Lisa Yee
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
"Eleven-year-old Maizy Chen visits her estranged grandparents, who own and run a Chinese restaurant in Last Chance, Minnesota; as her visit lengthens, she makes unexpected discoveries about her family's history and herself."--
Author
Series
Misfits (Lisa Yee) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
An elite group of underdogs trained to fight crime must save their unique school from shutting down.
3) Lea dives in
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ten-year-old Lea Clark takes a family trip to Brazil where she learns to overcome her fear of the ocean and meets a new friend who inspires her to embrace the thrills and beauty of Brazil
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's Spring Break, and Lea has invited her Brazilian friend Camila to St. Louis. On a visit to a crubling mansion, they come across and old photo of a woman who seems to have a connection to Lea's Grandmother. Lea is determined to find out this woman's identity. But in her search for clues, she forgets to be a good host to Camila. When Lea sees that her best friend Abby and Camila have become fast friends, she feels left out. Can Lea find a way to...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Formats
Description
During a hike with her brother through the Amazon rainforest, fifth-grader Lea discovers a badly injured baby sloth.
"Lea Clark is all set for an animal-discovery adventure! She's never been to a rainforest before, and her mind is filled with exciting thoughts about the animals she'll get to see and the pictures she'll get to take deep in the jungle. During a hike with her brother through the Amazon rainforest, they discover a baby sloth that is...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In order to raise money to protect the Hawaiian monk seal, Kanani sells shave ice at the beach, where she meets Tutu Lani, an elderly neighbor, and discovers the seals aren't the only ones who need help.
Author
Series
Girl of the year. 2011: Kanani volume 1
Girl of the year. 2011 Kanani volume 1
American Girl.Kanani volume 01
Girl of the year. 2011 Kanani volume 1
American Girl.Kanani volume 01
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Description
"Meet Kanani Akina. When Kanani's cousin Rachel comes to stay for a month, Kanani can't wait to show her what life is like in a friendly Hawaiian town--from eating shave ice to snorkeling with sea turtles. But Rachel seems homesick and unhappy. Kanani tries hard to help Rachel feel at home and have fun, but nothing seems to work--until an urgent animal rescue on the beach brings the girls together."--P. [4] of cover.
Author
Series
Millicent Min series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a series of journal entries, eleven-year-old child prodigy Millicent Min records her struggles to learn to play volleyball, tutor her enemy, deal with her grandmother's departure, and make friends over the course of a tumultuous summer.
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
When Ivy Ling, a young, Chinese-American girl growing up in San Francisco during the 1970s, has to choose between attending a gymnastics tournament or a family reunion, her brother helps her find a solution to her dilemma.
Author
Series
DC super hero girls (Lisa Yee) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Wonder Woman's desire to become a superhero takes her to Super Hero High, where she juggles new friendships, intensive training, and a roommate obsessed with social media.
Author
Series
Millicent Min series volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a series of letters to her absent father, twelve-year-old Emily Ebers deals with moving cross-country, her parents' divorce, a new friendship, and her first serious crush.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
A week before high school graduation, Harvard-bound Higgs suddenly finds his life falling apart and the other students turning against him, and somehow it all started with a hypothetical question about donating a kidney--but really it goes much deeper, all the way back to the death of his older brother.
Author
Series
DC super hero girls volume 05
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
"Harley Quinn loves fighting crime with her classmates like Wonder Woman, Batgirl, and Supergirl, but she always does it her with own madcap style--and a big mallet! It's no surprise that Harley can't resist getting involved with an upcoming inter-school battle of the bands and a fantastic cosmic carnival that appears only once a year--and this year, it's coming to Earth! But as things get stranger, Harley knows how to get to the bottom of a mystery--and...
Author
Series
Bobby Ellis-Chan volume 01
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Description
When Bobby inadvertently gets into a fight with his best friend Holly, their disagreement develops into a boys versus girls war involving their whole fourth-grade class.
Author
Series
Millicent Min series volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Formats
Description
After flunking sixth-grade English, basketball prodigy Stanford Wong must struggle to pass his summer-school class, keep his failure a secret from his friends, and satisfy his academically demanding father.
Author
Series
Bobby Ellis-Chan volume 02
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fourth-grader Bobby is hurt when he hears his father, a former professional football player, say that the two of them are nothing alike, but finally summons the courage to talk about it after he suffers a public asthma attack.
17) Absolutely maybe
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
When living with her mother, an alcoholic ex-beauty queen, becomes unbearable, almost seventeen-year-old Maybelline "Maybe" Chestnut runs away to California, where she finds work on a taco truck and tries to track down her birth father.
18) Warp speed
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Marley Sandelski has always felt invisible at school when he is not facing bullies, but a series of unexpected events gives him a taste of popularity and insights into some classmates, well-liked or greatly-feared.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Get your cape on with the DC Super Hero Girls™—the unprecedented new Super Hero universe especially for girls! Readers of all ages can fly high with the all-new adventures of Wonder Woman™, Supergirl™, Batgirl™, and some of the world’s most iconic female super heroes as high schoolers!
Wonder Woman isn’t like most high school students—but Super Hero High isn’t like most high schools!
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Wonder Woman isn’t like most high school students—but Super Hero High isn’t like most high schools!
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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Get your cape on with the DC Super Hero Girls™—the unprecedented new Super Hero universe especially for girls! Readers of all ages can fly high with the all-new adventures of Wonder Woman™, Supergirl™, Batgirl™, and some of the world’s most iconic female super heroes as high schoolers!
Supergirl is the new girl in school—and she just also happens to be the most powerful teenager in the galaxy!
...
Supergirl is the new girl in school—and she just also happens to be the most powerful teenager in the galaxy!
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