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Author
Series
Maximum Ride volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When millions of fish start dying off the coast of Hawaii and something is destroying hundreds of ships, the government enlists the Flock--a band of genetically modified children who can fly--to help get to the bottom of the disaster before it is too late.
2) Skybreaker
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Matt Cruse, a student at the Airship Academy, and Kate de Vries, a young heiress, team up with a gypsy and a daring captain, to find a long-lost airship, rumored to carry a treasure beyond imagination.
Author
Series
Tales of elemental spirits volume 1
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's
Pub. Date
©2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Children's Special Topics: Fiction with Lexile Over 1000
Children's Special Topics: Middle School Short Story Collections
Children's Special Topics: Middle School Short Story Collections
Description
Presents six short stories about the mythical creatures associated with the element of water.
4) Fourth World
Author
Series
Missing link trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Christie and his older stepbrother, Danny, travel to the home and mysterious laboratory of the elder boy's scientist mother, where they learn a shocking truth about the nature of her experiments.
5) Airborn
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Children's Genre: Adventure Books for Middle Schoolers
Children's Read Alikes: Cinder
Children's Recommended: 7th and 8th Grade
Children's Recommended: Summer Reads for Middle Schoolers
Children's Read Alikes: Cinder
Children's Recommended: 7th and 8th Grade
Children's Recommended: Summer Reads for Middle Schoolers
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Description
Matt, a young cabin boy aboard an airship, and Kate, a wealthy young girl traveling with her chaperone, team up to search for the existence of mysterious winged creatures reportedly living hundreds of feet above the Earth's surface.
6) Leviathan
Author
Series
Leviathan trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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AUSD Book Battles 2024: 8th Grade
Children's Read Alikes: Cinder
Children's Recommended: 7th and 8th Grade
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Children's Read Alikes: Cinder
Children's Recommended: 7th and 8th Grade
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Description
In an alternate 1914 Europe, fifteen-year-old Austrian Prince Alek, on the run from the Clanker Powers who are attempting to take over the globe using mechanical machinery, forms an uneasy alliance with Deryn who, disguised as a boy to join the British Air Service, is learning to fly genetically engineered beasts.
7) Watersmeet
Author
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish
Pub. Date
©2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Abisina escapes the escalating violence, prejudice, and religious fervor of her home town, Vranille, and sets out with a dwarf, Haret, to seek the father she has never met in a place called Watersmeet.
Author
Series
Jake Ransom volume 1
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
♭2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
When Connecticut middle-schooler Jake and his older sister Kady are transported back to Pangaea, the strange world of lost civilizations, they must find the truth behind the mythic Fire Opal Eye in order to survive.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"Inspiring, true tales of interspecies adoption, One Big Happy Family tells the heartwarming stories of animals who have reached out to save the lives of babies from other species and raise them as their own. Whether it's the border collie and his piglets, the cat and her ducklings, the orangutan and his lion cubs, or even the Labrador and her baby hippo, these are poignant, charming tales of animals who have felt the parental instinct and cared for...
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
A collection of sixteen stories introduces a host of strange, wondrous beings that have never existed anywhere but in the imagination, with stories from Neil Gaiman, Diana Wynne Jones, and E. Nesbit.
11) Goliath
Author
Series
Leviathan trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Alek and Deryn are on the last leg of their round-the-world quest to end World War I, reclaim Alek's throne as prince of Austria, and finally fall in love. The first two objectives are complicated by the fact that their ship, the Leviathan, continues to detour farther away from the heart of the war (and crown). And the love thing would be a lot easier if Alek knew Deryn was a girl. (She has to pose as a boy in order to serve in the British Air Service.)...
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"In Makersville, Indiana, people know all about fifteen-year-old Ronney--he's from that mixed-race family with the dad who tried to kill himself, the pill-popping mom, and the genius kid sister. Can Ronney figure out a way to hold it together as all his worlds fall apart?"--
13) The midnight zoo
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Andrej, nine-year-old Tomas, and their baby sister Wilma flee their Romany encampment when it is attacked by Germans during World War II, and in an abandoned town they find a zoo where the animals tell their stories, helping the children understand what has become of their lives and what it means to be free.
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