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| Title | A Love Story Starring My Dead Best Friend |
| Author | Emily Horner |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Mature Readers |
| Keywords | boys • girls • boys/girls • acceptance • accidents • ambiguity • being yourself • bicycles • character • choices • coming of age • courage • danger • death • family • finding your voice • finding yourself • first love • growing up • high school • homosexuality • identity • If You Liked Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants • journal • journeys • labeling • letting go • prejudice • quests • reputation • standing up for yourself • summer • Survival • Belonger/Connector |
AfterJulia’s death in a car crash, Cass can’t stay in town as the Drama Kids getready to perform Julia’s “top secret” play as a tribute to begin their senioryear...
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| Title | A Place Where Hurricanes Happen |
| Author | Renee Watson |
| Illustrator | Shadra Strickland |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Picture Books |
| Keywords | boys • girls • boys/girls • African American • change • family • hurricanes • neighborhoods • overcoming obstacles • Read aloud to 6's, 7's, 8's • Survival • weather • Belonger/Connector • Seeker/Leader • Answerman |
In the neighborhoods of New Orleans in those days leading up to Hurricane Katrina, children played hide and seek, helped make jumbalaya and knew they belonged. The voices of Keesha,...
Books » Action / Adventure
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| Title | A Week in the Woods |
| Author | Andrew Clements |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Middle Readers • Older Readers |
| Keywords | boys • girls • boys/girls • action/adventure • adventure • being different • being yourself • belonging • change • character • If You Liked Tangerine • individuality • middle readers • older readers • outdoors • realistic fiction • school story • self-confidence • self-reliance • stereotypes • Survival • thoughtful • Jokester/Thrill Seeker/Party Animal • Belonger/Connector • Seeker/Leader |
Eleven-year-old Mark is a rich kid who has just moved into a new house and, consequently, will attend a new school. But Mark has decided he doesn't need to get...
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| Title | Alabama Moon |
| Author | Watt Key |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Middle Readers • Older Readers |
| Keywords | boys • girls • boys/girls • acceptance • action/adventure • adventure • change • choices • coming of age • death • growing up • homelessness • If You Liked Hatchet • If You Liked Tangerine • journeys • loss • middle reader • older reader • realistic fiction • self-control • self-reliance • society • Survival • Belonger/Connector • Seeker/Leader |
Ten-year-old Moon Blake has been living in the wilds with his father for years. He knows how to build a fire without matches and how to make his own bow...
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| Title | Angry Management |
| Author | Chris Crutcher |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Mature Readers |
| Keywords | boys • girls • boys/girls • a tissue box book • abuse • acceptance • accepting others • anger • bullies • bullying • character • child abuse • choices • coming of age • dysfunctional families • high school • homosexuality • injustice • mature issues • mature reader • murder • parenting • relationships • self-control • self-reliance • Survival • teens • trust • truth • understanding others • very mature readers • violence • Belonger/Connector • Seeker/Leader • obesity |
Counselor Nak, Mr. Nakatani, has a new job. In a jurisdiction covering three school districts, there has been a streak of tragedy in the past year with two suicides...
Books » Suspense / Thriller
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| Title | Bonechiller |
| Author | Graham McNamee |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Mature Readers |
| Keywords | boys • girls • boys/girls • Boxing • coming of age • courage • danger • grief • If You Liked Hunger Games • intrigue • loss • love • mature readers • monsters • risk • supernatural • Survival • suspense • suspense thriller • teamwork • Jokester/Thrill Seeker/Party Animal • Belonger/Connector |
| Reluctant Reader | Good for Reluctant Readers |
Danny first has a feeling that he's experienced something strange when he's walking home on a cold, snowy night in Canada. He's pretty sure it was a large animal. But,...
Books » Historical Fiction
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| Title | Breadwinner, The |
| Author | Deborah Ellis |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Older Readers • Mature Readers |
| Keywords | boys • girls • boys/girls • Afghanistan • coming of age • courage • family • fiction • history • injustice • Muslims • risk • society • Survival • war • Belonger/Connector |
| Part of a Series | Part of a Series |
Afghanistan and the Taliban. These words are familiar to us now. Meet Parvana, a young Afghani girl, arguing with her sister and getting stuck doing the dishes until the night...
Books » Science Fiction
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| Title | Caretaker's Trilogy: FIrestorm, Book 1 |
| Author | David Klass |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Mature Readers |
| Keywords | boys • girls • boys/girls • action/adventure • aliens • danger • If You Liked Hunger Games • mature readers • overcoming obstacles • risk • self-reliance • superpowers • Survival • time travel • trilogy • Jokester/Thrill Seeker/Party Animal • Belonger/Connector • Seeker/Leader • telepathy |
| Part of a Series | Part of a Series |
His mother is not his mother. His father is not his father. And if Jack he hadn’t broken the high school rushing record that night, nothing would have changed....
