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1) Flush
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
With their father jailed for sinking a river boat, Noah Underwood and his younger sister, Abbey, must gather evidence that the owner of this floating casino is emptying his bilge tanks into the protected waters around their Florida Keys home.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Description
Twelve-year-old Abilene Tucker is the daughter of a drifter who, in the summer of 1936, sends her to stay with an old friend in Manifest, Kansas, where he grew up, and where she hopes to find out some things about his past. Over the summer she pieces together his story. Having heard stories about Manifest, Abilene is disappointed to find that it's just a dried-up, worn-out old town. But her disappointment quickly turns to excitement when she discovers...
Author
Series
Tres edades volume 115
Publisher
Ediciones Siruela
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 22
Language
Español
Description
Cuando el padre de Meggie saluda a un extraño visitante que aparece en su casa, la niña siente que aquella persona emana un peligro. Entonces huyen a la casa de tía Elinor, propietaria de una fascinante biblioteca. Meggie descubre que los forasteros que misteriosamente aparecen y desaparecen llaman a su padre Lengua de Brujo, ya que tiene el don de dar vida a los personajes de los libros cuando lee en voz alta.
Author
Series
Ramona Quimby volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
The family routine is upset during Ramona's year in second grade when her father unexpectedly loses his job--Résumé de l'éditeur.
Littérature de jeunesse en langue anglaise.
Author
Series
My sister the vampire volume 4
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
After discovering that she has a twin sister, Ivy, who is a vampire, Olivia risks losing her when their father decides to move to Europe with Ivy.
Author
Series
Joey Pigza books volume 2
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Joey, who is still taking medication to keep him from getting too wired, goes to spend the summer with the hard-drinking father he has never known and tries to help the baseball team he coaches win the championship.
10) Dancing home
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When Margie's cousin Lupe comes from Mexico to live in California with Margie's family, Lupe must adapt to America, while Margie, who thought it would be fun to have her cousin there, finds that she's embarrassed by her in school and jealous of her at home.
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Samantha Hanson must try to control her temper and get along with her older sister if she wants to go on a vacation to the Grand Canyon, but she has some bigger problems too, like figuring out why her mother will not talk about her father, who died when Sam was very young.
12) Ghost
Author
Series
Track (Jason Reynolds) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Life in Middle School
One World, Many Stories 6th - 8th
Read-Alikes for Angie Thomas
Summer Olympics for Children & Teens
One World, Many Stories 6th - 8th
Read-Alikes for Angie Thomas
Summer Olympics for Children & Teens
Description
"Ghost wants to be the fastest sprinter on his elite middle school track team, but his past is slowing him down in this first electrifying novel of a brand-new series from Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe Award-winning author Jason Reynolds. Ghost. Lu. Patina. Sunny. Four kids from wildly different backgrounds with personalities that are explosive when they clash. But they are also four kids chosen for an elite middle school track team-a team that...
Author
Series
Amber Brown volume 9
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Fourth-grader Amber Brown must make some important decisions when her mother and Max move their wedding date up and prepare to buy a house together, while her father makes some bad choices of his own.
14) Feeding frenzy
Author
Series
Killer species volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Time has passed since anyone's heard from Dr. Catalyst. Emmet and Calvin have even begun to think that the crazed scientist might be gone for good. But then, on a trip to snorkel off the Florida coast, one of their friends is nearly drowned by an underwater monster, with endless rows of razor-sharp teeth. No one is quite sure what they saw. Was it a moray eel? A giant barracuda? There's only one thing Emmet knows for certain. Dr. Catalyst is back....
15) The final step
Author
Series
Lock and key (Ridley Pearson) volume 3
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
“Will leave you dying to know more.” Rick Riordan, author of the #1 bestselling Percy Jackson series. The New York Times bestselling author of the Peter and the Starcatchers and Kingdom Keepers series, Ridley Pearson, brings us the thrilling conclusion to the Lock and Key trilogy. Before James Moriarty and his sister Moria enrolled in Baskerville Academy, they were inseparableas close to best friends as a brother and sister could be. But since...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Cant get enough of Hamilton? Think the British were the only ones we squabbled with during the Revolutionary War? Think again! A unique look at how the founding fathers settled their differences in their quest to settle a nation. George Washington vs. King George. Benjamin Franklin vs. his son William. John Adams vs. Thomas Jefferson. Alexander Hamilton vs. everyone! Join author Anne Quirk and illustrator Elizabeth Baddeley as they referee four fascinating...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
In 1830s Canada, a thirteen-year-old Cree girl journeys westward from York Factory to the Red River valley, lured by a Norfolk trotter horse and determined to find her Scottish fur trader father.
18) Rain reign
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Struggling with Asperger's, Rose shares a bond with her beloved dog, but when the dog goes missing during a storm, Rose is forced to confront the limits of her comfort levels, even if it means leaving her routines in order to search for her pet.
19) Dance disaster
Author
Series
Middle school misadventures volume 3
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"At first, Newell is excited when Mrs. Hendricks announces a school dance! The seventh grade dance last year was awesome, and Newell used it to invent his signature move: The Shake and Slide. But when Newell realizes this dance is for the entire school, not just the eighth grade, he starts to stress about his friends coupling up and the dance ultimately breaking up the gang. Things go from bad to worse when Skyler jinxes Newell: he stubs his toe,...
Author
Series
Lock and key (Ridley Pearson) volume 2
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Moira Moriarty calls upon the clever Sherlock Holmes, her brother James's roommate at school, to help solve the mystery of her father's death, leading them to a secret sect, a rare jewel, and a friendship torn asunder.
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