Red Moon Rising
By K. A. Holt Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books Pages: 336 Lexile: 760L Age Range: 10 – 14 Years ABOUT Space-farmer Rae Darling is kidnapped and trained to become a warrior against her own people in this adventurous middle grade space western. Rae Darling and her family are colonists on a moon so obscure it doesn’t merit a name. Life is hard, water is scarce, and the farm work she does is grueling. But Rae and her sister Temple are faced with an added complication—being girls is a serious liability in their strict society. Even worse, the Cheese—the colonists’ name for the native...
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By K.A. Holt Publisher: Chronicle Books LLC Pages: 304 Lexile: 610L Age Range: 10 – 14 Years ABOUT Timothy is a good kid who did a bad thing. Now he’s under house arrest for a whole year. He has to check in weekly with a probation officer and a therapist, keep a journal, and stay out of trouble. But when he must take drastic measures to help his struggling family, staying out of trouble proves more difficult than Timothy ever thought it would be. Touching, funny, and always original, House Arrest is a novel in verse about a good boy’s hard-won path to redemption. ...
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