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41) Where I belong
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Lab
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"Eleven-year-old Brendan Doyle doesn't get along with his foster mother, he's failing fifth grade, and he's bullied mercilessly by a band of boys in his class. Then Brendan meets two potential friends--an eccentric old man and a girl from summer school--and he sees that there may be hope for him after all"--
Author
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Omaha, Nebraska, twelve-year-old Oliver Watson has everyone convinced that he is extremely stupid and lazy, but he is actually a very wealthy, evil genius, and when he decides to run for seventh-grade class president, nothing will stand in his way.
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"From the bestselling author of What's the Matter With Kansas, a scathing look at the standard-bearers of liberal politics -- a book that asks: what's the matter with Democrats?It is a widespread belief among liberals that if only Democrats can continue to dominate national elections, if only those awful Republicans are beaten into submission, the country will be on the right course. But this is to fundamentally misunderstand the modern Democratic...
Author
Series
Chet Gecko mystery volume 11
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Chet Gecko and his partner, Natalie Attired, try to find out who is sending threatening notes to Viola Fuss, candidate for student council president at Emerson Hickey Elementary School.
45) Warrior
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor Books
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 32
Language
English
Description
Now the power behind Hythria's throne, Marla Wolfblade is determined to control her own life and to protect her young son, Damin, unaware that the High Arrion of the Sorcerers' Collective is plotting to destroy her and the entire Wolfblade dynasty.
46) Giuliani time
Publisher
Cinema Libre Studio
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
An examination of Rudy Giuliani's rise to power, his policies, and his so-called turnaround of New York City.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Preparing for spelling bees, having a secret admirer, and waiting for her chest size to catch up with her enormous feet are pressure enough, but twelve-year-old Vanessa must also deal with loneliness and very real fears as her mother, Florida's Governor, runs for President of the United States.
48) Before my eyes
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Told in three separate voices, dreamy Claire, seventeen, with her complicated home and love life, shy Max, also seventeen, a state senator's son whose parents are too focused on the next election to see his pain, and twenty-one-year-old paranoid schizophrenic Barkley.
49) Running
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"When fifteen-year-old Cuban American Mariana Ruiz's father runs for president, Mari starts to see him with new eyes. A novel about waking up and standing up, and what happens when you stop seeing your dad as your hero-while the whole country is watching"--
Author
Series
Belles volume 1
Publisher
Blackstone Audio, Inc
Pub. Date
cp2012
Language
English
Description
Cousins Isabelle and Mirabelle lead very different lives until Isabelle, who grew up in a poor neighborhood, is whisked away from home to live with the well-to-do Mirabelle and her family. As Izzie and Mira try to navigate their new lives, family secrets are dug up and the girls learn what friends and family truly mean.
Author
Series
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Dora tells her grandson of how, in 1887 Argonia, Kansas, a group of men who thought women should not vote or hold office put a woman on the ballot as a joke. Includes a note about Susanna and a cake recipe.
Great Reads from Great Places 2022: Kansas 2022 Kansas Notable Book In 1887, the state of Kansas gave women the right to vote in municipal elections. But some men in the city of Argonia, Kansas didn't think women should have a say in choosing...
Author
Series
The classroom volume 2
Publisher
Disney/Hyperion
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the race for seventh-grade class president at Westside Middle School as suddenly-popular documentary-film subject Trevor Jones faces his best friend Libby Gardner and Cindy Applegate, the official school gossip.
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Emma's senator-father is running for president, and when her rebellious style and indifference to rules and convention create problems, she relies on her good friends, who are also the daughters of well-known people, to help her gain perspective.
55) Hero
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Zach learns he has the same special abilities as his father, who was the President's globe-trotting troubleshooter until "the Bads" killed him, and now Zach must decide whether to use his powers in the same way at the risk of his own life.
Publisher
New Video Group [distributor]
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Four beautifully adapted stories that encourage a love of reading for the pre- or early reader. From best selling author Amy Krouse Rosenthal comes Spoon. Spoon has always been a happy utensil, but he soon finds he needs the support of his friends Fork, Knife, and Chopsticks.
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