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Author
Series
DC icons volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
"Diana, Princess of the Amazons, journeys to the World of Man in this coming-of-age young adult story"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Children's Awards: Newbery Honor for Distinguished Literature
Children's Book Battles: 5th Grade
Children's Genre: Contemporary Realistic Fiction for Middle Grades
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Children's Book Battles: 5th Grade
Children's Genre: Contemporary Realistic Fiction for Middle Grades
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Description
During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker's classroom where they read the plays of William Shakespeare and Holling learns much of value about the world he lives in.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Children's Awards: National Book Award for Young People's Literature
Children's Awards: Newbery Medal for Distinguished Literature
Children's Awards: Newbery Medal for Distinguished Literature
Description
As a slag heap, the result of strip mining, creeps closer to his house in the Ohio hills, fifteen-year-old M.C. is torn between trying to get his family away and fighting for the home they love.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Children's Special Topics: Books about School for Middle Schoolers
Children's: 2022 Middle School Wellness_Fiction
Children's: 2022 Middle School Wellness_Fiction
Formats
Description
When Sonia's father loses his job and she must move from her small, supportive private school to a public middle school, the half-Jewish half-Indian sixth-grader experiences culture shock as she tries to navigate the school's unfamiliar social scene, and after her father is diagnosed with clinical depression, she finds herself becoming even more confused about herself and her family.
6) Wringer
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
As Palmer comes of age, he must either accept the violence of being a wringer at his town's annual Pigeon Day or find the courage to oppose it.
7) Keeper
Author
Series
Paul Faustino novels volume 1
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
In an interview with a young journalist, World Cup hero, El Gato, describes his youth in the Brazilian rain forest and the events, experiences, and people that helped make him a great goalkeeper and renowned soccer star.
8) Burning
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
In the scorching Nevada desert during the Burning Man festival, a small town boy meets a Gypsy girl, when both are at crossroads in their lives.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Children's New Books: April 2022 Ebooks
Children's Special Topics: Grief (Older Children)
Children's: 2022 Middle School Wellness_Fiction
Children's Special Topics: Grief (Older Children)
Children's: 2022 Middle School Wellness_Fiction
Description
With insight and a light touch, best-selling, Newbery Honor-winning author Gary D. Schmidt tells two poignant, linked stories: that of a grieving girl and a boy trying to escape his violent past. Following the death of her closest friend in summer 1968, Meryl Lee Kowalski goes off to St. Elene's Preparatory Academy for Girls, where she struggles to navigate the venerable boarding school's traditions and a social structure heavily weighted toward students...
10) Ninth Ward
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In New Orleans' Ninth Ward, twelve-year-old Lanesha, who can see spirits, and her adopted grandmother have no choice but to stay and weather the storm as Hurricane Katrina bears down upon them.
11) Zora and me
Author
Series
Zora and me volume 1
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Children's Awards: C. S. King Award for Afr. Amer. Author/Illustrator
Children's Recommended: 5th Grade
Children's Recommended: 5th Grade
Formats
Description
A fictionalized account of Zora Neale Hurston's childhood with her best friend Carrie, in Eatonville, Florida, as they learn about life, death, and the differences between truth, lies, and pretending. Includes an annotated bibliography of the works of Zora Neale Hurston, a short biography of the author, and information about Eatonville, Florida.
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
After his best friend, Hayden, commits, suicide, fifteen-year-old Sam is determined to find out why--using the clues in the playlist Hayden left for him.
13) Shadow of a bull
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
As he prepares for his first bullfight at the age of twelve, Manolo Olivar struggles with doubts about being able to fulfill his late father's bullfighting legacy.
Author
Series
Zora and me volume 2
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
A fictionalized account of Zora Neale Hurston's childhood with her best friend Carrie, in Eatonville, Florida, as they learn about life, death, and the differences between truth, lies, and pretending. Includes an annotated bibliography of the works of Zora Neale Hurston, a short biography of the author, and information about Eatonville, Florida.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Childrens
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Children's Special Topics: Books about School for Middle Schoolers
Children's Special Topics: Novels in Verse
Children's Special Topics: Novels in Verse
Description
A series of poems describes all the baffling changes at home and at school in twelve-year-old Joylin's transition from tomboy basketball player to not-quite-girly girl.
Author
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In 1907 Vancouver, Canada, after helping unearth a skeleton to be returned for burial in China, fourteen-year-old Bing experiences strange events that cause him to confront his fear of both ghosts and of his father.
18) Murder afloat
Author
Publisher
Disney/Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In the 1870s, Benjamin Franklin Orville, a boy from a wealthy Baltimore family, is kidnapped and forced to work on an oyster dredger whose captain has no qualms about murdering any crewman who fails to meet his demands.
19) Up a road slowly
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A seven-year-old orphan goes to live with her aunt, where she learns new values as she grows to young womanhood. There are many happy memories and sad times too; jealousy of her sister, death of a schoolmate, and disappointment of first love.
20) Stolen voices
Author
Publisher
Lobster Press
Pub. Date
©2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Life in Noveskina is designed to be harmonious and free of conflict, but fifteen-year-old Miri, doughter of two of the city's most important officials, has matured with no clear talent and thus faces a life among the lower classes. Miri discovers dark secrets in what appeared to be the quiet peace of Noveskina.
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