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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 44
Language
English
Description
When the government of the magic world and authorities at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry refuse to believe in the growing threat of a freshly revived Lord Voldemort, fifteen-year-old Harry Potter finds support from his loyal friends in facing the evil wizard and other new terrors.
Author
Series
Mickey Bolitar novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When tragedy strikes close to home, Mickey Bolitar and his new friends find themselves at the center of a murder mystery"--
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
A 2018 Pura Belpré Author Honor Book
The First Rule of Punk is a wry and heartfelt exploration of friendship, finding your place, and learning to rock out like no one’s watching.
There are no shortcuts to surviving your first day at a new school—you can’t fix it with duct tape like you would your Chuck Taylors. On Day One, twelve-year-old Malú (María Luisa, if you want to annoy...
The First Rule of Punk is a wry and heartfelt exploration of friendship, finding your place, and learning to rock out like no one’s watching.
There are no shortcuts to surviving your first day at a new school—you can’t fix it with duct tape like you would your Chuck Taylors. On Day One, twelve-year-old Malú (María Luisa, if you want to annoy...
44) Posted
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
When cell phones are banned at their school, students start communicating through sticky notes left all over the school, triggering a wave of bullying activities in the wake of a new girl's arrival.
45) Fuzzy
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Max (Maxine Zealster) befriends her new robot classmate Fuzzy, she helps him navigate Vanguard Middle School and together they reveal the truth behind the Robot Integration Program.
Author
Series
Daughter of smoke and bone trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
When a brutal angel army trespasses into the human world, Karou and Akiva must ally their enemy armies against the threat -- and against larger dangers that loom on the horizon in this thrilling conclusion to the Daughter of Smoke & Bone trilogy.
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A Indian American boy endures a family move from Hawaii to frigid Minnesota and, with the help of three life-changing books he reads in school, he learns to like reading, and ultimately, himself"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Formats
Description
A follow-up to the Newbery Medal-winning Merci Suárez Changes Gears finds Merci embarking on a seventh grade year shaped by high teacher expectations, a crush on a school-store co-worker and a bossy classmate's plan for the annual Heart Ball.
50) Here lies Linc
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
While researching a rumored-to-be-haunted grave for a local history project, twelve-year-old Lincoln Crenshaw unearths some startling truths about his own family.
Author
Series
My weirder-est school volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Ella Mentry School holds a science fair, Dr. Snow arrives to help A.J. and his friends conduct their experiments.
53) Speak
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
A traumatic event near the end of the summer has a devastating effect on Melinda's freshman year in high school.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
A tale based on true events follows the coming-of-age of a girl who is motivated by an act of racism at school to learn about her ancestral heritage and her grandparents' experiences as lost children during the Korean War.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Growing up, Mallory "Mouse" Dodge learned that the best way to survive was to say nothing. After she escaped her terrifying childhood and spent years being homeschooled by loving adoptive parents, she is starting her senior year at a public high school. The first day, she runs into Rider Stark, the friend and protector from her childhood, and Mallory realizes that their bond never really faded. But as Rider's life spirals out of control, Mallory faces...
Author
Series
A series of unfortunate events volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
As their outrageous misfortune continues, the Baudelaire orphans are shipped off to a miserable boarding school, where they befriend the two Quagmire triplets and find that they have been followed by the dreaded Count Olaf.
58) Pulse
Author
Series
Pulse trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the year 2051, when most Americans live in one of two gigantic, modern States, Faith Daniels, part of a dwindling group that lives between, learns that she, like other misfits, has unusual abilities that could help when the inevitable war begins.
59) The best at it
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Rahul Kapoor, an Indian-American boy growing up in small-town Indiana, struggles to come to terms with his identity, including that he may be gay.
60) Illusions
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
As her senior year of high school starts, Laurel is just beginning to adjust to Tamani's absence when he suddenly reappears, telling her he must guard her against the returning threat of the trolls that pose a danger both to her and to Avalon.
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