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Author
Series
Football genius novels volume 4
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Troy always dreamed of meeting his father, but when the man finally appears his mother's anger, his father's shady business dealings, and Troy's own feelings make the reunion difficult and confusing.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Phizz-whizzing new branding for the world's No.1 storyteller, Roald Dahl! Exciting, bold and instantly recognisable with Quentin Blake's inimitable artwork. Danny lives in a gipsy caravan with his father, the most marvellous and exciting father any boy ever had. All the land around them belongs to Mr Victor Hazell, a rich snob with a great glistening beery face and tiny piggy eyes. Nobody likes him, not one-little bit. So one day, Danny and his father...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Pub. Date
1999.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Martin longs to be a musician, and with the encouragement of two very different friends, he eventually is able to defy his mean-hearted father and accept himself and the talent within him.
Martin longs to be a musician, and with the encouragement of two very different friends, he eventually is able to defy his mean-hearted father and accept himself and the talent within him
64) Hot hand
Author
Series
Comeback kids volume 1
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In the wake of his parents' separation, ten-year-old Billy seems to have continual conflicts with his father, who is also his basketball coach, but his quiet, younger brother Ben, a piano prodigy, is having even more trouble adjusting, and only Billy seems to notice.
65) The dream bearer
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins/Amistad
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
During a summer in Harlem, David relies on his mother and a close friend and on an old man he meets in the park to help him come to terms with his father's outbursts and unstable behavior.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Although his father has forbidden it, Ernie, a twelve-year-old business tycoon, makes a tidy profit in the pet funeral business, but when he refuses to give his star employee a raise and the business starts to fall apart, it takes the death of his own dog to bring everyone back together.
67) Abduction!
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Bonnie has a feeling of foreboding on the very day that her six-year-old brother Matt and their dog Pookie are abducted, and she becomes involved in a major search effort as well as a frightening adventure.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
To purge the anger from an ancient Welsh demonic god that he had helped release, and to soothe a moody, troubled soldier, Gwyn Griffiths draws on the strength of his namesake and ancestor in Welsh magic, Gwydion Gwyn.
69) Babe & Me
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
With more than 2 million books sold, the Baseball Card Adventures bring the greatest players in history to life!
On October 1, 1932, during Game Three of the Chicago Cubs–New York Yankees World Series, Babe Ruth belted a long home run to straightaway centerfield. According to legend, just before he hit, Babe pointed to the bleachers and boldly predicted he would slam the next pitch there.
Did he call the shot or didn't he? Witnesses never agreed....
70) Lost boy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a near-fatal car accident, twelve-year-old Ryder's mother needs an operation they cannot afford and while a new friend tries to raise funds, Ryder travels with a grouchy, disabled neighbor, from Yankee Stadium to Turner Field seeking the major league baseball player who might be Ryder's father.
71) Preacher's boy
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In 1899, ten-year-old Robbie, son of a preacher in a small Vermont town, gets himself into all kinds of trouble when he decides to give up being Christian in order to make the most of his life before the end of the world.
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
1995.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Mary Lou grows up considerably during the summer while learning about romance, homesickness, death, and her cousin's search for his biological father.
Author
Publisher
HMH Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When Milo Speck enters Ogregon, a land populated with hungry ogres, enormous turkeys, children needing rescue, and his own, ordinary, salesman-father, his top priority is to escape--but only after thwarting a plot to turn children everywhere into ogre snack food.
75) The storm runner
Author
Series
Storm runner volume 1
Publisher
Disney Hyperion
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
To prevent the Mayan gods from battling each other and destroying the world, thirteen-year-old Zane must unravel an ancient prophecy, stop an evil god, and discover how the physical disability that makes him reliant on a cane also connects him to his father and his ancestry.
76) New kid
Author
Series
New kids novels volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"A troubled kid finds his bearings in a new school after a baseball coach offers him a spot on the team"--Provided by publisher.
77) Onion John
Author
Publisher
Crowell
Pub. Date
[1959]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
His friendship with the town odd-jobs man, Onion John, causes a conflict between Andy and his father.
78) The Fire Keeper
Author
Series
Storm runner volume 2
Publisher
Disney Hyperion
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Zane Obispo faces an impossible choice--to save other godborns like himself from the angry gods, or rescue his father, Hurakan, from his eternal prison.
Author
Series
New kids novels volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"The companion novel to New Kid, where Brock is in another new town after being on the run with his dad again, and this time, he joins the football team"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
In the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union, ten-year-old Sasha idolizes his father, a devoted Communist, but when police take his father away and leave Sasha homeless, he is forced to examine his own perceptions, values, and beliefs.
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