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2) Vixen
Author
Series
Flappers volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
In 1923 Chicago, seventeen-year-old Gloria Carmody rebels against her upcoming society wedding by visiting a speakeasy, while her Pennsylvania cousin, Clara, hides similar tastes and her best friend, Lorraine, makes plans of her own.
Author
Series
Shadow children volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
In a future where the Population Police enforce the law limiting a family to only two children, Luke has lived all his twelve years in isolation and fear on his family's farm, until another "third" convinces him that the government is wrong.
Author
Series
Norvelt books volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Description
In the historic town of Norvelt, Pennsylvania, twelve-year-old Jack Gantos spends the summer of 1962 grounded for various offenses until he is assigned to help an elderly neighbor with a most unusual chore involving the newly dead, molten wax, twisted promises, Girl Scout cookies, underage driving, lessons from history, typewriting, and countless bloody noses.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Johnny Trott, a bell-boy at London's Savoy Hotel in 1912, becomes caregiver to Kaspar Kandinsky, the Prince of Cats, and soon the two are stowing away on the Titanic, where they are befriended by the Stanton family of New York.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
Charlie Bucket has a golden ticket to tour Willy Wonka's chocolate factory. No ladies in hairnets here! This factory is the ultimate candy land with singing Oompa-Loompas and a chocolate river. But along the way, the other ticket-holders meet bizarre fates. Will Charlie make it to the secret prize waiting at the tour's end?
Author
Series
Allie Finkle's rules for girls volume 5
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
While trying to spare Erica's feelings so she could go to Brittany's birthday party, Allie disobeys one of her own rules and lies.
10) The lucky ones
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
During their annual summer vacation at her grandfather's home, Cecile hopes for their usual idyllic holiday, but with her sister growing up, her brother away at a summer job, and her parents fighting, nothing is as she envisions.
11) Replay
Author
Publisher
Joanna Cotler Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
While preparing for a role in the school play, twelve-year-old Leo finds an autobiography that his father wrote as a teenager and ponders the ways people change as they grow up. Includes the text for the play, "Rumpopo's Porch."
13) The PS brothers
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Sixth-graders Russell and Shawn, poor and picked on, work together scooping dog droppings to earn money for a Rottweiler puppy to protect them from bullies, but when they learn the puppies' owner is running an illegal dog-fighting ring, they are torn about how to respond.
14) What I call life
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Placed in a group foster home, eleven-year-old Cal Lavender learns how to cope with life from the four other girls who live there and from their storytelling guardian, the Knitting Lady.
Author
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Danny loves to go fast. With his super speed, he can rush down the football field in seconds. The trouble is he forgets to slow down off of the field. When he zips through his homework, he makes mistakes. When he eats too fast, he feels sick. How will Danny learn that a running back can't always rush?
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Follows the adventures of Miss Kanagawa, a doll made to serve as an ambassadors from Japan to the United States, as she makes friends and learns about love during the twentieth century.
Author
Series
Ruby Lu series volume 3
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Ruby Lu's father loses his job on her first day of third grade, which causes many things in her life to change, and she is willing to do a lot to help out but giving up some things seems impossible.
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
As Christmas approaches, Katie makes time to help others find the Christmas spirit as the magic wind first switches her with a Christmas tree farm employee, then with an unusual character at North Pole Winter Fun Park.
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