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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Ever since her mother left, Maia has struggled with depression, which has only gotten worse since her father remarried; so Maia decides run away to Canada to find her mother, together with Billy, a boy who now lives in a group home and has his own familytragedy--but when they finally arrive in Tadoussac, Quebec, Maia discovers that even her mother has been keeping secrets.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Every Falling Star, the first book to portray contemporary North Korea to a young audience, is the intense memoir of a North Korean boy named Sungju who is forced at age twelve to live on the streets and fend for himself. To survive, Sungju creates a gang and lives by thieving, fighting, begging, and stealing rides on cargo trains. Sungju richly re-creates his scabrous story, depicting what it was like for a boy alone to create a new family with his...
Author
Series
Annie's people volume 1
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Annie Zook--the preacher's eldest daughter--is expected to join the Amish church, but at 20 she is still deciding.' Because of the strict rules that guide the Plain community, she must continually.
Author
Series
Annie's people volume 2
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Annie Zook, the preacher's daughter, struggles to keep her promise to her father--to abandon her art for a full six months. Will Annie's intention to join the Amish church be derailed by the attention of a handsome Englisher?
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In the unique landscape of the Camargue in the South of France during WW2, a young autistic boy lives on his parents' farm among the salt flats and the flamingos that live there. There are lots of things he doesn't understand, but he does know how to heal animals. He loves routine and music too; every week he goes to market with his mother, to ride his special horse on the town carousel. But then the Germans come, with their guns, and take the town....
6) The parasite
Author
Series
Michael Vey volume 8
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Michael and his friends learn that returning to a normal life is not only more difficult than they imagined, but that normal doesn't last. Like the mythical Hydra, cutting off the head of the global Elgen only created more enemies.
Author
Series
Michael Vey volume 6
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Michael and his friends try to recruit Hatch's Electric Youth to their side.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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Description
Tired of society’s rules, Huck longs to explore the wild, untamed beauty of the Mississippi River. But his life is about to change forever when he crosses paths with Jim, an escaped slave searching for his own freedom. Together, Huck and Jim brave the Mississippi's dangerous waters, meeting all kinds of characters along the way. From the cunning Duke and Dauphin to the kind-hearted Widow Douglas and her sister Miss Watson, each encounter proves...
9) Earth girl
Author
Publisher
Pyr, an imprint of Prometheus Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Abandoned on Earth because of her inability to survive on other planets, Jarra crafts a fake background for herself to join a class of norms who are excavating the dangerous ruins of the old cities.
10) Bloody Horowitz
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
11) Fighting words
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"Ten-year-old Della can rely on her older sister, Suki, for anything, but when Suki attempts suicide, Della must seek help and speak out about the sexual abuse they've both suffered at the hands of their mother's boyfriend"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Michael Vey volume 4
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Michael, Taylor, Ostin, and the rest of the Electroclan head to Taiwan in search of nine-year-old child prodigy Lin Julung, or Jade Dragon, who the Elgen kidnapped for Hatch's army of electric children.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Oscar Dunleavy, a teenager who used to make incredible apple tarts, has gone missing and everyone thinks he is dead, but Oscar's best friend Meg and his little brother Stevie, try to figure out what happened to him.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
American-educated Jordanian Luma Mufleh founds a youth soccer team comprised of children from Liberia, Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Balkan states, and elsewhere in the refugee settlement town of Clarkston, Georgia, bringing the children together to discover their common bonds as they adjust to life in a new homeland.
Author
Series
Skink volume 7
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
When their reckless cousin runs off with a guy she met online to avoid going to boarding school, long-suffering Richard and renegade Wild Skink brave storms, wildlife, and violence in a swampy region of Florida to find her.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Joey is angry-- all the time. And she doesn't understand why. She has two loving moms, a supportive older half brother, and, as a triplet, she is never without company. But there was the time she threw a soccer ball-- hard-- at a boy in gym class and bruised his collarbone. Or when jealousy made her push her (former) best friend (and crush), Layla, a little bit too roughly. After a meltdown at Joey's apartment building leads to her family's eviction,...
17) The Pear affair
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
While accompanying her parents to Paris, twelve-year-old Nell sets off to investigate the disappearance of her beloved, former au pair, Perrine, affectionately known as Pear. With the help of a friendly bellboy at her parents' hotel, Nell sets out into-- and under-- the streets of Paris. They bring to light a sinister plot to destroy a cherished-- and delicious-- part of Parisian life. -- adapted from jacket
Author
Series
Publisher
Crabtree Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Autism Spectrum Disorder is a term used to describe a group of developmental disorders that include autism, Asperger Syndrome, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, and others. Many people with these disorders struggle with social interaction and communication. This informative book provides insight into how people diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder experience the world around them and promotes understanding and acceptance. A chapter for friends...
Author
Publisher
Golden Books
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 10.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Presents a history of Golden Books, discussing how it was founded in the midst of World War II providing quality books at inexpensive prices and used innovative writers and marketing techniques to establish itself as a highly successful publishing firm.
20) The gift
Author
Series
Witch and wizard volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
After escaping imprisonment by the totalitarian regime known as the New Order, siblings Wisty and Whit Allgood, who possess magical powers, establish themselves as leaders of the Resistance, a hidden community of teenagers like themselves, hunted by the state and determined to defy its ban on the arts, magic, and all other forms of creativity.
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