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1) L.A. Candy
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
HL 700L
Language
English
Description
"Los Angeles is all about the sweet life: hot clubs, cute guys, designer...everything. Nineteen-year-old Jane Roberts can't wait to start living it up. She may be in L.A. for an internship, but Jane plans to play as hard as she works, and has enlisted her BFF Scarlett to join in the fun. When Jane and Scarlett are approached by a producer who wants them to be on his new series, a "reality version of Sex and the City," they can hardly believe their...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
HL 670L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sammy wants to be a musician, as was his grandfather, but while the band he is in is self-destructing, Sammy is too distracted by his grandfather's decline and confused feelings about his best friend to fix it--and his mother stays too busy to help.
3) Diva
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Despite her mother's objections, sixteen-year-old Caitlin determines to pursue her dream of becoming an opera singer by attending a performing arts school in Miami.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When big-hearted Chloe Camden's best friend shreds her reputation and her school counselor axes her junior independent study project, Chloe is forced to take on a "more meaningful" project by joining her school's struggling radio station"--
5) Naked '76
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Lexile measure
980L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the summer of 1976, when punk rock is taking over England, Lili finds herself playing bass for a wild new band called Naked, and struggling to sort out complicated relationships with self-destructive band mates.
6) Boy proof
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Description
Feeling alienated from everyone around her, Los Angeles high school senior and cinephile Victoria Denton hides behind the identity of a favorite movie character until an interesting new boy arrives at school and helps her realize that there is more to life than just the movies.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Zoe Elias, who longs to play the piano but must resign herself to learning the organ, instead, finds that her musicianship has a positive impact on her workaholic mother, her jittery father, and her school social life.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bertie, who is blessed with word magic, and her fairy sidekicks seek to save Nate, who has been kidnapped by the Sea Witch, but Bertie is torn between Nate and Ariel, an air spirit who loves Bertie enough to die for her.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
980L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bertie thinks that to complete her quest to have a true family she need only reunite her father, the Scrimshander, with her mother, Ophelia, but complications arise and she is torn between her responsibilities and the dream of flying free, just as she is torn between Nate and Ariel.
11) The big nothing
Author
Series
Neighborhood series (Adrian Fogelin) volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
620L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Middle schooler Justin Riggs struggles to cope with major family problems, including a brother who might be heading for the Persian Gulf, but finds an escape in piano lessons and the dream of a romance with a popular girl.
Author
Series
Just Grace volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her teacher announces that the class will be putting on a play, Grace hopes she will win the part of the forest fairy queen.
14) Take a bow
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
HL 660L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Emme, Sophie, Ethan, and Carter are seniors at a performing arts high school in New York City, preparing for the senior recital and feeling the pressure to perform well and take the next step in their careers and their lives--whether they want to or not.
15) Mixed messages
Author
Series
Mackenzie Blue volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mackenzie and her friends create a new online social networking site which creates some unforeseen problems, as she is also trying to figure out if she has a crush on one of her best friends, how to deal with the jealousy of one of her bandmates, and her fears over her mother's pregnancy.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Cass McKay has been called stubborn, temperamental, difficult, and that word that rhymes with “witch” more times than she cares to count. But that's all about to pay off. She has finally landed the role she was born to play-Kate, in The Taming of the Shrew-in the summer apprentice program of a renowned Shakespeare theater company in the forests of Vermont. But Cass can barely lace up her corset before her troubles begin. Her leading man, Drew,...
17) New moves
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Gabby is taking the new contemporary dance class at Ms. Marianne's Academy of Dance, and she quickly bonds with Sophie, who has transferred into the Academy--but her best friends seem strangely reluctant to include Sophie in their after class fun, and soon Gabby feels torn between her new friend and her old ones whose attitude she does not understand.
18) Double trouble
Author
Series
Mackenzie Blue volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The continuing adventures of seventh-grader Mackenzie Blue as she juggles her time and attention between her auditions for a new TV pilot, preparing for the twins her mother is expecting, and working on a science project with her maybe-crush"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thirteen-year-old Ruby feels her life is over when she learns that her parents are splitting up at the same time she hears rumors that she will be fired soon from the television soap opera she has worked on since age six.
20) I am drums
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A single-minded twelve-year-old drummer, challenged by her school's budget cuts and her family's financial woes, must find a way to keep her dreams of drumming alive"--
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