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21) Shadow of a bull
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
Manolo Olivar has to make a decision: to follow in his famous father's shadow and become a bullfighter, or to follow his heart and become a doctor.
22) A reliable wife
Author
Language
English
Description
Rural Wisconsin, 1907. In the bitter cold, wealthy businessman Ralph Truitt stands alone on a train platform waiting for the woman who has answered his advertisement for "a reliable wife." But when Catherine Land steps off the train from Chicago, she's not the "simple, honest woman" Ralph is expecting. She is both complex and devious, but her plan is simple: she will win this man's devotion, then slowly poison him and leave Wisconsin a wealthy widow....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
Joey, who is still taking medication to keep him from getting too wired, goes to spend the summer with the hard-drinking father he has never known and tries to help the baseball team he coaches win the championship.
24) Just like daddy
Author
Language
English
Description
A very young bear describes all the activities he does during the day that are just like his daddy's.
25) Criminal
Author
Series
Will Trent volume 6
Language
English
Description
A Georgia Bureau of Investigation search into a shocking crime from 1975 poses unprecedented personal and professional challenges for top agent Will Trent, who encounters threats against his life and everything he thought he understood about his past.
Author
Lexile measure
1040L
Language
English
Description
Acclaimed as one of the most exciting books in the history of American letters, this modern epic became an instant bestseller upon publication in 1974, transforming a generation and continuing to inspire millions. A narration of a summer motorcycle trip undertaken by a father and his son, the book becomes a personal and philosophical odyssey into fundamental questions of how to live. The narrator's relationship with his son leads to a powerful self-reckoning...
28) Live wire
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When a pregnant tennis star reports that her rock-artist husband has gone missing amid scandalous rumors, Myron Bolitar is forced to confront deep secrets about his client's past while struggling with fatherhood roles in his personal life.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Introduced to the Dead Fathers Club of murdered men by the ghost of his late father, eleven-year-old Philip Noble learns that his uncle, who has designs on Philip's mother, murdered Philip's father in order to get his hands on the family pub.
Author
Series
Percy Jackson and the Olympians volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
After a summer spent trying to prevent a catastrophic war among the Greek gods, Percy Jackson is finding seventh grade unnervingly quiet. His biggest problem is dealing with his new friend, Tyson, a six-foot-three, mentally challenged homeless kid who follows Percy everywhere. But things don't stay quiet for long. Percy soon discovers that there is trouble at Camp Half-Blood: the magical borders that protect Half-Blood Hill have been poisoned, and...
32) Riot
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When his father engages in vandalism against non-union employees, Bryan, a sixth-grader, must decide whether to accept his father's actions or do what he believes is right.
36) Ordinary heroes
Author
Series
Stewart Dubinsky volume 2
Language
English
Description
Stewart Dubinsky knew his father, David, had served in World War II, but had been told very little about his experiences. When he finds, after his father's death, a packet of wartime letters to a former fiancee and learns of David's court-martial, Stewart is driven to uncover the truth about this enigmatic, distant man he never knew. Using military archives, old letters, and David's own notes, he discovers that David, a JAG lawyer, had pursued a maverick...
37) Stormchaser
Author
Series
Edge chronicles volume 2
Publisher
David Fickling Books
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
In his continuing adventures, Twig, now sixteen years old, joins the crew of his father's sky pirate ship and embarks on a dangerous mission to collect the powerful stormphrax, a substance that purifies water and also prevents the city of Sanctaphrax from floating away.
38) The dollar man
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Raised by his mother, a fat fourteen-year-old boy feels he must find his father in order to establish his own identity.
39) The lie maker
Author
Language
English
Description
"In this twisty, fast-paced thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Find You First and Take Your Breath Away, a man desperately tries to track down his father--who was taken into witness protection years ago--before his enemies can get to him. Your dad's not a good person. Your dad killed people, son. These are some of the last words Jack Givins' father spoke to him before he was whisked away by witness protection, leaving Jack and...
40) Sunwing
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
Continues the adventures of Shade, a young bat, as he searches for his father and struggles to prevent the evil jungle bat Goth from wiping out the sun.