John Coy
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
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Taking over a rowdy gym class right before winter vacation is not something James Naismith wants to do at all. The last two teachers of this class quit in frustration. The students--a bunch of energetic young men--are bored with all the regular games and activities. Naismith needs something new, exciting, and fast to keep the class happy--or someone's going to get hurt. Saving this class is going to take a genius. Discover the true story of how...
2) On Your Way
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A tender look back at a child's first steps, On Your Way is a celebration of growth, movement, and the importance of slowing down to observe life's milestones both big and small.
A mother recounts for her child "that day on the porch" when they first tried to walk. As the child totters, stumbles, and flops, young animals nearby gallop, jump, waddle, and hop. Kids will delight in the child's progress and think of the ways they're still learning to...
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In this unique collaboration, four authors lyrically explore where they each come from-literally and metaphorically-as well as what unites all of us as humans.
Richly layered illustrations connect past and present, making for an accessible and visually striking look at history, family, and identity.
We come from stardust / our bodies made of ancient elements. / We come from single cells / evolving over billions of years. / We come from place,...
6) Box out
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 6
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Description
High school sophomore Liam jeopardizes his new position on the varsity basketball team when he decides to take a stand against his coach who is leading prayers before games and enforcing team wide participation.
7) Crackback
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 5
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Miles barely recalls when football was fun after being sidelined by a new coach, constantly criticized by his father, and pressured by his best friend to take performance-enhancing drugs.
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Series
4 for 4 series volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 4
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Middle-schooler Jackson's baseball skills are not of much help when he and his friends go to soccer camp, and while there he learns that his mother's boyfriend has invited them to move into his house, and friend Diego's father is deployed to Afghanistan.
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Series
4 for 4 series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 4
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Ten-year-old Jackson lives for baseball, but becomes distracted by the approach of middle school, his mother's latest boyfriend, and the presence of a girl--his good friend's sister--on his team.
10) Love of the Game
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Series
4 for 4 series volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 4
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Description
Sixth - grader jackson has a rough start in middle school, with bullies on the bus, few classes with his friends, and changes at home, but some good teachers, meeting a girl, joining a club, and playing football soon turn things around.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
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"Discover the true story of how in 1944, Coach John McLendon orchestrated a secret game between the best players from a white college and his team from the North Carolina College of Negroes. At a time of widespread segregation and rampant racism, this illegal gathering changed the sport of basketball forever"--Dust jacket flap.
12) Gap life
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Cray's expected to go straight to college after high school graduation. After all, he got into his father's alma mater, and his parents were paying his tuition. But Cray's desire to take a year off from school leads him to a job working with developmentally disabled adults. And he learns more about himself and others than any college could ever teach him.
15) Dads
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Photographs and simple text present the many things that diverse fathers do, including fixing, protecting, and loving.
16) Vroomaloom zoom
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Daddy takes Carmela on an imaginary car ride, lulling her to sleep with various sounds, from the wurgle lurgle of swamps to the hoopty doopty swoopty loopty of driving in circles.
18) Around the world
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Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Portrays a gritty game of street basketball, "Around the world," being played literally around the world, from New York to Australia to China, and elsewhere, and then back to New York.
19) Directo al aro
Author
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Ten-year-old James tries to hold his own and prove himself on the basketball court when the older boys finally ask him to join them in a game.
Author
Series
4 for 4 series volume 4
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Jackson confronts many challenges in his first year of middle school as his mother plans to get married, the best player on his basketball team leaves, he needs to ask a girl to go to a school dance with him, and his best friend's father is injured in Afghanistan.