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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Children's Awards: Newbery Medal for Distinguished Literature
Children's Genre: Contemporary Realistic Fiction for Middle Grades
Children's Special Topics: New e-Books November 2021
Children's Genre: Contemporary Realistic Fiction for Middle Grades
Children's Special Topics: New e-Books November 2021
Description
The life of a ten-year-old boy in rural Virginia expands when he becomes friends with a newcomer who subsequently meets an untimely death trying to reach their hideaway, Terabithia, during a storm.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Children's Awards: Newbery Medal for Distinguished Literature
Children's Genre: Contemporary Realistic Fiction for Middle Grades
Children's Recommended: 6th Grade 2021
Children's Genre: Contemporary Realistic Fiction for Middle Grades
Children's Recommended: 6th Grade 2021
Description
After her mother leaves home suddenly, thirteen-year-old Sal and her grandparents take a car trip retracing her mother's route. Along the way, Sal recounts the story of her friend Phoebe, whose mother also left.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Children's New Books: Featured New Books for January 2022
Children's Special Topics: Grief (Older Children)
Children's Special Topics: New e-Audiobooks November 2021
Children's Special Topics: New e-Books November 2021
Children's Special Topics: Grief (Older Children)
Children's Special Topics: New e-Audiobooks November 2021
Children's Special Topics: New e-Books November 2021
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Description
Rendered a ghost by a bicycle accident, young Finn McAllister teams up with fellow spirit Isabella Rojas to commit invisible pranks on the living, before discovering that they cannot move on to the afterlife.
4) Pax
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Children's Awards: California Young Reader Medal (Intermediate Grades 3-5)
NYT - Middle Grade Paperback
NYT - Middle Grade Paperback
Description
"From bestselling and award-winning author Sara Pennypacker comes a beautifully wrought, utterly compelling novel about the powerful relationship between a boy and his fox. Pax is destined to become a classic, beloved for generations to come. Pax and Peter have been inseparable ever since Peter rescued him as a kit. But one day, the unimaginable happens: Peter's dad enlists in the military and makes him return the fox to the wild. At his grandfather's...
5) Ghost boys
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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AUSD Book Battles 2024: 6th & 7th Grades
Children's Book Battles: 2021_22 Middle Schools
Children's Recommended: Black History Month 2022
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Children's Book Battles: 2021_22 Middle Schools
Children's Recommended: Black History Month 2022
More Lists...
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"Twelve-year old Jerome is the latest victim, shot by a white police officer who mistakes his toy gun for a threat. As a ghost, he observes the devastation that's been unleashed on his family and community in the wake of what they see as an unjust and brutal killing. Once again Jewell Parker Rhodes deftly weaves historical and sociopolitical layers into a gripping and poignant story about how children and families face the complexities of today's...
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