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Author
Series
Cork O'Connor mysteries volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
A hated judge is found dead in suspicious circumstances in a town in Minnesota with an Indian casino and a young Ojibwa Indian leaves home in a hurry. Former sheriff Cork O'Connor investigates if there is a connection.
2) Freedom
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 36
Language
English
Formats
Description
The idyllic lives of civic-minded environmentalists Patty and Walter Berglund come into question when their son moves in with aggressive Republican neighbors, green lawyer Walter takes a job in the coal industry, and go-getter Patty becomes increasingly unstable and enraged.
3) Dead to you
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Having been abducted at age seven, abandoned, a foster child, and homeless, Ethan, is happy to be home until his brother's suspicion and his own inability to remember something unspeakable from his early childhood begin to tear the family apart.
Author
Series
Jake Hines mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Walker & Co
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
195 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixteen-year-old Miles, thirteen-year-old Sarah, and their parents find themselves changing in many ways as they struggle to survive winter in a remote cabin, while keeping anyone in the nearby town from learning they are living there illegally after the devastation of volcanic eruptions drove them from their Minneapolis home.
6) Striking out
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c1993
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
xiii, 272 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Since the death of his older brother, thirteen-year-old Billy Baggs has had a distant relationship with his father, but life on their farm in northern Minnesota begins to change when he starts to play baseball.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c1998
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
230 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A fourteen-year-old Minnesota farm boy has to figure out how to get along with the arch-rival in his love life and on the baseball diamond, and both boys must learn how to deal with the unfair expectations of their fathers.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
vi, 311 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When the high school cheerleading team takes over a soda vending machine's funds, which were previously collected by the pep band, Gabe Johnson, an overweight "band geek" tired of being called names and looked down on, declares war.
10) Claws: a novel
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
232 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jed and Laura, two popular Minnesota high school students, find their seemingly perfect lives suddenly in chaos when they discover that each has a parent who is having an affair with the other.
Author
Publisher
Spectra Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
306 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Minnesota is invaded by warriors from the ancient world, sixteen-year-old Macy and her family head down the Mississippi by boat to escape from the encroaching madness.
12) All these bodies
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
288 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In the late 1950s in the Midwest, a serial killer has been draining their victims of blood, leaving them otherwise undisturbed in their cars and homes. When a fifteen-year-old girl is found covered in blood amidst the latest corpses, she confides only in the sheriff's son but her story is unbelievable at best.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
308 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
While hunting in the cold Minnesota woods, 17-year-old Jesse Matson's life is forever changed when he discovers his father, dead by a self-inflicted gunshot wound. But would easygoing Harold Matson really kill himself? If so, why? And just where was Jesse's uncle Clay--always jealous of Harold, and a bit too friendly with Jesse's mother--that cold afternoon?
14) Orphan train
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"Penobscot Indian Molly Ayer is close to 'aging out' out of the foster care system. A community service position helping an elderly woman clean out her home is the only thing keeping Molly out of juvie and worse.... As she helps Vivian sort through her possessions and memories, Molly learns that she and Vivian aren't as different as they seem to be. A young Irish immigrant orphaned in New York City, Vivian was put on a train to the Midwest with hundreds...
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