Paulsen Gary
Author
Series
Kevin Spencer books volume 2
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Kevin is a hard worker, so when his income is cut off he begins a series of businesses, from poker games to selling snacks, earning money to take a girl to a dance, but his partners soon tire of his methods.
43) Woodsong
Author
Pub. Date
1991, c1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
For a rugged outdoor man and his family, life in northern Minnesota is a wild experience involving wolves, deer, and the sled dogs that make their way of life possible. Includes an account of the author's first Iditarod, a dogsled race across Alasaka.
44) Sondoggi
Author
Series
Brian's saga volume 1
Publisher
Sagyejeol
Pub. Date
2004
Language
Korean
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Children's Awards: Newbery Honor for Distinguished Literature
Children's Genre: Adventure Books for Middle Schoolers
Children's Genre: Adventure Books for Middle Schoolers
45) Dogteam
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[1993]
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.
46) Mudshark
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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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 locator of lost items, twelve-year-old Lyle Williams, aka Mudshark.
47) Lawn Boy returns
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Having expanded his summer lawn mowing job into an ever-growing business conglomerate, a twelve-year-old boy gets involved in high finance thanks to his hippie stockbroker, takes on sponsorship of a boxer, and becomes a media sensation.
48) The quilt
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
2004
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.
49) Northwind
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Children's New Books: March 2022 Middle Grade Fiction
Children's Special Topics: 2022 SLJ Best Books of the Year_Chapter Books
Children's Special Topics: Fiction with Lexile 900 to 999
Children's Special Topics: 2022 SLJ Best Books of the Year_Chapter Books
Children's Special Topics: Fiction with Lexile 900 to 999
Formats
Description
When a deadly plague decimates his fishing village, an orphan named Leif is forced to take to the water in a cedar canoe. He flees northward, following a wild, fjord-riven shore, navigating from one danger to the next. The deeper into his journey he paddles, the closer he comes to his truest self as he connects to the heartbeat of the ocean, the pulse of the landscape.
50) Murphy's trail
Author
Series
Murphy novels volume 7
Publisher
Walker and Co
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
53) Nightjohn
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1995, ©1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Sarny's brutal life as a slave becomes even more dangerous when a newly arrived slave offers to teach her how to read.
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
Many of the lawmen we think of as heroes were anything but; many were scoundrels and outlaws themselves. Among all those, Bass Reeves stands tall. Reeves was the most successful federal marshall in the West. Born into slavery, once freed, he served the law in Indian Territory, where a man could lose his life on another man's whim.
55) La tortillería
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
Pays tribute to the Mexican farmers and workers who participate in a cycle of life and labor that progresses from seed planting, to tortilla, and back to the farmers.
Author
Publisher
Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Harold and his best friend, both hopeless geeks and societal misfits, try to survive unusual science experiments, the attacks of the football team, and other dangers of junior high school.
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Author Gary Paulsen relates tales from his youth in a small town in northwestern Minnesota in the late 1940s and early 1950s, such as skiing behind a souped-up car and imitating daredevil Evel Knievel.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace & Company
Pub. Date
©1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Children's Biographies: Autobiographies
Children's Biographies: Autobiographies and Memoirs for 5th Graders
Children's Special Topics: Nonfiction with Lexile Over 1000
Children's Biographies: Autobiographies and Memoirs for 5th Graders
Children's Special Topics: Nonfiction with Lexile Over 1000
Description
Minnesota author and dog musher Gary Paulsen reflects on the growth of his sled dogs as he and his animals discover the world around them.