Donna Jo Napoli
1) Fish Girl
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
GN 460L
Language
English
Formats
Description
The triple Caldecott winner David Wiesner brings his rich visual imagination and trademark artistry to the graphic novel format in a unique coming-of-age tale that begins underwater. A young mermaid, called Fish Girl, in a boardwalk aquarium has a chance encounter with an ordinary girl. Their growing friendship inspires Fish Girl's longing for freedom, independence, and a life beyond the aquarium tank. Sparkling with humor and brilliantly visualized,
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Series
Sly the sleuth mysteries volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
350L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sly uses her detective skills to help her friends solve the case of the soccer switch, the kick craze and the basketball blues.
3) Dark shimmer
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
A retelling of Snow White from the evil step mother's point of view as fifteen-year-old Dolce grows up on islands in a Venetian lagoon where she learns how to make mirrors. But when her mother dies she is taken in by a widower and his daughter while she secretly continues making mirrors and slowly goes mad from mercury poisoning.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
580L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kepi, a young girl who was content staying at home helping her father who was wounded while building a pyramid for the pharaoh Khufu, is kidnapped along with her baboon, Babu, and taken to the capital city, where she is separated from Babu, sets out to find him and appeal to the pharaoh, and discovers she has powers she never knew about.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fourteen-year-old Calogero Scalise and his Sicilian uncles and cousin live in small-town Louisiana in 1898, when Jim Crow laws rule and anti-immigration sentiment is strong, so despite his attempts to be polite and to follow American customs, disaster dogs his family at every turn.
6) Breath
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
620L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Elaborates on the tale of "The Pied Piper," told from the point of view of a boy who is too ill to keep up when a piper spirits away the healthy children of a plague-ridden town after being cheated out of full payment for ridding Hameln of rats.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
HL 550L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the autumn of 1846 in Ireland, twelve-year-old Lorraine and her family struggle to survive during the Irish potato famine, but when Lorraine meets Miss Susanna, the daughter of the wealthy English landowner who owns Lorraine's family's farm, they form an unlikely friendship that they must keep secret due to the deep cultural divide between their two families.
8) Bound
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a novel based on Chinese Cinderella tales, fourteen-year-old stepchild Xing-Xing endures a life of neglect and servitude, as her stepmother cruelly mutilates her own child's feet so that she alone might marry well.
9) The wager
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Having lost everything in a tidal wave in 1169 Sicily, nineteen-year-old Don Giovanni makes a simple-sounding wager with a stranger he recognizes as the devil but, while desperate enough to surrender his pride and good looks for three years, he is not willing to give up his soul.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"When a young Japanese girl moves into her new house, she is happy to see a girl her age playing in the snow just outside her window. The only problem is the Japanese girl doesn't speak English and the American girl doesn't speak Japanese. But each girl's love of the snow teaches them that they don't need to speak the same language to have fun!"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A story of nocturnal animals at different points on the food chain"--
"As night falls, the Earth cools. Waters calm. Winds hush.... But outside, nighttime is action time for some. Silly action. Hungry action. Wild action. From microscopic organisms to giant cats, it's surprising who you'll find awake in the middle of the night. Dinoflagellates guzzle floating bacteria, bumblebee bats loop and swoop, racer snakes slither, weasles sneak and circle,...
12) North
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tired of his mother's overprotectiveness and intrigued by the life of African American explorer Matthew Henson, twelve-year-old Alvin travels north and spends a season with a trapper near the Arctic Circle.
13) The crossing
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In 1805, Sacagawea, a woman of the Shoshoni tribe, helps Meriwether Lewis and William Clark find a passage to the West Coast, in this story told through the eyes of the baby boy on Sacagawea's back.
14) Skin
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Sep stares into the bathroom mirror on the first day of school. It's not some weird lipstick, she didn't bump her lips or chew on ice. Her lips are just--white. In a panic, she digs up an old lipstick and smears it on her colorless lips. But soon, more and more white spots begin to bloom, spreading their chalky tendrils across her olive brown skin. Does she have a disease? Is she turning into some kind of freak? As the white blotches...
15) Stones in water
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Description
After being taken by German soldiers from a local movie theater along with other Italian boys including his Jewish friend, Roberto is forced to work in Germany, escapes into the Ukrainian winter, before desperately trying to make his way back home to Venice.
Author
Pub. Date
2001.
Lexile measure
60L
Language
English
Description
A delightful introduction to simple division follows two friends, who decide to have a picnic, as they are joined by ten excited picnickers who each bring a special treat, but when another avid picnicker shows up with nothing to offer, their calculations are turned upside-down.
17) The smile
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
580L
Language
English
Description
In Renaissance Italy, Elisabetta longs for romance, and when Leonardo da Vinci introduces her to Guiliano de Medici, whose family rules Florence but is about to be deposed, she has no inkling of the romance--and sorrow--that will ensue.
18) Ugly
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
470L
Language
English
Description
When the rest of the ducks turn on her little duckling, Ugly, because he isn't like them, Mother Duck sadly leaves him behind in order to protect her other children. With the help of some new friends, Ugly makes his way alone, but he doesn't know where he's going or what he's looking for.
Author
Series
Sly the sleuth mysteries volume 3
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
300L
Language
English
Description
Sly uses her detective skills to help her friends solve the case of something fishy, something cooking, and something seedy.
20) Storm
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Having lost her family in a massive flood, sixteen-year-old Sebah finds her way onto a gigantic ark, where she must conceal herself from Noah and his family until it is safe for her and another stowaway to slip away.