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| Title | Caretaker's Trilogy: TImelock, Book 3 |
| Author | David Klass |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Mature Readers |
| Keywords | boys • girls • boys/girls • action/adventure • courage • danger • If You Liked Hunger Games • mature reader • quests • superpowers • Survival • Jokester/Thrill Seeker/Party Animal • Belonger/Connector • Seeker/Leader |
J
ack Danielson has spent the last year saving the oceans and the Amazon, attempting to fulfill a prophecy that was written before his birth. Now he’s more...
Books » Science Fiction
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| Title | Caretaker's Trilogy: Whirlwind, Book 2 |
| Author | David Klass |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Mature Readers |
| Keywords | boys • girls • boys/girls • If You Liked Hunger Games • quests • Survival • suspense thriller • time travel • Jokester/Thrill Seeker/Party Animal • Belonger/Connector • Seeker/Leader |
| Part of a Series | Part of a Series |
After saving the world’s oceans in Firestorm, Jack Danielson goes home to see P.J., his girlfriend and sole remaining touchstone. But she’s missing, and blame falls on Jack. Now...
Books » Historical Fiction
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| Title | Copper Sun |
| Author | Sharon M. Draper |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Older Readers • Mature Readers |
| Keywords | boys • girls • boys/girls • Africa • African American • bravery • change • choices • courage • friendship • grief • helping others • identity • If You Liked Sharon Draper • If You Liked Walter Dean Myers • journeys • mature reader • mature readers • prejudice • racism • risk • running away • self-esteem • slavery • struggle • Survival • violence • Belonger/Connector • Seeker/Leader • Answerman |
This is the powerful tale of the journey of an African girl, Amari, from her home and everything she knows and holds dear to a new world and a new...
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| Title | Crossing the Wire |
| Author | Will Hobbs |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Older Readers • Mature Readers |
| Keywords | boys • girls • boys/girls • accepting others • action/adventure • adventure • belonging • change • coming of age • discrimination • diversity • family • fiction • helping others • Hispanic • If You LIked Naruto • If You Liked Tangerine • immigrants • immigration • journeys • mature reader • older reader • overcoming obstacles • prejudice • racial differences • realistic fiction • risk • self-reliance • struggle • Survival • Jokester/Thrill Seeker/Party Animal • Belonger/Connector • Seeker/Leader |
Fifteen-year-old Victor Flores is faced with a tough reality when he realizes he is going to have to be the man of the family and try to cross from Mexico...
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| Title | Deathwatch |
| Author | Robb White |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Older Readers • Mature Readers |
| Keywords | boys • girls • boys/girls • action • action/adventure • adventure • courage • danger • Edgar Allan Poe Award • If You Liked Alex Rider • If You Liked Hunger Games • If You Liked Indiana Jones • if you Liked Stuck in Neutral • If You Liked Tangerine • mature readers • older readers • reluctant reader • self-reliance • Survival • suspense • Jokester/Thrill Seeker/Party Animal • Belonger/Connector |
| Reluctant Reader | Good for Reluctant Readers |
I love to show this book to boys who think all books are boring. Ben has been hired to take some businessmen on a hunting adventure to look for big...
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| Title | Devil's Breath |
| Author | David Gilman |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Older Readers • Mature Readers |
| Keywords | boys • girls • boys/girls • action • action/adventure • adventure • Africa • Bushmen • courage • danger • espionage • geography • If You Liked Alex Rider • If You Liked Hunger Games • intrigue • mature readers • multicultural • older readers • overcoming obstacles • secret agents • self-reliance • Survival • suspense • Jokester/Thrill Seeker/Party Animal • Belonger/Connector • Seeker/Leader |
The sound of a 'soft metallic click' like 'the sound of an automatic pistol being cocked' reaches the ears of Max Gordon one night as he is jogging the track...
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| Title | Don't You Dare Read This Ms. Dunphrey |
| Author | Margaret Peterson Haddix |
| Keywords | abandonment • fears • responsibility • boys • girls • boys/girls • family • parenting |
Tish Bonner has to write in a journal every day for her English class. Her teacher allows the kids to write Do Not Read when they don't want her...
Books » Suspense / Thriller
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| Title | Earthquake Terror |
| Author | Peg Kehret |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Middle Readers • Older Readers |
| Keywords | boys • girls • boys/girls • action/adventure • adventure • disasters • earthquakes • family • fears • helping others • middle readers • older readers • overcoming obstacles • self-reliance • Survival • suspense thriller • Belonger/Connector • Seeker/Leader |
Jonathan’s family is on a camping trip on a remote northern California island when his mother injures her ankle. The 12-year-old reassures his parents he and his 6-year-old disabled sister...
Books » Picture Book
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| Title | Emma and the Silk Train |
| Author | Julie Lawson |
| Illustrator | Paul Mombourquette |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Picture Books |
| Keywords | boys • girls • boys/girls • adventure • historical fiction • journeys • Read aloud to 6's, 7's, 8's • Survival • trains • Belonger/Connector • Seeker/Leader • Answerman |
Emma loves to watch the silk trains roar through her town. by Julie Lawson and illus by Paul Mombourquette Then, one day she comes home from school and learns that...
