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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
When Lord Death comes to claim sixteen-year-old Keturah while she is lost in the King's Forest, she charms him with her story and is granted a twenty-four hour reprieve in which to seek her one true love.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fourteen-year-old Sarah keeps a journal of her pilgrimage to Rome with her eccentric grandmother, Z, her evolving relationship with best friend Curtis, and daily conversations with Curtis's sister and star athlete, D.J.
Author
Series
Lily Dale mysteries (YA series) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Formats
Description
After realizing that she shares her grandmother's psychic abilities, Calla decides to stay with her in Lily Dale, the spiritualist community where her mother grew up, even though her visions seem to be leading her toward danger.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Laura Dyson's seventh grade history teacher schedules a class trip to the slave shack on her grandmother's Texas farm, Laura is forced to come to terms with her family's past and what it means for her future.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Formats
Description
It is 1969 in Spanish Harlem, and fourteen-year-old Evelyn Serrano is trying hard to break free from her conservative Puerto Rican surroundings, but when her activist grandmother comes to stay and the neighborhood protests start, things get a lot more complicated--and dangerous.
6) Mixed bags
Author
Series
Carter House girls volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
DJ's grandmother is a former fashion model who has restored an old mansion and turned it into a boarding house for rich teenaged girls who are interested in fashion, presenting DJ with a conflict between retaining her tomboy identity or changing her style, as she decides whether or not to try to fit in.
Author
Series
Carter House girls volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
As Mrs. Carter becomes increasingly distracted by General Harding, her boardinghouse girls find more opportunities to get into trouble, especially during a weekend getaway to a luxurious Vermont ski lodge, to which some of the girls have invited boys.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
Ah Mei has always been close to her French grandmother, Nainai, and is proud to look like her. But in their home city of Shanghai, many people are suspicious of their European heritage and looks. Politics and war make 1960s Shanghai a difficult place to grow up, especially when the family silk business is given over to the government and they are left with their beloved home and little else. Ah Mei and her grandmother suffer, but they are resourceful...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
940L
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Iveliz is trying to manage her mental health and advocate for the help and understanding she deserves, but in the meantime her new friend calls her crazy and her abuela Mimi dismisses the therapy and medicine Iveliz needs to feel like herself"--WorldCat.
10) Child of the owl
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Formats
Description
A twelve-year-old girl who knows little about her Chinese heritage is sent to live with her grandmother in San Francisco's Chinatown.
11) Magic or madness
Author
Series
Magic or madness trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Description
From the Sydney, Australia home of a grandmother she believes is a witch, fifteen-year-old Reason Cansino is magically transported to New York City, where she discovers that friends and foes can be hard to distinguish.
12) Magic lessons
Author
Series
Magic or madness trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
Description
When fifteen-year-old Reason is pulled through the magical door connecting New York City with the Sydney, Australia, home of her grandmother, she encounters an impossibly ancient man who seems to have some purpose in mind for her.
13) Scarlet moon
Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Ruth's grandmother lives in the forest, banished there for the magic she practices. Ruth often visits and sits with the old woman for hours until a strange young man named William enters her life.
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
Tired of the miserable life she lives, Mary Harold leaves her mother behind and moves back to Alabama and her grandmother, where she receives support and love and starts to gain confidence in herself and her abilities.
15) Low red moon
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
HL 710L
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Avery can remember nothing to explain her parents' violent death in the woods where they live, but after meeting Ben, a mysterious new neighbor, she begins to believe some of the stories she has heard about creatures of the forest.
Author
Series
Lily Dale mysteries (YA series) volume 1
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When seventeen-year-old Calla's mother suddenly dies, she goes to stay with her psychic grandmother in Lily Dale, a spiritualist community in western New York, where she discovers some disconcerting secrets about her practical, down-to-earth mother, and realizes that she herself may also have some psychic abilities.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
Español
Description
¿̤Cmo expresarte cuando sientes que nadie te escucha? En esta conmovedora novela en verso 6 que Lisa Fipps, autora galardonada con un Printz Honor Award, llama "potente" 6 , una nįa enfrenta su segundo ąo de escuela intermedia mientras lidia con problemas de salud mental. Debèr encontrar la manera de usar su voz para pedir la ayuda y la comprens̤in que merece.
Twelve-year-old Iveliz is trying to manage her mental health and advocate for the...
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