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Author
Series
All-of-a-kind family volume 3
Language
English
Description
Records the amusing experiences of five girls and their younger brother as they grow up during the early-nineteenth century.
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.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
Times are tough around the little brown house! The widowed Mrs. Pepper has to sew all day long just to earn enough to pay the rent and to feed the five growing Peppers. But she faces poverty and trouble with a stout heart, a smiling face, and the help of her jolly brood: blue-eyed Ben, the eldest and the man of the house at the age of 11; pretty Polly, so eager to cook for the family and make everyone happy and comfortable; and the three littlest...
4) Hero type
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
Feeling awkward and ugly is only one reason sixteen-year-old Kevin is uncomfortable with the publicity surrounding his act of accidental heroism, but when a reporter photographs him apparently being unpatriotic, he steps into the limelight to encourage people to think about what the symbols of freedom really mean.
5) Being Nikki
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
Studious, socially conscious Emerson Watts learns startling news about the family of Nikki Howard, the teen supermodel into whose body Emerson's brain was transplanted by the nefarious Stark corporation.
6) Almost super
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
Description
"Two brothers in a family of superheroes are forced to reexamine everything they knew about being super when the powers they receive are total duds and their enemy is revealed to be just like they are"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Aaron Soto learns about a memory-reprogramming procedure pioneered by the Leteo Institute. Aaron is determined to try it to forget his father's suicide, the murders of his friends, his poverty, and the fact that he's gay. But when Aaron begins growing close to fellow teen Thomas, Aaron is forced to question whether giving up a future with Thomas is really what he wants.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
Growing up near Boston with her free-spirited mother and old-world grandfather, twelve-year-old Emma has always felt out of place but when she attends the family reunion her father's family holds annually in Wisconsin, she is in for some surprises.
9) 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...
10) Homecoming
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Description
Abandoned by their mother, four children begin a search for a home and an identity.
Author
Language
English
Description
Ukpik loves living in her camp in the North with her family. When a captain from the south arrives to trade with Ukpik's father, Ukpik is excited to learn how to use the forks, knives, and spoons he brings with him. At first, Ukpik enjoys teaching the other children how to use thses new tools. But soon, she starts to wonder if they'll need to use the new tools all the time, and if that means that everything in camp will change.
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
Charlie and Mouse volume 02
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
400L
Language
English
Description
Brothers Charlie and Mouse enjoy a special visit from Grumpy.
15) 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.
Author
Series
Rosa books (Vera B. Williams) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Rosa has difficulty choosing a special birthday present to buy with the coins her mother and grandmother have saved, until she hears a man playing beautiful music on an accordion.
18) 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
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Selected as a contestant in an online competition to find the World's Greatest Kid, Zeke Stahls decides to give it his best shot but soon finds himself wondering what "great" really means and who gets to decide.
Zeke Stahls is not the best kid in the world. Some days he struggles just to be good . He'd rather be pulling pranks than doing extra credit, and he's too busy performing experiments on his little brother, Nate, or tormenting his older sister,...
20) The Glory Field
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.
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