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1) The big game
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Danny Owens is dedicating his seventh-grade football season to his recently-deceased father, an NFL legend, but the pressure to succeed is magnified by his inability to read.
2) Bluefish
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
Formats
Description
Everything changes for thirteen-year-old Travis, a new student who is trying to hide a learning disability, when he meets a remarkable teacher and a sassy classmate with her own secrets.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 6
Appears on list
Description
Twelve-year-old Foster McFee and her mother escape from her mother's abusive boyfriend and end up in the small town of Culpepper, West Virginia, where they use their strengths and challenge themselves to build a new life, with the help of the friends they make there.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Formats
Description
Zulaikha, a thirteen-year-old girl in Afghanistan, faces a series of frightening but exhilarating changes in her life as she defies her father and secretly meets with an old woman who teaches her to read, her older sister gets married, and American troops offer her surgery to fix her disfiguring cleft lip.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
In this version of Sleeping Beauty, told in verse, the Princess is threatened with a curse which will start with a paper cut; devastated that all her books have been taken away, she sets out with her dog, Prince, to find the fairy who cast the curse and make her reverse it.
7) Wolf!
Author
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A wolf learns to read in order to impress a group of farmyard animals he has met.
8) Nightjohn
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Sarny's brutal life as a slave becomes even more dangerous when a newly arrived slave offers to teach her how to read.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
A scarecrow stood in the garden. Tall, proud, and smiling. Every day a girl brought her favorite books to the garden and she read to him. He heard tales of courage and of hope. And when she said, "The End," the scarecrow always felt a little bit taller and braver. Year after year, she came and she read to him. Until one spring, two different hands picked him up from the garden shed and placed him in the garden. He waited, but she didn't come to read...
13) Just Juice
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Realizing that her father's lack of work has endangered her family, nine-year-old Juice decides that she must return to school and learn to read in order to help their chances of surviving and keeping their house.
15) The book hog
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
The Book Hog loves books and has a large collection, although he never learned to read.
Author
Series
Good Knight (Easy readers) volume 4
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
The three little dragons have agreed to take care of the old wizard's cats while he is away, but their inability to read his instructions causes problems until their friend, the Good Knight, saves the day.
17) Mr. George Baker
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Harry sits on the porch with Mr. George Baker, an African American ho is one hundred years old but can still dance and play the drums, waiting for the school bus that will take them both to the class where they are learning to read.
18) The lion's share
Author
Pub. Date
2000
Description
With the help of two animal fishermen, a young winged lion learns to read, to love books, and to fly properly.
19) Read me a story
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Yoko pretends she cannot read because she thinks that if her mother finds out she can, no one will read her a bedtime story.
Author
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 4
Description
At the end of the nineteenth century in Libya, eleven-year-old Malika simultaneously enjoys and feels constricted by the narrow world of women, but an injured stranger enters her home and disrupts the traditional order of things.
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