Theodore Taylor
4) Sniper
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Fifteen-year-old Ben must cope alone when a mysterious sniper begins shooting the big cats in his family's private zoological preserve.
7) El cayo
Author
Series
Cuatro vientos volume 125
Pub. Date
2006, c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Philip, an adolescent white boy who is blinded in a torpedo attack at sea during World War II, acquires a new type of vision, courage, and love when he is stranded on a tiny Caribbean island with Timothy, a kind, elderly black man.
8) The Wierdo
Author
Pub. Date
c1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Seventeen-year-old Chip Clewt, "The Weirdo," helps Samantha Sanders search for the killer who has stalked innocent victims in the swamp.
Author
Pub. Date
2003, c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Description
With his parents in India, sixteen-year-old Ben Jepson is in charge of Los Coyotes Preserve, a refuge for big cats near Los Angeles, when two powerful groups try to shut it down by intimidation, murder, and kidnapping the largest tiger in captivity. When a half-eaten body is found inside a locked jaguar cage, eighteen-year-old Ben Jepson knows it's no prank - someone is trying to make trouble for the Los Coyotes Big Cat Preserve and its manager, Ben's...