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Author
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A Indian American boy endures a family move from Hawaii to frigid Minnesota and, with the help of three life-changing books he reads in school, he learns to like reading, and ultimately, himself"--
Author
Publisher
Egmont USA
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Told in their separate voices, twelve-year-old twins Percy and Penny are excited to spend a summer riding horses on their Uncle Stretch's Minnesota spread, until they discover it is a pig farm.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Eleven-year-old Maizy Chen visits her estranged grandparents, who own and run a Chinese restaurant in Last Chance, Minnesota; as her visit lengthens, she makes unexpected discoveries about her family's history and herself"--
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperPerennial
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Betsy and Joe: Betsy always thought she and Joe Willard were made for each other - and now summer's over and senior year's begun, it seems her dream is coming true! But her friend, Tony Markham has come calling as well - and his intentions are definitely romantic.
Betsy was a junior: It's the best school year ever, especially now that charming, funny Tib Muller is back in Deep Valley. But when her crowd gets into trouble, Betsy's best year could...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"When Glennon McCue moves into a lighthouse on a mysterious island not found on any maps, he must figure out why those who visit are never heard from again before he and his family fall victim to the island's curse"--
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"Each member of Erik Sheepflattener's modern-day Viking-heritage family has a motto to live by. Erik is developing a motto he can truly believe in : avoid stuff. But when he and his older sister Brunhilde spend the summer with their rough-and-tumble cousins in Minnesota, axe-wielding Bru gets the idea to name and conquer all of Erik's fears."
12) Controlled burn
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Maia's parents say she's lucky she noticed something as early as she did. Lucky to have smelled the smoke, lucky to have pulled her sister, Amelia, out of their burning house. But is it really "lucky" when Amelia's stuck in the hospital, covered in burns? And is it "lucky" when Maia knows it was her candle, left unattended, that started the fire in the first place?...As she begins to figure out how to face her guilt and paralyzing...
13) The brave
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Collin can't help himself--he has a unique condition that leads him to count every letter spoken to him. It's a quirk that makes him a prime target for bullies and a continual frustration to the adults around him, including his father. When Collin is asked to leave yet another school, his dad decides to send him to live in Minnesota with the mother he's never met. She is Ojibwe and lives on a reservation. Collin arrives in Duluth with his loyal dog,...
Author
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A disturbing call from her great aunts Astrid and Jeannette sends seventeen-year-old Francie far from her new home in New York into a tangle of mysteries. Ditching an audition in a Manhattan theater, Francie travels to a remote lake in the northwoods where her aunts? neighbors are ?dropping like flies? from strange accidents. But are they accidents? On the shores of Enchantment Lake in the woods of northern Minnesota, something ominous is afoot, and...
15) Dead to you
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse/Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Having been abducted at age seven, abandoned, a foster child, and homeless, Ethan, now sixteen, is happy to be home until his brother's suspicion and his own inability to remember something unspeakable from his early childhood begin to tear the family apart.
17) School days
Author
Series
Little house chapter book volume 6
Publisher
HarperCollin Publishers
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Laura Ingalls is going to school! Join the original pioneer girl in this Little House chapter book, adapted from Laura Ingalls Wilder's beloved classics. --Publisher
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"Two years after her parents' surprising and painful split, twelve-year-old Jo and her mom find themselves on the 100-mile hike on the Superior Hiking Trail along Lake Superior's north shore -- a journey that Jo had always looked forward to hiking with her dad. It's not a situation that either of them ever predicted they'd find themselves in, yet here they are in the wilderness with their entire lives stuffed into a pair of thirty-pound packs. Along...
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