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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Lilly, a worrier who greatly fears the sea, leaves the home of her librarian great-uncle and sets out with an old woman pirate to rescue her parents, who were shipwrecked while seeking the elusive frangipani fruit fly on an uncharted island.
2) Seeker
Author
Series
Noble warriors volume 1
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2005-
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Description
Having been rejected by the Nomana--the revered warrior-monk order they long to join--sixteen-year-olds Seeker and Morning Star, along with a curious pirate named Wildman, attempt to prove that they are worthy of joining the community, after all.
Author
Series
Potts Bottom volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Although her mother, Poppy Pendle, believes magic ruins lives, eleven-year-old Cat Campbell is a late-blooming witch whose magical abilities are bursting to be mastered.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"A boy from the hood in Brooklyn travels to a STEM camp in an Appalachian holler for one epic, life-changing summer. A brilliant new novel from the award-winning author of The Stars Beneath Our Feet. Javari knew that West Virginia would be different from his home in Bushwick, Brooklyn. But his first day at STEM Camp in a little Appalachian town is still a shock. Though run-ins with the police are just the same here. Not good. Javari will learn...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Hank, Nathan, Jeremy, and Anabel deal with the realities of middle school basketball, including family pressure, a series of coaches with very different personalities and agendas, and what it means to be a team--and a friend.
7) Code red
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old former elite gymnast Eden is feeling lost after a career-ending injury, but when she meets new friends who open her eyes to period poverty, the struggle that low-income people have trying to afford menstrual products, she becomes an advocate for fair treatment and rediscovers her passion and drive.
In the spirit of Judy Blume, this empowering and heartfelt middle grade novel celebrates finding yourself, making new friends, and standing...
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"When young Mabel Ratcliff goes to study magic at Ruthersfield Academy, she discovers not only that being a proper witch is harder than she thought, but also that she is adopted"--
"Penderwicks meets Edward Eager in this moving story "that will remind readers of Roald Dahl’s Matilda" (School Library Journal) about a young witch found in a flowerpot who embarks on a journey to discover her roots. The morning Nora Ratcliff finds a baby in the flowerpot...
10) 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
Publisher
Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Poppy will do anything to realize her dream of becoming a baker, although her parents insist she attend Ruthersfield, the exclusive girls school for witchcraft, where she excels despite her dislike of magic. Includes baking tips and recipes.
"Poppy has magical powers, but she would rather be a baker. Can she find a way to follow her own path? This charming novel includes more than a dozen delectable recipes! Ten-year-old Poppy, born...
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Description
"Thanks to her Ye-Ye’s epic scavenger hunts, thirteen-year-old Ruby Chu knows San Francisco like the back of her hand. But after his death, she feels lost, and it seems like everyone--from her best friends to her older sister--is abandoning her. After Ruby gets in major trouble at school, her parents decide she has to spend the summer at a local senior center, with her grandmother, Nai-Nai, and Nai-Nai’s friends for company. When a new boy from...
Author
Series
Enola Holmes mysteries volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
After fourteen-year-old Enola Holmes seeks the missing Duquessa Del Campo in the seedy underbelly of nineteenth-century London, she finally reaches an understanding with her brothers Sherlock and Mycroft.
14) Light and air
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"It's 1935, and tuberculosis is ravaging the nation. Everyone is afraid of this deadly respiratory illness. But what happens when you actually have it? When Halle and her mother both come down with TB, they are shunned—and then they are sent to the J.N. Adam Tuberculosis Hospital: far from home, far from family, far from the world. Tucked away in the woods of upstate New York, the hospital is a closed and quiet place. But it is not, Halle learns,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
The fascinating companion title to the award-winning historical novel Blood on the River: James Town 1607. After the colony of James Town is founded in 1607. After Captain John Smith establishes trade with the Native Americans. After Pocahontas befriends the colonists. After early settlers both thrive and die in this new world . . . a girl is born. Virginia. Virginia Laydon, an infant at the end of Blood on the River, has now grown up in a colony...
16) Pashmina
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
Priyanka Das has so many unanswered questions: Why did her mother abandon her home in India years ago? What was it like there? And most importantly, who is her father, and why did her mom leave him behind? But Pris mom avoids these questionsthe topic of India is permanently closed.For Pri, her mother's homeland can only exist in her imagination. That is, until she find a mysterious pashmina tucked away in a forgotten suitcase. When she wraps herself...
17) Twerp
Author
Series
Julian Twerski books volume 1
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In Queens, New York, in 1969, twelve-year-old Julian Twerski writes a journal for his English teacher in which he explores his friendships and how they are effected by girls, a new student who may be as fast as Julian, and especially an incident of bullying.
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