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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"After sneaking out against her mother's wishes, Artie Irvin spots a massive wolf--then watches it don a bathrobe and transform into her mom. Thrilled to discover she comes from a line of werewolves, Artie asks her mom to share everything--including the story of Artie's late father. Her mom reluctantly agrees. And to help Artie figure out her wolflike abilities, she recruits some old family friends. Artie thrives in her new community and even develops...
Author
Series
Pretty little liars volume 11
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Struggling to return to normalcy after surviving Alison's attempt to kill them, Spencer, Aria, Emily and Hanna endure a series of disasters before realizing that they are being stalked by a new "A" who knows all of their secrets.
Author
Publisher
Reycraft Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Naiche, a mixed-race girl, dreams of one day making spaceships like her parents, who work for NASA. While her mother teaches her the ways of the Apache and Chickasaw, she imagines her own encounter with aliens. Will she one day be able to fly to meet them?"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"When best friends Abbi and Skylar witness a clandestine meeting between a mysterious woman and someone in a dark van, they're thrilled. Finally, a mystery to spice up the summer! Who could these people be? Why are they meeting? Are they spies? Criminals? The two girls are determined to find out. But then a local woman goes missing and is found dead in the woods. And Abbi and Skylar realize that their detective work could hold the keys to solving...
26) A kind of spark
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
When she discovers that her small Scottish town used to burn witches simply because they were different, a neurodivergent girl who sees and hears things others cannot refuses to let them be forgotten.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
As their makerspace project the students in Yasmin's second grade class are building a city: there are houses, a school, a church, even a castle, but Yasmin is not sure what to build--until inspiration strikes.
28) Barakah Beats
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"It's Nimra Sharif's first time going to public school. Nimra's nervous, but as long as she has her best friend, Jenna, by her side, she figures she can take on just about anything. Unfortunately, middle school is hard. The teachers are mean, the schedule is confusing, and Jenna starts giving hijab-wearing Nimra the cold shoulder around the other kids. Desperate to fit in and save her friendship with Jenna, Nimra accepts an unlikely invitation to...
Author
Series
Zoey and Sassafras volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the seventh book, Zoey and Sassafras are excited to enjoy their summer with their magical friends. But . . . why is everyone so grumpy? A bunch of bad days one after the other lead Zoey to suspect that something more is afoot. It's up to Zoey and Sassafras to solve the mystery before they end up with one bummer of a summer!
31) Bold beauty
Author
Series
Winnie the horse gentler volume 3
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
32) Madam President
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A little girl imagines what her day would be like if she were President of the United States.
33) Bump
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
"MJ knows what it means to hurt. Bruises from gymnastics heal, but big hurts, like her dad not being around anymore, don't go away. Now her mom needs to work two jobs, and MJ doesn't have friends at school to lean on. There is only one thing MJ loves: the world of professional wrestling. She especially idolizes the luchadores and the stories they tell in the ring. When MJ learns that her neighbor, Mr. Arellano, runs a wrestling school, she has a new...
34) Wolf in the snow
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
When a wolf cub and little girl are lost in a snowstorm they must find their way home.
35) The flower girl
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A flower girl describes the people and activities at a wedding and its aftermath.
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Claudie is traveling from Harlem to Georgia with Mama and Cousin Sidney to meet her grandmother and cousins for the first time. She hopes that learning her family's story will inspire her for the variety show she's planning to raise money to save the boardinghouse her family lives in. Claudie's grandmother tells her a legend from slavery times called "The People Could Fly." In it, an old man whispers magic words, and the enslaved people grow wings...
38) Lola gets a cat
Author
Series
Lola books (Anna McQuinn) volume 5
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
More than anything Lola would like a cat, but first she must learn how to care for it.
39) Amara's farm
Author
Series
Where in the garden? volume 1
Publisher
Peachtree
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
There are many plants on Amara's farm. Today is the day she looks for her pumpkins.
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