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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Four students, with their own individual stories, develop a special bond and attract the attention of their teacher, a paraplegic, who chooses them to represent their sixth-grade class in the Academic Bowl competition. Mrs. Eva Marie Olinski always gave good answers. Whenever she was asked how she had selected her team for the Academic Bowl, she chose one of several good answers. Most often she said that the four members of her team had skills that...
Author
Series
Just Harriet volume 2
Publisher
Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"Harriet Wermer investigates more mysteries during her stay on Marble Island"--
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Eighth-grader Jemma has a crush on Forrest, so when he asks her to be his fake-girlfriend because he wants a break from real relationships, she agrees, thinking that it will give her a chance to make him like her.
4) Haunters
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Three boys, separated by generations, are linked in their ability to time-travel using their dreams to appear, ghost-like, wherever and whenever they choose, but when Eddie, the first dreamwalker, is targeted by Adam, a dream-terrorist, novice dreamwalker David must stop him.
5) Ida B. Wells
Author
Publisher
Purple Toad Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"It might be hard to believe that one of the women most famous for her involvement in Civil Rights and the rights of women began by biting someone on a train. Its true! Ida B. Wells began her journey when she was taking a train and was asked to move to another car because of the color of her skin. She said no. Wells would go on to say no to many others in her pursuit of equal rights. Read her story and learn about a woman who made it her mission to...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In a near future world of heat, greed, and hunger, Devin earns a coveted spot in a home for abandoned children that promises unlimited food and toys and the hope of finding a new family, but Devin discovers the home's horrific true mission when he investigates its intimidating Administrator and the zombie-like sickness that afflicts some children.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"I Am Malala. This is my story. Malala Yousafzai was only ten years old when the Taliban took control of her region. They said music was a crime. They said women weren't allowed to go to the market. They said girls couldn't go to school. Raised in a once-peaceful area of Pakistan transformed by terrorism, Malala was taught to stand up for what she believes. So she fought for her right to be educated. And on October 9, 2012, she nearly lost her life...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: Twelve-year-old Nova is eagerly awaiting the launch of the space shuttle Challenger--it's the first time a teacher is going into space, and kids across America will watch the event on live TV in their classrooms. Nova and her big sister, Bridget, share a love of astronomy and the space program. They planned to watch the launch together. But Bridget has disappeared, and Nova is in a new foster home. While foster families and...
11) Malamander
Author
Series
Legends of Eerie-on-Sea volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It's winter in the town of Eerie-on-Sea, where the mist is thick and the salt spray is rattling the windows of the Grand Nautilus Hotel. Inside, young Herbert Lemon, Lost and Founder for the hotel, has an unexpected visitor. It seems that Violet Parma, a fearless girl around his age, lost her parents at the hotel when she was a baby, and she's sure that the nervous Herbert is the only person who can help her find them. The trouble is, Violet is being...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"When orphaned Mary Lennox comes to live at her uncle's great house with nearly one hundred rooms, she finds it full of secrets. Her uncle keeps himself locked up, and at night Mary hears the sound of crying echoing down one of the long corridors. The gardens surrounding the large property are her only escape. Then one day Mary discovers a secret garden, surrounded by walls and a locked gate. With the help of two unexpected companions, Mary discovers...
13) City spies
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Sara Martinez is a hacker. She recently broke into the New York City juvenile justice system to expose her foster parents as cheats and lawbreakers. However, instead of being hailed as a hero, she finds herself facing years in a juvenile detention facility and banned from using computers. Enter Mother, a British spy who not only gets sara released from jail but also offers her a chence to make a home for herself withing a secret team of your MI6...
14) Lily's promise
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"Lily made her dad an important promise before he passed away; that she would...speak her mind at least five times. But speaking up one time, let alone five, is easier said than done. It'll be even harder now that Lily must attend public school for the first time. Fortunately, she meets curling-obsessed Hobart and quiet Dunya at the beginning of sixth grade...But when Lily and her friends are bullied by Ryan and his mean clique, she quickly discovers...
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When Esther's family moves to a farm during the Great Depression, she soon learns that there are things much more important than that her superstitious mother rarely shows her any affection.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Shortly after their police officer father is killed in the line of duty, thirteen-year-old Grace's older sister decides to adopt a dog to train as a service dog for a handicapped child so that she can write about it for her college applications, but, true to form, it is the grief-stricken Grace who ends up taking responsibility for the dog.
17) Is she for real?
Author
Series
You're invited to a creepover volume 7
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
©2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When Bethany Warren moves from New York City to the small town of Warwick, she's surprised by how quickly she meets a new group of friends, including boyfriend Nate Carlson who gives her a beautiful old ruby ring. Bethany thinks the legend of Lady Warwick, who was said to have been buried alive, is just silly old town folklore--until her life starts imitating legend a little too closely.
Author
Series
Ottoline volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Ottoline and Mr. Munroe, her very helpful dog, enroll in the Alice B. Smith School for the Differently Gifted and while Ottoline worries that she may not have a special gift, Mr. Munro worries about the ghost that is said to haunt the school at night.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of I Dissent comes a biographical graphic novel about celebrated Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is a modern feminist icon-a leader in the fight for equal treatment of girls and women in society and the workplace. She blazed trails to the peaks of the male-centric worlds of education and law, where women had rarely risen before. Ruth Bader Ginsburg has...
20) School spirit
Author
Series
Happily ever afterlife volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"Lucy is having a great afterlife. She's got a perfect boyfriend; she's busy with the Limbos (the dance club she co-founded); and she's even learning to control her newest ghostly skill, mindreading. She is totally ready to lead the Limbos to victory in the school spirit competition! But whoever said the afterlife was going to be peaceful didn't have to go to middle school and didn't know Lucy's nemesis, Georgia Sinclaire. This competition is about...