Will Weaver
Author
Series
Motor series volume 1
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Description
In a small town in northern Minnesota, the much-anticipated Saturday night dirt-track race at the old-fashioned, barely viable, Headwaters Speedway becomes, in many ways, an important life-changing event for all the participants on and off the track.
Author
Series
Billy Baggs novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Description
With his father in jail and his mother working full-time, fourteen-year-old Billy Baggs finds himself in charge of running the family farm in northern Minnesota and having to give up the thing he loves most--baseball.
4) Hard ball
Author
Series
Billy Baggs novels volume 3
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Description
A fourteen-year-old Minnesota farm boy has to figure out how to get along with the arch-rival in his love life and on the baseball diamond, and both boys must learn how to deal with the unfair expectations of their fathers.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Sixteen-year-old Miles, thirteen-year-old Sarah, and their parents find themselves changing in many ways as they struggle to survive winter in a remote cabin, while keeping anyone in the nearby town from learning they are living there illegally after the devastation of volcanic eruptions drove them from their Minneapolis home.
6) Full service
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
In the summer of 1965, sixteen-year-old Paul Sutton, a northern Minnesota farm boy, takes a job at a gas station in town, where his strict religious upbringing is challenged by new people and experiences.
Author
Series
Motor series volume 2
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Trace Bonham knows he is fortunate to be offered a chance at being a paid super stock driver when he is still in high school, but regrets that he must leave his friends and home track and wonders if the sponsor is legitimate.
Author
Series
Billy Baggs novels volume 1
Pub. Date
[1995]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Since the death of his older brother, thirteen-year-old Billy Baggs has had a distant relationship with his father, but life on their farm in northern Minnesota begins to change when he starts to play baseball.
10) Sweet land
Pub. Date
2007.
Description
Inge is a feisty German mail-order bride who has come to Minnesota to marry Olaf, a young Norwegian immigrant farmer of few words. But in a post-WWI, anti-German climate, the local minister openly forbids the marriage. Inge and Olaf fall in love despite the town's disapproval. But when the town banker attempts to foreclose on the farm of his friend Frandsen, Olaf takes a stand--Container.