Laurie Halse Anderson
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Speak up for yourself--we want to know what you have to say." From the first moment of her freshman year at Merryweather High, Melinda knows this is a big fat lie, part of the nonsense of high school. She is friendless--an outcast--because she busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops, so now nobody will talk to her, let alone listen to her.
23) Catalyst
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Kate, who sometimes chafes at being a preacher's daughter, finds herself losing control in her senior year as she faces difficult neighbors, the possibility that she may not be accepted by the college of her choice, and an unexpected death.
24) Homeless
Author
Series
Vet volunteers volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Sunita and her fellow volunteers at the Wild at Heart veterinary clinic become involved in efforts to save a bunch of feral and abandoned cats with the help of Dr. Mac.
25) The Trickster
Author
Series
Vet volunteers volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
When he and the other volunteers at Dr. Mac's veterinary clinic go to help out at Quinn's Stables, David makes several serious mistakes and must prove he can be trusted before Mr. Quinn will let him even be around the spirited horse that David wants to ride.
26) Manatee blues
Author
Series
Vet volunteers volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Brenna, Maggie, and Zoe go to Florida to visit a manatee rescue center, where they learn about these endangered marine mammals.
27) Time to fly
Author
Series
Vet volunteers volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Just when Zoe is starting to feel at home in Ambler, Pennsylvania, living with her veterinarian grandmother and learning about a flock of wild parrots, her actress mother arrives to take her to a new home in Los Angeles.
28) Fear of falling
Author
Series
Vet volunteers volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old David has conflicting feelings when his father, who taught him to ride the horses he loves so much, returns to spend Thanksgiving Day with the family after being gone for a year.
29) Turkey pox
Author
Publisher
A. Whitman
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Charity has chicken pox, there's a terrible snowstorm outside, and it looks like the Chatfields will have to spend Thanksgiving without Nana and her wonderful roast turkey, stuffing, and cranberries.
33) Masks
Author
Series
Vet volunteers volume 11
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
After Sunita's beloved pet cat, Mittens, gets injured on her watch, she wonders if vet work is right for her. She takes an internship at a research lab, but learns that they test on animals and eventually put them to sleep. Sunita loves animals, but can she find a way to work with them without harming them?
34) End of the race
Author
Series
Vet volunteers volume 12
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
After treating an injured greyhound at her grandmother's veterinary clinic, thirteen-year-old Maggie learns about the abuse of greyhounds in the dog-racing industry and vows to put a stop to it.
35) Acting out
Author
Series
Vet volunteers volume 14
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Zoe is unhappy about leaving Hollywood to live with her cousin, Maggie, and grandmother, Dr. Mac, in Ambler, Pennsylvania, while her mother is away on a film shoot, but soon gets involved in a suspected case of antifreeze poisoning.
36) Frío
Author
Publisher
Roca Editorial
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
Español
Description
Eighteen-year-old Lia comes to terms with her best friend's death from anorexia as she struggles with the same disorder.
37) Saudi Arabia
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
38) Ndito runs
Author
Publisher
H. Holt
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
A Kenyan girl runs past the thatch-covered homes in her village, up the hillside, through the grassland, by the water hole, on her way to school.
39) Speak: the
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus & Giroux
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: "Speak up for yourself?we want to know what you have to say." From the first moment of her freshman year at Merryweather High, Melinda knows this is a big fat lie, part of the nonsense of high school. She is friendless?an outcast?because she busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops, so now nobody will talk to her, let alone listen to her. Through her work on an art project, she is finally able to face what really happened...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
When her owner dies at the start of the Revolution, a greedy nephew keeps Isabel and her younger sister enslaved and sells them to Loyalists in New York, where she is offered the chance to spy for the Patriots.