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Author
Series
Alice McKinley. Main series volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Formats
Description
The summer before eighth grade, Alice tries to confront her fears, not the least of which is a fear of deep water.
2) Seventeen
Author
Series
Bantam classic volume JC 129
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the summer after his seventeenth birthday, William Baxter finds himself coming-of-age in his family's small vacation home." *** "'Seventeen' is the hilarious story of William Sylvanus Baxter, just seventeen, who is in love with Miss Pratt, a summer visitor in the neighborhood. The adolescent antics of a small-town Lothario are beguiling and utterly harmless, and the completely normal but demoniacal actions of Jane, William's pesky sister, are...
3) Junebug
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
570L
Language
English
Formats
Description
An inquisitive young boy who lives with his mother and younger sister in a rough housing project in New Haven, Connecticut, approaches his tenth birthday with a mixture of anticipation and worry.
4) Star status
Author
Series
Girls only (GO!) volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
As a major skiing event approaches, Manda struggles to focus on her Olympic dreams while her mother's budding romance, troubles with her friends, and even church and school threaten to distract her.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Follows a family's two-hundred-forty-one-year history, from the capture of an African boy in the 1750s through the lives of his descendants, as their dreams and circumstances lead them away from and back to the small plot of land in South Carolina that they call the Glory Field.
7) Spinky sulks
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 640L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Spinky believes his family does not love him or understand him and nothing they say will convince him otherwise.
8) The Look
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Can she be a supermodel and a super-sister? She finds her answer in just one look.
Two sisters, both beautiful in different ways: Fifteen-year-old Ted has got "The Look." That's what the scout for the modeling agency tells her, and she can't believe her luck. But just as Ted's jet-setting off on her new career, seventeen-year-old Ava is diagnosed with cancer. Can Ted be a supermodel and a super-sister? Or will she have to choose between family and...
9) Taking sides
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fourteen-year-old Lincoln Mendoza, an aspiring basketball player, must come to terms with his divided loyalties when he moves from the Hispanic inner city to a white suburban neighborhood.
10) Fitz
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fifteen-year-old Fitz kidnaps the father he has never known, taking him from his St. Paul apartment building at gunpoint, in an attempt to address his bewildering mix of resentment and yearning.
11) Rain remembers
Author
Series
Rain novels (Comrie) volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the companion novel to the critically acclaimed Rain Rising, Rain must once again find the strength to rise above. The start of the school year is bringing a lot of changes for Rain: New school. No Circle Group. No Dr. McCalla. No Miss Walia. No step team. And Xander, her older brother and superhero, is away at college. Although everyone else seems okay with change, Rain struggles to open up to her new counselor, her mom, Umi, Alyssa, and even...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"Weatherby is a fish out of water. When she lands a scholarship to the prestigious Boston School, she's excited to be in the same world as her dad, whom she's never met, and make real friends. But Weatherby has a secret she'll risk everything to protect, one that could destroy her new life. Every member of Jack's wealthy and privileged family has made their mark at the Boston School. Everyone, that is, except for Jack, who is entirely mediocre. He's...
Author
Series
Fantastic family Whipple novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
960L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the rivalry between the Whipples and the Goldwins escalates to an all-out war as the World Record World Championships draw near, recordless Arthur Whipple and his unlikely ally Ruby Goldwin unravel the mystery of the Lyon's Curse and the secrets of their fathers' shared past.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Against the wishes of his mortician mother, Hadorah, twelve-year-old Walter and classmate Cordelia take a hearse on a road trip to meet legendary inventor Flasterborn, who once mentored Walter's long-dead father.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Maria Singh's family is on the brink of losing their farm due to prejudice and discriminatory laws of the land, Maria must decide if she has what it takes to find her voice in an unfair world.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Formats
Description
As the Civil War breaks out, India, a young Southern girl, summons her sharp intelligence and the courage she didn't know she had to survive the war that threatens to destroy her family, her Virginia home, and the only life she has evern known.
17) Gracie's girl
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
As she starts middle school, Bess volunteers to work on the school musical in hopes of fitting in, but when she and a friend get to know an elderly homeless woman, Bess changes her mind about what is really important.
18) The kite rider
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In thirteenth-century China, after trying to save his widowed mother from a horrendous second marriage, twelve-year-old Haoyou has life-changing adventures when he takes to the sky as a circus kite rider and ends up meeting the great Mongol ruler Kublai Khan.
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