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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Children's Genre: Adventure Books for Middle Schoolers
Children's New Books: September 2020 eBooks and eAudiobooks
Children's New Books: September 2020 eBooks and eAudiobooks
Description
Twelve-year-old Percy Jackson learns he is a demigod, the son of a mortal woman and Poseidon, god of the sea. His mother sends him to a summer camp for demigods where he and his new friends set out on a quest to prevent a war between the gods.
Author
Series
Storm runner volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Children's Book Battles: 2021_22 Middle Schools
Children's Genre: Adventure Books for Middle Schoolers
Children's Read Alikes: Percy Jackson
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Children's Genre: Adventure Books for Middle Schoolers
Children's Read Alikes: Percy Jackson
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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.
4) Hike
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A father and child head out on a hike, keeping a cherished family tradition alive.
Author
Series
Max Leroy trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Children's Recommended: 3rd Grade
Children's Recommended: E-Books Fiction for Middle Grades
Children’s Recommended: 3rd/4th Grade Series for Boys
Children's Recommended: E-Books Fiction for Middle Grades
Children’s Recommended: 3rd/4th Grade Series for Boys
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Description
Third-grader Max pursues neighborhood adventures with his dad as they both adjust to recent changes in their family.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Jazz learned all about being a serial killer from his notorious "Dear Old Dad," but believes he has a conscience that will help fight his own urges and right some of his father's wrongs, so he secretly helps the police apprehend the town's newest murderer, "The Impressionist."
Author
Series
Space taxi volume 3
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Eight-year-old Archie Morningstar, his father, and the talking cat Pockets travel to a planet that closely resembles medieval Earth in order to rescue a princess from the clutches of the intergalactic criminal organization B.U.R.P"--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jazz Dent, who has been shot and left to die in New York City, his girlfriend, Connie, who is in the clutches of Jazz's serial killer father, Billy, and his best friend, Howie, who is bleeding to death on the floor of Jazz's own home in tiny Lobo's Nod, must all rise above the horrors their lives have become and find a way to come together in pursuit of Billy.
10) Almost time
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ethan eagerly anticipates making maple syrup with his father, but it will not be time until the days are warmer, the nights shorter, and Ethan's loose tooth falls out.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Children's Awards: Newbery Medal for Distinguished Literature
Children's Special Topics: Fiction with Lexile 900 to 999
Children's Special Topics: Fiction with Lexile 900 to 999
Description
In the Middle Ages a young boy crippled by the plague has an adventurous journey from London to the castle where he becomes a page.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Sixteen-year-old Austin, a self-described screw-up, finds out that his allegedly dead father happens to be the very-much-alive rock star Shane Tyler. Austin--a talented musician himself--is sucked into his newfound father's alluring music-biz orbit, pulling his true love, Josephine, along with him"--
Author
Series
Space taxi volume 4
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
While trying to stop thieves from getting the last known canisantha plant for an unknown purpose, eight-year-old Intergalactic Security Force deputy Archie is mistaken for someone very important and directed by his trainer, Pockets the cat, to go on a spy mission aboard a B.U.R.P. ship.
Author
Series
Millicent Min series volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
After flunking sixth-grade English, basketball prodigy Stanford Wong must struggle to pass his summer-school class, keep his failure a secret from his friends, and satisfy his academically demanding father.
Author
Series
Space taxi volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Eight-year-old Archie Morningstar, his taxi driver dad, and a talking cat named Pockets are on an intergalactic mission to save an underwater planet in peril"--
16) The crossover
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Children's Awards: C. S. King Honor for Afr. Amer. Author/Illustrator
Children's Awards: Newbery Medal for Distinguished Literature
Children's Recommended: 7th and 8th Grade
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Children's Awards: Newbery Medal for Distinguished Literature
Children's Recommended: 7th and 8th Grade
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Description
Fourteen-year-old twin basketball stars Josh and Jordan wrestle with highs and lows on and off the court as their father ignores his declining health.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Formats
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.
19) Last man out
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Tommy Gallagher, the bravest and toughest football player on the field, faces his biggest battle ever when his father, a Boston firefighter, is fatally injured while rescuing a child.
20) Kid owner
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Ryan learns his estranged father left him the Dallas Cowboys in his will, it is all Ryan can do to keep his dad's other son from snatching the team away"--
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