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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Description
While practicing for their next baseball game, thirteen-year-old friends Rabi, Miguel, and Joe discover that the nefarious activities of the Delbe, Iowa, meatpacking plant have caused cows to turn into zombies.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
"When a racist incident rocks her small Michigan town, eleven-year-old Lekha must decide whether to speak up or stay silent, even as she struggles to navigate her life at home, where she can be herself, and at school, where she is teased about her culture"--WorldCat.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
530L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the coach of her championship softball team asks Raisa Kumar to teach a new recruit, Annie, how to pitch she is eager to help, especially since she hopes to be a coach herself someday; but when the team's other pitcher turns up with a broken arm, teaching Annie takes on a new urgency--and Raisa's efforts at coaching seem to be frustrating Annie rather then helping her.
Author
Series
Kiranmala and the kingdom beyond volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
Up until her twelfth birthday, Kiranmala considered herself an ordinary sixth-grader in Parsippany, New Jersey, but then her parents disappear and a drooling rakkhosh demon shows up in her kitchen, and soon she is swept into another dimension, full of magic, winged horses, talking birds (very annoying), and cute princes--and somehow Kiranmala needs to sort it all out, find her parents, and basically save the world.
6) Vanished
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eleven-year-old Neela must solve the mystery when her beautiful, but cursed, veena, a classical Indian musical instrument, goes missing.
7) Dead wings
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
440L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Taj has discovered a terrible secret--he's growing wings. He straps them down to hide them, but what if the wings are only the beginning? What kind of beast will he grow into? Taj seeks help from his cousin, the only person he can trust--but his cousin has a terrible secret too"--P. [4] of cover.
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
Description
While spending a month on an island off the coast of Washington helping in her Uncle Sanjay's veterinary clinic, eleven-year-old Poppy Ray soon questions her decision to follow in her uncle's footsteps.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Indian-American Pandita Paul deals with change, grief, friendship, and growing up in a community facing a housing crisis"--Title verso page.
Twelve-year-old Indian-American Pandita Paul doesn't like change. She's not ready to start middle school and leave the comforts of childhood behind. Most of all, Pandita doesn't want to feel like she's leaving her mother, who died a few years ago, behind. After a falling out with her best friend,...
Author
Series
Grand plan to fix everything volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Dini loves movies, and so when she learns that her family is moving to India for two years, her devastation over leaving her best friend in Maryland is tempered by the possibility of meeting her favorite actress, Dolly Singh.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Can Mimi undo the mayhem caused by her baking in this contemporary-fantasy retelling of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream? Eleven-year-old Mimi Mackson comes from a big Indian American family: Dad's a renowned food writer, Mom's a successful businesswoman, and her three older siblings all have their own respective accomplishments. It's easy to feel invisible in such an impressive family, but Mimi's dream of proving she's not the least-talented...
12) Same sun here
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Formats
Description
A twelve-year-old Indian immigrant in New York City and a Kentucky coal miner's son become pen pals, and eventually best friends, through a series of revealing letters exploring such topics as environmental activism, immigration, and racism.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"Reha feels torn between two worlds: school, where she's the only Indian American student, and home, with her family's traditions and holidays. But Reha's parents don't understand why she's conflicted--they only notice when Reha doesn't meet their strict expectations. Reha feels disconnected from her mother, or Amma, although their names are linked--Reha means "star" and Punam means "moon"--but they are a universe apart. Then Reha finds out that her...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
"Ana Dakkar is a freshman at Harding-Pencroft Academy, a five-year high school that graduates the best marine scientists, naval warriors, navigators, and underwater explorers in the world. Ana's parents died while on a scientific expedition two years ago, and the only family she has left is her older brother, Dev, also a student at HP. (And they've heard all the Harry Potter jokes already, so don't go there.) Ana's freshman year culminates with the...
Author
Series
Grand plan to fix everything volume 2
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
Complications ensue when Bollywood star Dolly Singh premieres her new movie at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C., and super fan Dinni and her best friend Maddie present a dance at the grand opening.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
"Told from two viewpoints, sixth-graders Karina and Chris use social media to stand up to racism in Houston, Texas, after an attack puts Karina's Indian American grandfather in the hospital"--WorldCat.
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
550L
Language
English
Description
The arrival of new student Marwa, a fellow sixth-grader who is a strict Muslim, helps Aliya come to terms with her own lukewarm practice of the faith and her embarrassment over others' reactions to their beliefs.
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
"A biracial Indian/Caucasian girl is nervous to begin middle school, especially since her mother is now the breadwinner of the family, her best friend may no longer be a bestie, and the appearance of the seventeen hairs over her lip that form a very unwanted mustache"--
Author
Pub. Date
[1994]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
When her grandparents come for a visit from India to California, thirteen-year-old Sunita finds herself resenting her Indian heritage and embarrassed by the differences she feels between herself and her friends.
20) Epiphany
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Kelli Paramar has always kept her ability to talk to and hear objects a secret (especially after her father walked out after she told him years ago), but when she hears about Project Epiphany, which is studying the possibility of ESP and telekinesis by doing brain scans, she is interested--though she does not entirely trust the psychology professor in charge, it is only when some of the other test subjects start to vanish, that she...
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