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1) Stargirl
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In this story about the perils of popularity, the courage of nonconformity, and the thrill of first love, an eccentric student named Stargirl changes Mica High School forever.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Four fifth-grade students--a geek, a class clown, a teacher's pet, and a slacker--as well as their teacher and mothers, each relate events surrounding a computer programmed to complete homework assignments.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When Phoebe's extremely wealthy father dies and leaves her in the custody of a stepmother she's never met, Phoebe and her butler cunningly plot to get rid of Vicki, assuming she's only interested in money.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
High-schooler Jay Li finds himself in the Arizona desert performing dangerous feats as part of his journey to prove himself a worthy member of the part human, part dragon Yellow Dragon Clan.
Author
Series
American chillers volume 16
Publisher
AudioCraft Pub
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When her mother takes a job on a guest ranch in Arizona, twelve-year-old Leeann hopes to be able to ride whenever she wants, but it takes her own perseverance and the help of new friends, including the mother of a handicapped child, to win over the ranch's crusty wrangler.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Outspoken, impulsive Lylice has skipped fifth grade, but she finds that getting along at Susan B. Anthony Middle School is more difficult than she expected, until she befriends another newcomer to the sixth grade.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
After discarding their infamous homework machine, four friends, now in sixth grade, find themselves once again at the police station, this time giving testimony about an incident involving a powerful computer chip, a Grand Canyon treasure, and a dead body.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When eleven-year-old Rick and his mother move from San Diego to Tucson he is not too happy about the change, but when they get a fire-breathing, time-traveling dragon to replace their broken furnace, his new life starts to get more interesting.
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Original series volume 56
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Grandfather Shortpaws sends Geronimo Stilton on a hunt for his old friend, the Red Bandit, in Arizona.
13) Weedflower
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
After twelve-year-old Sumiko and her Japanese-American family are relocated from their flower farm in southern California to an internment camp on a Mojave Indian reservation in Arizona, she helps her family and neighbors, becomes friends with a local Indian boy, and tries to hold on to her dream of owning a flower shop.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Abby Savage hopes that her five rules for falling in love will keep her from making the same mistakes as her mother and two older sisters--all unwed mothers who have slept with the same man, among others--while she also tries to help her best friend Cody admit that he is gay, and decide how she really feels about Cody's older brother, Jackson.
15) Over the edge
Author
Series
Mysteries in our national parks volume 7
Publisher
National Geographic Society
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
While she studies condors in the Grand Canyon a scientist's life is threatened, and the strange, hostile, teenage computer whiz in her family's foster care might be involved.
Author
Series
Superstition Mountain mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When brothers Simon, Henry, and Jack move with their parents to Arizona, they are irresistably drawn to explore the aptly named Superstition Mountain, in spite of warnings that it is not safe.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Overburdened by his parents' bickering and a bully's attacks, fifteen-year-old Lucky Linderman begins dreaming of being with his grandfather, who went missing during the Vietnam War, but during a visit to Arizona, his aunt and uncle and their beautiful neighbor, Ginny, help him find a new perspective.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 52
Publisher
A. Whitman
Pub. Date
[1996]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
On a camping trip to Arizona with their grandfather, the Alden children search for a lost gold mine.
Author
Series
Superstition Mountain mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Christy Ottaviano Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
The Barker brothers and their friend Delilah secretly climb up to Superstition Mountain one last time, hoping to solve the remaining mysteries, including whether the librarian is really the ghost of Julia Thomas, what was their uncle Hank's role in discovering the gold mine, and especially, who is trying to kill them.
20) Domination
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Colt McAllister and his friends are captured and taken back to Gathmara, and unless these partially-trained military cadets of C.H.A.O.S. find a way to stop the lizard-like Thules, Earth's domination is assured.
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