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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In 1947, with her jovial stepfather Joe back from the war and family life returning to normal, teen aged Evie, smitten by the handsome young ex-GI who seems to have a secret hold on Joe, finds herself caught in a complicated web of lies whose devastating outcome changes her life and that of her family forever.
3) Firegirl
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
A middle school boy's life is changed when Jessica, a girl disfigured by burns, starts attending his Catholic school while receiving treatment at a local hospital.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
990L
Language
English
Description
During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker's classroom, where they read the plays of William shakespeare and Holling learns much of value about the world he lives in.
5) Crunch
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
HL 490L
Language
English
Description
The oldest Marriss brother, fourteen-year-old Dewey, attempts to be the "embodiment of responsibility" as he juggles the management of the family's bicycle repair business while sharing the household and farm duties with his siblings after a sudden energy crisis strands their parents far from home.
6) Roll
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
Formats
Description
During the summer between fifth and sixth grade, comic book-loving Ren grows apart from his best friend and meets a new girl who is looking for a training partner for the upcoming pigeon rolling competition.
Author
Language
English
Description
A novel in verse that captures the unbalanced experience of an all-consuming love between two unnamed, queer, Black teen girls who move rapidly from strangerhood into a protective best friendship before becoming dysfunctional lovers and mutually destructive partners in crime.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
Chafed by the "sivilized" restrictions of his foster home, and weary of his drunkard father's brutality, Huck Finn fakes his own death and sets off on a raft down the Mississippi River. He is soon joined by Jim, an escaped slave. Together, they experience a series of rollicking adventures that have amused readers, young and old, for over a century.
The fugitives become close friends as they weather storms together aboard the raft and spend idyllic
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
On the eve of her sixteenth birthday, Erin receives her long-dead mother's diary, which reveals that she too revered Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird" and wanted to be a writer, and Erin impulsively decides to take the Greyhound bus from St. Paul, Minnesota to Monroeville, Alabama, to visit the reclusive author.
10) Mujercitas
Author
Language
Español
Formats
Description
Narra las alegrías y las tristezas de las cuatro hermanas March a medida que crecían en la Nueva Inglaterra del siglo XIX.
Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow up in nineteenth-century New England.
13) The water seeker
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Traces the hard life, filled with losses, adversity, and adventure, of Amos, son of a trapper and dowser, from 1833 when his mother dies giving birth to him until 1859, when he himself has grown up and has a son of his own.
14) Tulsa burning
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1921, fifteen-year-old Noble Chase hates the sheriff of Wekiwa, Oklahoma, and is more than willing to cross him to help his best friend, a black man, who is injured during race riots in nearby Tulsa.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Formats
Description
For anyone who's ever survived a rite of passage or performed a mating dance at Prom...
The Japanese hold a Mogi ceremony for young women coming of age. Latina teenagers get quinceaneras. And Janice Wills of Melva, NC... has to compete in the Miss Livermush pageant. Janice loves anthropology-the study of human cultures-and her observations help her identify useful rules in the chaotic world of high school. For instance: Dancing is an effective mating...
Author
Series
Wild orchid trilogy volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Taylor Jane Simon, an eighteen-year-old girl with Asperger's Syndrome, travels to France, as she struggles to become independent of her controlling mother and meets a new mentor.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Recounts the events that occur at the end of seventh grade, when a group of friends plan to trick Carlos, an annoying "problem" student who says he is visited by aliens, while they are on a field trip in the mountains of New Hampshire.
18) On rough seas
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Dover, England in 1940, fourteen-year-old Alec Curtis wants nothing more than to go to sea, to absolve himself of the guilt he feels over the earlier drowning of his cousin and to help the war effort, but when he sneaks aboard a small boat going across the English Channel to Dunkirk, his experience changes him forever.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mani Semilla is determined not to go to Guatemala until she finds letters written between her mother and her journalist aunt who has disappeared, revealing both the beauty of the country and its history of violence against women, which slowly transforms her into a budding activist.
20) Dingus
Author
Lexile measure
490L
Language
English
Formats
Description
As Henry finishes fifth grade, his biggest concern is facing a summer with nothing to do. With his best friend, Max, away at summer camp, it's looking so bad he can feel himself "being pulled by the gravitational force of nothingness." But then Henry does something irresponsible, something with real consequences. And suddenly he'd give anything to go back to the nothingness. Has Henry turned into the dingus Max told him not to be? A classic coming-of-age...
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