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Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fourteen-year-old Joan Skraggs, just like the heroines in her beloved novels, yearns for real life and true love. But what hope is there for adventure, beauty, or art on a hardscrabble farm in Pennsylvania where the work never ends? Over the summer of 1911, Joan pours her heart out into her diary as she seeks a new, better life for herself - because maybe, just maybe, a hired girl cleaning and cooking for six dollars a week can become what a farm...
4) Genie wishes
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Follows fifth-grader Genie Kunkle through a tumultuous year at Hopkins Country Day School, as a new girl tries to take Genie's place as Sarah's best friend, and Genie learns that expressing her opinion in public can be scary when she is elected class blogger.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Oyster R. Motel, a lonely boy raised as a foundling in a Baltimore nunnery, travels through a portal to the imaginary world of his parents, where he heroically confronts the villainous Dark Mouth.
Author
Publisher
Kokila
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Propelled by his best friend's impending move out of state and inspired by Ferris Bueller's Day Off, sixteen-year-old Harrison plans a farewell through Baltimore that includes a road trip, their first Pride, and a rooftop dance party.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Back in Baltimore, twelve-year-old identical twins Edgar and Allan think they have encountered the ghost of their great-great-great-great granduncle, Edgar Allan Poe, asking them to solve his murder--but really it is their arch-nemesis, Professor Perry, looking for revenge.
8) Jake
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When ten-year-old Jake's widowed mother breaks her leg just before Christmas while her sister and best friend are both away, a grandfather Jake barely remembers must come to Baltimore, Maryland, to help a neighbor take care of him.
Author
Publisher
Disney Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Cody Parker moves to Baltimore, Maryland, where as a fat eighth-grader, he has to deal with brutal teasing from a baseball teammate, and his school is beset by a rash of mysterious thefts that threaten to sideline Cody and ruin a golden season for his team.
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Billy dreams of playing quarterback for the Colts one day, like Johnny Unitas, and although his coach insists he play receiver until he is bigger, Billy in inspired to try harder after meeting his hero and seeing the Colts win the 1958 National Football League championship. Includes biographical information about Unitas.
11) This way home
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Elijah, seventeen, has always been sure of just one thing--basketball--and believes it will be his way out of West Baltimore, but when gang violence knocks him down, helping a veteran repair his rickety home helps Elijah see what really matters.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Upon learning on Christmas Day that their rich and imperious grandmother may soon die and disown the family unless the one who offended her deeply will confess, each of the three Sullivan sisters sets down her offenses on paper.
Author
Series
Flying through history volume 1
Publisher
Bancroft Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
You think history is boring? Baltimore kid Daniel does--until a chance encounter with a magical talking raven named Calvert sends him flying back to 1814, where he finds his home city under siege by a British army on the verge of defeating the United States of America in the War of 1812. Amidst the fire of muskets, the thunder of cannons, and the dark approach of the British armada, Daniel discovers just what it took for a young nation to endure...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Through the eyes of three different boys, three linked novellas explore the tumultuous times beginning with the secession of South Carolina and leading up to the first major battle of the Civil War.
16) Air
Author
Publisher
Adaptive Books, an imprint of Adaptive Studios
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
After 17-year-old Grey witnesses the tragic death of his mother in Colorado, he is shipped off to live with his aunt in inner-city Baltimore, where he struggles to fit in to a new school and community. His new friend Akil introduces him to the enigmatic Kurtis, the leader of a group that uses high-octane sports as a form of social activism. By challenging the police with death-defying stunts and posting videos of them online, Kurtis, Grey, Akil, and...
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