Christina Moore
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Description
Feeling deprived all her life of schooling, friends, mother, and even her name by her twin sister, Louise finally begins to find her identity. Louise resents her twin sister's beauty and accomplishments in this novel set in the Chesapeake Bay area.
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
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.
4) 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
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...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
An outstanding student and much admired leader of her class, Ji-Li Jiang was poised for a shining future in the Communist party until the Cultural Revolution of 1966. Told with simplicity, innocence and grace, this unforgettable memoir gives a child's eye view of a terrifying time in 20th-century history--and of one family's indomitable courage under fire.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Saturdays are dress-up days when Eleanor Sue climbs out the window ... tiptoes over to the front door ... and rings the doorbell. When her mother answers, she doesn't see Eleanor Sue. She sees a cranky old neighbor. Or a hungry witch. Or a white-bearded wizard. Eleanor Sue is a master of disguise, but when her mother gets in on the act, along with Grandma, anything can happen.
9) Rufus M
Author
Series
Moffats volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Formats
Description
The adventures of seven-year-old Rufus Moffat, living with his widowed mother and older siblings including his encounter with an invisible piano player and his attempts at ventroliquism.
10) River boy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Knowing that he is dying, Jess's grandfather insists on returning to the river he had known as a boy to finish a special painting and fulfill a life-long dream. At first, Jess cannot understand why this painting is so important to her grandfather, especially since there doesn't seem to be any boy in it at all. But while swimming in the river herself, Jess begins to feel the presence of a strange boy. Could this be the same one her ailing grandfather...