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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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"From two-time Newbery Medalist Kate DiCamillo comes a story of discovering who you are -- and deciding who you want to be. When Louisiana Elefante's granny wakes her up in the middle of the night to tell her that the day of reckoning has arrived and they have to leave home immediately, Louisiana isn't overly worried. After all, Granny has many middle-of-the-night ideas. But this time, things are different. This time, Granny intends for them never...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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"Keet knows the only good thing about moving away from her Alabama home is that she'll live near her beloved grandfather. When Keet starts school, it's even worse than she expected, as the kids tease her about her southern accent. Now Keet, who can 'talk the whiskers off a catfish, ' doesn't want to open her mouth. Slowly, though, while fishing with her grandfather, she learns the art of listening. Gradually, she makes her first new friend. But just...
3) Throwback
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Throwback volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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When Corey learns that he has the ability to save lives while time traveling, he is determined to go back in time to save his grandmother who died on September 11, 2001.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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Fifth grader Robbie is determined to stay out of trouble so that she does not worry her grandfather whose memory is failing and to make sure that she and her grandfather stay together as he is the only family she has left.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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While her grandmother was alive, Emma's world was filled with enchantment. But now Gram is gone, and suddenly strange spots are appearing on Emma's skin. Soon, she's diagnosed with vitiligo--a condition that makes patches of her skin lose their color--and the magic in her world is suddenly replaced with school bullies and doctor appointments. But when Emma writes one last story in the journal she shared with Gram, something strange happens. Someone...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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For Merci Suárez, eighth grade means a new haircut, nighttime football games, and an out-of-town overnight field trip. At home, it means more chores and keeping an eye on Lolo as his health worsens. It's a year filled with more responsibility and independence, but also with opportunities to reinvent herself. Merci has always been fine with not being one of the popular kids like Avery Sanders, who will probably be the soccer captain and is always...
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Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Children's Awards: Newbery Medal for Distinguished Literature
Children's Recommended: 6th Grade
Children's Recommended: 6th Grade 2023
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Children's Recommended: 6th Grade
Children's Recommended: 6th Grade 2023
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Merci Suárez knew that sixth grade would be different, but she had no idea just how different. For starters, Merci has never been like the other kids at her private school in Florida, because she and her older brother, Roli, are scholarship students. They don't have a big house or a fancy boat, and they have to do extra community service to make up for their free tuition. So when bossy Edna Santos sets her sights on the new boy who happens to be...
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Merci Suárez changes gears volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 11
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Español
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Merci Suárez sabía que el sexto grado sería diferente, pero no tenía idea alguna lo diferente que resultaría. En primer lugar, Merci nunca se ha parecido a los otros niños de su escuela privada en la Florida, porque tanto ella como Roli, su hermano mayor, son estudiantes becados. Ellos no tienen ni una casa grande ni un yate elegante, y tienen que desempeñar servicios comunitarios adicionales para compensar por su matricula gratis. Así que...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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"Eliot Katayama is grieving Babung, her paternal grandmother who just passed away, and she feels like she's the only one. She's less than excited to move to her new house, which smells like lemons and deception, and is searching for a sign, any sign, that ghosts are real. Because if ghosts are real, it means she can find a way back to Babung. When Eliot chases the promise of paranormal activity to the presumably haunted Honeyfield Hall, she finds...
10) Otherwood
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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"'Hatred combined with lies and secrets can break the world." Grandpa Zach used to say that before he died, but Stuey never really knew what he meant. It was kind of like how he used to talk about quantum physics, or how he used to say ghosts haunted the overgrown golf course. But then one day, when Stuey and his best friend, Elly Rose, are playing in the deadfall in the middle of the woods, something totally unbelievable happens. As Stuey and Elly...
11) The turnover
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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"When a young basketball star decides to research his grandfather--and coach--for a school project, he uncovers a decades-old scandal that changes everything he thought he knew about his grandfather"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Children's Awards: National Book Award for Young People's Literature Finalist
Children's Recommended: Black History Month 2022
Children's Recommended: Black History Month 2022
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Clayton feels most alive when he's with his grandfather, Cool Papa Byrd, and the band of Bluesmen -- he can't wait to join them, just as soon as he has a blues song of his own. But then the unthinkable happens. Cool Papa Byrd dies, and Clayton's mother forbids Clayton from playing the blues. And Clayton knows that's no way to live. Armed with his grandfather's brown porkpie hat and his harmonica, he runs away from home in search of the Bluesmen, hoping...
13) Listen, slowly
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Children's Recommended: 5th Grade
Children's Special Topics: AAPI Authors and Illustrators
Children's Special Topics: AAPI Authors for Middle Schoolers
Children's Special Topics: AAPI Authors and Illustrators
Children's Special Topics: AAPI Authors for Middle Schoolers
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A California girl born and raised, Mai can't wait to spend her vacation at the beach. Instead, though, she has to travel to Vietnam with her grandmother, who is going back to find out what really happened to her husband during the Vietnam War. Mai's parents think this trip will be a great opportunity for their out-of-touch daughter to learn more about her culture. But to Mai, those are their roots, not her own. Vietnam is hot, smelly, and the last...
14) Nikhil out loud
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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"From the acclaimed actor and Stonewall Honor-winning author of The Best at It, Maulik Pancholy, comes a new middle grade novel about a gay Indian American boy who learns the power of using his voice. Thirteen-year-old Nikhil Shah is the beloved voice actor for Raj Reddy on the hit animated series Raj Reddy in Outer Space. But being a star on TV doesn't mean you have everything figured out behind the scenes. . . . When his mom temporarily moves them...
15) Heart finds
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Eleven-year-old Mabel is a quiet loner who only feels like herself when she is extreme treasure hunting with her grampa, but when her friendship--s start to crumble and her grampa suffers a stroke, Mabel must learn to let go of the past and embrace the future.
16) Lucky strike
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Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Nathaniel Harlow lives with his grandfather in a trailer park in Franklin County, Florida, and he has always been unlucky--but when he is struck by lightning on his eleventh birthday and survives, it seems like his luck starts to change.
17) As brave as you
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Children's Awards: C. S. King Honor for Afr. Amer. Author/Illustrator
Children's Recommended: 6th Grade
Children's Special Topics: Black History Month 2024
Children's Recommended: 6th Grade
Children's Special Topics: Black History Month 2024
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Eleven-year-old Genie develops a special bond with his grandfather when he and his brother travel from Brooklyn for a month-long stay with their grandparents in rural Virginia.
18) Half a man
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Follows the experiences of a young man who after years of being told not to ask his World War II veteran grandfather about his injuries learns how his grandfather survived a torpedo attack on his ship.
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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"For as long as Ryanna Stuart can remember, her summers have been spent with her father and his new wife. Just the three of them, structured, planned, quiet. But this summer is different. This summer, she's received a letter from her grandparents -- grandparents neither she nor her dad have spoken to since her mom's death -- inviting her to stay with them at an old summer camp in the Poconos. Ryanna accepts. She wants to learn about her mom. She wants...
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