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21) Top of the order
Author
Series
4 for 4 series volume 1
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Jackson lives for baseball, but becomes distracted by the approach of middle school, his mother's latest boyfriend, and the presence of a girl--his good friend's sister--on his team.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"When Hilary Westfield escapes Miss Pim's finishing school to join a misfit pirate crew, she embarks on an unexpectedly magical swashbuckling, plank-walking, searfaring journey"--
Author
Series
American Girl history mysteries volume 16
Publisher
Pleasant Company
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In 1868, twelve-year-old Emma and her widowed mother move to a tiny mining town in Colorado Territory to start a newspaper, but someone is determined to scare them away.
24) Mending horses
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Free and on his own, Daniel Linnehan is nearly sixteen in 1839 when he joins Jonathan Stocking and Billy, a girl hiding from her abusive father, in peddling goods in New England.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
At the end of the nineteenth century in Libya, eleven-year-old Malika simultaneously enjoys and feels constricted by the narrow world of women, but an injured stranger enters her home and disrupts the traditional order of things.
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"At Ever After High, a boarding school for the sons and daughters of fairytale characters, Darling Charming is expected to excel in Damsel-In-Distressing class, but she yearns for adventure and envies her brothers, Daring and Dexter, who are learning to joust in Hero Training class"--
Author
Publisher
Disney Hyperion
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
On the eve of her Quinceanera, Princess Solimar discovers that it will take more than magic to save her kingdom and prevent the destruction of the Monarch butterfly.
Author
Series
American Girl history mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Pleasant Company
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In New York City in 1914, eleven-year-old Susan encounters a mystery through an independent-minded female boarder and becomes involved in the growing suffrage movement.
29) Born to fly
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In 1942, an eleven-year-old girl who longs to be a pilot and her family try to manage their lives in Rhode Island when the father goes to fight in World War II.
30) In the spotlight
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When Kit's pageant rival Melody loses her rabbit, Ellie believes she can build a contraption to catch him, but she begins to doubt herself when Melody insists that a pageant is no place for messy engineering experiments.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"Pickett's Charge, one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War, is the climax of this Civil War adventure, told from the perspective of three girls: a Union loyalist, a free Black, and a girl from Virginia who disguised herself as a boy to fight in the Confederate Army"--
32) Benchwarmers
Author
Series
Benchwarmers volume 1
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Told in two voices, Jeff stands by his teammate, Andi, who fights to get on the sixth-grade soccer team and then must face opponents who target her for being a girl.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Presents the diary of thirteen-year-old Nzingha, a sixteenth-century West African princess who loves to hunt and hopes to lead her kingdom one day against the invasion of the Portuguese slave traders.
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
"Twelve-year-old Lalani Sarita takes on the impossible task of traveling to the legendary Mount Isa, towering on an island to the north. Generations of men and boys have died on the same quest--how can a timid young girl in a tiny boat survive the epic tests of the archipelago?"--
Author
Series
Calpurnia Tate volume 2
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"In rural Texas in 1900, when a storm blows change into town in the form of a visiting veterinarian, twelve-year-old Callie discovers a life and a vocation she desperately wants. But with societal expectations as they are, she will need all her wits and courage to realize her dreams"--
Author
Series
TBH volume 6
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Told entirely in text messages, emojis and passed notes, a latest series entry finds Cece organizing a successful awareness campaign only to become overwhelmed by unrelenting requests for her management assistance.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Told in their separate voices, twelve-year-olds Petra, who escaped her abusive father's Amsterdam house in 1663, and Bram, a half-Javanese/half-Dutch boy, relate their adventures at sea after Petra stows away and Bram, son of the ship's carpenter, helps her disguise herself as a boy.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"In 1859, eleven-year-old Nell goes to live with her aunt, Kate Warne, the first female detective for Pinkerton's National Detective Agency. Nell helps her aunt solve cases, including a mystery surrounding Abraham Lincoln, and the mystery of what happened to Nell's own father"--
40) Boy in tights
Author
Series
Spies in disguise volume 1
Publisher
Sky Pony Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Joe is stunned to learn that his parents are spies, but the bigger shock is that he will have to pretend to be a girl at his new elementary school.
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