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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Gopal and his family leave their rural Indian village for life with his uncle in Mumbai, but when they arrive his father goes missing and Gopal ends up locked in a sweatshop from which there is no escape.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Amari, a poor Black girl from the projects, gets an invitation from her missing brother to join the Bureau of Supernatural Affairs and join in the fight against an evil magician"--Title verso page.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old twins Bickford and Rebecca Kidd and their two older siblings travel to Africa to track down priceless artifacts that will keep the family's treasure hunting business afloat long enough to rescue their kidnapped mother--and possibly find their missing father"-- Provided by publisher.
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Vivian Apple volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"The predicted Rapture was faked by Pastor Frick's Church of America and 3,000 Believers are now missing or dead. Seventeen-year-old Vivian Apple and her best friend Harpreet are revolutionaries, determined to expose the Church's diabolical power grab...and to locate Viv's missing heartthrob Peter Ivey"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In order to save her baby sister, fourteen-year-old Chu Ju leaves her rural home in modern China and earns food and shelter by working on a sampan, tending silk worms, and planting rice seedlings, while wondering if she will ever see her family again.
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Mighty Muskrats mystery volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Description
The Mighty Muskrats are off to the city to have fun at the Exhibition Fair. But when Chickadee asks Grandpa what he would like them to bring back from the city, she learns about Grandpa's missing little sister. She was, they learn, scooped years ago-like many Indigenous children, the government had arranged for her adoption by strangers without her parents' permission. Now the Mighty Muskrats have a new case to solve: uncovering the whereabouts of...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
HL 720L
Language
English
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Told in two voices, Luli and Yun, raised in an orphanage to age sixteen, work together in a factory until Yun, pregnant, disappears and Luli must confront the dangers of the outside world to find her. Includes facts about China's One-Child Policy and its effects.
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Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Alice Dare is one of 300 seven- to sixteen-year-olds evacuated to Mars to attend school and train as soldiers, safe from the war with Earth's invading aliens, the Morrors, but when all of the adults and robots mysteriously disappear, the youths must survive on their own.
10) Rust in the root
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Language
English
Description
"It is 1937, and Laura Ann Langston lives in an America divided--between those who work the mystical arts and those who do not. Ever since the Great Rust, a catastrophic event that blighted the arcane force called the Dynamism and threw America into disarray, the country has been rebuilding for a better future. And everyone knows the future is industry and technology--otherwise known as Mechomancy--not the traditional mystical arts. Laura disagrees....
11) Uncertain glory
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Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
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Description
Fourteen-year-old Joe Wood, growing up in Maine during the Civil War, tries to protect his friends, including finding his friend Owen, a young African American boy who has gone missing.
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Series
Mighty Muskrats mystery volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
"Windy Lake is a fictional First Nation in the midst of the boreal forest and a connection of lakes and rivers. The community is conflicted over a nearby mine, which has the support of the Chief and Council, but is a source of concern for First Nation families connected to the land. As part of the agreement with the community, the mine must do an archeological assessment of any new land they disturb. Unfortunately, soon after his arrival, the old...
13) Moon princess
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Formats
Description
After her mother disappears and her mean housekeeper starts to act suspiciously, Sienna and her invisible dog Rufus set out to find answers and encounter Feng and other companions on their journey.
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Language
English
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Description
Sixteen-year-old Clara Morris is facing an awkward summer with her father in the tiny upstate town of Redmarch Lake. Clara's relationship with her parents--and with life in general--has been strained since she lost her twin sister, Zoe, when the girls were eight. As a child, her sister had been her whole world--they even shared a secret invented twin language. Clara has managed to rebuild herself as best she can, but she still feels a hole in her...
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Mira's diary volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
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Description
To rescue her missing mother, thirteen-year-old Mira must travel to sixteenth-century Rome, where she befriends the painter Caravaggio and other artists and scientists under suspicion for being forward thinking individuals.
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Alexander Cold trilogy volume 3
Memories of the Eagle and the Jaguar
City of the beasts volume 3
Memorias del águila y del jaguar volume 3
Memories of the Eagle and the Jaguar
City of the beasts volume 3
Memorias del águila y del jaguar volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
1010L
Language
English
Description
"Once again Alexander Cold and his indomitable journalist grandmother, Kate, are braving the mystical unknown, this time in the heart of Africa. Along with Alex's friend Nadia Santos and a photographic crew from International Geographic magazine, they have travelled to Kenya to work on an article about the continent's first elephant-led safaris. But when a missionary approaches their camp in search of companions who have mysteriously disappeared,...
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Paola Santiago volume 2
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Months after confronting the legendary La Llorona, Paola starts dreaming again, this time about fantasmas that are stalking her and someone who might be even more dangerous--her estranged father.
18) Mira and Baku
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Lexile measure
AD 500L
Language
English
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Description
With the help of a magical friend, a young girl searches for her missing father in this poignant story set during Japanese internment in World War II. It's a week until Mira's birthday, and she's getting worried. Where is Papa? He has never missed her birthday before. When Mira's friend Baku, a creature from Japanese folklore, offers to help, they journey over farmlands and forests, mountains and river mouths, gathering clues to Papa's whereabouts--clues...
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