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Author
Series
Stuntboy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Portico Reeves' secret identity as Stuntboy allows him to use his superpower keep everybody safe, but when his superhero parents start fighting a lot he feels the responsibility to save them.
2) Class act
Author
Series
New kid (Jerry Craft) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eighth grader Drew Ellis is no stranger to the saying You have to work twice as hard to be just as good.
3) New kid
Author
Series
New kid (Jerry Craft) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Seventh grader Jordan Banks loves nothing more than drawing cartoons about his life. But instead of sending him to the art school of his dreams, his parents enroll him in a prestigious private school known for its academics, where Jordan is one of the few kids of color in his entire grade. As he makes the daily trip from his Washington Heights apartment to the upscale Riverdale Academy Day School, Jordan soon finds himself torn between two worlds--and...
4) Twins
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Coretta Scott King Honor author Varian Johnson teams up with rising cartoonist Shannon Wright for a delightful middle-grade graphic novel! Maureen and Francine Carter are twins and best friends. They participate in the same clubs, enjoy the same foods, and are partners on all their school projects. But just before the girls start sixth grade, Francine becomes Fran -- a girl who wants to join the chorus, run for class president, and dress in fashionable...
Author
Series
After-school superstars volume 2
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Third-grader Vera, a budding artist who loves every minute of her after-school comic-book camp, searches for a way to get her mother's permission to attend the camp's final field trip to Comic-Con.
Series
Sweetie volume 1
Publisher
Action Lab Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Maggie isn't your typical comic book, cartoon, and action movie fangirl. Through keen observation and unbending determination, she has taught herself all the death-defying stunts and fighting styles of her favorite action stars and superheroes! Unfortunately, Maggie has kept her eccentric hobby to herself, ever since it earned her the label of NERD among her classmates. After all, superheroes and evil villains are all kid stuff... right? WRONG! On...
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Zoe's favorite thing to dobesides invent and build robotsis watch classic monster movies. She has never been comfortable with kids her own age, and so she pretends she doesn't need friends while inside she's lonelier than she wants to admit. One day on her way home from school, Zoe finds a mysterious ring. She puts it on, gives it a twist, andFRZAAKK! There's a massive burst of light! The next morning, a familiar monster appears at Zoe's window. He's...
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Satchel Paige began his baseball career in the Negro Leagues in Alabama in the 1920s. For years, Jim Crow laws, which segregated blacks and whites, kept him out of the major leagues. But they couldn't stop him from becoming a world-class athlete. This is a fictionalized account of a real-life sports hero.
Series
(Molly Grayson).Sanity and Tallulah volume 3
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Tallulah is great at piloting! And with her learner's permit freshly reinstated, she has the perfect opportunity to prove it: filling in on the mail route to nearby stations while all the regular pilots are out sick. It's her first big solo flight, and yeah, okay, her parking could use some work, but she's not even a little bit nervous she's got Sanity along as copilot, plenty of old flight logs for navigation, and they'll be in radio contact with...
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