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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Formats
Description
An overweight, timid fifteen-year-old boy and his popular fourteen-year-old sister begin to overcome their guilt over their father's death and reconnect with each other and their emotionally-distant mother when they accompany her on a two-week speaking tour.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
"Seventh-grader Zoey Albro focuses on caring for three younger siblings and avoiding rich classmates at school until her fascination with octopuses gets her on the debate team and she begins to speak out"--WorldCat.
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Series
Little Pig (David Costello) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
360L
Language
English
Description
When Little Pig tries to join his Grandpa, brothers, and sisters in a marching band he discovers that, although he is too small for any of the available instruments, he can still play an important role.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
560L
Language
English
Description
When Judy Moody gets serious about protecting the environment, her little brother Stink thinks she is overdoing it, but she manages to inspire her third grade class to undertake an award-winning, environment-saving project.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
GN 550L
Language
English
Description
When twins Lydia and Marco are approached to be on their dance studio's jazz team, Lydia is thrilled. She and Marco both love to dance and used to have fun dancing together as kids. But lately it seems their relationship has grown more distant. Lydia can't wait to dance with her brother again, but Marco is worried. He's used to hip-hop and will be the only boy on the team. And when bullies start mocking Marco for doing "girl dances" it could spell...
9) Love, Lucas
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
HL 520L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Grieving for her older brother Lucas, Oakley Nelson agrees to spend a few months with her mother at Aunt Jo's California beach house, where a notebook of letters from Lucas to Oakley challenges her to feel better and enjoy life, but a budding romance reminds her of the chances Lucas will never have.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When life gets difficult for Ana Rosa, a twelve-year-old would-be writer living in a small village in the Dominican Republic, she can depend on her older brother to make her feel better--until the life-changing events on her thirteenth birthday.
12) The hidden boy
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Bea and her family are transported aboard an underwater bus to a strange land, her younger brother Theo is lost during the voyage, and somehow it falls to Bea to find out what has become of him.
14) Megan Owlet
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tired of just supporting her big brothers in their activities, Megan Owlet tries to find something of her own to do and when she decides dancing is right for her, her brothers are there to help her succeed.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Wren Baker is an anxious twelve-year-old, so when her mother goes into a hospital for depression, and she and her younger brother, who has Asperger's syndrome, go to live with her aunt and her cousin, Silver, who have just recently moved to Pennsylvania,her stress level soars--especially since Silver is a fearless child who conceives a plan to climb Creeper Mountain and interview "Witch Weatherly" for the class history project.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 500L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Loosely adapted from The Three Billy Goats Gruff, Ruby and her brothers want to cross a bridge to pick blueberries, but it is guarded by the bully Santiago--the boys manage to trick him, but clever Ruby takes a different tack, builds her own bridge, and turns Santiago into an ally and friend.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"Each member of Erik Sheepflattener's modern-day Viking-heritage family has a motto to live by. Erik is developing a motto he can truly believe in: avoid stuff. But when he and his older sister Brunhilde spend the summer with their rough-and-tumble cousins in Minnesota, axe-wielding Bru gets the idea to name and conquer all of Erik's fears."--
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Little Pig is too small to go to sailing camp with his brothers and sisters, so his grandfather makes him a model ship, and together they sail it on the stream--until it gets carried away by the current, and Little Pig has to rescue the ship before it is wrecked."--Provided by Publisher.
Author
Series
Kids under the stairs volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"School and life have become much more difficult since Ben Y's older brother died, especially since the indefinable Ace seems determined to seek her out without clarifying what kind of relationship she wants; mostly Ben Y tries to cope with her situation by going to the chatroom and obsessively typing messages to her brother who is no longer there--but when she starts getting messages from the ghost in the machine (apparently) she finds that her deepest...
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