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Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
352 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
After his fatherś untimely death sends fifteen-year-old Ryan McIntyre into an emotional tailspin, his mother enrolls him in St. Isaacś Catholic boarding school, hoping the venerable institution with a reputation for transforming wayward teens can work its magic on her son. But troubles are not unknown even at St. Isaac, where Ryan arrives to find the school awash in news of one studentś violent death, anotherś mysterious disappearance, and growing...
Author
Series
Adventurers wanted volume 4
Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
380 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Alexander Taylor, wizard and warrior, is summoned to the land of Nezza in order to save a friend in need, he finds a country where war is a part of daily life, where adventurers are imprisoned by the Brotherhood, and where all magic is believed to be black.
83) Saint Ralph
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A teenage boy in the 1950s is convinced that if he miraculously wins the Boston Marathon he can save the life of his dying mother.
84) Infinity
Author
Series
Chronicles of Nick volume 1
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Language
English
Formats
Description
At fourteen, Nick Gautier thinks he knows everything about the world around him. Streetwise, tough and savvy, his quick sarcasm is the stuff of legends. Until the night when his best friends try to kill him. Saved by a mysterious warrior who has more fighting skills than Chuck Norris, Nick is sucked into the realm of the Dark-Hunters: immortal vampire slayers who risk everything to save humanity.
Nick quickly learns that the human world is only
85) Driving lessons
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Evangelical Christian do-gooder, Laura Marshall fills her home with down-and-out boarders. Laura's shy teenage son, Ben, lands a job tending to self-proclaimed "Dame" Evie Walton, an over-the-hill actress with the mouth of a drunken sailor and an insatiable lust for life. The battle for Ben's soul begins as Evie shanghais Ben away from his repressive roots and transforms him from a boy to a man.
86) Cloudmaker
Author
Language
English
Description
"In 1937 Montana, fourteen-year-old Houston "Huck" Finn finds a dead body in a local creek and steals the man's rare Lindbergh flight watch. Huck is an aspiring aviator, working to build his own airplane--a secret he has kept from his God-fearing mother. His cousin, Annelise, arrives from Los Angeles for a long stay with his family, and Huck is initially wary until he learns she has had flight lessons. As his airplane takes shape, and the young cousins...
Author
Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
202 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
It's 1942 and America is at war. A sense of peril and wartime shortages have reached even the small town of Fort Benton, Montana, where 13-year-old Ben Colby is growing up. Ben is in love for the first time, with Ellie Beck, a high-school beauty who is three years older than Ben. But thatś not the only dilemma Ben is facing. When he learns that one of his motherś old boyfriends has moved to town, he worries about what that might mean for his parents...
Author
Series
Codex Alera volume 2
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2006, c2005
Physical Desc
704 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
For one thousand years, the people of Alera have united against the aggressive and threatening races that inhabit the world, using their unique bond with the Furies--elementals of Earth, Air, Fire, Water, and Metal. But now, the unity of the Alerians hangs in precarious balance. The First Lord of Alera has fallen in his efforts to protect his people from the vicious attacks of their enemies. Now, the fate of the Alerians lies in the hands of Tavi,...
89) Itachi's power
Author
Series
Naruto volume 17
Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
185 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
What does Sasuke's older brother want with Naruto? As Jiraiya trains Naruto to push beyond his limits, secrets of the past are revealed, and a mysterious shinobi who could change everything begins to take center stage.
Author
Series
Naruto volume 14
Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
183 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Their village is under attack, and Naruto, Sakura and Shikamaru can't stay behind to defend it. They have a top priority mission to track down Sasuke and the Sand genin. But with nine bloodthirsty ninja on their heels, the hunters have quickly become the hunted! Back at the village, the Third Hokage is still trapped in Orochimaru's impenetrable barrier. Pushed to the breaking point, the Hokage must decide how far he will go to save what is precious...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (60 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Examines the increasing high school dropout rate of African-American teenage males, looking at contributing factors such as generational poverty, lack of positive male role models, poor urban school conditions, and low expectations for students, and explores ways to try to reverse the trend.
Author
Series
Vera Stanhope novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A hot summer on the Northumberland coast, and Julie Armstrong arrives home from a night out to find her son murdered. Luke has been strangled, laid out in a bath of water, and covered with wild flowers. This stylized murder scene has Inspector Vera Stanhope and her team intrigued. But then a second body, that of beautiful young teacher Lily Marsh is discovered laid out in a rock pool, the water strewn with flowers. Now Vera must work quickly to find...
93) Someone we know
Author
Publisher
Pamela Dorman Books/Viking
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
x, 292 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In a quiet, leafy suburb in upstate New York, a teenager has been sneaking into houses--and into the owners' computers as well--learning their secrets, and maybe sharing some of them, too. Who is he, and what might he have uncovered? After two anonymous letters are received, whispers start to circulate, and suspicion mounts. And when a woman down the street is found murdered, the tension reaches the breaking point. Who killed her? Who knows more...
94) Dreamkeeper
Publisher
Hallmark Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 180 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A Lakota storyteller and his grandson, a troubled 17-year-old boy, embark on a cross-country journey toward self-discovery. The grandson agrees to take his grandfather from Pine Ridge Reservation in S.D. to a powwow in Santa Fe in order to escape from some trouble with the local gang. Interwoven with the journey of the grandfather and grandson are retellings of Native American legends.
95) Cry macho
Publisher
SDS
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When an aging rodeo star takes a job of bringing the teenage son of his former boss from Mexico, where he lives with his alcoholic mother, to his father's ranch in Texas, he connects with the boy and finds redemption through teaching the boy what it means to be a man.
96) Ground Zero
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Brandon is visiting his dad on the 107th floor of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 when the attack comes; Reshmina is a girl in Afghanistan who has grown up in the aftermath of that attack but dreams of peace, becoming a teacher and escaping her village and the narrow role that the Taliban believes is appropriate for women--both are struggling to survive, both changed forever by the events of 9/11.
97) Martin Marten
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"Dave is fourteen years old, living with his family in a cabin on Oregon's Mount Hood (or as Dave prefers to call it, like the Native Americans once did, Wy'east). He is entering high school, adulthood on the horizon not far off in distance, and contemplating a future away from his mother, father, and his precocious younger sister. And Dave is not the only one approaching adulthood and its freedoms on Wy'east that summer. Martin, a pine marten (a...
Publisher
Left Turn Films
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Sons of perdition" is a term used by some Latter Day Saint denominations, including the FLDS Church, to describe former members who have apostatized from their religion and faith. The term is derogatory and intended to convey unholiness, sin and "evil." This film tells the story of three teenaged boys banished from their southern Utah polygamous community by Warren Jeffs, the sect's self-proclaimed prophet. Part of a growing group of exiles, the...
99) Luce
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (1 hr., 50 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A couple begins to question their idealized image of their adopted son when one of his teachers shows them a troubling essay he wrote.
100) Rez ball
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
"These days, Tre Brun is happiest when he is playing basketball on the Red Lake Reservation high school team--even though he can't help but be constantly gut-punched with memories of his big brother, Jaxon, who died in an accident. When Jaxon's former teammates on the varsity team offer to take Tre under their wing, he sees this as his shot to represent his Ojibwe rez all the way to their first state championship. This is the first step toward his...
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