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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
570L
Language
English
Description
In 1893 New York, thirteen-year-old Maks, a newsboy, teams up with Willa, a homeless girl, to clear his older sister, Emma, from charges that she stole from the brand new Waldorf Hotel, where she works. Includes historical notes.
2) Liar & spy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
Seventh-grader Georges adjusts to moving from a house to an apartment, his father's efforts to start a new business, his mother's extra shifts as a nurse, being picked on at school, and Safer, a boy who wants his help spying on another resident of their building.
Author
Series
All-of-a-kind family volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
The adventures of five sisters growing up in a Jewish family in New York in the early twentieth century.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
"In 1960s New York, fifth-grader Ruthie, a Cuban-Jewish immigrant, must rely on books, art, family, and friends in her multicultural neighborhood when an accident puts her in a body cast"--Title verso page.
6) Masterpiece
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
After Marvin, a beetle, makes a miniature drawing as an eleventh birthday gift for James, a human with whom he shares a house, the two new friends work together to help recover a Durer drawing stolen from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dina is used to being popular but starting a new school in eighth grade is difficult, especially where cliques rule, and although working with "queen bee" Chelsea on a video project should help, Chelsea is hiding huge family problems that could mean trouble for both girls.
Author
Series
Spaceheadz volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
With a mysterious new principal and fifth-grade graduation fast approaching, will Michael K. and his friends be able to find the missing Brainwave before the chief of the Anti-Alien Agency uses it to destroy a planet?
Author
Series
Tapper twins volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Description
An oral history that reports, through transcribed recordings, text messages, photographs, illustrations, screenshots, and more, an epic prank war between twelve-year-old twins Reese and Claudia Tapper of New York City.
11) Counting Thyme
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
"Thyme Owens moves across the country with her family so her younger brother can take part in a promising cancer drug trial, and though all she wants is for him to get better, adjusting to life in Manhattan is anything but easy"--
Author
Series
Birthright (Gabrielle Zevin) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 2083, seventeen-year-old Anya Balanchine seeks a way to make Balanchine Chocolate legitimate, and although a trip to Mexico gives her new insights and ideas, escaping her mobster family's legacy of violence may prove impossible.
13) Permanent record
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
College dropout Pablo Neruda Rind works a graveyard shift at an upscale, twenty-four-hour deli in Brooklyn. He's up to his eyeballs in credit card debt, never mind his student loans. Pop juggernaut Leanna Smart graduated from child stardom, became an international icon, and has enough social media followers to populate whole continents. When Leanna and Pablo meet at 5:00 a.m. at the bodega in the dead of winter it's absurd to think they'd be A Thing....
14) Game
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
If Harlem high school senior Drew Lawson is going to realize his dream of playing college, then professional, basketball, he will have to improve at being coached and being a team player, especially after a new--white--student threatens to take the scouts' attention away from him.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixth-grader Matt Rambeau finds out what it is like to have a brother when his father, a computer genius, creates a robot kid that goes to school with Matt, shares his feelings and ideas, plays, does chores, fights for his "life" when chased by spies, and becomes a part of the family.
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Nadira, her sister, and their parents leave Bangladesh for New York City, but the expiration of their visas and the events of September 11, 2001, bring frustration, sorrow, and terror for the whole family.
18) Bystander
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Eric discovers there are consequences to not standing by and watching as the bully at his new school hurts people, but although school officials are aware of the problem, Eric may be the one with a solution.
19) Hero
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Zach learns he has the same special abilities as his father, who was the President's globe-trotting troubleshooter until "the Bads" killed him, and now Zach must decide whether to use his powers in the same way at the risk of his own life.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"With a new sibling (her fourth) on the way and a big piano recital on the horizon, Dominican-American Ana María Reyes tries to win a scholarship to a New York City private school"--Provided by publisher.
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