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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
HL 600L
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Angie finds herself in her neighborhood with no recollection of her abduction or the three years that have passed since, until alternate personalities start telling her their stories through letters and recordings.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
Description
After shattering his knee in a car accident, Ezra Faulkner loses his athletic ability and status at school. Forced to sit at the table of "misfits," Ezra meets the unusual Cassidy Thorpe, and with her help discovers a side of life he had been overlooking.
4) Frenzy
Author
Series
Dreamhouse Kings volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When Xander travels through the portals in the King's strange house to visit Uncle Jesse as a boy, he learns that David has died and determines to do whatever it takes, and visit as many worlds as necessary, to change the future.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Description
"Trevor McKinney, a twelve-year-old boy in a small California town, accepts his teacher's challenge to earn extra credit by coming up with a plan to change the world. His idea is simple: do a good deed for three people and instead of asking them to return the favor, ask them to 'pay it forward' to three others who need help"--
Author
Series
Unusual chickens volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Description
Through a series of letters, Sophie Brown, age twelve, tells of her family's move to her Great Uncle Jim's farm, where she begins taking care of some unusual chickens with help from neighbors and friends.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Shelley leaves Oregon to spend the winter in California, she feels she is the happiest girl in the world, for in her new high school, she meets Philip--the "only boy."
A sixteen-year-old girl gains perspective into herself and her family when whe leaves her comfortable Oregon home and spends a year visiting with friends in California... She learns, in the midst of the friendly Michie family, that there are many ways to be oneself, and many different...
Author
Series
101 ways to bug-- series volume 3
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Steve "Sneeze" Wyatt takes half of his classes at the high school, where he attracts the attention of a bully on the varsity golf team, while at middle school all of his friends seem to be falling in love--including Sneeze, himself.
Author
Series
Horses of Oak Valley Ranch volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
970L
Language
English
Description
Seventh-grader Abby Lovitt grows up on her family's California horse ranch in the 1960s, learning to train the horses her father sells and trying to reconcile her strict religious upbringing with her own ideas about life.
10) True Blue
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Series
Horses of Oak Valley Ranch volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
950L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1960s California, eighth-grader Abby Lovitt has trouble with True Blue, the newest horse on her family's ranch. He's a beautiful dappled gray who is so often spooked, Abby wonders if he is haunted by the ghost of his deceased former owner.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
When her family moves to California, Sana falls for the beautiful and smart Jamie Ramirez but struggles with differences between their diverse friend groups, a boy's sweet but unrequited affection, and her father's increasingly obvious affair.
12) Esperanza rising
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Southern California, where they must adapt to the harsh circumstances facing Mexican farm workers on the eve of the Great Depression.
13) Identical
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
HL 590L
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old identical twin daughters of a district court judge and a candidate for the United States House of Representatives, Kaeleigh and Raeanne Gardella desperately struggle with secrets that have already torn them and their family apart.
14) A good horse
Author
Series
Horses of Oak Valley Ranch volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
1010L
Language
English
Description
On her family's California horse ranch in the 1960s, eighth-grader Abby Lovitt faces the possibility of giving up her beloved colt, Jack, when it comes to light that his dam might have been stolen.
Author
Series
EllRay Jakes series volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Third-grader EllRay dreads the upcoming Winter Wonderland school assembly in which he must emcee and sing "Jingle Bell Rock."
Author
Series
Annabelle unleashed volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Description
Sixth-grader Annabelle spends autumn coping with competing groups of friends at school, her mother's pre-wedding stress, learning to get along with a cute stepbrother-to-be, and such momentous events as wearing her first bra and learning to shave her legs.
Author
Series
EllRay Jakes series volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eight-year-old EllRay Jakes decides to "borrow" his father's crystals to impress his classmates, but his plan to return the crystals before his father notices goes awry.
19) Sophomore switch
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Take an administrative snafu, a bad breakup, and what shall heretofore be known as "The Hot-Tub Incident," and you have got two unprepared sophomores on a semester abroad. For American party girl Tasha, an escape to Oxford may be a chance to ditch her fame as a tabloid temptress, but wading deep in feminist theory is not her idea of a break. Meanwhile, the British half of the exchange, studious Emily, nurses an aching heart amid the bikinis and beer...
Author
Series
Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 23
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Since her parents' divorce, Dawn lives in Connecticut with her mother while her brother and father are in California, but after a week's vacation in sunny, healthy southern California, Dawn isn't sure she wants to return to the East Coast.
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