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Series
All-of-a-kind family volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
The adventures of five sisters growing up in a Jewish family in New York in the early twentieth century.
2) Liar & spy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
Seventh-grader Georges adjusts to moving from a house to an apartment, his father's efforts to start a new business, his mother's extra shifts as a nurse, being picked on at school, and Safer, a boy who wants his help spying on another resident of their building.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
"Told that they would have to move out of their Harlem brownstone just after Christmas, the five Vanderbeeker children, ages four to twelve, decide to change their reclusive landlord's mind"--Title verso page.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
560L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
As Bridge makes her way through seventh grade on Manhattan's Upper West Side with her best friends, curvacious Em, crusader Tab, and a curious new friend--or more than friend--Sherm, she finds the answer she has been seeking since she barely survived an accident at age eight: "What is my purpose?"
Author
Series
Vanderbeekers volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
One hilarious Harlem family is on a mission to find the perfect way to celebrate their Papa's fortieth birthday while discovering more about their mysterious grandparents in this heartfelt romp and latest installment to the New York Times best-selling series, perfect for fans of the Penderwicks. It's summer on 141st Street, and the Vanderbeekers are looking forward to Papa's surprise fortieth birthday party. But then Papa must leave town to help his...
Author
Series
Vanderbeekers volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
"When autumn arrives on 141st Street, the Vanderbeekers are busy helping Mr. Beiderman get ready for the New York City Marathon and making sure the mysterious person sleeping in the community garden gets enough to eat. But when they discover the true identity of the person making a home in the community garden's shed, their world turns upside down as they learn what it means to care for someone in an impossible situation."--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"After Kitty's mother dies on an inappropriately sunny Tuesday, all Kitty wants is for her life to go back to "normal"--whatever that will mean without her mum. Instead, her dad announces that he, Kitty, and her sister are moving from their home in London to New York City, and Kitty will need to say goodbye to the places and people that help keep her mother's memory alive. New York is every bit as big and bustling as Kitty's heard, and as she adjusts...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
In March of 1887, Rocco, an eleven-year-old from an Italian village, arrives in New York City where he is forced to live in squalor and beg for money as a street musician, but he finds the city's cruelty to children and animals intolerable and sets out to make things better, whatever the cost to himself.
Author
Series
American girls collection. Rebecca, 1914 volume 2
American girls collection. Rebecca 1914 volume 2
American girl 1914 volume 02
American girl.Rebecca volume 02
American girls collection. Rebecca 1914 volume 2
American girl 1914 volume 02
American girl.Rebecca volume 02
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
Rebecca is excited to have her cousin Ana from Russia living with her family in New York City, but she fears that Ana's poor English-speaking skills will ruin her presentation at school.
Author
Series
Family tree (Ann M. Martin) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
Dana is Abby and Zander's daughter, but growing up in New York City in the late nineteen fifties is not always easy, especially when you would like your own room separate from your twin sister--and when your beloved father dies and you are forced to move things just get worse.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Willa lives on the upper West Side of Manhattan with her divorced father and her younger brother and attends fifth grade with her best friend Ruby, and she likes things to be a certain way, because it makes life manageable even with her Sensory Processing Disorder; she certainly does not like surprises, and her father has just thrown her a big one: he has been dating Ruby's mother, and suddenly Willa's life seems to be spiraling out of her control--and...
Author
Series
Tapper twins volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Description
An oral history that reports, through transcribed recordings, text messages, photographs, illustrations, screenshots, and more, an epic prank war between twelve-year-old twins Reese and Claudia Tapper of New York City.
13) Masterpiece
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
After Marvin, a beetle, makes a miniature drawing as an eleventh birthday gift for James, a human with whom he shares a house, the two new friends work together to help recover a Durer drawing stolen from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
14) Fashion frenzy
Author
Series
Beacon Street girls volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
Katani goes to New York City to be in a fashion show.
15) Ground Zero
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
Brandon is visiting his dad on the 107th floor of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 when the attack comes; Reshmina is a girl in Afghanistan who has grown up in the aftermath of that attack but dreams of peace, becoming a teacher and escaping her village and the narrow role that the Taliban believes is appropriate for women--both are struggling to survive, both changed forever by the events of 9/11.
Author
Series
I survived volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Description
When Lucas decides to skip school because he wants to discuss football with a firefighter friend of his father, he finds himself caught up in the terrorist attacks on New York City.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
Formats
Description
It is 1911, and fourteen-year-old Lucia (Lucy) Morelli dreams of going to college, but for the present she lives with her large Italian family in a crowded apartment in New York City, and works as a sewing machine operator in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory bringing home money because her father can no longer work--but this is March twenty-fifth, and Lucy will soon be fighting for her life as fire sweeps through the locked down factory trapping the...
Author
Series
Tapper twins volume 3
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
A humorous oral history that chronicles twelve-year-old twins Reese and Claudia Tapper's heated competition to become sixth grade class president of their New York City private school, through text messages, photographs, screenshots, and more.
Author
Series
American girls collection. Rebecca, 1914 volume 1
American girls collection. Rebecca 1914 volume 1
American girl 1914 volume 01
American girl.Rebecca volume 01
American girls collection. Rebecca 1914 volume 1
American girl 1914 volume 01
American girl.Rebecca volume 01
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
In 1914 New York City, nine-year-old Rebecca is determined to show her family that she is old enough to light the Shabbos candles and go to the movies.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
"SoHo, 1981. Twelve-year-old Olympia is an artist--and in her neighborhood, that's normal. Her dad and his business partner Apollo bring antique paintings back to life, while her mother makes intricate sculptures in a corner of their loft, leaving Ollie to roam the streets of New York with her best friends Richard and Alex, drawing everything that catches her eye. Then everything falls apart. Ollie's dad disappears in the middle of the night, leaving...
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