Books » Non-Fiction
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| Title | Fire! The Renewal of a Forest |
| Author | Celia Godkin |
| Illustrator | Celia Godkin |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Non-Fiction |
| Reading Level | Picture Books • Independent Readers |
| Keywords | boys • girls • boys/girls • animals • forests • information • nature • Read aloud to 5's, 6's, 7's • responsibility • stories that make a difference • Survival • trees • wilderness • wildlife • Seeker/Leader • Answerman |
I fell in love with this book the first time I opened it up. First of all, it's beautiful. Second, it tells the story of a forest. When we meet...
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| Title | Flag With FIfty Six Stars A Gift from the Survivors of Mauthausen |
| Author | Susan Goldman Rubin |
| Illustrator | Bill Farnsworth |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Picture Books |
| Keywords | boys • girls • boys/girls • courage • Survival • war • World War II • Belonger/Connector • Seeker/Leader • Holocaust |
In the concentration camp of Mauthausen in Austria in the spring of 1945 an amazing thing happened. Allied troops marched into the camp to liberate the survivors and were...
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| Title | Getting Air |
| Author | Dan Gutman |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Middle Readers • Older Readers |
| Keywords | boys • girls • boys/girls • action/adventure • adventure • boys • disasters • If you Liked Diary of A Wimpy Kid • If You Liked Tangerine • middle reader • older reader • reluctant reader • skateboarding • Survival • teamwork • Jokester/Thrill Seeker/Party Animal • Belonger/Connector |
| Reluctant Reader | Good for Reluctant Readers |
Jimmy, David and Henry are living a dream. These three normal twelve-year-old guys are on a plane, headed to California for the X Games with a hope they'll find a...
Books » Historical Fiction
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| Title | Good Night, Maman |
| Author | Norma Fox Mazer |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Middle Readers • Older Readers • Mature Readers |
| Keywords | girls • boys/girls • danger • discrimination • Holocaust • If You Liked Number the Stars • Jewish • journeys • loneliness • loss • mature reader • middle readers • mothers • older readers • perseverance • refugees • risk • Separation • siblings • Survival • World War II • Belonger/Connector • Seeker/Leader |
“You have to go, all of you. Tonight.” With these words, Karin Levi’s world changed-- again. Karin, her brother, Marc, and their mother, Maman, could no longer hide in...
Books » Fiction
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| Title | Green Angel |
| Author | Alice Hoffman |
| Illustrator | Matt Mahurin |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Older Readers • Mature Readers |
| Keywords | boys • girls • boys/girls • abandonment • courage • family • fantasy • fathers/daughters • fiction • futuristic • grief • If You Liked Chronicles of Narnia • If You Liked Inkheart • If You Liked Robin McKinley • letting go • loneliness • orphans • refugees • self-reliance • shyness • Survival • war • Belonger/Connector • Seeker/Leader |
| Reluctant Reader | Good for Reluctant Readers |
| Part of a Series | Part of a Series |
Black ashes fill the sky, as the City across the river burns. Green thought it wasn’t fair that she had to stay in the garden while her...
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| Title | Hatchet |
| Author | Gary Paulsen |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Older Readers |
| Keywords | boys • girls • boys/girls • adventure • coming of age • divorce • growing up • If You Liked Hatchet • older readers • outdoors • overcoming obstacles • problem-solving • self-confidence • self-reliance • Survival • Jokester/Thrill Seeker/Party Animal • Belonger/Connector • Seeker/Leader • Answerman |
Thirteen year old Brian is the only survivor of a plane crash in the Canadian wilderness. Armed with the hatchet his mother gave him before he left on this trip...
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| Title | Heck Where the Bad Kids Go |
| Author | Dale E. Basye |
| Illustrator | Bob Dob |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Middle Readers • Older Readers |
| Keywords | boys • girls • boys/girls • bathroom humor • choices • edgy • gross • humor • If You Liked Captain Underpants • If You Liked Charlie Bone • If you Liked Diary of A Wimpy Kid • injustice • middle reader • middle readers • older reader • older readers • overcoming obstacles • part of a series • problem-solving • reluctant reader • running away • school story • series • Survival • values • Jokester/Thrill Seeker/Party Animal • Belonger/Connector |
| Reluctant Reader | Good for Reluctant Readers |
| Part of a Series | Part of a Series |
Milton and Marlo Fauster have just been blown to heck where the “souls of the darned toil for all eternity - or until they turn eighteen, whichever comes first!”...
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| Title | Holes |
| Author | Louis Sachar |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Middle Readers • Older Readers |
| Keywords | boys • girls • boys/girls • action/adventure • great read aloud • humor • If You Liked Captain Underpants • If you Liked Diary of A Wimpy Kid • If You Liked Tangerine • injustice • middle reader • Newbery Medal • older reader • running away • Survival • Jokester/Thrill Seeker/Party Animal • Belonger/Connector • Seeker/Leader |
Well, I can't imagine that you haven't heard of this one or at least seen the movie. But for anyone who hasn't read this, just go get it. When kids...
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