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41) Woods runner
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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From his 1776 Pennsylvania homestead, thirteen-year-old Samuel, who is a highly-skilled woodsman, sets out toward New York City to rescue his parents from the band of British soldiers and Indians who kidnapped them after slaughtering most of their community. Includes historical notes.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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The three-time Newbery Honor-winning author of Hatchet shares the story of his turbulent childhood, his escape into military service and the life-changing impact of an encouraging librarian who handed him his first book.
43) The haymeadow
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Fourteen-year-old John comes of age and gains self-reliance during the summer he spends up in the Wyoming mountains tending his father's herd of sheep.
Author
Series
World of adventure volume 13
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Thirteen-year-old Ryan Swanner and his mom just moved to the mountain resort of Black Water Lake. The locals say that beneath the lake's seemingly calm surface, a giant, ancient creature lives. But Ryan's new friend Rita tells him that's just hogwash. She's not afraid to go fishing out on the lake, even though, oddly, the lake seems to be nearly empty of fish. One day Ryan sees a small animal fall from a tree into the lake—and never surface again....
45) Amos Gets Famous
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Deciphering a code they find in a library book, best friends for life Amos and Dunc stumble onto a burglary ring. The burglars' next target is the home of Melissa, the girl of Amos's dreams (who doesn't even know that he's alive). Amos longs to be a hero to Melissa, so nothing will stop him from solving this case—not even a mind-boggling collision with a jock, a chimpanzzee, and a toilet.
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Description
Kevin struggled to overcome his knack for lying in Liar, Liar, and now he's back for another round of mayhem and misunderstandings in this financial comedy of errors. In Kevin, Gary Paulsen has created an appealing teen boy character who is just as human and fallible as his readers.
Author
Series
World of adventure volume 18
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Description
When Andy Hawkes's parents are tragically killed by a hit-and-run driver, Andy is sent to live with his mysterious grandfather. Andy has only met Grandfather Hawkes once, at his parents' funeral. The old man seemed frail and sickly, and a little bit weird. But Andy soon finds out his grandfather isn't what he seems—he's an inventor, for one thing. Andy also discovers that his parents' deaths may not have been an accident. When Grandfather Hawkes's...
48) Grizzly
Author
Series
World of adventure volume 15
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Description
Justin McCallister loves life on his aunt and uncle's Montana sheep ranch...until a grizzly bear begins terrorizing the livestock, injuring Justin's collie, Radar, and killing his pet lamb, Blue. Justin decides to take matters into his own hands and sets out to track down the bear. But things become more dangerous than Justin ever could have imagined when he comes face-to-face with the grizzly.
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Description
Amos is desperate. He’s desperate for two tickets to the romantic event of his young life . . . the Road Kill concert! He’ll do anything to get them because he heard from a friend of a friend of a friend of Melissa Hansen that she’s way into Road Kill. But when he enlists the help of his best friend Dunc, he winds up with more than he bargained for . . . backstage, with a mystery to solve.
Somebody’s trying to...
Somebody’s trying to...
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
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Description
WHEN YOU GROW up in a small town in the north woods, you have to make your own excitement. High spirits, idiocy, and showing off for the girls inspire Gary Paulsen and his friends to attempt:
• Shooting waterfalls in a barrel
• The first skateboarding
• Breaking the world record for speed on skis by being towed behind a souped-up car, and then . . . hitting gravel
• Jumping three barrels like motorcycle daredevil...
• Shooting waterfalls in a barrel
• The first skateboarding
• Breaking the world record for speed on skis by being towed behind a souped-up car, and then . . . hitting gravel
• Jumping three barrels like motorcycle daredevil...
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Description
She’s a master of disguises—able to change identities at will. She’s wanted in five states. They call her the Chameleon. Dunc thinks he and Amos are just about to crack the case wide open. And all they have to do is sneak into this dangerous felon’s apartment!
