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3) A good horse
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
On her family's California horse ranch in the 1960s, eighth-grader Abby Lovitt tries to rely on her Christian faith as she faces the possibility of giving up her beloved colt, Jack.
4) Gee Whiz
Author
Series
The horses of Oak Valley Ranch volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Soon after her yearling, Jack, begins working with professional trainers at a nearby ranch, Abby Lovitt takes responsibility for a very large, very smart, and very curious retired racehorse named Gee Whiz.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Seventh-grader Abby Lovitt grows up on her family's California horse ranch in the 1960s, learning to train the horses her father sells and trying to reconcile her strict religious upbringing with her own ideas about life.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
Español
Formats
Description
"Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Southern California, where they must adapt to the harsh circumstances facing Mexican farm workers on the eve of the Great Depression."--Provided by publisher.
7) True blue
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
In 1960s California, eighth-grader Abby Lovitt has trouble with True Blue, whose former owner was killed in a tragic accident, and Abby wonders whether the horse's skittish nature is because he is being haunted by the ghost of his former owner.
Author
Series
Horses of Oak Valley Ranch volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Abby Lovitt is put in charge of training Pie in the Sky when his owner refuses, and while trying to get a hold on him, she must deal with the challenges that come with being a freshman in high school in 1970's Northern California.
10) Esperanza rising
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2001].
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
262 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Southern California, where they must adapt to the harsh circumstances facing Mexican farm workers on the eve of the Great Depression.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
281 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Steve Sneeze Wyatt takes half of his classes at the high school, where he attracts the attention of a bully on the varsity golf team, while at middle school all of his friends seem to be falling in love--including Sneeze, himself.
13) Breaking through
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Having come from Mexico to California ten years ago, fourteen-year-old Francisco is still working in the fields but fighting to improve his life and complete his education.
14) Eden's wish
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Posing as a middle school student, genie Eden finds herself in the middle of a centuries-old conflict between powerful immortals and dodging a ruthless organization run by a former genie who will stop at nothing to acquire her lamp and its power.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
A twelve-year-old boy named Moose moves to Alcatraz Island in 1935 when guards' families were housed there, and has to contend with his extraordinary new environment in addition to life with his autistic sister.
16) Poppy
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
With the help of a very special pit bull puppy, twelve-year-old Hannah adjusts to moving from Michigan to California and makes friends, despite the birthmark that makes her self-conscious.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
208 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
The residents of Hard Pan, California, come together to help Brigitte and Lucky when the County Health Department threatens to close down the caf,̌ and meantime Miles's life is complicated by his mother's return.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Moose Flanagan, who lives on Alcatraz along with his family and the families of the other prison guards, is frightened when he discovers that noted gangster Al Capone, a prisoner there, wants a favor in return for the help that he secretly gave Moose.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
355 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In a predominately white California beach town, the only two black seventh-graders, Alberta and Edie, find hidden journals that uncover family secrets and speak to race relations in the past.
20) Gold rush girl
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
306 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
While her father mines for gold in 1848 San Francisco, Tory embarks on a search for her kidnapped brother among Rotten Row's hundreds of abandoned ships.
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