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1) Nikki & Deja
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When an arrogant new girl comes to school, third-graders and best friends Nikki and Deja decide to form a club that would exclude her but find the results not what they expected.
Author
Series
Nikki and Deja volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Deja's birthday is coming up, and she and her best friend, Nikki, have been planning the perfect party for weeks. But just before the big day, Auntie Dee gets called away on a business trip, and Deja has to stay with old Miss Ida ... who cooks turnips for dinner and doesn't even have a color TV! Worse, a sneaky scheme hatched by Antonia threatens to ruin Deja's party plans. -- P. [4] of cover.
3) The new kid
Author
Series
Carver chronicles volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Third-grader Gavin and his friends aren't sure what to make of the new boy in their class, Khufu. He doesn't look or act like other kids. When Gavin's bike goes missing, they think Khufu stole it, but did he?"--
4) Pizza party
Author
Series
Carver chronicles volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Third-grader Richard and his friends are four days from earning a pizza party for good behavior when a very strict substitute suspects that some of them have been cheating.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
"In the summer of 1965, Sophie's family becomes the first African Americans to move into their upper middle-class neighborhood in Los Angeles. When riots erupt in nearby Watts, she learns that life and her own place in it are a lot more complicated than they had seemed"--
6) Francie
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Description
When the sixteen-year-old boy whom she tutors in reading is accused of attempting to murder a white man, Francie gets herself in serious trouble for her efforts at friendship.
7) Dog days
Author
Series
Carver chronicles volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Gavin wants to make a good impression at Carver Elementary, where no one knows he excels at soccer and skateboarding, but an annoying big sister, a bully, and his great aunt's Pomeranian are not helping.
Author
Series
Nikki and Deja volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
When Nikki and her best friend, Deja, start a newsletter about what is happening on their street and in their school, they focus more on writing exciting stories than on finding the truth.
Author
Series
Nikki and Deja volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
When Carver Elementary holds school-wide elections for the first time, third-grader Deja puts all her efforts into running for school president, ignoring her best friend Nikki's problems.
Author
Series
Nikki and Deja volume 5
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
Ms. Shelby's third-grade girls are so excited about her upcoming wedding that they start a wedding planning competition, which drives a wedge between best friends Nikki and Deja, the two whose names were drawn to attend the event.
12) Strawberry moon
Author
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
While driving to Auntie Dot's house, Junie tells her children about spending fifth grade there during her parent's separation many years earlier, when finding a best friend seemed almost as important as seeing her mother again.
14) Birthday blues
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
As her eighth birthday approaches, Deja's aunt is called away on business and a classmate schedules a "just because party" on the same afternoon. Can Nikki and Deja stop this from turning into a total disaster?
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