Christina Moore
Author
Series
Young wizards volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Nita, tormented by a gang of bullies because she won't fight back, finds the help she needs in a library book on wizardry which guides her into another dimension.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
As the German troops begin their campaign to "relocate" all the Jews of Denmark, Annemarie Johansen's family takes in Annemarie's best friend, Ellen Rosen, and conceals her as part of the family. Through the eyes of ten-year-old Annemarie, we watch as the Danish Resistance smuggles almost the entire Jewish population of Denmark, nearly seven thousand people, across the sea to Sweden. The heroism of an entire nation reminds us that there was pride...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
In this Newbery Honor Book, Hillary and Sara-Kate spend hours making an elf village in Sara-Kate's backyard. But it's Hillary's mother who realizes that Sara-Kate needs more help than magic.
As Hillary works in the miniature village, allegedly built by elves, in Sara-Kate's backyard, she becomes more and more curious about Sara-Kate's real life inside her big, gloomy house with her mysterious, silent mother.
Author
Series
Birchbark house volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
In 1852, forced by the United States government to leave their beloved Island of the Golden Breasted Woodpecker, fourteen-year-old Omokayas and her Ojibwe family travel in search of a new home.
Author
Series
Julie of the wolves trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
While running away from home and an unwanted marriage, a thirteen- year-old Eskimo girl becomes lost on the North Slope of Alaska and is befriended by a wolf pack.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
1000L
Language
English
Description
From back cover: "In the Pacific there is an island that looks like a big fish sunning itself in the sea. Around it blue dolphins swim, otters play, and sea birds abound. Once, Indians also lived on the island. And when they left and sailed to the east, one young girl was left behind.".
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
A collection of short one-person plays featuring characters, between ten and fifteen years old, who live in or near a thirteenth-century English manor.
Maidens, monks, and millers' sons -- in these pages, readers will meet them all. There's Hugo, the lord's nephew, forced to prove his manhood by hunting a wild boar; sharp-tongued Nelly, who supports her family by selling live eels; and the peasant's daughter, Mogg, who gets a clever lesson in how...
Author
Series
Young wizards volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
Teenage wizard Nita travels to other universes to find a cure for her mother who has brain cancer.
10) Stellaluna
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 550L
Language
English
Description
After she falls headfirst into a bird's nest, a baby bat is raised like a bird until she is reunited with her mother.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
WANDA wears the same faded blue dress to school every day-yet she says she has one hundred beautiful dresses at home,"all lined up." The other girls don't believe it, and when Peggy starts a daily game of teasing Wanda about the hundred dresses, everyone joins in. Maddie, Peggy's best friend, goes along with the game, but she secretly wonders whether she can find the courage to speak up in Wanda's defense. It's not until Wanda fails to come to school...
14) Deep wizardry
Author
Series
Young wizards volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Description
During a summer vacation at the beach, thirteen-year-old wizard Nita and her friend Kit assist the whale-wizard S'reee in combating an evil power.
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Winner of the 2017 Newbery Award
The New York Times Bestseller
An Entertainment Weekly Best Middle Grade Book of 2016
A New York Public Library Best Book of 2016
A Chicago Public Library Best Book of 2016
An Amazon Top 20 Best Book of 2016
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2016
A School Library Journal Best Book of 2016
Named to Kirkus Reviews' Best Books of 2016
2017 Booklist Youth Editors' Choice
Every year, the people...
16) Zia
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
A young Indian girl, Zia, caught between the traditional world of her mother and the present world of the Mission, is helped by her aunt Karana, whose story was told in "The Island of the Blue Dolphins."
17) High wizardry
Author
Series
Young wizards volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
When her younger sister uses the family computer with its special wizard software to travel to worlds light years away, Nita uses her wizardry to try and find her.
18) A wizard abroad
Author
Series
Young wizards volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
Nita, a teenage wizard, is sent off to Ireland to spend a month with her eccentric aunt, but her parents' plan to separate her from magic go awry when Nita encounters a host of Irish wizards engaged in a battle to save the country from ghosts of the past.
19) Wizard's holiday
Author
Series
Young wizards volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
While Nita's sister and her dad host three young alien wizards, teenage wizards Nita and Kit travel halfway across the galaxy as part of an exchange program and find themselves again caught up in the dark doings of their nemesis, the Lone Power.
Author
Series
Nina Tanleven volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nina Tanleven, six grader, and her best friend, Chris discover the tower room with its big brass bed and grieving little girl ghost.