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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old identical twins Jay and Ray have long resented that everyone treats them as one person, and so they hatch a plot to take advantage of the clerical error at their new school and pretend they are just one.
2) Blended
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
Description
""You're so exotic!!" "You look so unusual." "But what are you really?" Eleven-year-old Isabella - whose father is black and mother is white - is used to these kinds of comments, but it doesn't mean she likes them. And now that her parents are divorced (and getting along WORSE THAN EVER), Isabella feels like a push-me-pull-me toy. Being split between Mom and Dad is more than switching houses, switching nicknames, switching backpacks: It's switching...
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.
4) Itch
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ohio sixth-grader Isaac "Itch" Fitch strives to fit in, but everything seems to be going wrong, even before a school lunch trade sends his best friend, Sydney, to the hospital.
5) Nuts
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
When eleven-year-old Nell finds a tiny baby squirrel on the ground in her yard, she begs her parents to let her raise it as a pet, even after the research she does shows that this is not a good idea.
6) Act 1
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-olds Jack and Louisa tell, in their separate voices, of his reluctant departure from New York City and Broadway stardom to live in Shaker Heights, Ohio, where new neighbor Louisa, a "musical theater nerd," urges him to audition for the local theater's production of "Into the Woods."
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
Description
In the wake of his father's sudden death, twelve-year-old Finn feels he is becoming invisible as his hair and skin become whiter by the day, and so he writes and illustrates a book to try to understand what is happening and to hold on to himself and his father.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
"When Josie and her brother Fox discover the truth behind the legend of the Mothman, they must stop a disaster in order to break the curse that has been afflicting their town"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
American girls collection. Kit, 1934 volume 6
American girls collection. Kit 1934 volume 6
American girl.Kit volume 06
American girl 1934 volume 06
American girls collection. Kit 1934 volume 6
American girl.Kit volume 06
American girl 1934 volume 06
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
In 1934, during the Depression, Kit's cantankerous uncle comes to live in the Cincinnati boardinghouse run by her parents, enlisting her aid in transcribing his complaining letters to the editor of the local newspaper and inspiring her to write a different kind of letter of her own.
10) Very rich
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ten-year-old Rupert, from a very large, very poor family, accidently becomes part of an eccentric rich family's life beginning at Christmas, and soon sees that wealth is not everything.
11) We are family
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"When Jayden and his teammates find out there's not going to be a Hoop Group this year--and maybe ever again--they have to learn to lean on each other if they want to save their basketball season"--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Seventh grader Wendy Toledo knows that black holes and immigration police have one thing in common: they can both make things disappear without a trace. When her family moves to a new all-American neighborhood, Wendy knows the plan: keep her head down, build a telescope that will win the science fair, and stay on her family's safe orbit. But that's easier said than done when there's a woman hiding out from ICE agents in the church across the alley--and...
14) A drop of hope
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
Times are tough in the small town of Cliffs Donnelly, Ohio (sarcastically called If Only) especially for some of the kids at Rod Serling Middle School, but then an old dry well suddenly begins to grant wishes, or so it seems--three of the students, Ernest Wilmette, Ryan Hardy, and Lizzy MacComber, know what is happening (but do they really?), because sometimes a good deed can make magic happen.
15) Kit's home run
Author
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
In 1933 Cincinnati, Kit is an enthusiastic baseball player whose home run slide has surprising consequences. Includes historical notes on major league baseball and the Cincinnati Reds in the 1930s and provides ideas for decorating a baseball cap.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"New to Cincinnati, where her father is now coach of the University basketball team, eighth-grader Aurora (called Rory) finds herself isolated by the heated team rivalries--especially when it turns out her new friend Abby's father has a mysterious feud with Rory's father that threatens her new friendship"--WorldCat.
Author
Series
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
"For Kit, the Depression has brought big changes: a houseful of boarders, tons of chores, and no birthday party. Then Aunt Millie arrives, and it looks as if her great ideas might turn things around for the Kittredges. But when Kit's taste for adventure gets her into trouble, she discovers that the Depression has hit a lot of people far worse than her own family. Can one girl make a difference for homeless kids--when even grownups have lost hope?"--...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
"A family feud before the start of seventh grade propels Meilan from Boston's Chinatown to rural Ohio, where she must tap into her inner strength and sense of justice to make a new place for herself."--
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