52) The Car
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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Description
A 14-year-old boy takes a road trip in search of family—and discovers adventure—in this YA novel by the Newbery Award-winning author.
At fourteen, Terry Anders finds himself abandoned by both of his parents. Left alone in their home, he has nothing but an empty refrigerator and his father’s unfinished Blakely Bearcat kit car—abandoned just like Terry. And that gives him an idea.
After getting the car road-ready,
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Series
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Description
Anyone who knows Amos knows that in his case, dogs are definitely not man's best friends. Even his own dog growls and shows his teeth whenever Amos is around. Amos isn't exactly fond of Scruff either. It's a dog-eat-dog world. But when Scruff gets mixed up in a dognapping scheme, Amos and his best friend, Dunc, have to team up to spring him.
Join Gary Paulsen's cool sleuths as they go undercover at the city pound!
Join Gary Paulsen's cool sleuths as they go undercover at the city pound!
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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An experienced Iditarod racer, Gary Paulsen celebrates his lead dog and longtime companion, Cookie, in this intimate essay. Paulsen takes readers inside the kennel as Cookie’s last litter of pups grow and learn to pull sleds across the snowy frontier.
Includes an author's note.
55) Sarny
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Description
Many readers of Nightjohn have wanted to know what happened to Sarny, the young slave whom Nightjohn taught to read. Here is Sarny's story, from the moment she leaves the plantation in the last days of the Civil War, suddenly a free woman in search of her sold-away children. Her search takes her to New Orleans and the home of the mysterious and remarkable Miss Laura. Like Nightjohn, Miss Laura changes Sarny's life, and she helps Sarny pass...
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Description
It’s spy vs. spy when Amos is mistaken for a government double agent and give a top-secret assignment. He’s got the trench coat, he’s got the dark sunglasses, he’s go that smooth and debonair James Bond way about him. Now all he needs is Dunc to bail him out!
Join best friends Dunc and Amos as they try a little espionage, Culpepper style!
Join best friends Dunc and Amos as they try a little espionage, Culpepper style!
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Description
When Amos and his best friend Dunc have a close encounter with an extraterrestrial named “Girrk,” Dunc thinks they should report their findings to NASA. But Amos has other plans. Not only does he promise to help Girrk find a way back to his plant, he invites him to hide under his bed! Then weird things start to happen—Scruff can’t move, Amos scores a game-winning touchdown, and Dunc knows Girrk is behind Amos’s...
Author
Series
World of adventure volume 17
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Description
“A few hundred yards ahead there is a long wooden bridge that the donkeys will be afraid to cross. But do not worry. After you cross the bridge, the ruins will not be far away.”
Cousins Kate, Sam, and Shala quickly see why the donkeys are so afraid to cross the bridge— it’s old and rickety and spans a deep rocky canyon. But they have to get across it. They have to find Katie and Sam’s dad, an anthropologist...
Cousins Kate, Sam, and Shala quickly see why the donkeys are so afraid to cross the bridge— it’s old and rickety and spans a deep rocky canyon. But they have to get across it. They have to find Katie and Sam’s dad, an anthropologist...
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Amos has more than a monkey on his back. It’s a gorilla. Her name is Louise. And she’s in love with him. Dunc isn’t much help. He’s convinced that Louise is the key to solving a really big-time case involving some assassins and a respected senator.
Who will prevail? Dunc? The assassins? Or Louise?
Who will prevail? Dunc? The assassins? Or Louise?
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
Amos's big sister Amy is always dating rejects. But this time, her boyfriend was rejected by the grave! He's got pale skin, dark hair, mesmerizing eyes, an annoying tendency to disappear, and he wants to have the Culpeppers over for a late night Halloween snack.... Can Amos and his best friend, Dunc, stop the vampire before he starts to bite? Or will Amy and her man do a little necking she will never forget?
Join Gary Paulsen's cool sleuths in...
Join Gary Paulsen's cool sleuths in...