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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A 2019 Batchelder Honor Book Yu'er and her grandpa live in a small neighborhood in Beijing—and it's full of big personalities. There's a story around every corner, and each day has a hint of magic. In one tale, Yu'er wants to swim in the Special Olympics, a sports competition for people with disabilities. But she and her grandpa don't have a pool! Their trick to help Yu'er practice wows the whole neighborhood. In another story, a friend takes Yu'er...
Author
Series
Sam Krupnik volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
Sam Krupnik, mad at his mother because she won't let him wear his new plastic fangs in the house, decides to run away to Alaska.
3) Seedfolks
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
One by one, a number of people of varying ages and backgrounds transform a trash-filled inner-city lot into a productive and beautiful garden, and, in doing so, the gardeners are themselves transformed.
Author
Series
Gustav Gloom volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Becoming lost in the Gloom mansion while trying to capture a spooked cat, Fernie What and Gustav Gloom discover a library filled with astonishing books, a gallery of awkward statues and the evil deeds of the People Taker who wants to steal Fernie's family.
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
980L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Three children must defeat a mysterious doctor who builds an irresistible and dangerous playground in their neighborhood and then uses his power to heal children who get injured--stealing some of their life essence in the process"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Indian-American Pandita Paul deals with change, grief, friendship, and growing up in a community facing a housing crisis"--Title verso page.
Twelve-year-old Indian-American Pandita Paul doesn't like change. She's not ready to start middle school and leave the comforts of childhood behind. Most of all, Pandita doesn't want to feel like she's leaving her mother, who died a few years ago, behind. After a falling out with her best friend,...
Author
Series
Gustav Gloom volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
1010L
Language
English
Formats
Description
As Fernie and Gustav battle the Shadow Eater, who seeks The Nightmare Vault for his master, the evil Lord Obsidian, Fernie learns about Gustav's mysterious past and just what happened to his missing parents.
10) The tequila worm
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sofia grows up in the close-knit community of the barrio in McAllen, Texas, then finds that her experiences as a scholarship student at an Episcopal boarding school in Austin only strengthen her ties to family and her "comadres."
Author
Series
Gustav Gloom volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
1040L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Gustav convinces Fernie's safety-conscious father to enter the Gloom Mansion with Fernie and Perlie to help rescue Gustav's father from the Dark Country, there is a prison break from the Hall of Shadow Criminals, endangering them all.
13) Under the egg
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
Her grandfather's dying words lead thirteen-year-old Theodora Tenpenny to a valuable, hidden painting she fears may be stolen. But it is her search for answers in her Greenwich Village neighborhood that brings a real treasure.
Author
Series
Neighborhood series (Adrian Fogelin) volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In their last summer before the big shift to high school, Cass, Jemmie, Ben, and Justin find a mysterious hat which leads them to an abandoned builidng with a tragic past that might just nudge open the door to the future for all of them.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Formats
Description
The last remaining orange tree on a Southern California street brings together neighbors of all ages as they face their problems and anxieties, including the possibility that a mysterious stranger is a threat to their tree.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When eleven-year-old Mo's mother dies in an accident and Mo's devastated father deals with the loss by moving the family to a new town and starting a new life as the owner of a sports bar, Mo must leave her much loved neighborhood on Fox Street to live in an apartment above the "cursed" Corky's Tavern.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
1100L
Language
English
Description
"Celebrated author Carole Boston Weatherford and illustrator Floyd Cooper provide a powerful look at the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, one of the worst incidents of racial violence in our nation's history"--
Author
Series
Gustav Gloom volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
1120L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The fate of the Dark Country rests on Gustav and Fernie's shoulders. After weeks of traveling on a quest to find their fathers, Fernie and Gustav finally come face-to-face with their nemesis--the evil Lord Obsidian."--
Author
Series
Gustav Gloom volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
1080L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Gustav and Fernie's adventures in the Dark Country continue as they search for their families. But as they get closer to discovering their families' fates, their mission is once again threatened by old foes--as well as some new, even more treacherous, ones. Will Gustav and Fernie be able to battle their way through and rescue their families before it's too late?" --
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fox Street means everything to Mo Wren, who is nearly eleven, and so she is very upset when a land developer offers to buy her father's house, especially since she has not yet found the fox she is sure lives in the nearby ravine.
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