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Author
Publisher
Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1998, c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Six imaginative schoolmates embark on a game in which they pretend to be Gypsies, but when one of the boys runs away and takes up with a group of homeless people, the game threatens to become all too real.
4) Holes
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.
6) Rooftoppers
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When authorities threaten to take Sophie, twelve, from Charles who has been her guardian since she was one and both survived a shipwreck, the pair goes to Paris to try to find Sophie's mother, and they are aided by Matteo and his band of "rooftoppers."
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ted Hammond, the only sixth grader in his small Nebraska town's one-room schoolhouse, searches for clues to the disappearance of a homeless family. Ted Hammond loves a good mystery, and in the spring of his fifth-grade year, he's working on a big one. How can his school in the little town of Plattsford stay open next year if there are going to be only five students? Out here on the Great Plains in western Nebraska, everyone understands that if you...
8) Holes
Publisher
Disney
Pub. Date
©2003
Edition
Standard format.
Language
English
Description
An unlucky boy goes from loser to hero when he beats the odds--and solves a mystery--at Camp Green Lake, a detention center where he is forced to dig holes every day.
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"In these three novellas, Gary Paulsen explores how children can survive the most difficult circumstances through art and the love of dogs"--Provided by publisher.
10) Stay
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Piper's life is turned upside down when her family moves into a shelter in a whole new city. She misses her house, her friends, and her privacy--and she hates being labeled the homeless girl at her new school. But while Hope House offers her new challenges, it also brings new friendships, like the girls in Firefly Girls Troop 423 and a sweet street dog named Baby. So when Baby's person goes missing, Piper knows she has to help. But helping means finding...
11) Still a family
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Despite living in separate shelters, a little girl and her parents find time to be together, demonstrating that even in the most trying of times they are still a loving and committed family.
12) Watchdog
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Orphaned and homeless, fourteen-year-old twins Vick and Tara, who is autistic, go up against a crime lord and her four-legged robotic army, with help from their robotic dog, Daisy.
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