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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"It's hatching season, and all of Jemison Elementary is buzzing about the arrival of the baby chicks. Soon, the chicks will pip a hole in their shells, unzip the eggs, and take their places in the world. For fifth-grader Jillian, breaking out of her shell is much harder. Jillian is always too shy to raise her hand in class, even when she knows the right answers; meanwhile her nemesis, Rashida, is never afraid to speak her mind. As Jillian's grandma...
Author
Series
Jackson Greene novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jackson Greene has a reputation as a prankster at Maplewood Middle School, but after the last disaster he is trying to go straight. But when it looks like Keith Sinclair may steal the election for school president from Jackson's former best friend Gabriela, he assembles a team to make sure Keith does not succeed.
5) Game
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
If Harlem high school senior Drew Lawson is going to realize his dream of playing college, then professional, basketball, he will have to improve at being coached and being a team player, especially after a new--white--student threatens to take the scouts' attention away from him.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Formats
Description
After the death of her mother in an automobile accident, seventh-grader Serena, who has gotten the lead in her middle school play, is left to handle the day-to-day challenges of caring for herself and her younger brother when their father cannot pull himself out of his depression.
Author
Series
Nikki and Deja volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Deja's birthday is coming up, and she and her best friend, Nikki, have been planning the perfect party for weeks. But just before the big day, Auntie Dee gets called away on a business trip, and Deja has to stay with old Miss Ida ... who cooks turnips for dinner and doesn't even have a color TV! Worse, a sneaky scheme hatched by Antonia threatens to ruin Deja's party plans. -- P. [4] of cover.
Author
Series
Carver chronicles volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Richard can't wait to show off his skills at a friend's skateboard birthday party, but a note home from his teacher threatens to ruin his plans"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"Thelonius Mitchell is tired of being labeled. He's in special ed, separated from the "normal" kids at school who don't have any "issues." That's enough to make all the teachers and students look at him and his friends with a constant side-eye. (Although his disruptive antics and pranks have given him a rep too.) When a gun is found at a neighborhood hangout, Thelonius and his pals become instant suspects. Thelonius may be guilty of pulling crazy...
11) Oh, snap!
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When their journalistic counterparts at a school in England begin to add incriminating photographs to their articles, the Cruisers and students at Harlem's DaVinci Academy realize that words and pictures do not always tell the whole story.
12) The new kid
Author
Series
Carver chronicles volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Third-grader Gavin and his friends aren't sure what to make of the new boy in their class, Khufu. He doesn't look or act like other kids. When Gavin's bike goes missing, they think Khufu stole it, but did he?"--
13) Pizza party
Author
Series
Carver chronicles volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Third-grader Richard and his friends are four days from earning a pizza party for good behavior when a very strict substitute suspects that some of them have been cheating.
14) Pinned
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
HL 460L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Adonis is smart, intellectually gifted and born without legs; Autumn is strong, a great wrestler, and barely able to read in ninth grade--but Autumn is attracted to Adonis and determined to make him a part of her life whatever he or her best friend thinks.
Author
Series
Sadiq volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
540L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Ms. Battersby has announced that Sadiq's third-grade class will be having elections for student government! Everyone is buzzing with excitement, but Sadiq isn't sure about any of it. Should he run for one of the positions? He does lots of research and gets good advice from his parents and siblings. Watching an inspiring speech finally helps him decide exactly what he wants to do. But when a good friend has the same idea, Sadiq questions his decision....
16) The Cruisers
Author
Series
Cruisers volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Friends Zander, Kambui, LaShonda, and Bobbi, caught in the middle of a mock Civil War at DaVinci Academy, learn the true cost of freedom of speech when they use their alternative newspaper, The Cruiser, to try to make peace.
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