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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this book, the author, a leading dog-blogger offers a tour of military working dogs' extraordinary training, heroic accomplishments, and the lasting impacts they have on those who work with them. People all over the world have been riveted by the story of Cairo, the Belgian Malinois who was a part of the Navy SEAL team that led the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound. A dog's natural intelligence, physical abilities, and pure loyalty contribute...
Author
Series
Final six volume 1
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Surrounded by strangers all competing for one of the six slots to travel to Jupiter's moon, Europa, Naomi, an Iranian-American science genius, finds a friend in Leo, an Italian championship swimmer, as the training tests their limits.
Author
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
"Susannah Ramos has always loved the water. A swimmer whose early talent made her a world champion, Susannah was poised for greatness in a sport that demands so much of its young. But an inexplicable slowdown has put her dream in jeopardy, and Susannah is fighting to keep her career afloat when two important people enter her life: a new coach with a revolutionary training strategy, and a charming fellow swimmer named Harry Matthews. As Susannah begins...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1997]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Monty Roberts has traveled the world working with difficult horses. He has trained Queen Elizabeth's yearlings, jittery stallions on movie sets, and million-dollar race horses. In each case, he controls the animal without using force or inflicting pain. Monty's father, a traditional horse trainer, had taught his son to dominate a horse in order to "break" it. But when he was 13, Monty made a discovery that changed his life. As he watched a mare tame...
5) Blood sport
Author
Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"In this high-interest novel for teen readers, Jason is determined to find out the truth about his sister's death."--
Jason is sure his sister, Becca, was murdered, but he's the only one who thinks so. After finding a photograph Becca kept hidden, he decides to infiltrate a boxing gym to prove that she didn't die accidentally. As a transgender kid, Jason's been fighting for as long as he can remember, and those skills are going to come in handy as...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
As a humanitarian, he helped aid workers heal orphaned children in Rwanda and lived in camps alongside Bosnian refugees. As a warrior, he excelled at the hardest military training in the world and teamed up with fellow SEALs to hunt al Qaeda terrorists in Iraq. In this adaptation of his memoir, The Heart and the Fist, Eric Greitens brings his adventures to life for teens, sharing stories of friendship, struggle, and hard-earned wisdom. His exciting...
Author
Publisher
University of Oklahoma
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Best known as a leader of the Indian takeover of Alcatraz Island in 1969, Adam Fortunate Eagle now offers an unforgettable memoir of his years as a young student at Pipestone Indian Boarding School in Minnesota. In this rare firsthand account, Fortunate Eagle lives up to his reputation as a "contrary warrior" by disproving the popular view of Indian boarding schools as bleak and prisonlike.
Fortunate Eagle attended Pipestone between 1935 and 1945,...
9) Starsight
Author
Series
Skyward (Brandon Sanderson) volume 2
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
"As if the threat of huge, raging monsters from hyperspace isn't scary enough, hotshot fighter pilot Spensa Nightshade becomes embroiled in an alien empire's politics"--
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