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1) Liar & spy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Seventh-grader Georges adjusts to moving from a house to an apartment, his father's efforts to start a new business, his mother's extra shifts as a nurse, being picked on at school, and Safer, a boy who wants his help spying on another resident of their building.
Author
Series
Confessions (James Patterson) volume 1
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tandy Angel is, along with her brothers, a suspect in their parents' murder but having grown up under Malcolm and Maud Angel's perfectionist demands, Tandy decides she must clear the family name no matter what.
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
On his first day at Brooklyn's P.S. 858, fifth-grader Michael K. is teamed with two very strange students, and while he gradually comes to believe they are aliens who need his help, he has trouble convincing anyone else of the truth.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Ollie the purple elephant is delighted to move into the McLaughlin family's New York City apartment but their cat, Ginger, is not pleased and devises a plan to send Ollie away with the circus.
Author
Series
Starring Jules volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Jules is starting third grade, but her new teacher seems a little strange, she has to choose and research a famous person for the class wax museum project, and rehearsals for the sitcom she is in are harder than ever--especially since the TV show is about to air.
Author
Series
Invisible Inkling volume 3
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"Hank Wolowitz and Inkling, his invisible bandapat friend, try to save the family ice-cream store's business from a whoopie pie food truck parked outside."--
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
Sixth-grader Matt Rambeau finds out what it is like to have a brother when his father, a computer genius, creates a robot kid that goes to school with Matt, shares his feelings and ideas, plays, does chores, fights for his "life" when chased by spies, and becomes a part of the family.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Appears on these lists
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
Series
Family tree (Ann M. Martin) volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Dana is Abby and Zander's daughter, but growing up in New York City in the late nineteen fifties is not always easy, especially when you would like your own room separate from your twin sister--and when your beloved father dies and you are forced to move things just get worse.
11) Right as Rain
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Description
"Eleven-year-old Rain must adjust to a new normal after her brother dies and her family moves to New York City"--
Author
Series
Tapper twins volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
An oral history that reports, through transcribed recordings, text messages, photographs, illustrations, screenshots, and more, an epic prank war between twelve-year-old twins Reese and Claudia Tapper of New York City.
13) Masterpiece
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
After Marvin, a beetle, makes a miniature drawing as an eleventh birthday gift for James, a human with whom he shares a house, the two new friends work together to help recover a Durer drawing stolen from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
14) Okay for now
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Children's Awards: National Book Award for Young People's Literature Finalist
Children's Awards: Odyssey Award for Audiobook Recording
Children's Awards: Odyssey Award for Audiobook Recording
Description
"He lands there in the summer of 1968, when the Apollo space missions are under way, Joe Pepitone is slugging for the New York Yankees, and the Vietnam War is raging. At home he lives with a father who has lost his way and a brother accused of robbery. And Doug's oldest brother is returning from Vietnam. Who knows what wounds his missions have given him? But Doug has his own mission, too, and it begins when he first sees the plates of John James Audubon's...
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Ranee worries that her children are losing their Indian culture. Sonia is wrapped up in a forbidden biracial love affair Tara seeks the limelight to hide her true self. Shanti desperately tries to make peace in the family. Anna fights to preserve Bengal tigers and her Bengali identity. As each Das woman decides which Bengali traditions to uphold in America, one hard truth remains: some scars take generations to heal.
Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
There are unexpected consequences when thirteen-year-old Gracie sends texts pretending to be her bashful best friend, Sienna, and their friend Emmett starts texting back pretending to be shy A.J.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Ten-year-old Albie has never been the smartest, tallest, best at gym, greatest artist, or most musical in his class, as his parents keep reminding him, but new nanny Calista helps him uncover his strengths and take pride in himself.
Author
Publisher
Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"With a new sibling (her fourth) on the way and a big piano recital on the horizon, Dominican-American Ana María Reyes tries to win a scholarship to a New York City private school"--
20) Bystander
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
Thirteen-year-old Eric discovers there are consequences to not standing by and watching as the bully at his new school hurts people, but although school officials are aware of the problem, Eric may be the one with a solution.
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