This is a list of the acceptable Accelerated Reading books shown on the Marathon Middle/High School website. These “Contemporary” books are for 8th grade youngsters.
By the way, since the 8th grade AR List is sooooo long, I had to break it into a separate list for each “Type” of book. Adventure stories are together, history stories are together, mysteries are together, & so on.
I discovered that the blogging software can’t handle all these tables and/or hyperlinks. Blogger keeps saying that there’s an error because the page size is too great for Blogger to handle it. Oh well, no more hyperlinks directly to every book. Sorry about that. I was trying to make it quick and easy for you to request a book.
If you use Firefox as your browser, you can open a separate Tab for Marathon Library’s web site, www.keyslibraries.org, highlight the title you’d like from this list, and Paste it into the library’s Seach Title box. If the Monroe County Libraries have that title, you’ll be able to Request it by going to My Account and entering your card number from the back of your card.
So, get your library card ready (you’ll need your card number to request books) & decide which books you want to have sent to you. Don’t forget to pick out the proper library when you get to the Request Confirmation screen. If you come here to get your books, you’ll want to make sure it says the Pick Up Location is Marathon Library.
Remember, when the book shows up at our library, we’ll call you at home & tell you it arrived. Be sure we have your correct telephone number so we can get in touch with you. If you want to, you can call us at 743-5156 to make sure we have your correct phone number in our computer. Otherwise, how we call you when your book comes?
Oh, and if you don’t already have a Monroe County library card, don’t worry. Look over in the right-hand column of this page, under the “Links” heading for Parent's Permission Slip for a child's library card at Marathon Library. Print the form, fill it out, and return it to us the next time you come to the Marathon Library, and we’ll give you a card. Then you can order all the books you want.
Pick out a bunch of books, start reading, and ENJOY!!
AR List 2006, 8th grade “Contemporary” books
Almond, David
* Kit's wilderness
Avi
* Nothing but the truth
* Never Mind!
Bauer, Joan
* Backwater
* Stand tall
Blume, Judy
* Deenie
* Here's to you, Rachel Robinson
* Tiger eyes
Bonham, Frank
* Durango Street
Brooks, Bruce
* Moves make the man
* Vanishing
Bunting, Eve
* Jumping the nail
Butterworth, W. E.
* LeRoy and the old man
Caldwell, V.M.
* Ocean within
Cisneros, Sandra
* House on Mango Street
Cleary, Beverly
* Fifteen
Cole, Brock
* The Goats
Cooney, Caroline
* Face on the milk carton
* What child is this?
* What Janie found
Craven, Margaret
* I heard the owl call my name
Creech, Sharon
* Ruby Holler
* Walk two moons
* The Wanderer
Curtis, Christopher
* Bud, not Buddy
Draper, Sharon
* Forged by fire
Ellis, Deborah
* Parvana's Journey
Flake, Sharon
* Begging for change
* Money hungry
Fleischman, Paul
* Fate totally worse than death
Fox, Paula
* One-eyed cat
Freymann-Weyr, Garret
* My Heartbeat
Garland, Sherry
* Cabin 102
George, Jean Craighead
* Shark beneath the reef
* Water sky
Giff, Patricia Reilly
* Pictures of Hollis Woods
Griffin, Adele
* Amandine
Griffiths, Andy
* The day my butt went psycho
Grove, Vicki
* Reaching Dustin
Hayes, Sheila
* You've been away all summer
Hentoff, Nat
* Day they came to arrest the book
Herrera, Juan Felipe
* Crashboomlove: a novel in verse
Hiaasen, Carl
* Hoot
Hinton, S. E.
* Rumble Fish
* Taming the Star Runner
Hobbs, Will
* Beardance
* Bearstone
* Downriver
* Far North
* Kokopelli's flute
Hoffman, Alice
* Green angel
Holt, Kimberly
* Keeper of the night
* When Zachary Beaver Came to Town
Honeycutt, Natalie
* Ask me something easy
Howe, James
* The Misfits
Kent, Deborah
* Courage to Live
Klein, Norma
* Just friends
Koertge, Ron
* Tiger, tiger burning bright
Konigsburg, E. L.
* From the mixed-up filed of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
* Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth and me
* The View from Saturday
Lasky, Kathryn
* Memoirs of a bookbat
LeMieux, A. C.
* TV guidance counselor
Levine, Gail Carson
* The wish
Lipsyte, Robert
* The Brave
Lowry, Lois
* Find a stranger, say goodbye
* Summer to die
Mahy, Margaret
* Memory
Marsden, John
* Letters from the inside
Mazer, Norma Fox
* Silver
McDaniel, Lurlene
* Angel of hope
* Goodbye Doesn’t Mean Forever
* Lifted up by angels
* Someone Dies, Someone Lives
* Telling Christina goodbye
* Time to let go
* Too Young to Die
* Until angels close my eyes
McDonald, Janet
* Chill Wind
McKay, Hilary
* Saffy's angel
Moore, Martha
* Under the mermaid angel
Morpurgo, Michael
* War of Jenkins' ear
Myers, Walter
* 145th Street: Short Stories
* Motown and Didi
Na, An
* Step from heaven
Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds
* Alice the brave
Neufeld, John
* Lisa, bright and dark
O'Neal, Zibby
* Language of goldfish
Paterson, Katherine
* Park's quest
* Same stuff as stars
Patneaude, David
* Framed in Fire
Paulsen, Gary
* The Car
* Harris and Me
Peck, Richard
* Unfinished portrait of Jessica
Roberts, Willo Davis
* Buddy is a stupid name for a girl
* Undercurrents
Robinson, Margaret
* Woman of her tribe
Rodowsky, Colby
* Hannah in Between
Rostkowski, Margaret
* Moon dancer
Sachar, Louis
* Holes
Scott, Virginia
* Belonging
Shalant, Phyllis
* The Great Eye
Siebold, Jan
* Doing Time Online
Sleator, William
* Oddballs
Sones, Sonya
* Stop Pretending: What Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazy
* What my mother doesn't know
Soto, Gary
* The afterlife
* Baseball In April
Spinelli, Jerry
* Crash
* Maniac Magee
* Stargirl
* Who put that hair in my toothbrush?
* Wringer
Strasser, Todd
* Here comes heavenly
Tashjian, Janet
* Multiple choice
Thesman, Jean
* The Rain Catchers
Tolan, Stephanie
* Ordinary miracles
* Surviving the Applewhites
Tomey, Ingrid
* Nobody Else Has to Know
Voigt, Cynthia
* Runner
Weeks, Sarah
* So B. It
Wesley, Valerie
* Where Do I Go from Here?
Whelan, Gloria
* Homeless bird
White, Ruth
* Belle Prater's boy
Wilson, Nancy
* Flapjack waltzes
Wittlinger, Ellen
* Gracie's girl
Wolff, Virginia
* True believer
Woodson, Jacqueline
* Behind you
* Hush
* I hadn't meant to tell you this
* Miracle's Boys
Zindel, Paul
* The Undertaker's gone bananas