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Author
Series
Chasing Helicity volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Helicity, not a victim of a horrific tornado but a survivor, connects with a local meteorologist and other stormchasers who support her plan to become one of them.
Author
Series
Lewis Barnavelt series volume 1
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
"When Lewis Barnavelt, an orphan. comes to stay with his uncle Jonathan, he expects to meet an ordinary person. But he is wrong. Uncle Jonathan and his next-door neighbor, Mrs. Zimmermann, are both witches! Lewis is thrilled. At first, watching magic is enough. Then Lewis experiments with magic himself and unknowingly resurrects the former owner of the house: a woman named Serenna Izard. It seems that Serenna and her husband built a timepiece into...
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
During a family vacation at Lake Michigan, nine-year-old cousins Willow and Delia, desperate to avoid being flower girls in their aunt's wedding, try to demonstrate that they would do better as chefs for the reception.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
"When a racist incident rocks her small Michigan town, eleven-year-old Lekha must decide whether to speak up or stay silent, even as she struggles to navigate her life at home, where she can be herself, and at school, where she is teased about her culture"--WorldCat.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
HL 590L
Language
English
Description
"Ginny is unhappy when her family moves from Chicago to upstate Michigan for the summer; her father has a job restoring a 1930s mansion, but there are rumors about Woodmoor and the forest next to it: rumors about strange mutant creatures; Ginny, an aspiring mystery writer, is soon half convinced that the rumors are true, because something or someone is haunting the house--and she plans to investigate, with the help of Will, the older boy who lives...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
While visiting Michigan's Upper Peninsula to prepare their Great-aunt Sophie's big old house for sale, the Boxcar Children encounter a Mystery involving a valuable ring supposedly hidden somewhere in the house. Includes puzzles and activities.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
When fourteen-year-old Norvia moves from Beaver Island to Boyne City in 1914, she has to contend with a new school, a first crush, and a blended family, but she also must keep secret her parents' divorce and her Ojibwe heritage. Includes author's note.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Description
"Enter the hilarious world of ten-year-old Kenny and his family, the Weird Watsons of Flint, Michigan. There's Momma, Dad, little sister Joetta, Kenny, and Bryon, who's thirteen and an "official juvenile delinquent." When Momma and Dad decide it's time for a visit to Grandma, Dad comes home with the amazing Ultra-Glide, and the Watsons set out on a trip like no other. They're heading south. They're going to Birmingham, Alabama, toward one of the darkest...
9) Star
Author
Series
American dog volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"After her elderly owner passes away, Star—a deaf Australian shepherd—is brought to a local shelter. Star feels scared and alone—until she meets twelve-year-old Julian. After getting in trouble at school yet again, Julian volunteers at the shelter and realizes he can communicate with Star in a way that no one else can. Their bond continues to grow, and Julian and Star become inseparable. Then the unthinkable happens: Funding for the shelter...
Author
Series
Turtle of Oman volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Eight-year-old Aref is excited to reunite with his father in Ann Arbor, Michigan where he will start a new school, and while Aref misses his grandfather, his Sidi, he knows that his home in Oman will always be waiting for him.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
With love and determination befitting the "world's greatest family," twelve-year-old Deza Malone, her older brother Jimmie, and their parents endure tough times in Gary, Indiana, and later Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression.
Author
Series
Michigan chillers volume 5
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
aAs Corky and Ashley walk home, late one summer night, all the lights in Gaylord go out, and after they come back on, Corky finds Ashley on the ground with bite marks in her leg matching the teeth of Mr. Hansel's new stone gargoyle.
13) No cream puffs
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
520L
Language
English
Description
In 1980, when twelve-year-old Madison, who loves to play baseball, decides to play in her town's baseball league, she never envisions the uproar it causes when she becomes the first girl to join.
Author
Series
Island trilogy volume 01
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Mary and her older brother and sister tend the family farm on Michigan's Mackinac Island while their father is away fighting the British in the War of 1812.
15) Willow Run
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Meggie Dillon shares her feelings and experiences on the homefront during World War II after her family moves from Rockaway, New York to Willow Run, Michigan.
16) Betty before X
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
Raised by her aunt until she is six, Betty, who will later marry Malcolm X, joins her mother and stepfamily in 1940s Detroit, where she learns about the civil rights movement.
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