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Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In 2008, J.K. Rowling delivered a deeply moving commencement speech at Harvard University published in book form as Very Good Lives. It presents J.K. Rowling's words of wisdom for anyone at a turning point in life.
Author
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
Isaac Foster, captain of Team Rogue, is not sure what to expect from Kai Palakiko, who is new to snowboarding, but an expert surfer and a last minute addition to the team--can Kai adapt his talent in time for the big competition?
3) BMX blitz
Author
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
49 p. : col. ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Three talented teenagers are competing in a BMX competition whose course has been kept a secret before the race, but one of them seems to be able to anticipate the course better than the other competitors. Written in graphic-novel format.
Author
Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 5
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
While trying to find a new best friend after feuding with Rowley, middle-school slacker Greg Heffley is warned by older family members that adolescence is a time to act more responsibly and to think seriously about his future.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
277 p. : ill. 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Hans, a foundling raised by a grave robber, helps Countess Angela Gabriela, nearly thirteen, when she is torn away from her dream of being a professional puppeteer by an evil archduke out to destroy her and her parents.
Author
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
Since his accident Billy Cruz has lost some of his confidence and has been holding back when doing his BMX tricks--will he regain confidence in time for the next competition and sort out his feelings for the super-competitive Penny Allen?
Author
Series
Wings of fire volume 11
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
For centuries there have been rumors of another continent on the dragons' planet -- another land far across the ocean, populated by tribes of dragons very different from those we know. But there's never been any evidence, and most dragons dismissed the rumors as fairy tales, until now. It turns out the stories are true, and the other tribes are coming.
Author
Series
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Unabridged.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
1 audio media player (8 hr., 39 min.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
Description
Things Tally is dreading about sixth grade:
-- Being in classes without her best friends
-- New (scratchy) uniforms
-- Hiding her autism
Tally isn't ashamed of being autistic -- even if it complicates life sometimes, it's part of who she is. But this is her first year at Kingswood Academy, and her best friend, Layla, is the only one who knows. And while a lot of other people are uncomfortable around Tally, Layla has never been one of them...
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
321 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Makeda dreams of meeting her African American mother, while coping with serious problems in her white adopted family, a cross-country move, and being homeschooled.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
245 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
After her father's landscaping business fails and the family loses their house, sixth-grader Griselda Zaragoza follows her sister's example and begins selling Alma cosmetics while hiding her changed circumstances from friends.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
359 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Peijing and her family are adapting to their new life in Australia, but when cracks in her family life start to appear, she must find a way to cope with the uncertainties of her own little world and figure out where she fits in.
12) The contract
Author
Publisher
Jeter Publishing, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
In Kalamazoo, Michigan, eight-year-old Derek Jeter, who dreams of playing for the New York Yankees, learns what it takes to be a champion on and off the field.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Washed ashore as a baby in tiny Tupelo Landing, North Carolina, Mo LoBeau, now eleven, and her best friend Dale turn detective when the amnesiac Colonel, owner of a caf�e and co-parent of Mo with his cook, Miss Lana, seems implicated in a murder.
Author
Series
The books of beginning volume 2
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
In the second book in the Books of Beginning Trilogy, Michael and Emma must track down the Chronicle of Life, while Kate must find a way back to present day from the year 1899.
15) Nooks & crannies
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eleven-year-old Tabitha Crum, whose parents were just about to abandon her, is invited to the country estate of a wealthy countess along with five other children and told that one of them will become her heir.
Author
Series
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
215 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Sunny's just made it to middle school . . . and it's making her life very confusing. All her best friend Deb wants to talk about is fashion, boys, makeup, boys, and being cool. Sunny's not against any of these things, but she also doesn't understand why suddenly everything revolves around them. She's much more comfortable when she's in her basement, playing Dungeons & Dragons with a bunch of new friends. Because when you're swordfighting and spider-slaying,...
17) Fish Girl
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
[2017].
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
"Fish Girl, a young mermaid living in a boardwalk aquarium, has never interacted with anyone beyond the walls of her tank until a chance encounter with an ordinary girl, Livia. Their growing friendship inspires Fish Girl's longing for freedom, independence, and a life beyond the aquarium tank"--
18) The Giver
Author
Series
The giver quartet volume 1
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
176 pages, 7 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Jonas' life assignment is as the Receiver of Memory, where he will apprentice the Giver and become a storehouse of all the things humanity left behind when it entered utopia: color, emotion, and even more complicated secrets.
19) Show Me a Sign
Author
Series
Show Me a Sign volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
It is 1805 and Mary Lambert has always felt safe among the deaf community of Chilmark on Martha's Vineyard where practically everyone communicates in a shared sign language, but recent events have shattered her life; her brother George has died, land disputes between English settlers and the Wampanoag people are becoming increasingly bitter, and a "scientist" determined to discover the origins of the islands' widespread deafness has decided she makes...
Author
Series
The books of beginning volume 1
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
After years of moving from one orphanage to another following their parents' disappearance, Kate, Michael, and Emma learn that they have special powers, a prophesied quest to find a magical book, and a fearsome enemy.