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2) Wild girl
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old Lidie leaves Brazil to join her father and brother on a horse ranch in New York, she has a hard time adjusting to her changed circumstances, as does a new horse that has come to the ranch.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Mallory, New York, as five sisters, aged eleven to seventeen, deal with assorted problems, conflicts, fears, and yearnings, a mysterious middle-aged man watches them, fascinated, deciding which one he likes the best.
Author
Series
All four stars volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
950L
Language
English
Description
Gladys Gatsby has been cooking gourmet dishes since the age of seven. Now she's eleven, and after a creme brulee accident (just a small fire), Gladys is cut off from the kitchen (and her allowance). She's devastated but soon finds just the right opportunity to pay her parents back when she's mistakenly contacted to write a restaurant review for one of the largest newspapers in the world. But in order to meet her deadline and keep her dream job, Gladys...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Kat schemes her way into the best boarding school, hoping to leave the thieving antics of her family behind her, but Hal, a former co-conspirator, appears on campus to tell Kat that a powerful mobster believes her father stole art from a priceless collection, and in order to save him, Kat will have to recover the paintings.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
As she grows through the first years of her life in the Catskill Mountains of New York, a peregrine falcon called Frightful interacts with various humans, including the boy who raised her, a falconer who rescues her, and several unscrupulous poachers, as well as with many animals that are part of the area's ecological balance.
7) Farmer boy
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
While Laura Ingalls grows up in a little house on the western prairie, Almanzo Wilder is living on a big farm in New York State. Almanzo and his brother and sisters help with the summer planting and fall harvest. In winter there is wood to be chopped and great slabs of ice to be cut from the river and stored. Almanzo wishes for just one thing-his very own horse-but he must prove that he is ready for such a big responsibility.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eve gave up her belief in stories and magic after her mother's death, but a mysterious seed given her as an eleventh-birthday gift by someone she has never met takes her and a boy who claims to be a ghost on a strange journey, to where their supposedly cursed town of Beaumont, New York, flourishes.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Description
Hollis Woods has been in so many foster homes she can hardly remember them all. She even runs away from the Regans, the one family who offers her a home. When Hollis is sent to Josie, an elderly artist who is quirky and affectionate, she wants to stay. But Josie is growing more forgetful every day. If Social Services finds out, they₇ll take Hollis away and move Josie into a home. Well, Hollis Woods won₇t let anyone separate them. She₇s escaped...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ten-year-old Sprig no longer gets along with her twelve-year-old sister, Dakota, but the two pull together during their father's extended business trip to Afghanistan, sharing concerns about his safety, an elderly neighbor's health, fights with their best friends, and boys.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1756, during the French and Indian War in upper New York state, ten-year-old Edward is determined to protect his home and family with the ancient, and much too heavy, Spanish gun that his father had given him before leaving home to fight the enemy.
12) Eleven
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Description
When Sam, who can barely read, discovers an old newspaper clipping just before his eleventh birthday, it brings forth memories from his past, and, with the help of a new friend at school and the castle they are building for a school project, his questions are eventually answered.
Author
Series
Heist society novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Kat Bishop and her fellow talented teenagers work together to find and steal the "Cleopatra Emerald" from an unscrupulous dealer and return it to its rightful owner, while a former love of her Uncle Eddie tries to get the gem for herself.
14) Gorgeous
Author
Series
Avery sisters trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ninth-grader Allison has always been the least attractive among her sisters, but when she allows the devil to possess her cell phone in exchange for appearing to be gorgeous, she must confront the power and deceptiveness of appearances.
Author
Series
Cupcake queen volume 01
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
Penny's mother has moved to Hog's Hollow, and opened a bakery that sells only cupcakes, and she has brought Penny with her. Penny is woebegone: all her friends and her dad are in New York City; she has to help her mother in the bakery; and Hog's Hollow's resident mean girl is making her life a misery.
16) Life with Lily
Author
Series
Adventures of Lily Lapp volume 1
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Introduces Lily Lapp who, beginning at age five, finds opportunities for blessings, laughter, learning, and mischief as she explores her Amish community, welcomes a new baby brother, begins school, and spends time with family and friends.
Author
Series
A tangle of knots volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
"Destiny leads 11-year-old Cady to a peanut butter factory, a family of children searching for their own Talents, and a Talent Thief who will alter her life forever"--Provided by publisher. Includes cake recipes.
Author
Series
Pacy Lin books volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the Chinese Year of the Rat, a young Taiwanese American girl faces many challenges: her best friend moves to California and a new boy comes to her school, she must find the courage to forge ahead with her dream of becoming a writer and illustrator, and she must learn to find the beauty in change.
20) Here today
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
In 1963, when her flamboyant mother abandons the family to pursue her dream of becoming an actress, eleven-year-old Ellie Dingman takes charge of her younger siblings, while also trying to deal with her outcast status in school and frightening acts of prejudice toward the "misfits" that live on her street.
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