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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Formats
Description
With a mother who buys Christmas cards in August and a younger brother who describes the Trinity as a toasted marshmallow on a graham cracker, life for eleven-year-old Charles Harrisong is anything but normal in Normal, Illinois.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Uprooted following the death of their father, nine-year-old Vinnie and her five-year-old brother, Mason, cope in different ways--one in silence--but both dwith the help of Lupe, the flip-flop girl.
5) Rope burn
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Formats
Description
While working on a writing assignment at his new school, Richard learns the meaning of various proverbs and how to express his feelings about his parents' divorce.
9) Hannah's way
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
In rural Minnesota in 1932, Hannah, a young orthodox Jewish girl, deals with being the new girl in class.
10) After midnight
Author
Series
The Youngbloods volume 1
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fifteen-year-old Catlyn Youngblood finally learns her family's secret, that they are descended from legendary vampire hunter Van Helsing, when, after she and her brothers settle into tiny Lost Lake, Florida, she feels an overpowering attraction to Jesse Raven, a vampire.
12) Jakarta missing
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her sister, star-athlete Jakarta, finally joins them, Dakar feels much safer and happier in Cottonwood, North Dakota, where she and their parents are living for a year, but she still longs for their home in Africa.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fifteen-year-old Ruby Milliken leaves her best friend, her boyfriend, her aunt, and her mother's grave in Boston and reluctantly flies to Los Angeles to live with her father, a famous movie star who divorced her mother before Ruby was born.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jamie is excited about making friends at a new school, but after playing with dolls and action figures, trying ballet and fixing a toy car, his classmates wonder if Jamie is a girl or a boy. Includes tips for adults.
15) Wishworks, Inc
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When he is granted his wish for a dog from Wishworks, Inc., third-grader Max is disappointed to find that his new pet is nothing like the dog of his imagination.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Beatrice More's room is perfectly organized even though her family has just moved to their new house and she doesn't understand why the rest of her family isn't unpacking and organizing as quickly. However, she learns to accept that not everything has to be orderly to have fun when her new friends from school come over.
Author
Series
Ellie McDoodle volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
510L
Language
English
Description
Ellie writes and doodles in a journal of her family's move to a new home and her struggle to make friends, which gets a lot easier as she leads a nonviolent protest about long lunch lines at school.
18) Time windows
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thirteen-year-old Miranda moves with her family to a small Massachusetts town and a new house in which a mysterious dollhouse allows her to see into the past, where she discovers her new home exerts an evil influence on the women of each generation of inhabitants.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After 12-year-old Grace's mother's sudden death, Grace is forced to live with a grandmother she's never met. Then she discovers clues in a mysterious treasure hunt--one that will help her find her true home"--
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
390L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1811, nine-year-old Marie is sad to learn that her family will be moving from New Madrid to St. Louis, Missouri, but when terrible earthquakes destroy her town, everything changes. Includes facts about those earthquakes and their effects.
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