Gary D Schmidt
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
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"Jack, 12, tells the gripping story of Joseph, 14, who joins his family as a foster child. Damaged in prison, Joseph wants nothing more than to find his baby daughter, Jupiter, whom he has never seen. When Joseph has begun to believe he'll have a future, he is confronted by demons from his past that force a tragic sacrifice"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
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Seventh-grader Hercules Beal has to figure out how to fulfill his teacher's assignment of performing the Twelve Labors of Hercules in real life, and discovers important things about friendship, community, and himself along the way.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
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"During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker's classrooom, where they read the plays of William Shakespeare and Holling learns much of value about the world he lives in."--T.p. verso.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10
Description
In 1911, Turner Buckminster hates his new home of Phippsburg, Maine, but things improve when he meets Lizzie Bright Griffin, a girl from a poor, nearby island community founded by former slaves that the town fathers--and Turner's--want to change into a tourist spot.
5) Okay for now
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
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As a fourteen-year-old who just moved to a new town, with no friends, an abusive father, and a louse for an older brother, Doug Swieteck has all the stats stacked against him until he finds an ally in Lil Spicer--a fiery young lady. Together, they find a safe haven in the local library, inspiration in learning about the plates of John James Audubon's birds, and a hilarious adventure on a Broadway stage.
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Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Wilson is a curious sheep, and after he foolishly climbs into the back of a piano movers' truck, he ends up alone in the big city, far from the farm. But Wilson is also one smart sheep, and soon enough he's finding his way home to his worried owner by recognizing the sounds that he heard while he was trapped in the truck--a jackhammer, a calliope, a hotdog man. And could that be the excited barking of his friend Tippy, the border collie?
7) Trouble
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Fourteen-year-old Henry, wishing to honor his brother Franklin's dying wish, sets out to hike Maine's Mount Katahdin with his best friend and dog. But fate adds another companion--the Cambodian refugee accused of fatally injuring Franklin--and reveals troubles that predate the accident.
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Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Description
In a desperate attempt for survival, a peaceful civilization on a faraway planet besieged by a dark lord sends its most precious gift across the cosmos into the lunchbox of Tommy Pepper, sixth grader, of Plymouth, Massachusetts.
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
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
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
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
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10
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...
13) Just like that
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 15
Description
With insight and a light touch, best-selling, Newbery Honor-winning author Gary D. Schmidt tells two poignant, linked stories: that of a grieving girl and a boy trying to escape his violent past. Following the death of her closest friend in summer 1968, Meryl Lee Kowalski goes off to St. Elene's Preparatory Academy for Girls, where she struggles to navigate the venerable boarding school's traditions and a social structure heavily weighted toward students...
14) Almost time
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Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
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Ethan eagerly anticipates making maple syrup with his father, but it will not be time until the days are warmer, the nights shorter, and Ethan's loose tooth falls out.
15) The sin eater
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Pub. Date
c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Description
While living on his grandparent's farm in New Hampshire, Cole hears stories about a mysterious Sin Eater; these stories enable Cole to learn forgivenessand connect with his ancestors.
16) First boy
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Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Dragged into the political turmoil of a presidential election year, fourteen-year-old Cooper Jewett, who runs a New Hampshire dairy farm since his grandfather's death, stands up for himself and makes it clear whose first boy he really is.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Sojourner Truth was born into slavery but possessed a mind and a vision that knew no bounds. So Tall Within traces her life from her painful childhood through her remarkable emancipation to her incredible leadership in the movement for rights for both women and African Americans.
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Appears on list
Description
Presents a picture book biography of Martín de Porres, who worked as a servant in the Dominican Order in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Showcases the healing miracles de Porres performed and discusses how these actions led to his eventual canonization.