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Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
In this Newbery Honor–winning novel, Gary D. Schmidt tells the witty and compelling story of a teenage boy who feels that fate has it in for him, during the school year 1968-69. Seventh grader Holling Hoodhood isn't happy. He is sure his new teacher, Mrs. Baker, hates his guts. Holling's domineering father is obsessed with his business image and disregards his family. Throughout the school year, Holling strives to get a handle on the Shakespeare...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
2011 National Book Award FinalistAs a fourteen-year-old who just moved to a new town, with no friends and a louse for an older brother, Doug Swieteck has all the stats stacked against him. So begins a coming-of-age masterwork full of equal parts comedy and tragedy from Newbery Honor winner Gary D. Schmidt. As Doug struggles to be more than the “skinny thug” that his teachers and the police think him to be, he finds an unlikely ally in Lil Spicer—a...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
A 2005 Newbery Honor Book It only takes a few hours for Turner Buckminster to start hating Phippsburg, Maine. No one in town will let him forget that he's a minister's son, even if he doesn't act like one. But then he meets Lizzie Bright Griffin, a smart and sassy girl from a poor nearby island community founded by former slaves. Despite his father's-and the town's-disapproval of their friendship, Turner spends time with Lizzie, and it opens up a...