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Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Just before the beginning of World War I, eight-year-old Ruthie, who lives with her parents and six brothers on a farm in Indiana, wishes for a sister and tries to behave like the lady her mother wants her to be.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Children's Special Topics: AAPI Authors and Illustrators
Children's Special Topics: AAPI Authors for Middle Schoolers
Children's Special Topics: Books about School for Middle Schoolers
Children's: 2022 Middle School Wellness_Fiction
Children's Special Topics: AAPI Authors for Middle Schoolers
Children's Special Topics: Books about School for Middle Schoolers
Children's: 2022 Middle School Wellness_Fiction
Formats
Description
"Rahul Kapoor is heading into seventh grade in a small town in Indiana. The start of middle school is making him feel increasingly anxious, so his favorite person in the whole world, his grandfather Bhai, gives him some well-meaning advice: Find one thing you're really good at. And become the BEST at it. Those four little words sear themselves into Rahul's brain. While he's not quite sure what that special thing is, he is convinced that once he finds...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Children's Awards: C. S. King Honor for Afr. Amer. Author/Illustrator
Children's Special Topics: Black History Month 2024
Children's Special Topics: Black History Month 2024
Formats
Description
Caleb Franklin and his younger brother, Bobby Gene, spend an extraordinary summer their new, older neighbor, Styx Malone, a foster boy from the city.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Paige Hancock starts junior year with a list of ways to take back her life, rather than spending another year as "The Girl Whose Boyfriend Drowned," and finding out that Ryan Chase, her long-term crush, is available again might be the key.
6) Teen idol
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When teenage heartthrob Luke Stryker shows up at a small-town Indiana high school to do research for a movie role, he persuades junior Jenny Greenley to use her considerable talents to try to change things at school for the better.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Theodore Finch is fascinated by death, and he constantly thinks of ways he might kill himself. But each time, something good, no matter how small, stops him. Violet Markey lives for the future, counting the days until graduation, when she can escape her Indiana town and her aching grief and guilt in the wake of her sister's recent death. When Finch and Violet meet on the ledge of the bell tower at school, it's unclear who saves whom. And when they...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"When seventh-grader Mitch Sloan moves to Jonasburg, Indiana, he uses his exceptional skills in math, money, and sports statistics to make friends--but gets in over his head when he starts a football betting ring"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Fourteen-year-old Eleanor "Peewee" McGrath, a tomboy and automobile enthusiast, discovers new possibilities for her future after the 1914 arrival in her small Indiana town of four young librarians.
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?"--
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
What happens after happily ever after? It's senior year, and Paige Hancock is finally living her best life. She has a fun summer job, great friends, and a super charming boyfriend who totally gets her. But senior year also means big decisions. Weighing "the rest of her life," Paige feels her anxiety begin to pervade every decision she makes. Everything is exactly how she always wanted it to be--how can she leave it all behind next year? In her head,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In rural Indiana in 1904, fifteen-year-old Russell's dreams of quitting school and joining a wheat threshing crew are disrupted when his older sister takes over the teaching at his one-room schoolhouse after mean, old Myrt Arbuckle "hauls off and dies."
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2012], ©2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
In her fictionalized journal, eleven-year-old Minnie Swift recounts how her family dealt with the difficult times during the Depression and how an orphan from Texas changed their lives in Indianapolis just before Christmas 1932.
Author
Series
Running out of time volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
When a diphtheria epidemic hits her 1840 village, thirteen-year-old Jessie discovers it is actually a 1995 tourist site under unseen observation by heartless scientists, and it's up to Jessie to escape the village and save the lives of the dying children.
Author
Series
Shiloh quartet volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Many residents of Middleburg, Indiana, are already going crazy from the ever-ringing church bells and now, after a bat is spotted in the hotel run by Bernie's family, they worry that the dangerous Indiana Aztec bat has finally arrived. There are strange goings-on once again in Middleburg. Someone has put up posters warning townspeople that the dreaded Indiana Aztec bat has been sighted in the area. What's more, the town is in an uproar over the bells...
Author
Series
Xiao lu da jiang de xiao shuo volume SP43
Publisher
Xiao lu wen hua shi ye gu fen you xian gong si
Pub. Date
2008
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
In rural Indiana in 1904, fifteen-year-old Russell's dreams of quitting school and joining a wheat threshing crew are disrupted when his older sister takes over the teaching at his one-room schoolhouse after mean, old Myrt Arbuckle "hauls off and dies."
18) Rosetown
Author
Series
Rosetown books volume 1
Publisher
Beach Lane Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
In 1972, Flora Smallwood, nine, copes with her parents' separation with the help of her friends, Yury and Nessie, a new pet, and the familiar routines of life in Rosetown, Indiana.
20) Rosetown summer
Author
Series
Rosetown books volume 2
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Description
In 1973, Flora loves living in the quiet town of Rosetown, Indiana, where change is not constant, but life takes a decided turn during the summer between fourth and fifth grades.
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