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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 610L
Language
English
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"Kara and Amanda are cousins and best friends. But then Kara's family moves from the city to the Rez. Now everything feels different to both girls -- school starting, powwows, holidays. After a long year apart, it's time for the family reunion on the Rez. Each girl wonders if the other will be happy to see her. Is it possible that they've forgotten how to be together? This Native family story with universal themes highlights the ongoing impact of...
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Series
Ellie Engle volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Ellie Engle doesn't stand out. Not at home, where she's alone with her pet fish since her dad moved away and her mom has to work around the clock. Not at the bakery where she helps old Mr. Walker on the weekends. And definitely not at school, where her best friend, Abby--the coolest, boldest, most talented girl in the world--drags Ellie along on her never-ending quest to "make her mark." To someone else, a life in the shadows might seem boring, or...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
"Best friends Isaac and Marco face various challenges in sixth grade, such as Isaac getting better grades, Marco winning a spot on the basketball team, and both seeing their efforts make a change in their respective family lives. They hope their friendship and support for one another will be enough to help them from falling short"--WorldCat.
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Jo Jo volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Jo Jo Makoons Azure is a spirited seven-year-old who moves through the world a little differently than anyone else on her Ojibwe reservation. It always seems like her mom, her kokum (grandma), and her teacher have a lot to learn--about how good Jo Jo is at cleaning up, what makes a good rhyme, and what it means to be friendly. Even though Jo Jo loves her #1 best friend Mimi (who is a cat), she's worried that she needs to figure out how to make more...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
HL 670L
Language
English
Description
In Iran, where homosexuality is punishable by death, seventeen-year-olds Sahar and Nasrin love each other in secret until Nasrin's parents announce their daughter's arranged marriage and Sahar proposes a drastic solution.
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Language
English
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Ryan, Harley and Miles are very different people-the swimmer, the rebel and the nerd. All they've ever had in common is Isaac, their shared best friend. When Isaac dies unexpectedly, the three boys must come to terms with their grief and the impact Isaac had on each of their lives. In his absence, Ryan, Harley and Miles discover things about one another they never saw before, and realize there may be more tying them together than just Isaac. In...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
HL 730L
Language
English
Description
Told from alternating perspectives, Bunny takes a basketball scholarship to an elite private school to help his family, leaving behind Nasir, his best friend, in their tough Philadelphia neighborhood.
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Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old inseparable best friends Jia, Ariel, and Everett navigate first love, grief, racism, and Asian American consciousness during one life-changing summer apart.
Best friends Jia Lee, Ariel Kim, and Everett Hoang are inseparable. But this summer, they won't be together. Everett, aspiring Broadway star, hopes to nab the lead role in an Ohio theater production, but soon realizes that talent and drive can only get her so far. Brainy Ariel...
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Nikki and Deja volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
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Description
Deja's birthday is coming up, and she and her best friend, Nikki, have been planning the perfect party for weeks. But just before the big day, Auntie Dee gets called away on a business trip, and Deja has to stay with old Miss Ida ... who cooks turnips for dinner and doesn't even have a color TV! Worse, a sneaky scheme hatched by Antonia threatens to ruin Deja's party plans. -- P. [4] of cover.
13) My friend
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Lexile measure
500L
Language
English
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Description
"Friendship -- to be known, to be accepted as you are, to feel safe, especially when you are vulnerable. The girl in this story has recently arrived in Brooklyn with her family. On her very first day at school she meets a girl who almost instantly becomes her very best friend. She feels known, loved and accepted by her. But when she invites her friend to come for dinner with her family -- a family that feels free to eat weird food and, even worse,...
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Series
Jackson Greene novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
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Description
Jackson Greene has a reputation as a prankster at Maplewood Middle School, but after the last disaster he is trying to go straight. But when it looks like Keith Sinclair may steal the election for school president from Jackson's former best friend Gabriela, he assembles a team to make sure Keith does not succeed.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In modern-day Afghanistan, 10-year-old Obayda is a bacha posh, a girl dressed as a boy. She has more freedom than she would as a girl, and makes a good friend of another bacha posh, but must find a way to remain free when she returns to life as a girl.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
580L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When boyfriend Elliott breaks up with Jenna Sakai before Christmas break, she just about convinces herself that relationships are for suckers and she is better off without them; but unfortunately she finds herself in competition with Elliott for a journalism scholarship, and worse her first assignment for the newspaper club is to write a personal essay, which is difficult when you are someone who prefers to keep your emotions bottled up--and than...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
"When eleven-year-old Iris sneaks out at night to make snow angels, she was not expecting to raise the ghost of Avery Moore, a girl her own age; but bringing to light the segregated and abandoned black cemetery seems like the perfect way to help Avery get the recognition she craves, and it will also be a good idea for the school project about the history of her small North Carolina town, where racial tensions are never far from the surface--only it...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jenny Burns and her best friend, Pandora, try to find the legendary hidden gold of Doc Magee. But the way is fraught with mysteries, riddles, and danger -- and those are just the threats they know about.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
560L
Language
English
Description
Keiko, Audrey, and Jenna have always been best friends, and Keiko desperately wants it to stay that way, but now they are starting seventh grade, and everything seems to be changing; Audrey is obsessed with the idea of them all securing boyfriends, but when she and Jenna focus on the same boy their friendship starts to break apart--and then Keiko finds herself attracted to Audrey's brother, Conner (who has generally been cast as the enemy), and suddenly...
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