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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
550L
Language
English
Description
Living with her warden father in an apartment above a 1950s prison, Cammie O'Reilly struggles to come to terms with the loss of her mother, who died saving her from harm when she was a baby, and interacts with some of the reformed inmates.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Description
Ophelia, a timid eleven-year-old girl grieving her mother, suspends her disbelief in things non-scientific when a boy locked in the museum where her father is working asks her to help him complete an age-old mission.
4) Airman
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
In the 1890s, Conor and his family live on the sovereign Saltee Islands, off the Irish coast. He spends his days studying the science of flight with his tutor and exploring the castle with the king's daughter, Princess Isabella. But the boy's idyllic life changes forever the day he discovers a deadly conspiracy against the king. When Conor tries to intervene, he is branded a traitor and thrown into jail on the prison island of Little Saltee. There,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
"A boy on the run. A girl determined to find him. A compelling fantasy looks at issues of privilege, protest, and justice. All light in Chattana is created by one man -- the Governor, who appeared after the Great Fire to bring peace and order to the city. For Pong, who was born in Namwon Prison, the magical lights represent freedom, and he dreams of the day he will be able to walk among them. But when Pong escapes from prison, he realizes that the...
Author
Series
Micekings volume 07
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
540L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When his cousin is captured by the king of the dragons, Geronimo must deliver the Crown of the Seven Rubies to free him.
9) The convicts
Author
Series
Curse of the Jolly Stone trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Formats
Description
His efforts to avenge his father's unjust imprisonment force fourteen-year-old Tom Tin into the streets of nineteenth-century London, but after he is convicted of murder, Tom is eventually sent to Australia where he has a surprise reunion.
10) The cannibals
Author
Series
Curse of the Jolly Stone trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tom Tin and his friend Midgely--with assorted juvenile criminals--escape the ship taking them to serve their terms in Australia and head for a Pacific island, forgetting Tom's father's warnings about headhunters and cannibals.
11) The cursed moon
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Rafael Fuentes isn't easily scared. He loves writing ghost stories, reading scary books, and entertaining his friends with terrifying tales he creates on the spot. As an eerie blood moon hangs in the sky one night, Rafa tells a group of friends about the Caretaker. The Caretaker is an evil ghost who lures unsuspecting kids into the neighborhood pond...and they don't ever come out. Rafa is really proud of his latest creation, until strange things...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Formats
Description
A dangerous criminal has escaped from prison and is headed in the direction of New Brighton, where teenager Hamid Abdi is babysitting his twin cousins, but he is not worried until the twins tell him that a man dressed as a clown has been coming into their bedroom--and when the electricity goes out Hamid is pulled into their living nightmare.
Author
Series
Children of exile volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kiandra Watanaboneset reluctantly takes charge when she, her brothers Enu and Edwy, and some young friends are captured by Enforcers and sent to a prison on the planet Zacadi.
14) Pieces of why
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Tia lives in a white slum in New Orleans with her mother, and her whole world revolves around singing in the gospel choir with her best friend, Keisha--but when practice is interrupted by a shooting outside the church, and a baby is killed, Tia finds that she cannot sing, and she is forced to confront her feelings about her incarcerated father who killed a girl in a failed robbery years before.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
Mal, Evie, Carlos, and Jay have received threatening messages demanding they return home. They have a sneaking suspicion that their villanous parents are behind the messages, and something Evie sees in her Magic Mirror confirms their fears. Although Maleficent's just a tiny lizard after her confrontation with Mal, could she have found a way to escape? Mal and her friends determine to sneak back to the Isle to get to the bottom of the mystery.
17) Zebra forest
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When eleven-year-old Annie first started lying to her social worker, she had been taught by an expert: Gran. She told Annie and her little brother, Rew, the one thing they know about their father: that he was killed in a fight with an angry man who was sent away. Annie tells stories, as she and Rew laze under the birches and oaks of Zebra Forest -- stories about their father the pirate, or pilot, or secret agent. But then something shocking happens...
19) Do not pass go
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
When Deet's father is jailed for using drugs, Deet learns that prison is not what he expected, nor are other people necessarily the way he thought they were.
20) The dark secret
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
GN 380L
Language
English
Description
When Starflight, one of the dragonets of destiny, is kidnapped by the NightWings he finds that the kingdom of his birth is a miserable place, full of terrible secrets--and that, with his fellow dragonets too far away to help, the fate of two kingdoms rests in his talons.
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