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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
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When Mary Lennox is sent from India to the moors of England to live with her uncle after losing her parents, not only does she discover a secret garden, but she also discovers the true meaning of family, friendship, and perseverance. This magical, timeless classic, originally published in 1911, is by the author of A Little Princess and Little Lord Faunteleroy.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 4
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The crippled son of a powerful nobleman in fourteenth-century England sets out to prove his courage and his right to be recognized by the King.
In England during the Middle Ages, a courageous young boy who suddenly loses the use of his legs is forced to learn how to deal with his new disability.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 12
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After shattering his knee in a car accident, Ezra Faulkner loses his athletic ability and status at school. Forced to sit at the table of "misfits," Ezra meets the unusual Cassidy Thorpe, and with her help discovers a side of life he had been overlooking.
7) Going bovine
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 17
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Cameron Smith, a disaffected sixteen year-old who, after being diagnosed with Creutzfeld Jakob's (aka mad cow) disease, sets off on a road trip with a death-obsessed video gaming dwarf he meets in the hospital in an attempt to find a cure.
Author
Series
Giver quartet volume 2
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Lame and suddenly orphaned, Kira is mysteriously removed from her squalid village to live in the palatial Council Edifice, where she is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to do the bidding of the all-powerful Guardians.
13) Bluish: a novel
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Ten-year-old Dreenie feels both intrigued and frightened when she thinks about the girl nicknamed Bluish, whose leukemia is making her pale and causing her to use a wheelchair.
15) A sailor returns
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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.
16) Dovey Coe
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Accused of murder in her North Carolina mountain town in 1928, Dovey Coe, a stronged-willed twelve-year-old girl, comes to a new understanding of others, including her deaf brother, as she attempts to clear her name.
17) Tuck triumphant
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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."
18) Stoner & Spaz
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Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 4
Description
A troubled youth with cerebral palsy struggles toward self-acceptance with the help of a drug-addicted young woman.
19) 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.