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Language
English
Description
Gabby, Billy, Izzie, Andy, and Sean-each bursting with their own personality, strikingly different looks and talents, in sports, science, and the arts. Each drawn by the magical spark of connection that happens to the young. At the exclusive Atwood School, on a bright September day, starting in kindergarten they become an inseparable group known to outsiders as the Big Five. In this rarefied world, five families grow closer, and five children bloom...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
When Caitlyn Breen begins her new life at a rural school - where the students take care of real live goats and study long-dead philosophers, and where there are only ten other students in the entire seventh grade - it seems like nobody can stop talking about some kid named Paulie Fink. Depending on whom you ask, Paulie was either a class clown, a troublemaker, a hapless klutz, or an evil genius. One thing's for sure, though: the kid was totally legendary....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
HL 740L
Language
English
Description
Ally, Bree, and Jack meet at the one place the Great Eclipse can be seen in totality, each carrying the burden of different personal problems, which become dim when compared to the task they embark upon and the friendship they find.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
Mattie, a shy fifth-grader, wants to hide out at her new school by acting as apprentice to her Uncle Potluck, the custodian, but her plan falls apart when she summons the courage to speak about what matters most and finds a true friend.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Alone in the world, Jay Barton is a teenage misfit with nothing much going for her besides an extraordinary talent for understanding racehorses and riding them like a pro. When, in a desperate attempt to escape her shifty, opportunistic uncle, she leaves home to work in a racing stable, Jay forms a bond with a beautiful gray mare named Manhattan -- brilliant, misunderstood, dangerous, and heading for racing's scrap heap. Recognizing a fellow misfit,...
Author
Series
Applewhites volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
Jake, a budding juvenile delinquent, is sent for home schooling to the arty and eccentric Applewhite family's Creative Academy, where he discovers talents and interests he never knew he had.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
490L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Annie takes her rabbit to the home of her new friend, Sarah, to play and enjoys seeing the pretty house full of frilly things, walking in the beautiful garden, and making a tiny garden house for a fairy tea party.
11) Take the reins
Author
Series
Canterwood Crest. Main series volume 1
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Sasha Silver and her horse, Charm, arrive on the campus of the elite Canterwood Crest Academy, Sasha knows that she's in trouble. She's not exactly welcomed with open arms. One group of girls in particular is used to being the best, the brightest, and the prettiest on the team, and when Sasha shows her skills in the arena, the girls' claws come out. Sasha is determined to prove that she belongs at Canterwood. Will she rise to the occasion and...
12) Pop
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
Lonely after a midsummer move to a new town, sixteen-year-old high-school quarterback Marcus Jordan becomes friends with a retired professional linebacker who is great at training him, but whose childish behavior keeps Marcus in hot water.
13) Bouncing back
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Orphaned thirteen-year-old Carlos learns what it truly means to be a teammate when he must help save his new wheelchair basketball team's gym from destruction"--Title verso page.
14) Hero type
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
Feeling awkward and ugly is only one reason sixteen-year-old Kevin is uncomfortable with the publicity surrounding his act of accidental heroism, but when a reporter photographs him apparently being unpatriotic, he steps into the limelight to encourage people to think about what the symbols of freedom really mean.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Told in alternating voices, twelve-year-olds JB Barnes and Sidney Miller meet aboard a scientific research ship after JB is tasked to invite a renowned scientist named Sidney Miller and mistakenly invites a girl with the same name who will do anything to get out of going to summer camp"--Title verso page.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Spending the summer before her senior year at a camp for gifted and talented students, Gloria struggles with the recent loss of her grandmother while trying to meet new friends and make the best of her new circumstances.
19) One-third nerd
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
540L
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Liam and his two younger sisters, precocious third-grader Dakota and second-grader Izzy, who has Down syndrome, face the possibility of losing their beloved dog, Cupcake, who keeps urinating on their apartment's carpet.
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