Gary Paulsen
81) The crossing
Author
Series
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
c1987
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Manny, a street kid fighting for survival in a Mexican border town, develops a strange friendship with an emotionally disturbed American soldier who decides to help him get across the border.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2007, ©1993
Edition
1st Harcourt paperback ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Sent to live with relatives on their farm because of his unhappy home life, an eleven-year-old city boy meets his distant cousin Harris and is given an introduction to a whole new world.
Author
Publisher
Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[1990], c1989
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When David goes out on his sailboat to scatter his recently deceased uncle's ashes to the wind, he is caught in a fierce storm and must survive many days on his own as he works out his feelings about life and his uncle.
85) Canoe days
Author
Publisher
Doubleday Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
A canoe ride on a northern lake during a summer day reveals the quiet beauty and wonder of nature in and around the peaceful water.
86) Mudshark
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Principal Wagner confidently deals with a faculty washroom crisis, a psychic parrot, and a terrorizing gerbil, but when sixty-five erasers go missing, he enlists the help of the school's best problem solver and lost item locator, twelve-year-old Lyle Williams, also known as Mudshark.
Author
Series
White Fox chronicles volume 1-3
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Having been imprisoned when the Confederation of Consolidated Republics, a foreign power, conquered Los Angeles in 2056, fourteen-year-old Cody escapes and endures hardship to become the underground hero the White Fox.
Author
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
1989, c1983
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Carley recalls the extraordinary summer when, as a troubled fourteen-year-old, he first came to northern Minnesota to stay with his blacksmith Uncle David and gained not only new skills but also a new sense of himself.
90) Alida's song
Author
Publisher
Dell Yearling
Pub. Date
[2001], c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
A fourteen-year-old boy who has been neglected by irresponsible parents spends a wonderful summer on a farm where his grandmother cooks for two elderly brothers.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Continues the adventures of Sarny, the slave girl Nightjohn taught to read, through the aftermath of the Civil War during which time she taught other Blacks and lived a full life until age ninety-four.
92) The monument
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Rocky, self-conscious about the braces on her leg, has her life changed by the remarkable artist who comes to her small Kansas town to design a war memorial.
93) Dogteam
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[1995], c1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Portrays the excitement, the danger, and the beauty of a night run.
95) The quilt
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
During World War II, while his father is in Europe fighting and his mother is working in Chicago, a five-year-old boy goes to live with his grandmother in a rural Norwegian American community in Minnesota. Based on events from the author's life.
96) Snow dogs
Publisher
DisneyDVD
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
When a Miami dentist inherits a team of sled dogs, he's got to learn the trade or lose his pack to a crusty mountain man.