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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
In 1899, ten-year-old Robbie, son of a preacher in a small Vermont town, gets himself into all kinds of trouble when he decides to give up being a Christian in order to make the most of his life before the end of the world.
4) First team
Author
Series
New kids novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The companion novel to New Kid, where Brock is in another new town after being on the run with his dad again, and this time, he joins the football team"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eddie Paulsen, sixth-grade football fanatic, is having the worst time of his life -- his father moves out, his football team is not coming together, he likes his best friend's sister, and his friends think he's a jerk. Eddie and his father learn together what life's real priorities are.
7) Promise
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eleven-year-old Kaden, a boy who lives with his grandmother outside the small town of Promise, learns, just when he is starting middle school, that the father he has never known was released from prison.
8) Doing right
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Puzzling over conflicting advice from family members, seventeen-year-old DeQuin Lewis continually faces trouble in his St. Paul, Minnesota, neighborhood, until a betrayal leads him to fresh start in an alternative school, one confrontation away from losing everything.
Author
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixteen-year-old Jesse Baron feels like he's living his life on the sidelines. He's on the varsity football team, but only because it's what his dad wants him to do. And the girl he used to go out with is dating the popular quarterback. Jesse is fed up with being cut down and dismissed, whether by the coach or his friends. If only he was bigger, tougher and more athletic, like his dad.
Those things didn't matter to Jesse's mom. She left his father,...
10) Taking sides
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Formats
Description
At odds with his sister, Tina, fourteen, who says their father murdered their mother, Todd, fifteen, who claims it was self-defense, begins to lose faith in their father when he pressures Todd to get Tina to change her story, and being in separate foster homes only makes things harder.
11) New kid
Author
Series
New kids novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A troubled kid finds his bearings in a new school after a baseball coach offers him a spot on the team"--
Author
Series
Millicent Min series volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Formats
Description
After flunking sixth-grade English, basketball prodigy Stanford Wong must struggle to pass his summer-school class, keep his failure a secret from his friends, and satisfy his academically demanding father.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A boy deals with the recent loss of his mother and his odyssey to find a date for the end-of-year school dance"--
New Jersey seventh grader and class clown Denny Murphy has just lost his mother, his father is uncommunicative, he is in trouble with his teachers, and to top it all off, his best friend has a scheme to get dates for the end-of-year school dance.
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