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1) Liar & spy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Seventh-grader Georges adjusts to moving from a house to an apartment, his father's efforts to start a new business, his mother's extra shifts as a nurse, being picked on at school, and Safer, a boy who wants his help spying on another resident of their building.
3) Okay for now
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
As a fourteen-year-old who just moved to a new town, with no friends, an abusive father, and a louse for an older brother, Doug Swieteck has all the stats stacked against him until he finds an ally in Lil Spicer--a fiery young lady. Together, they find a safe haven in the local library, inspiration in learning about the plates of John James Audubon's birds, and a hilarious adventure on a Broadway stage.
Author
Series
Vanderbeekers volume 5
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
One hilarious Harlem family is on a mission to find the perfect way to celebrate their Papa's fortieth birthday while discovering more about their mysterious grandparents in this heartfelt romp and latest installment to the New York Times best-selling series, perfect for fans of the Penderwicks. It's summer on 141st Street, and the Vanderbeekers are looking forward to Papa's surprise fortieth birthday party. But then Papa must leave town to help his...
5) Masterpiece
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
After Marvin, a beetle, makes a miniature drawing as an eleventh birthday gift for James, a human with whom he shares a house, the two new friends work together to help recover a Durer drawing stolen from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
6) Strike zone
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Nick García dreams of winning MVP of his summer baseball league, of finding a cure for his sister, of meeting his hero, Yankee pitcher Michael Arroyo, and of no longer living in fear of the government and ICE agents.
Author
Publisher
Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"With a new sibling (her fourth) on the way and a big piano recital on the horizon, Dominican-American Ana María Reyes tries to win a scholarship to a New York City private school"--
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Pearl and her popular, thirteen-year-old sister, Lexie, do not get along very well, but when their grandfather moves in and the girls have to share a room, they must find common ground.
10) Hero
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2010
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.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers, An imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Ali lives in Bed-Stuy, a Brooklyn neighborhood known for guns and drugs, but he and his sister, Jazz, and their neighbors, Needles and Noodles, stay out of trouble until they go to the wrong party, where one gets badly hurt and another leaves with a target on his back.
Author
Series
Outlaws of Sherwood Street volume 2
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"Robbie and friends, using a magical charm, protect a Canarsee Indian burial ground from urban developers."--
Author
Publisher
Feiwel & Friends
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Pearl writes an essay about her complicated summer during which her father lost his job, her sister was her junior camp counselor, and she had an explosive fight with James Brubaker the Third.
Author
Series
Vanderbeekers volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
As they look forward to the New York City Marathon in which their friend Mr. B. will run, the Vanderbeeker children learn that one of their good friends is homeless.
17) SPHDZ 4 Life!
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
With a mysterious new principal and fifth-grade graduation fast approaching, will Michael K. and his friends be able to find the missing Brainwave before the chief of the Anti-Alien Agency uses it to destroy a planet?
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Willa lives on the upper West Side of Manhattan with her divorced father and her younger brother and attends fifth grade with her best friend Ruby, and she likes things to be a certain way, because it makes life manageable even with her Sensory Processing Disorder; she certainly does not like surprises, and her father has just thrown her a big one: he has been dating Ruby's mother, and suddenly Willa's life seems to be spiraling out of her control--and...
19) City of orphans
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1893 New York, thirteen-year-old Maks, a newsboy, teams up with Willa, a homeless girl, to clear his older sister, Emma, from charges that she stole from the brand new Waldorf Hotel, where she works. Includes historical notes.
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