Theodore Taylor
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Having survived being blinded and shipwrecked on a tiny Caribbean island with the old Black man Timothy, twelve-year-old white boy Phillip is rescued and hopes to regain his sight with an operation. Alternate chapters follow the life of Timothy from his days as a young cabin boy.
2) The cay
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Description
When the freighter on which they are traveling is torpedoed by a German submarine during World War II, a twelve-year-old white boy, blinded by a blow on the head, and an old Negro are stranded on a small desert island in the Caribbean where the boy acquires a new kind of vision, courage, and love from his old companion.
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Young William Bonney is talked into committing his first train robbery, unaware that his cousin and best friend, Willie Monroe, is now sheriff of the nearest town, and that his fellow robbers are already wanted in four states.
7) The bomb
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 6
Description
In 1945, when the Americans liberate the Bikini Atoll from the Japanese, fourteen-year-old Sorry Rinamu does not realize that the next year he will lead a desperate effort to save his island home from a much more deadly threat.
8) Ice drift
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Two Inuit brothers must fend for themselves while stranded on an ice floe that is adrift in the Greenland Strait. The year is 1868, and fourteen-year-old Alika and his younger brother, Sulu, are hunting for seals on an ice floe attached to their island in the Arctic. Suddenly the ice starts to shake, and they hear a loud crack--the terrible sound of the floe breaking free from land. The boys watch with horror as the dark expanse of water between the...
9) The weirdo
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Description
When sixteen-year-old Sam falls in love with disfigured Chip Clewt and helps him in his campaign to save the black bears in the North Carolina swamp near her home, she gets in deep trouble with her father, an avid hunter.
12) A sailor returns
Author
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Evan, an eleven-year-old boy in 1914 whose strict father has little time for him, is delighted when his long-lost grandfather returns, relates his many sea adventures, and hobbles around like Evan who has a club foot.
13) Sniper
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Fifteen-year-old Ben must cope alone when a mysterious sniper begins shooting the big cats in his family's private zoological preserve.
14) Tuck triumphant
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Fourteen-year-old Helen, her blind dog Friar Tuck, and her family face some dramatic challanges when they discover that the Korean boy they have adopted is deaf. Sequel to "The Trouble with Tuck."
Author
Series
Great sea battles of World War II volume 1
Pub. Date
c1981
Description
An account of the June, 1942, air battle between American and Japanese forces which proved a decisive defeat for the Japanese and the turning point of the war in the Pacific.
17) Woke baby
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
A baby with awareness of social and racial justice issues wakes up for the day.
19) El cayo
Author
Series
Cuatro vientos volume 125
Pub. Date
2006, c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Philip, an adolescent white boy who is blinded in a torpedo attack at sea during World War II, acquires a new type of vision, courage, and love when he is stranded on a tiny Caribbean island with Timothy, a kind, elderly black man.
20) The Wierdo
Author
Pub. Date
c1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Seventeen-year-old Chip Clewt, "The Weirdo," helps Samantha Sanders search for the killer who has stalked innocent victims in the swamp.
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