Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Guided by her Navajo ancestors, seventh-grader Nizhoni Begay discovers she is descended from a holy woman and destined to become a monsterslayer, starting with the evil businessman who kidnapped her father. Includes glossary of Navajo terms.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Jende Jonga, a Cameroonian immigrant living in Harlem has come to the United States to provide a better life for himself, and his family. In the fall of 2007, Jende can hardly believe his luck when he lands a job as a chauffeur for a senior executive at Lehman Brothers. When the financial world is rocked by the collapse of Lehman Brothers, Jende is desperate to keep his job and is soon forced to make an impossible choice.
Author
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
The story of Joan, a ballerina whose life has been shaped by her relationship with the world-famous dancer Arslan Ruskov, whom she helps defect from the Soviet Union to the U.S. While Arslan's career takes off in New York, Joan's slowly declines, ending when she becomes pregnant and decides to marry her longtime admirer, a PhD student named Jacob. As the years pass, Joan settles into her new life in California, teaching dance and watching her son,...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
A tale inspired by the 1984 Brighton Hotel bombing assassination attempt on the lives of Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet is told from the perspectives of an IRA bomb maker, a former star athlete-turned-hotel manager, and the manager's teenage daughter.
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Judy never intended to start wearing the dog. But when she stumbled across her son Teddys old baby sling during a halfhearted basement cleaning, something in her snapped. So: the dog went into the sling, Judy felt connected to another living being, and she's repeated the process every day since. Life hasn't gone according to Judys plan. Her career as a children's book author offered a glimpse of success before taking an embarrassing nose dive. Teddy,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Growing up in Little Harbor, Maine, the daughter of a widowed lobsterman, Eliza Barnes could haul a trap and row a skiff with the best of them. But she always knew she'd leave that life behind. Now that she's married, with two kids and a cushy front-row seat to suburban country club gossip in an affluent Massachusetts town, she feels adrift. When her father injures himself in a boating accident, Eliza pushes the pause button on her own life to come...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When her father suddenly quits his job, the almost-ten-year-old, friendless Penny and her neglectful parents leave their privileged life in the city for a ramshackle property in the eccentric town of Thrush Junction, Tennessee.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Insecure about the changes high school brings, Abby ignores advice from her parents and her only friend to "make an effort" and, instead, withdraws from everyone but with Luke, who she met online.
10) When summer ends
Author
Publisher
Tor Teen
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Aiden, former star pitcher and golden boy of Riverton, and Olivia, whose life is falling apart, connect during the last summer of high school as both seek a new direction.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
After his grandfather's rebab, a traditional Afghan musical instrument, is stolen, Sami discovers it in a music store, but unable to buy it back, he makes a series of trades to get the money and, haunted by memories of his past, makes unexpected connections to his community.
Author
Series
Tom Gates stories volume 1
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Tom Gates is the master of excuses for late homework: dog attacks, spilt water, lightening. Tom's exercise book is full of his doodles, cartoons and thoughts, as well as comments from his long-suffering teacher, Mr Fullerton. After gaining five merits for his 'Camping Sucks' holiday story, Tom's work starts to go downhill, which is a pity, as he's desperate to impress Amy Porter, who sits next to him.
13) Paper wishes
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
Near the start of World War II, young Manami, her parents, and Grandfather are evacuated from their home and sent to Manzanar, an ugly, dreary internment camp in the desert for Japanese-American citizens.
14) True blue
Author
Series
Horses of Oak Valley Ranch volume 3
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
In 1960s California, eighth-grader Abby Lovitt has trouble with True Blue, the newest horse on her family's ranch, a beautiful dappled gray who is so often spooked, Abby wonders if he is haunted by the ghost of his deceased former owner.
16) Human.4
Author
Publisher
Egmont USA
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Twenty-first century fourteen-year-old Kyle was hypnotized when humanity was upgraded to 1.0 and he, incompatible with the new technology, exposes its terrifying impact in a tape-recording found by the superhumans of the future.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
If eleven-year-old Sara and her brother Hawk can complete a task involving the reclusive author renting out the silo on their farm for the summer, they will receive reward money that will pay for Sara's life-saving surgery.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Although twelve-year-old Cassidy Bean keeps a book of bad things, she did not expect her summer with the Tremont family in rural New Jersey to be one of them--but this year Ursula, a local hoarder, has died under mysterious circumstances, and Cassidy finds that there a great many bad and dangerous things hidden in her house, including, perhaps, her vengeful ghost.
19) Two-faced
Author
Series
Almost identical volume 2
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When thirteen-year-old Charlie compromises her values to help Lauren, one of the popular girls, cheat on a test, her identical twin sister, Sammie, is inadvertantly pulled into the mess.
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Just before spending her sixteenth summer on Cape Cod, Sarah's boyfriend breaks up with her and, as a scientist whose focus is on winning a scholarship through her study of a comet, she designs an experiment to become more like her older sister to see if she, too, can be popular.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request