Ramon de Ocampo
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Description
After fourteen-year-old Andy slips away from his kayaking group to visit the wilderness site of his archaeologist father's death, a storm strands him on Admiralty Island, Alaska, where he manages to survive, encounters unexpected animal and human inhabitants, and looks for traces of the earliest prehistoric immigrants to America.
3) Punching bag
Author
Publisher
Norton Young Readers, an Imprint of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 6
Description
"The companion to Rex Ogle's award-winning Free Lunch is a searing account of adolescence in a household torn by domestic violence. Punching Bag is the compelling true story of a high school career defined by poverty and punctuated by outbreaks of domestic abuse. Rex Ogle, who brilliantly mapped his experience of hunger in Free Lunch, here describes his struggle to survive; reflects on his complex, often paradoxical relationship with his passionate,...
4) Firestorm
Author
Series
Caretaker trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Frances Foster Books
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 11
Description
His mother is not his mother. His father is not his father. But, if Jack hadn't broken the high school rushing record that night, he never would have known and nothing would have changed. He'd just be going out for pizza, playing football, trying yet again to score with his girlfriend, P.J. But, he did break the record. He appeared on the news. And, now they've found him.
Jack plunges into a space-time, bending game of survival with no way out. The...
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Formats
Description
In his twisty, gritty, profoundly moving New York Times bestselling-debut—also called “mandatory reading” and selected as an Editors' Choice by the New York Times—Adam Silvera brings to life a charged, dangerous near-future summer in the Bronx.
In the months after his father's suicide, it's been tough for sixteen-year-old Aaron Soto to find happiness again—but he's still gunning for it. With the...
In the months after his father's suicide, it's been tough for sixteen-year-old Aaron Soto to find happiness again—but he's still gunning for it. With the...