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1) Ghost
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Description
"Ghost, a naturally talented runner and troublemaker, is recruited for an elite middle school track team. He must stay on track, literally and figuratively, to reach his full potential"--
Author
Series
Max Rupert novels volume 5
Pub. Date
2018.
Formats
Description
Cub reporter Joe Talbert, Jr. investigates the murder of a man with the same name as him in a small town in Minnesota and discovers the deceased was a loathsome lowlife who may be his father.
3) Boy
Author
Description
It's 1984, and Michael Jackson is king-even in Waihau Bay, New Zealand. Here we meet Boy, an 11-year-old who lives on a farm with his gran, a goat, and his younger brother, Rocky (who thinks he has magic powers). Shortly after Gran leaves for a week, Boy's father, Alamein, appears out of the blue. Having imagined a heroic version of his father during his absence, Boy comes face to face with the real version-an incompetent hoodlum who has returned...
5) Walking out
Pub. Date
2018
Description
An urban teenager journeys to Montana to hunt big game with his estranged father. Father and son struggle to connect, until a brutal encounter in the heart of the wilderness changes everything.
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Description
Told mainly via Gerhardt Praeger's journal entries, the novel spans six years (1882-1888) and charts a father's struggles with nature as his seven sons grow increasingly independent. Unwelcome influence comes in the form of Beidermann, a new settler who challenges Praeger's common values.