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Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1986]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
Description
In 1904, nine-year-old Samantha, an orphan living with her wealthy grandmother, and her servant friend Nellie have a midnight adventure when they try to find out what has happened to the seamstress who suddenly left her job.
Author
Series
Breadwinner series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
GN 710L
Language
English
Description
Because the Taliban rulers of Kabul, Afghanistan, impose strict limitations on women's freedom and behavior, eleven-year-old Parvana must disguise herself as a boy so that her family can survive after her father's arrest.
Author
Series
Young patriots volume 01
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
540L
Language
English
Description
Describes the female pilot's childhood fascination with airplanes and interest in flying lessons before she became the first pilot to fly solo across the Pacific Ocean.
Author
Series
Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 39
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the eerie performances of a life-size puppet begin to haunt the old Van Pelt estate, where an amateur acting group – The Footlighters – have their theater, Nancy Drew is called upon to unravel the baffling mystery. From the moment the detective and her friends Bess and George arrive at the mansion, the dancing puppet puzzle is further complicated by Tammi Whitlock, the Footlighters’ temperamental leading lady, and Emmet Calhoun,...
Author
Series
Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 50
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nancy and her friends find they have to overcome people's superstitions and fears in solving the case of a "jinxed" and threatened bird farm.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1987.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Description
When Samantha's tenth birthday party is spoiled by the boy next door, Aunt Cornelia and her young twin sisters try to ease Samantha's disappointment by inviting her and Grandmary to visit them in New York City.
Author
Series
Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
Nancy encounters a mysterious saleswoman in a perfume shop, a curious man on the train, and the finds herself trying to decipher a strange code.
Author
Series
Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 36
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
Nancy Drew travels to Hawaii to uncover the mystery surrounding the Kaluakua estate.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
In 1974, after Julie's parents divorce, she moves to a new San Francisco neighborhood where the school does not have a girls' basketball team, so she fights for the right to play on the boys' team.
12) Bethany Hamilton
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Shares details on the life of the young woman who lost her arm in a shark attack, but continued to pursue her dream of surfing.
Author
Series
Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 33
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Formats
Description
An unusual hex sign leads Nancy Drew to Pennsylvania Dutch country in pursuit of a thief who stops at nothing to get rid of her.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
NC 1110L
Language
English
Description
The King of France gives Helena the hand of any man she wants in marriage, but the one she chooses, Bertram, flees to Tuscany, and she must use her wits to get him back. Includes an introduction, notes, and discussion of the theatrical world of Shakespeare.
15) Wishing day
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
Description
Three sisters in the town of Willow Hill participate in a fabled tradition of making three wishes and find out what they really want only after their wishes come true.
Author
Series
Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 19
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Formats
Description
The eighteen-year-old girl detective must find a man who has been missing for years in order to locate the other half of a treasure map.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
990L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"The author shares her childhood memories and reveals the first sparks that ignited her writing career in free-verse poems about growing up in the North and South"--
"Jacqueline Woodson, one of today's finest writers, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse. Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the...
18) Rose in bloom
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
1360L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Several years after Rose Campbell was adopted by her uncle Alec, she and Phebe return from an extended trip to Europe, now young women ready to make their entrance into society. Though her uncle disapproves of fashionable society, Rose makes a deal with him: she'll have three months to attend parties and explore courting her way before she returns to his serious way of living.
Author
Series
Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
An anonymous diary is a mystery with handwriting that is difficult to decipher. It is filled with technical drawings and chemical formulas. Was the destructive explosion an accident or an act of revenge?
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From Children's Literature Legacy Award-winning author Nikki Grimes comes a feminist-forward new collection of poetry celebrating the little-known women poets of the Harlem Renaissance--paired with full-color, original art from today's most talented female African-American illustrators."--
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