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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
570L
Language
English
Description
The magic tree house carries Jack and Annie to New York City in 1938 on a mission to rescue a magical unicorn from New York City. They arrive during one of the darkest periods in the city's history--the Great Depression. Even worse, the city is in the grip of a terrible snowstorm. Where will Jack and Annie ever find a unicorn in the city? And who are the mysterious people following them? Includes instructions to make a snow globe.
Author
Series
Underland chronicles volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Gregor and his younger sister, Boots, return to the Underworld beneath New York City to find the cure for a terrible plague that threatens the life of their mother, as well as the lives of the people, bats, and rats who populate the underworld.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
"Shortly after a fall-out with her best friend, sixth grader Miranda starts receiving mysterious notes, and she doesn't know what to do. The notes tell her that she must write a letter--a true story, and that she can't share her mission with anyone. It would be easy to ignore the strange messages, except that whoever is leaving them has an uncanny ability to predict the future. If that is the case, then Miranda has a big problem--because the notes...
45) Kaleidoscope
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
An astounding new feat of storytelling from Brian Selznick, the award-winning creator of The Invention of Hugo Cabret and Wonderstruck. A ship. A garden. A library. A key. In Kaleidoscope, the incomparable Brian Selznick presents the story of two people bound to each other through time and space, memory and dreams. At the center of their relationship is a mystery about the nature of grief and love which will look different to each reader. Kaleidoscope...
47) Ground Zero
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Brandon is visiting his dad on the 107th floor of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 when the attack comes; Reshmina is a girl in Afghanistan who has grown up in the aftermath of that attack but dreams of peace, becoming a teacher and escaping her village and the narrow role that the Taliban believes is appropriate for women--both are struggling to survive, both changed forever by the events of 9/11.
48) The Grimm legacy
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
New York high school student Elizabeth gets an after-school job as a page at the "New-York Circulating Material Repository," and when she gains coveted access to its Grimm Collection of magical objects, she and the other pages are drawn into a series of frightening adventures involving mythical creatures and stolen goods.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 38
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
Description
While staying at a hotel in New York City, the Aldens investigate a series of annoying pranks plaguing the management and guests.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
1030L
Language
English
Description
Sparks fly when Lucy Patterson and Owen Buckley meet on an elevator rendered useless by a New York City blackout. After they're rescued, they spend the night wandering the darkened streets and marveling at the rare appearance of stars above Manhattan. But once the power is back, so is reality. Over the next year, as the two teenagers leave the city and they travel farther away from each other geographically, they stay connected emotionally.
51) Treasure hunters
Author
Series
Treasure hunters (James Patterson) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
"Following clues left by their missing father, twelve-year-old twins Bickford and Rebecca Kidd sail from the Caribbean to New York City with their siblings to finish the dangerous quest of their world-famous treasure-hunting parents"--Provided by publisher.
53) Stacey's mistake
Author
Series
Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 18
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
"Stacey's invited her friends from the Baby-sitters Club down to New York City for a long weekend. But what a mistake! The Baby-sitters are way out of place in the big city. Mary Anne sounds like a walking guide book; Dawn's afraid of everything; Kristy can't keep her mouth shut; and Claudia's jealous of Stacey's friends. Does this mean Stacey can't be the Baby-sitters' friend anymore? Will the Baby-sitters Club fall apart?"--Back cover.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
HL 710L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Miles Morales is just your average teenager. Dinner every Sunday with his parents, chilling out playing old-school video games with his best friend, Granke, crushing on brainy, beautiful Alicia. He's even got a scholarship spot at the prestigious Brooklyn Visions Academy. Oh yeah, and he's Spider-Man. But lately, Miles's spidey-sense has been on the fitz. When a misunderstanding leads to his suspension from school, Miles begins to question his...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
Story of Holden Caufield with his idiosyncrasies, penetrating insight, confusion, sensitivity and negativism. The hero-narrator of "The Catcher in the Rye" is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days. The boy himself is at once too simple and too complex...
Author
Series
Vanderbeekers volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
One hilarious Harlem family is on a mission to find the perfect way to celebrate their Papa's fortieth birthday while discovering more about their mysterious grandparents in this heartfelt romp and latest installment to the New York Times best-selling series, perfect for fans of the Penderwicks. It's summer on 141st Street, and the Vanderbeekers are looking forward to Papa's surprise fortieth birthday party. But then Papa must leave town to help his...
58) The luxe
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
990L
Language
English
Description
In 1899 Manhattan, the drowning of beautiful Elizabeth Holland, daughter of New York society's ruling family, brings to the surface the scandalous behavior of several teenagers of varying social class.
Author
Series
Zombie chasers volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Six months after the Zombie Chasers discovered the antidote to end the Zombie apocalypse, Zack Clark and friends discover, during a class trip to New York City, that the living dead may not be gone for good.
60) City of orphans
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
570L
Language
English
Description
In 1893 New York, thirteen-year-old Maks, a newsboy, teams up with Willa, a homeless girl, to clear his older sister, Emma, from charges that she stole from the brand new Waldorf Hotel, where she works. Includes historical notes.
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