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1) Memory boy
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Miles and his family must flee their Minneapolis home and begin a new life in the wilderness after a chain of cataclysmic volcanic explosions creates dangerous conditions in their city.
2) Full service
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1965, teenager Paul Sutton, a northern Minnesota farm boy, takes a job at a gas station in town, where his strict religious upbringing is challenged by new people and experiences.
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Miles, thirteen-year-old Sarah, and their parents find themselves changing in many ways as they struggle to survive winter in a remote cabin, while keeping anyone in the nearby town from learning they are living there illegally after the devastation of volcanic eruptions drove them from their Minneapolis home.
Author
Series
Motor series volume 2
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Trace Bonham knows he is fortunate to be offered a chance at being a paid super stock driver when he is still in high school, but regrets that he must leave his friends and home track and wonders if the sponsor is legitimate.
5) Defect
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
After spending most of his life in Minnesota foster homes hiding a bizarre physical abnormality, fifteen-year-old David is offered a chance at normalcy, but must decide if giving up what makes him special is the right thing to do.
Author
Publisher
Borealis Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Minnesota's Will Weaver has been a hunter since he was a young boy, following in the footsteps of his father, a dedicated and seasoned outdoorsman. As he writes, "in the fall, when Canada geese came through and when partridge season opened, [we] heard the far-off thudding report of shotguns-and in November the heavier poom-poom! of deer rifles." Hunting frames Weaver's childhood memories, his relationship with his father, and his own definition of...
Author
Series
Motor series volume 3
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Trace Bonham, a teenaged professional stock car racer, blows away the competition wherever he races, but with every victory Trace is increasingly aware that his winning is due to more than just his driving skills.