Paul Volponi
1) Game seven
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Description
"A sixteen-year-old shortstop in Cuba who dreams of playing with the pros must choose between his country and his father who defected to the U.S."--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Description
"Volponi, a multiple award-winning author, keeps the tension high from the first to last page ... The Final Four is definitely a winner." - VOYA , starred review March Madness is in full swing, and there are only four teams let in the NCAA basketball championship. The heavily favored Michigan Spartans and the underdog Troy Trojans meet in the first game in the seminfinals, and it's there that the fates of Malcolm, Roko, Crispin, and M.J. intertwine....
3) Rikers High
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Arrested on a minor offense, a New York City teenager attends high school in the jail facility on Rikers Island, as he waits for his case to go to court.
4) Top prospect
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Description
"Travis, a pre-teen quarterback with big potential, gets the opportunity of a lifetime when the coach of Gainesville University football program offers him a scholarship before Travis even gets to high school"--
6) Response
Author
Pub. Date
c 2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 4
Description
When an African American high school student is beaten with a baseball bat in a white neighborhood, three boys are charged with a hate crime.
Author
Pub. Date
2009, c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Twelve-year-old Miles Shaw goes to live with his father, a jazz musician, in New Orleans, and together they survive the horrors of Hurricane Katrina in the Superdome, learning about each other and growing closer through their painful experiences.
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Description
While playing in a crucial basketball game on the very court where his best friend was murdered, Mackey tries to come to terms with his own part in that murder and decide whether to maintain his silence or tell J.R.'s father and the police what really happened.
10) Rooftop
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Still reeling from seeing police shoot his unarmed cousin to death on the roof of a New York City housing project, seventeen-year-old Clay is dragged into the whirlwind of political manipulation that follows.
11) Crossing lines
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Description
High school senior Adonis struggles to do the right thing when his fellow football players escalate their bullying of a new classmate, Alan, who is transgendered.
12) Homestretch
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Five months after losing his mother, seventeen-year-old Gas runs away from an abusive father and gets a job working at an Arkansas race track, surrounded by the illegal Mexican immigrants that he and his father blame for her death.