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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) Cy in chains
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the post-Civil War South, a seventeen-year-old African American boy, accused of a crime, is living in a labor camp where brutality, near starvation, humiliation, and rape are commonplace.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Benny Kaminsky leads a rag-tag gang of neighborhood children as they use improbable disguises and crazy ruses while investigating such crimes as counterfeiting and stolen silver in 1894 London.
4) Scorpions
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
Description
After reluctantly taking on the leadership of the Harlem gang, the Scorpions, Jamal finds that his enemies treat him with respect when he acquires a gun--until a tragedy occurs. The story of twelve-year-old Jamal, whose life changes drastically when he acquires a gun. Though he survives the experience, it's not without sacrificing his innocence and possibly his relationship with his best friend.
5) Dough boys
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
HL 700L
Language
English
Description
"Told in two voices, thirteen-year-old best friends Simp and Rollie play on a basketball team in their housing project, but Rollie dreams of being a drummer and Simp, to impress the gang leader, Coach Tez"--Title verso page.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Description
Unable to celebrate the holidays in the wake of his older brother's death in a gang-related shooting, Lolly Rachpaul struggles to avoid being forced into a gang himself while constructing a fantastically creative LEGO city at the Harlem community center.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Hole-in-the-Tree gang are the most daring raccoons in town. But when they carry out the biggest, boldest heist of their lives, they find a posse on their trail--and after their tails! Will these cubs lose their cool on the run or have a wild time in the big, bright city?"--Page [4] of cover.
8) In darkness
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the aftermath of the Haitian earthquake, fifteen-year-old Shorty, a poor gang member from the slums of Site Soleil, is trapped in the rubble of a ruined hospital. As he grows weaker he has visions and memories of his life of violence, his lost twin sister, and of Toussaint L'Ouverture, who liberated Haiti from French rule in the 1804.
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Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Astor thinks she is about to wed the handsome plutocrat Lorrain Swale. But to her horror, her mother and stepfather abandon her, and she finds herself a lowly governess in the Swale household. Treated with contempt by the whole family, Astor is determined to escape. Help arrives unexpectedly in the form of the charismatic and mysterious Verrol. Together they plunge into the slums of Brummingham and find themselves in a street band,...
11) The outsiders
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
The struggle of three brothers to stay together after their parent's death and their quest for identity among the conflicting values of their adolescent society. When it was first published in 1967, The Outsiders defied convention with its immediate, deeply sympathetic portrayal of Ponyboy and his struggle to find a place for himself in a difficult world. Thirty years later, it speaks to teenagers as powerfully as ever.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Francisco Ortiz, a handsome straight-A student and gifted basketball player from the barrio, wins a full scholarship to an elite boarding school. His future seems promising. But soon after Francisco moves into the dorm, his new classmates assume the worst of him. Things are even more complicated when Francisco realizes that back home in the hood, he no longer fits in, though his friends still rely on him to solve their problems.
Author
Series
Mysterium (Julian Sedgwick) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Formats
Description
While searching for more clues to the murder of his circus performer parents, talented magician Danny Woo follows the Mysterium circus to Barcelona, where he discovers a traitor and a dangerous woman in green.
14) The Saints
Author
Series
Quarantine volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
The world inside an infected Colorado high school quarantined by the government takes a startling turn for the worse when a new gang enters the school and starts gaining power.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Brought to Moscow in 1990s Russia by his mother's abusive boyfriend, five-year-old Mishka is forced by a gang of homeless children to lie and steal until he finds comfort and love with a pack of dogs. Includes historical note.
17) Chain reaction
Author
Series
Perfect chemistry series volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
When he returns to Illinois and the gang culture on the south side of Fairfield after six years in Colorado, high school senior Luis Fuentes, who dreams of becoming an astronaut, falls for a girl and enters a dark world after learning some disturbing news about his family.
18) City of speed
Author
Series
Battle dragons volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
"In a modern mega-city built around dragons, one boy gets caught up in the world of underground dragon battles and a high-stakes gang war that could tear his family apart. In the city of Drakopolis, dragons and humans have co-existed for centuries. Dragons burn the city's garbage, taxi its busy citizens from place to place, and even compete in vicious underground battles for ganglike kins. But the dragons also compete in legal sports, like the spectacular...
Author
Series
Zoo Patrol Squad volume 03
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Fennlock Fox and Penny the Pig return to Penny's home town to free it from a gang of feral cats, but first they must locate the sheriff and townsfolk.
20) Crooked kingdom
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 25
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
"Kaz Brekker and his crew have just pulled off a heist so daring even they didn't think they'd survive. But instead of divvying up a fat reward, they're right back to fighting for their lives. Double-crossed and badly weakened, the crew is low on resources, allies, and hope. As powerful forces from around the world descend on Ketterdam to root out the secrets of the dangerous drug known as jurda parem, old rivals, and new enemies emerge to challenge...
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