Soneela Nankani
Author
Series
Maya and the rising dark volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
"A twelve-year-old girl discovers her father is the keeper of the gateway between our world and The Dark, and when he goes missing she'll need to unlock her own powers and fight a horde of spooky creatures set on starting a war."--
Author
Series
Pandava volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
Accused of stealing the god of love's bow and arrow, Aru has ten days to find the real thief or risk being kicked out of the Otherworld.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Description
"Sophie's parents run a secret shop where dreams are bought and sold. When Sophie dreams, her dreams become real, so she is forbidden to have any. Sinister events are set in motion when she is accidentally seen by one of her parents' customers, and it's up to Sophie to save her family"--
Author
Series
Maya and the rising dark volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"In this highly anticipated sequel, Maya and the godlings must return to the sinister world of The Dark to retrieve the one thing keeping the veil between the worlds from crumbling: her father's soul. Perfect for fans of Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky and Willa of the Wood." --
Author
Series
Maya and the rising dark volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"In the thrilling third and final book in the acclaimed Maya and the Rising Dark trilogy that Kirkus calls truly #BlackGirlMagic, Maya must face off with the Lord of Shadows to save the human world from impending war with the Dark."--
Author
Series
Pandava volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Description
"Aru Shah has a tendency to stretch the truth in order to fit in at her private middle school. While her classmates are jetting off to exotic vacations, she'll be spending her autumn break in the Museum of Ancient Indian Art and Culture that her mom curates. Is it any wonder Aru makes up stories about being royalty, traveling to Paris, and having a chauffeur? One day, three schoolmates show up at Aru's doorstep to catch her in a lie. They don't believe...
7) Amina's song
Author
Series
Amina's voice volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
"Feeling pulled between two cultures after a month with family in Pakistan, Amina shares her experiences with Wisconsin classmates through a class assignment and a songwriting project with new student Nico."--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"Maple Mehta-Cohen has been keeping a secret: she can't read all that well. She has an impressive vocabulary and loves dictating stories into her recorder--especially the adventures of a daring sleuth who's half Indian and half Jewish like Maple herself--but words on the page just don't seem to make sense to her. Despite all Maple's clever tricks to hide her troubles with reading, her teacher is on to her, and now Maple has to repeat fifth grade....
Author
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Description
Perpetually awkward Nima Kumara-Clark is bored with her insular community of Bridgeton, in love with her straight girlfriend, and trying to move past her mother's unexpected departure. After a bewildering encounter at a local festival, Nima finds herself suddenly immersed in the drag scene on the other side of town. Macho drag kings, magical queens, new love interests, and surprising allies propel Nima both painfully and hilariously closer to a self...
Author
Series
Amira and Hamza volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
A genie informs twelve-year-old Amira and her younger brother Hamza that they are the chosen ones who must defeat a monstrous demon of Islamic folklore to save the Earth and a parallel dimension.
Author
Series
Stuntboy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
A Schneider Family Award Honor Book for Middle Grade
From Newbery Medal honoree and #1 New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds comes a hilarious, hopeful, and action-packed middle grade novel about the greatest young superhero you've never heard of, filled with illustrations by Raúl the Third!
Portico Reeves's superpower is making sure all the other superheroes—like his parents and two best friends—stay...
From Newbery Medal honoree and #1 New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds comes a hilarious, hopeful, and action-packed middle grade novel about the greatest young superhero you've never heard of, filled with illustrations by Raúl the Third!
Portico Reeves's superpower is making sure all the other superheroes—like his parents and two best friends—stay...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1887 in India, a boy named Ramanujan is born with a passion for numbers. He sees numbers in the squares of light pricking his thatched roof and in the beasts dancing on the temple tower. He writes mathematics with his finger in the sand, across the pages of his notebooks, and with chalk on the temple floor. Ramanujan reinvents much of modern mathematics, but where in the world could he find someone to understand what he has conceived"--Publisher....
Series
Disney princess. Beginnings volume 1-3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jasmine meets a new friend on an underground adventure. Tiana plans a special treat for her daddy's birthday. Aurora joins a troupe of actors.
Author
Series
Kiranmala and the kingdom beyond volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
Up until her twelfth birthday, Kiranmala considered herself an ordinary sixth-grader in Parsippany, New Jersey, but then her parents disappear and a drooling rakkhosh demon shows up in her kitchen, and soon she is swept into another dimension, full of magic, winged horses, talking birds (very annoying), and cute princes--and somehow Kiranmala needs to sort it all out, find her parents, and basically save the world.
16) Fairest
Author
Series
Ella enchanted volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
Description
In the Kingdom of Ayortha, Aza, an unattractive woman with a magical voice, learns to balance her appearance with her talent, meanwhile, her singing attracts both Prince Ijori, who cannot resist it, and Queen Ivi, who plots to use it to benefit herself.
17) Reign the earth
Author
Series
Elementae volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Having sacrificed her freedom to establish peace with a neighboring kingdom, Shalia discovers that she has the power to control earth the day she marries Calix, whose only motivation is to eliminate the Elementae.
Author
Series
New kid (Jerry Craft) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
GN 340L
Language
English
Description
New York Times bestselling author Jerry Craft returns with a companion book to New Kid, winner of the 2020 Newbery Medal, the Coretta Scott King Author Award, and the Kirkus Prize. This time, it's Jordan's friend Drew who takes center stage in another laugh-out-loud funny, powerful, and important story about being one of the few kids of color in a prestigious private school.
Eighth grader Drew Ellis is no
...Series
Disney princess. Beginnings volume 4-6
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Jasmine meets a new friend on an underground adventure. Tiana plans a special treat for her daddy's birthday. Aurora joins a troupe of actors.
Author
Series
Stuntboy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"Portico Reeves is the greatest superhero a lot of people have never heard of. He likes it that way--then no one can get in the way of him keeping other other people safe. Super safe. He's Stuntboy. He's got the moves. And the saves. Except. There's been one major fail. He couldn't save his parents from becoming Xs. Which is a word that sounds like coughing up a hairball. But don't talk to him about the divorce, because of the hairball thing, and...