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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Left alone on a beautiful but isolated island off the coast of California, a young Indian girl spends eighteen years, not only merely surviving through her enormous courage and self-reliance, but also finding a measure of happiness in her solitary life.
5) Insurgent
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
"As war surges in the dystopian society around her, sixteen-year-old Divergent Tris Prior must continue trying to save those she loves--and herself--while grappling with haunting questions of grief and forgiveness, identity and loyalty, politics and love"--
6) The cay
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When the freighter on which they are traveling is torpedoed by a German submarine during World War II, a twelve-year-old white boy, blinded by a blow on the head, and an old Negro are stranded on a small desert island in the Caribbean where the boy acquires a new kind of vision, courage, and love from his old companion.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Eight-year-old Henry and nine-year-old Chin love to read about heroes in popular "penny dreadful" novels, until they both witness real courage while trying to survive the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
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Series
Language
English
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"September 1943: German forces occupy Rome. Gestapo boss Obersturmbannf�fuher Paul Hauptmann rules with terror. Hunger is widespread. Rumors fester. The war's outcome is far from certain. Diplomats, refugees, and escaped Allied prisoners flee for protection into Vatican City, at one fifth of a square mile the world's smallest state, a neutral, independent country within Rome. A small band of unlikely friends led by a courageous Irish priest is...
Author
Series
Publisher
Aladdin Quix
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"All Artemis wants is the gift of courage. There are a lot of scary things out there! With the help of her new friends--Athena, Persephone, and Aphrodite--Artemis hopes she can ask the super-duper-powerful Zeus to help her be a little less afraid. But the mean green girl, Medusa, has other plans. Can Artemis dig deep, be brave, and help her friends find their way to Sparkle City? With the help of some animals who aren't what they seem, Artemis just...
12) Secondhand dogs
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Formats
Description
When a new dog named Decker arrives in Miss Lottie's home and convinces Moon Pie to embark on an impossible journey, Gus, the insecure pack leader, must gather his courage to bring Moon Pie home.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
In Cuba's "special period in times of peace" of 1991, Liana and Amado find love after their severe hunger gives both courage to risk government retribution by skipping a summer of labor to seek food. Told in their two voices plus that of the stray dog that brought them together.
16) Front desk
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mia Tang has a lot of secrets. Number 1: She lives in a motel, not a big house. Every day, while her immigrant parents clean the rooms, ten-year-old Mia manages the front desk of the Calivista Motel and tends to its guests. Number 2: Her parents hide immigrants. And if the mean motel owner, Mr. Yao, finds out they've been letting them stay in the empty rooms for free, the Tangs will be doomed. Number 3: She wants to be a writer. But how can she when...
17) The honest truth
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
A boy named Mark, tired of being sick with cancer, conceives a plan to climb Mount Rainier, and runs away from home with his dog, Beau--but with over two hundred miles between him and his goal, and only anger at his situation to drive him on nothing will be easy, and only his best friend, Jessie, suspects where he is heading.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A community devoured by greed, cowardice and fear. A man persecuted by the ghosts of his painful past. A young woman searching for happiness. In one eventful week, each of them will face questions of life, death and power, and each of them will have to choose their own path. Will they choose good or evil? Coelho dramatizes the struggle with every soul between light and darkness, and its relevance to our everyday struggles: to dare to follow our dreams,...
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Language
English
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Description
"Vienna, 1954: After losing everyone she loves in the final days of World War II, Ingrid Bauer agrees to a hasty marriage with a gentle Soviet embassy worker and follows him home to Moscow. But nothing within the Soviet Union's totalitarian regime is what it seems, including her new husband, whom Ingrid suspects works for the KGB. Inspired by her daughter's birth, Ingrid risks everything and reaches out in hope to the one country she understands and...
20) Gerta: a novel
Author
Publisher
Amazon Crossing
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In 1945. Allied forces liberate Nazi-occupied Brno, Moravia. For Gerta Schnirch, daughter of a Czech mother and a German father aligned with Hitler, it's not deliverance; it's a sentence. She has been branded an enemy of the state. Caught in the changing tides of a war that shattered her family--and her innocence--Gerta must obey the official order: she, along with all ethnic Germans, is to be expelled from Czechoslovakia. With nothing but the clothes...
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