Ben Mikaelsen
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins/Trophy
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
After his anger erupts into violence, Cole, in order to avoid going to prison, agrees to participate in a sentencing alternative based on the native American Circle Justice, and he is sent to a remote Alaskan Island where an encounter with a huge Spirit Bear changes his life.
3) Petey
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Paperbacks for Children
Pub. Date
2000, c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In 1922 Petey, who has cerebral palsy, is misdiagnosed as an idiot and institutionalized; sixty years later, still in the institution, he befriends a boy and shares with him the joy of life.
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
After a year in exile on an Alaskan island as punishment for severely beating a fellow student, Cole Matthews returns to school in Minneapolis having made peace with himself and his victim--but he finds that surviving the violence and hatred of high school is even harder than surviving in the wilderness.
5) Stranded
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Paperbacks for Children
Pub. Date
1996, c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Koby, who has lost a foot in an accident, sees a chance to prove her self-reliance to her parents when she tries to rescue two stranded pilot whales near her home in the Florida Keys.