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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
550L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eleven-year-old injured soccer player Luz has a hard enough time reframing her identity as a computer programmer, but when her Guatemalan half-sister moves in, she learns what it truly means to start over. Includes author's note.
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Language
English
Description
"Ghana. Eldest of four girls, Amerley is offered a job working for one of her mother's old school friends. She has to accept: her wages will feed her family, help her sisters stay in school, and ensure that her mother won't have to worry about them. Amerley's move to Accra isn't easy, but she soon settles into her new life away from her small village-- until she is raped by the son of her employer. Torn between keeping quiet to keep her job and speaking...
Author
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Virgil Pepper is returning to Little Lost Lake in Oregon with his older brother and sister to scatter their mother's ashes in the place she loved best, but when their van breaks down in the middle nowhere, it is up to Virgil, who shared his mother's love of science and the wild, to remember and use all the lessons she taught him to survive a forest fire started by a lightning strike.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
490L
Language
English
Description
A boy named Mouse is mixing up a magic potion: put a drop on your nose and make a wish--and in these four stories Mouse, his brother Charlie, and their father find out if the magic potion works and their wishes come true.
6) Moonflower
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
Moon is convinced that they do not belong to this world: that most of the time they are invisible (unless they stay still too long), that they belong to the stars, and wants to go back to them--they live entirely in their imagination with an imaginary spirit guide who can appear in any shape and refuses to speak to anyone, lest their words tie them to a world they rejects.
7) Mermaid day
Author
Language
English
Description
On Mermaid Day, the mer-queen throws a big bash and sea creatures of all kinds attend, including a shy shark who joins in the dancing.
8) Unearthed
Author
Series
Unearthed volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
960L
Language
English
Description
Scholar Jules Addison and scavenger Amelia Radcliffe join forces to unravel secrets of a long-extinct civilization, only to discover something that could spell the end of the human race.
9) Focused
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Clea wants to do her homework, follow instructions, pay attention in school, and play chess on the school team, but somehow she cannot focus on whatever is in front of her, and the other kids at school are starting to notice and make fun of her; when her worried parents take her to be tested she finds out that she has ADHD (only without the hyperactivity)--and with help from the psychiatrist who seems to really understand her she is...
10) Perfect
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Lexile measure
320L
Language
English
Formats
Description
A fussy eraser tries to keep the pages perfectly clean despite the scribbles of a mischievous pencil.
11) Happy paws
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
500L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Layla and the Bots are in an awesome rock band! They also use problem-solving and creativity to build cool inventions. When a local amusement park is in danger of shutting down, Layla knows just how to bring in the crowds... build an amusement park for DOGS! But will cool doggie rides like the Rub-a-Dub Mud Slide and the Tummy Rubbing Machine be enough to keep the park open?"--
12) Monster club
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Series
Language
English
Description
Like almost everything in eleven-year-old Eric "Doodles" King's life, King's Wonderland - the amusement park his great-great grandfather founded - was seriously damaged when a hurricane hit Coney Island neighborhood. Hungry property developers are circling the wreck of the once-awesome King's Wonderland like vultures, and Eric's family is falling apart from the threat of losing it all. If it weren't for Monster Club - the epic role-playing game that...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The day the baby boy was born, on a beautiful Hawaiian island, the world sang him a lullaby. What a good song. But what is the good song? The boy listens for it and finds it in his heart and shares it with the world. Inspired by the medley of the classic songs "Over the Rainbow" and "What a Wonderful World" sung by Hawaiian singer Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, the good song is aloha--love.
14) No nibbling!
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Derwood the goat has planted a garden and is prepared to defend it from all nibblers, including Tabitha the bunny, whom Derwood is convinced has designs on his growing vegetables; she teases him as the months go by, but after she helps him with the weeding the two become friends and share the feast.
16) Dino-wrestling
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
500L
Language
English
Description
Meat-eating and vegetarian dinosaurs compete at the wrestling jamboree, demonstrating such styles as sumo, Greco-Roman, and lucha libre.
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Series
Origami Yoda books volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
McQuarrie Middle School's students miss Origami Yoda when Dwight leaves for Tippett Academy, but he sends Sara a paper Fortune Wookiee that seems to give advice just as good as Yoda's--even if, in the hands of girls, it seems preoccupied with romance.
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Series
Artemis Fowl series volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
Description
"Teenage genius Artemis Fowl and his arch rival Opal battle to the last in this eighth and final book in series"--
19) Follow that map!
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Pablo invites his friends to go with him and his father to Coney Island to celebrate the end of summer, using his trusty maps to guide their way by bus and subway train.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"When you were born, a song began. It was there in every heartbeat, every breath. A melody the world had never heard before. And now, all around you, the songs of other children across the globe are singing. A poignant celebration of compassion, kindness, and the joy of childhood from esteemed picture-book creators Nicola Davies and Marc Martin" --
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