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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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When fourteen-year-old baseball player Hutch feels threatened by the arrival of a new teammate named Darryl, he tries to work through his insecurities about both Darryl and his remote and silent father, who was once a great ballplayer too.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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"Garvey's father has always wanted Garvey to be athletic, but Garvey is interested in astronomy, science fiction, reading--anything but sports. Feeling like a failure, he comforts himself with food. Garvey is kind, funny, smart, a loyal friend, and he is also overweight, teased by bullies, and lonely. When his only friend encourages him to join the school chorus, Garvey's life changes. The chorus finds a new soloist in Garvey, and through chorus,...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"Teddy has been training all summer with his new friends Jack and Gus to make the new travel football team in Walton, but when his long-absent dad comes back to town and into his life he is faced with a much bigger challenge"--
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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As a storm sweeps in, Tinh's father tells him to tie up their fishing boat but the storm scares him and he runs away, but when the damage to the boat is discovered, Tinh realizes what he must do.
Author
Publisher
Cobblehill/Dutton
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Determined to find his father and relive their good times, twelve-year-old Spencer takes his cat, slips away from home in Seattle, and sets out for San Francisco's Candlestick Park.
10) A solitary blue
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Jeff's mother, who deserted the family years before, reenters his life and widens the gap between Jeff and his father, a rift that only truth, love, and friendship can heal.
11) Thunder cave
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Determined, after his mother's accidental death, to foil his stepfather's plans for his future, fourteen-year-old Jacob travels alone to Africa in search of his father, a biologist studying elephants in a remote area of Kenya.
12) Worth
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
After breaking his leg, eleven-year-old Nate feels useless because he cannot work on the family farm in nineteenth-century Nebraska, so when his father brings home an orphan boy to help with the chores, Nate feels even worse.
14) Game changers
Author
Series
Game changers volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the coach's son, Shawn O'Brien, is chosen to play quarterback, eleven-year-old Ben McBain is not surprised--but when he tries to be a good teammate and help the inconsistent Shawn, he is startled to learn that his new friend does not really want the position.
Author
Series
Artemis Fowl volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Artemis has to join forces with the fairies to save his father who was kidnapped by the Russians.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Troy always dreamed of meeting his father, but when the man finally appears his mother's anger, his father's shady business dealings, and Troy's own feelings make the reunion difficult and confusing.
17) Squirm
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Billy Dickens discovers that his mysterious father lives in Montana, so this summer Billy will fly across the country, hike a mountain, float a river, dodge a grizzly bear, shoot down a spy drone, and save his own father.
18) Abduction!
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thirteen-year-old Bonnie has a feeling of foreboding on the very day that her six-year-old brother Matt and their dog Pookie are abducted, and she becomes involved in a major search effort as well as a frightening adventure.
19) Stormchaser
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
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 stromphrax, a substance that purifies water and also prevents the city of Sanctaphrax from floating away.
20) QB 1
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Jake Cullen, fourteen, lives in the shadows of his father and older brother until he becomes the starting quarterback for the high school football team and finally has his chance to shine.
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