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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
On a summer visit to her grandmother's cottage by the ocean, twelve-year-old Martha gains perspective on the death of a classmate, on her relationship with her grandmother, on her feelings for an older boy, and on her plans to be a writer.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
550L
Language
English
Description
"Karen loves to spell words. She is very good at it, too. First she wins the spelling bee in her class. Then Karen wins another spelling contest. And another...and another! Soon Karen might be the best junior speller in the state of Connecticut. She's even going to be on TV! Karen thinks that is so great. But her friends don't. They think Karen is a show-off!"--Back cover.
5) Restart
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Chase does not remember falling off the roof, in fact he does not remember anything about himself, and when he gets back to middle school he begins to learn who he was through the reactions of the other kids--trouble is, he really is not sure he likes the Chase that is being revealed, but can he take the opportunity amnesia has provided and restart his life?"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Alice McKinley. Main series volume 12
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
During the summer between eighth and ninth grades, Alice and her friends Pamela and Elizabeth decide to improve themselves through exercise.
7) L.A. Candy
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
HL 700L
Language
English
Description
"Los Angeles is all about the sweet life: hot clubs, cute guys, designer...everything. Nineteen-year-old Jane Roberts can't wait to start living it up. She may be in L.A. for an internship, but Jane plans to play as hard as she works, and has enlisted her BFF Scarlett to join in the fun. When Jane and Scarlett are approached by a producer who wants them to be on his new series, a "reality version of Sex and the City," they can hardly believe their...
Author
Series
Tig Ripley volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Looking to propel her into the spotlight at her middle school, thirteen-year-old Tig Ripley starts an all-girl rock band with her cousin and two school friends.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Ella has everything she needs to take seventh grade by storm, including the perfect new best friend. She's still not 100% sure why Morgan has chosen Ella to be her newest sidekick, but Ella knows better than to turn down the attention...even if it means leaving her former best friend, Sophie, behind. But life as Morgan's best friend is trickier than Ella imagined. Everything has to be perfect, from their on-brand selfies to the videos they record...
11) The Laura Line
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Laura Dyson's seventh grade history teacher schedules a class trip to the slave shack on her grandmother's Texas farm, Laura is forced to come to terms with her family's past and what it means for her future.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
580L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When boyfriend Elliott breaks up with Jenna Sakai before Christmas break, she just about convinces herself that relationships are for suckers and she is better off without them; but unfortunately she finds herself in competition with Elliott for a journalism scholarship, and worse her first assignment for the newspaper club is to write a personal essay, which is difficult when you are someone who prefers to keep your emotions bottled up--and than...
13) Jake, reinvented
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rick becomes friends with the popular new boy, Jake Garrett, football player and host of superlative parties, and in the process discovers the true nature of his schoolmates and uncovers the mystery of Jake's past.
14) Trading places
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When fifth-grade twins, Amy and Todd, tackle a school project, they also have to cope with issues of friendship at school and problems at home, including their father's unemployment.
15) Dark Dude
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
980L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the 1960s, Rico Fuentes, a pale-skinned Cuban American teenager, abandons drug-infested New York City for the picket fence and apple pie world of Wisconsin, only to discover that he still feels like an outsider and that violent and judgmental people can be found even in the wholesome Midwest.
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fifteen-year-old Georgia learns a great deal about herself and her troubled best friend Riley when they become part of a group of suburban Pennsylvania teenagers that go to Anapra, a squatters village in the border town of Juarez, Mexico, to undertake a community construction project.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
The daily class discussions about the nature of man, the existence of God, abortion, organized religion, suicide and other contemporary issues serve as a backdrop for a high-school senior's attempt to answer a friend's dramatic cry for help.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
How is it that the internet connects us to a world of people, yet so many of us feel more isolated than ever? That we have hundreds, even thousands of friends on social media, but not a single person to truly confide in? Radha Agrawal calls this "community confusion," and in Belong she offers every reader a blueprint to find their people and build and nurture community, because connectedness--as more and more studies show--is our key to happiness,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Although she longs to be an all-American girl, Roxanne, a timid, Israeli-born thirteen-year-old who idolizes Wonder Woman, begins to see things differently when the supremely confident Liat, also from Israel, moves into the "cursed house" next door and they become friends.
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