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Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books For Children
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
When young Halli Sveinsson plays a trick on Ragnor of the House of Hakonsson, he sets in motion a chain of events that will forever alter his destiny, forcing him to leave home and go on a hero's quest where he encounters highway robbers, terrifying monsters, and a girl who may finally be his match.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic, Incorporated
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Livvy and Jayden are the stars of their school's robotics team. Livvy is especially enthusiastic because her own mother works in a robotics lab and experiments with Artificial Intelligence. To impress her mom, Livvy and Jayden build a robot. Desperate to win, Livvy and Jayden "borrow" an Artificial Intelligence module.
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
As sixty-year-old John Gregory reflects on the past, he reveals how the world of ghosts, ghasts, witches, and boggarts was exposed to him and he later became the Spook, even though his first intention had been to join the priesthood.
Author
Series
Harry Potter (Original series) volume 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
At a time when the forces of evil seem to be gaining the upper hand, Harry comes of age in the wizarding world, and must take on and defeat Voldemort--or be killed himself.
Author
Publisher
Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
While preparing for her bat mitzvah--and trying to make sense of her own life--Zippy discovers she has magical abilities when she conjures up a beautiful girl with no memory and wings like an angel to whom she is connected.
7) Lolo's light
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"This is a truth about growing up: Once in your life, sometime after your first memory...something is going to happen to you that doesn't happen to anyone else...For Millie, it's something really sad. Lolo, her neighbors' infant daughter, dies unexpectedly, suddenly, inexplicably, on the night Millie babysits. It's not Millie's fault. There's nothing she could have done. And there's nothing she can do now"--
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Sarah writes letters to her hero, To Kill a Mockingbird's Atticus Finch, for help understanding her mentally ill mother, her first real crush, and life in her small Texas town, all in the course of one momentous summer.
Author
Series
Abby in between volume 1
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Abby McAdams grapples with changes in her home life, her body, and her perspective on the world as she navigates fourth grade.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When Julian's parents send him and his two brothers to Miami to escape from the Cuban revolution, the boys are thrust into a new world where bullies run rampant and it is not always clear how best to protect themselves.
13) Breathing room
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In 1940, thirteen-year-old Evvy Hoffmeister and her newfound friends struggle to get well at Loon Lake Sanatorium, where they are being treated for tuberculosis.
14) If you read this
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"When Brie was younger, her mama used to surprise her with treasure hunts around their island town. After she died three years ago, these became Brie's favorite memories. Now, on her twelfth birthday, her mama has another surprise: a series of letters leading Brie on one last treasure hunt. The first letter guides Brie to a special place. The next urges her to unlock a secret. And the last letter will change life as she knows it"--
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Set in medieval times, this coming-of-age story follows Scholastica, or “Tick,” as she sets out to prove to her father that she deserves to be his candle-making apprentice despite being forbidden from helping because she's a girl.
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
In post-war Britain, when her family is left a huge house by a mysterious benefactor and decides to open its doors to those in need, Charity finds her new home a source of confusion, joy and endless misunderstandings after months of isolation with polio.
17) Just like that
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"Following the death of her closest friend in summer 1968, Meryl Lee Kowalski goes off to St. Elene's Preparatory Academy for Girls, where she struggles to navigate the venerable boarding school's traditions and a social structure heavily weighted toward students from wealthy backgrounds. In a parallel story, Matt Coffin has wound up on the Maine coast near St. Elene's with a pillowcase full of money lifted from the leader of a criminal gang"--
19) The telling pool
Author
Publisher
Harry N. Abrams
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Relying on true courage and true love, as well as some surprising connections to the Arthurian legends, a young Welsh teenager named Rhodri embarks on a quest to remove an ancient curse from Great Britain during the reign of Richard the Lionheart.
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Recounts the events that occur at the end of seventh grade, when a group of friends plan to trick Carlos, an annoying "problem" student who says he is visited by aliens, while they are on a field trip in the mountains of New Hampshire.
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