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Author
Series
Unusual chickens volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Through a series of letters, Sophie Brown, age twelve, tells of her family's move to her Great Uncle Jim's farm, where she begins taking care of some unusual chickens with help from neighbors and friends.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Children's Awards: Pura Belpre Medal for Latino Literature
Children's Book Battles: 5th Grade
Children's Special Topics: Hispanic Heritage Month 2023
Children's Special Topics: Middle School Book Battles - Past & Present
Children's Book Battles: 5th Grade
Children's Special Topics: Hispanic Heritage Month 2023
Children's Special Topics: Middle School Book Battles - Past & Present
Description
When Esperanza and Mama are forced to flee to the bountiful region of Aguascalientes, Mexico, to a Mexican farm labor camp in California, they must adjust to a life without the fancy dresses and servants they were accustomed to on Rancho de las Rosas. Now they must confront the challenges of hard work, acceptance by their own people, and economic difficulties brought on by the Great Depression. When Mama falls ill and a strike for better working conditions...
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
When sixteen-year-old Mallory learns that her boyfriend, Jeremy, is cheating on her with his cyber "wife," she rebels against technology by following her grandmother's list of goals from 1962, with help from her younger sister, Ginnie.
4) Zia
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young Indian girl, Zia, caught between the traditional world of her mother and the present world of the Mission, is helped by her aunt Karana, whose story was told in "The Island of the Blue Dolphins."
5) Identical
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old identical twin daughters of a district court judge and a candidate for the United States House of Representatives, Kaeleigh and Raeanne Gardella desperately struggle with secrets that have already torn them and their family apart.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Children's Awards: California Young Reader Medal (Middle School)
Children's Awards: Newbery Honor for Distinguished Literature
Children's Awards: Newbery Honor for Distinguished Literature
Description
A twelve-year-old boy named Moose moves to Alcatraz Island in 1935 when guards' families were housed there, and has to contend with his extraordinary new environment in addition to life with his autistic sister.
Author
Series
Stella Batts volume 2
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
When Stella learns that her best friend Willa is moving away, she makes a wish and tries with a magic potion to keep her in Redwood City, California.
Author
Series
Flower power books volume 4
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Fifth-grade best friends Katie-Rose, Milla, Yasaman, and Violet are determined to save a new student from Modessa's evil influence, but Katie-Rose is busy not flirting with Preston and all four are distracted by trying to organize Yasamin's sister's birthday party.
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
The last remaining orange tree on a Southern California street brings together neighbors of all ages as they face their problems and anxieties, including the possibility that a mysterious stranger is a threat to their tree.
10) Warp speed
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
Marley Sandelski has always felt invisible at school when he is not facing bullies, but a series of unexpected events gives him a taste of popularity and insights into some classmates, well-liked or greatly-feared.
11) Frankly in love
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Children's Awards: Asian Pacific American Award for Literature
Children's Special Topics: CYRM Nominees for 2021_22
Children's Special Topics: CYRM Nominees for 2021_22
Description
"High school senior Frank Li takes a risk to go after a girl his parents would never approve of, but his plans will leave him wondering if he ever really understood love--or himself--at all"--
12) A jar of dreams
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
1981
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
A young girl grows up in a closely-knit Japanese American family in California during the 1930's, a time of great prejudice.
13) Sabotage season
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"Devin and the rest of the team must figure out who is trying to sabotage them before the playoffs start"--
14) Lucky breaks
Author
Series
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Having reached the mature age of eleven in the tiny California town of Hard Pan (population 43), Lucky discovers that there is still much to learn about friendship, parental trust, and the Milky Way galaxy.
16) What light
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sierra's family runs a Christmas tree farm in Oregon, and every year they pack up and move to California to set up their Christmas tree lot for the season. So Sierra lives two lives: her life in Oregon and her life at Christmas. By reputation, Caleb is not your perfect guy: years ago, he made an enormous mistake and has been paying for it ever since. But Sierra sees beyond Caleb's past and becomes determined to help him find forgiveness and, maybe,...
17) Saving the team
Author
Series
The kicks volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
After moving to California, seventh-grader Devin is afraid she will not make the soccer team but finds, instead, a team is so bad that she is compelled to take the lead and turn it into something the players and coach can all be proud of.
Author
Series
Who shrunk Daniel Funk? volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When Daniel learns to control his shrinking, Pablo, his tiny twin, writes a list of fun things they can do, including riding in a model rocket near the La Brea Tar Pits, which teaches the brothers the importance of sticking together.
20) Tokyo ever after
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
The New York Times bestseller and Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine YA Book Club Pick! Emiko Jean's Tokyo Ever After is the refreshing, spot-on (Booklist, starred review) story of an ordinary Japanese-American girl who discovers that her father is the Crown Prince of Japan. Izumi Tanaka has never really felt like she fit in--it isn't easy being Japanese American in her small, mostly white, northern California town. Raised by a single mother, it's...
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