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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Description
When the Romans brutally kill Daniel bar Jamin's father, the young Palestinian searches for a leader to drive them out, but comes to realize that love may be a more powerful weapon than hate. Set in Galilee in the time of Jesus, this story tells of a young Jewish rebel who is won over to the gentle teachings of Jesus.
2) The giver
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Children's Awards: Newbery Medal for Distinguished Literature
Children's New Books: September 2021 e-Books
Children's Special Topics: Comics or Graphic Adaptations of Well Known Books
Children's New Books: September 2021 e-Books
Children's Special Topics: Comics or Graphic Adaptations of Well Known Books
Description
"Jonas' life assignment is as the Receiver of Memory, where he will apprentice the Giver and become a storehouse of all the things humanity left behind when it entered utopia: color, emotion, and even more complicated secrets."--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Children's Awards: Newbery Medal for Distinguished Literature
Summer 2023 Teen Volunteer Book Reviews!
Summer 2023 Teen Volunteer Book Reviews!
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The mysterious death of an eccentric millionaire brings together an unlikely assortment of heirs who must uncover the circumstances of his death before they can claim their inheritance.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Rescuing a squirrel after an accident involving a vacuum cleaner, comic-reading cynic Flora Belle Buckman is astonished when the squirrel, Ulysses, demonstrates astonishing powers of strength and flight after being revived.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Description
Kit Tyler must leave behind shimmering Caribbean islands to join the stern Puritan community of her relatives. She soon feels caged, until she meets the old woman known as the Witch of Blackbird Pond. But when their friendship is discovered, Kit herself is accused of witchcraft!
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
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Children's Awards: Newbery Medal for Distinguished Literature
Children's Book Battles: 4th Grade
Children's Genre: Adventure Books for Grades 3-5
Children's Book Battles: 4th Grade
Children's Genre: Adventure Books for Grades 3-5
Description
"Welcome to the story of Despereaux Tilling, a mouse who is in love with music, stories, and a princess named Pea. It is also the story of a rat called Roscuro, who lives in the darkness and covets a world filled with light. And it is the story of Miggery Sow, a slow-witted serving girl who harbors a simple, impossible wish. These three characters are about to embark on a journey that will lead them down into a horrible dungeon, up into a glittering...
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Series
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Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
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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Description
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...
Author
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: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Children's Awards: Newbery Medal for Distinguished Literature
Children's Read Alikes: Series of Unfortunate Events
Children's Special Topics: Comics or Graphic Adaptations of Well Known Books
Children's Read Alikes: Series of Unfortunate Events
Children's Special Topics: Comics or Graphic Adaptations of Well Known Books
Description
Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a sprawling graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor of the dead. There are dangers and adventures in the graveyard for a boy. But if Bod leaves the graveyard, then he will come under attack from the man Jack -- who has already killed Bod's family.
12) Walk two moons
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.
13) A single shard
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Children's Awards: Newbery Medal for Distinguished Literature
Children's Special Topics: AAPI Authors and Illustrators
Children's Special Topics: Fiction with Lexile 900 to 999
Children's Special Topics: AAPI Authors and Illustrators
Children's Special Topics: Fiction with Lexile 900 to 999
Description
Tree-ear, an orphan, lives under a bridge in Ch'ulp'o, a potters' village famed for delicate celadon ware. He has become fascinated with the potter's craft; he wants nothing more than to watch master potter Min at work, and he dreams of making a pot of his own someday. When Min takes Tree-ear on as his helper, Tree-ear is elated-until he finds obstacles in his path: the backbreaking labor of digging and hauling clay, Min's irascible temper, and his...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Children's Awards: Newbery Medal for Distinguished Literature
Children's Special Topics: Black History Month 2024
Children's Special Topics: Black History Month 2024
Description
A black family living in Mississippi during the Depression of the 1930s is faced with prejudice and discrimination which its children do not understand.
Author
Series
One and only Ivan stories volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Children's Awards: Newbery Medal for Distinguished Literature
Summer 2023 Teen Volunteer Book Reviews!
Summer 2023 Teen Volunteer Book Reviews!
Description
Ivan is an easygoing gorilla. Living at the Exit 8 Big Top Mall and Video Arcade, he has grown accustomed to humans watching him through the glass walls of his domain. He rarely misses his life in the jungle. In fact, he hardly ever thinks about it at all. Instead, Ivan thinks about TV shows he's seen and about his friends Stella, an elderly elephant, and Bob, a stray dog. But mostly Ivan thinks about art and how to capture the taste of a mango or...
16) Ginger Pye
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Children's Awards: Newbery Medal for Distinguished Literature
Children's Classics: for Middle School Students
Children's Genre: Contemporary Realistic Fiction for Middle Grades
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Children's Classics: for Middle School Students
Children's Genre: Contemporary Realistic Fiction for Middle Grades
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Description
The disappearance of a new puppy named Ginger and the appearance of a mysterious man in a mustard yellow hat bring excitement into the lives of the Pye children.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Children's Awards: Newbery Medal for Distinguished Literature
Children's Special Topics: Fiction with Lexile Over 1000
Children's Special Topics: Fiction with Lexile Over 1000
Description
In the Pacific there is an island that looks like a big fish sunning itself in the sea. Around it, blue dolphins swim, otters play, and sea elephants and sea birds abound. Once, Indians also lived on the island. And when they left and sailed to the east, one young girl was left behind. This is the story of Karana, the Indian girl who lived alone for years on the Island of the Blue Dolphins. Year after year, she watched one season pass into another...
18) Holes
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
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 further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.
19) Freewater
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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AUSD Book Battles 2024: 6th & 7th Grades
Children's Awards: C. S. King Award for Afr. Amer. Author/Illustrator
Children's Awards: Newbery Medal for Distinguished Literature
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Children's Awards: C. S. King Award for Afr. Amer. Author/Illustrator
Children's Awards: Newbery Medal for Distinguished Literature
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Description
Under the cover of night, twelve-year-old Homer flees Southerland Plantation with his little sister Ada, unwillingly leaving their beloved mother behind. Much as he adores her and fears for her life, Homer knows there's no turning back, not with the overseer on their trail. Through tangled vines, secret doorways, and over a sky bridge, the two find a secret community called Freewater, deep in the swamp.
20) Call it courage
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Description
Relates how Mafatu, a young Polynesian boy whose name means Stout Heart, overcomes his terrible fear of the sea, which killed his mother when he was a baby, and proves his courage to himself and his people.
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