utah, where he sees prejudice from both sides, as a part-Navajo himself and through an unlikely friendship with Japanese American Ken from the nearby internment camp.
6) Family pose
Author
Pub. Date
1989
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Feeling unwanted, an eleven-year-old orphan runs away from his foster home and lives on the streets until he finds a new type of family at a hotel.
Author
Series
Nutty Nutsell series volume 4
Pub. Date
1987
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Description
In despair over his basketball team's prospects with his father as coach, fifth-grader Nutty goes to his genius friend William for help and finds more success than he ever thought possible.
Author
Series
Angel Park All-Stars volume 1
Pub. Date
1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Three third-grade rookies who make the Little League baseball team aren't immediately accepted by the older players.
9) Big base hit
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Harlan Sloan, a rookie on the Little League baseball team, gets his first big base hit.
Author
Series
Angel Park All-Stars volume 6
Pub. Date
1990
Description
When the Angel Park Dodgers get so rattled by the Reds that they can hardly play baseball, rookie Jacob attempts to relax them with meditation exercises he finds in a sports psychology book.
Author
Series
Angel Park all-stars volume 1
Pub. Date
1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Three third-grade rookies who make the Little League baseball team aren't immediately accepted by the older players.
13) Midway to heaven
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
Years after his wife Kate died, Ned Stevens still cringes at the thought of dating other women. After all, why would he start dating again when he still has to look out for his daughter Liz? But when Liz comes home for a visit from college, she brings a surprise guest who will throw Ned for a loop. Can Ned ever accept that his little girl has fallen in love with David, a practically perfect know-it-all who drives Ned crazy? With Ned trying to sabotage...