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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Genuine Sweet, twelve, of tiny, impoverished Sass, Georgia, inherited the ability to grant any wish except her own but with help from new friends, her life and town are improving until unexpected trouble arrives and Genuine learns the difference between wishing for a better life and building one.
2) Hummingbird
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In spite of a busy life on the family pumpkin and watermelon farm in Jubilee, Georgia, twelve-year-old March Anne Tanner feels that something is missing, and when Grenna, the grandmother who has helped raise her since her mother died when she was three, also passes on, March Anne finds that she must act on her feelings of loss.
Author
Series
Love like sky volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
HL 610L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Eleven-year-old Georgie is still adjusting to leaving Atlanta for a small town, having a stepfather, and being unable to get close to her stepsister when her six-year-old sister, Peaches, suddenly becomes very ill"--Title verso page.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
After Owen Jester captures an enormous bullfrog, Tooley, and then has to release it, he and two friends try to use a small submarine that fell from a passing train to search for Tooley in the Carter, Georgia, pond he came from, while avoiding Viola, the nosy girl next door
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
Sixth-grader Emilia Torres struggles with ADHD, her controlling abuela, her mother's work commitments, her father's distance after returning from deployment, evolving friendships, and a conflict over school redistricting.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Nellie Tibbits and her herpetologist mother have been in Bog Hollow for a month, but most of the other children regard Nellie as a weird Northerner; however her pet corn snake wins the friendship of Daryl Tate, who is as obsessed with snakes as his grandmother is with stray cats, and when one of the cats disappears Nellie joins the Bog Hollow boys in the search--and hatches a plan to help get Granny Tate's strays adopted.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Formats
Description
It is summer in Bog Hollow, and Austin, Ethan, Daryl, and Nellie are working together, despite the contentious relationship between Austin and Nellie, to prepare the new snake exhibit at the park's visitor center; but Austin and Nellie also have other things to worry about--Nellie's pet corn snake has escaped, and Austin's father and Nellie's mother are spending an awful lot of time together.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Georgia the Bog Hollow State Park Junior Bass Fishing Tournament is only a week away, but most of the bass seem to have disappeared from Bog Hollow, and brothers Austin and Ethan Finch and their friends are determined to find out if it is a case of pollution, an invasion of mudfish--or something more sinister.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Austin Finch, his younger brother Ethan, sons of the park ranger, are determined to protect all the creatures of Bog Hollow State Park, even the Turkey vultures, from the Manley twins and their father who would like to turn Bog Hollow into a golf course--and they find an ally in the new girl Nellie Tibbits, whose mother has come to southern Georgia to study snakes.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Walter Tipple is looking for adventure. He keeps having a dream that his big brother, Tank, appears before him and says, “Let's you and me go see my world, little man.” But Tank went to the army and never came home, and Walter doesn't know how to see the world without him. Then he meets Posey, the brash new girl from next door, and an eccentric man named Banjo, who's off on a bodacious adventure of his own. What follows is a summer of taking...
12) Unsettled
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Young Nurah reluctantly moves with her family from Karachi, Pakistan, to Peachtree City, Georgia, but, after some ups and downs, begins to feel at home.
Author
Pub. Date
[1988]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
In 1865 with the war recently over, fourteen-year-old Hannalee and her recently reunited family decide to start a new life in Atlanta where, because of the need to rebuild the devastated city, jobs are plentiful. Sequel to "Turn Homeward, Hannalee."
Author
Pub. Date
[1997]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
530L
Language
English
Description
In 1947, his head filled with the advice and wisdom of his runaway father, thirteen-year-old Freddy moves his mother from their Georgia farm into town and takes on the challenge of holding his family together.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Description
In 1864 the Civil War is moving toward an end but for thirteen-year-old Eulinda, a house slave on a Georgia plantation, it is the the most difficult time of her life. She is mistreated by her msters, her younger brother Zeke has been sold off and her older brother Neddy has run away to join the Northern war effort. When Eulinda is offered a chance to escape North, she must make an agonizing decision.
Author
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Description
In rural Georgia during World War II, twelve-year-old Ramona Louise determines to do everything to help her beloved older sister Georgie keep the family together after the death of their parents, even to keeping a secret which could destroy their close relationship.
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
An old journal seems to be eighth-grader Gracie's ticket to the worlds of magic of which she has read, but her writings not only come true, they have unexpected consequences for her family and her best friend, would-be boyfriend Dylan.
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