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The Amazing Life of Birds: The Twenty-Day Puberty Journal of Duane Homer Leech (Unabridged)

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I should have seen it coming. A long time before it came I should have known. I was six or seven years old and there was a girl living next door named Peggy. She was a year older than me and a lot stronger and we were wrestling and she held me down....

Author:

Gary Paulsen

Grade Level:

Middle

Lexile:

780L

Length:

01:28

The Amazing Life of Birds: The Twenty-Day Puberty Journal of Duane Homer Leech (Unabridged)

Keeping Score (Unabridged)

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Both Maggie Fortini and her brother, Joey-Mick, were named for baseball great Joe DiMaggio. Unlike Joey-Mick, Maggie doesn't play baseball - but at almost 10 years old, she is a dyed-in-the-wool fan of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Maggie can recite all the players' statistics and understands the subtleties of the game.

Author:

Linda Sue Park

Grade Level:

Elementary

Middle

Lexile:

770L

Length:

04:35

A Single Shard (Unabridged)

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Foraging in fields and on rubbish heaps, and sharing food with his friend Crane-man, used to be enough to fill Tree-ear's days. But now all Tree-ear wants to do is watch master potter Min at work.

Author:

Linda Sue Park

Grade Level:

Middle

Lexile:

920L

Length:

03:13

The Black Pearl (Unabridged)

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When Ramón Salazar swims into an underwater cave in a deserted lagoon, he discovers the black pearl, the Great Pearl of Heaven. As the son of a pearl merchant, Ramón knows that this is the rarest and most valuable pearl in the world. He quickly scoops it up and brings it home to his father.

Author:

Scott O'Dell

Grade Level:

Middle

Lexile:

980L

Length:

02:21

Sing Down the Moon (Unabridged)

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The Spanish slavers were an ever-present threat to the Navajo way of life.This historical novel is about a young Navajo girl who is kidnapped and enslaved by Spaniards and then rescued by her husband-to-be.

Author:

Scott O'Dell

Grade Level:

Middle

Lexile:

820L

Length:

03:17

The King's Fifth (Unabridged)

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While awaiting trial for murder and withholding from the king the obligatory fifth of the gold found in Cibola, Esteban, a 17-year-old cartographer, recalls his adventures with a band of conquistadors.

Author:

Scott O'Dell

Grade Level:

Middle

Lexile:

840L

Length:

07:55

Zia (Unabridged)

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The fate of Karana, heroine of Island of the Blue Dolphins, is revealed in this moving story of her niece, Zia. Finding her aunt is the strongest force in Zia's life, and in the hope of doing so, Zia moves to the Santa Barbara Mission, where she plans to go the Island where someone has seen her aunt - still alive after 18 years.

Author:

Scott O'Dell

Grade Level:

Middle

Lexile:

790L

Length:

04:22

Black Star, Bright Dawn (Unabridged)

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A young Eskimo girl encounters frightening obstacles when she takes her father's place in the Iditarod, the annual 1,172-mile dogsled race in Alaska.

Author:

Scott O'Dell

Grade Level:

Middle

Lexile:

670L

Length:

03:37

Streams to the River, River to the Sea: A Novel of Sacagawea (Unabridged)

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No woman in all of our history has captured the imagination like the young Shoshone girl Sacagawea, who served as in interpreter and often as a guide for Lewis and Clark on their famous expedition into our uncharted West.

Author:

Scott O'Dell

Grade Level:

Middle

Lexile:

740L

Length:

04:50

Streams to the River, River to the Sea: A Novel of Sacagawea (Unabridged)

The Captive (Unabridged)

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The Captive is the first volume of the Seven Serpents Trilogy. Julian Escobar, a young Jesuit seminarian who travels to the New World, is the only human survivor when a hurricane sinks a ship laden with gold. He struggles ashore, where he meets a Mayan girl. She teaches him about Kukulcan, the Feathered Serpent, a fair-skinned Mayan god, who sailed away centuries before.

Author:

Scott O'Dell

Grade Level:

Middle

Length:

05:42

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