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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Children's Awards: C. S. King Honor for Afr. Amer. Author/Illustrator
Children's Awards: California Young Reader Medal (Middle School)
Children's Awards: Newbery Honor for Distinguished Literature
Children's Special Topics: Black History Month 2024
Children's Awards: California Young Reader Medal (Middle School)
Children's Awards: Newbery Honor for Distinguished Literature
Children's Special Topics: Black History Month 2024
Description
The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of 1963.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Children's Awards: California Young Reader Medal (Intermediate Grades 3-5)
Children's Awards: Newbery Honor for Distinguished Literature
Children's Book Battles: 3rd Grade
Children's Awards: Newbery Honor for Distinguished Literature
Children's Book Battles: 3rd Grade
Description
Ten-year-old India Opal Buloni describes her first summer in the town of Naomi, Florida, and all the good things that happen to her because of her big ugly dog Winn-Dixie.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Children's Awards: Newbery Medal for Distinguished Literature
Children's Classics: for Middle School Students
Children's Classics: for Middle School Students
Description
It was a dark and stormy night Meg Murry, her small brother Charles Wallace, and her mother had come down to the kitchen for a midnight snack when they were upset by the arrival of a most disturbing stranger. "Wild nights are my glory," the unearthly stranger told them. "I just got caught in a downdraft and blown off course. Let me sit down for a moment, and then I'll be on my way. Speaking of ways, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract."...
4) Hatchet
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Children's Awards: Newbery Honor for Distinguished Literature
Children's Genre: Adventure Books for Middle Schoolers
Children's Special Topics: Fiction with Lexile Over 1000
Children's Genre: Adventure Books for Middle Schoolers
Children's Special Topics: Fiction with Lexile Over 1000
Description
After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the Canadian wilderness, learning to survive with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Children's Awards: C. S. King Honor for Afr. Amer. Author/Illustrator
Children's Awards: Newbery Medal for Distinguished Literature
Children's Recommended: 7th and 8th Grade
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Children's Awards: Newbery Medal for Distinguished Literature
Children's Recommended: 7th and 8th Grade
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Description
Fourteen-year-old twin basketball stars Josh and Jordan wrestle with highs and lows on and off the court as their father ignores his declining health.
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
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Shipwrecked on a remote, wild island, Robot Roz learned from the unwelcoming animal inhabitants and adapted to her surroundings--but can she survive the challenges of the civilized world and find her way home to Brightbill and the island? After being captured by the Recons and returned to civilization for reprogramming, Roz is sent to Hilltop Farm where she befriends her owner's family and animals, but pines for her son, Brightbill.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
This work is a fantasy children's novel that explores the concept of immortality and the reasons why it might not be as desirable as it appears to be. Doomed to -- or blessed with -- eternal life after drinking from a magic spring, the Tuck family wanders about trying to live as inconspicuously and comfortably as they can. When ten-year-old Winnie Foster stumbles on their secret, the Tucks take her home and explain why living forever at one age is...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Children's Awards: C. S. King Award for Afr. Amer. Author/Illustrator
Children's Awards: Newbery Medal for Distinguished Literature
Children's Special Topics: Black History Month 2024
Children's Awards: Newbery Medal for Distinguished Literature
Children's Special Topics: Black History Month 2024
Description
Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Children's Recommended: 6th Grade 2021
Children's Recommended: 6th Grade 2023
Children's Special Topics: Fiction with Lexile Over 1000
Patron Recommendations: 6th Grade Books!
Children's Recommended: 6th Grade 2023
Children's Special Topics: Fiction with Lexile Over 1000
Patron Recommendations: 6th Grade Books!
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Description
"Eleven-year-old Alex Petroski, along with his dog, Carl Sagan, makes big discoveries about his family on a road trip and he records it all on a golden iPod he intends to launch into space"--
11) Esperanza rising
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
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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
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Children's Awards: National Book Award for Young People's Literature
Children's Awards: National Book Award for Young People's Literature Finalist
Children's Recommended: 6th Grade
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Children's Awards: National Book Award for Young People's Literature Finalist
Children's Recommended: 6th Grade
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Description
When his poor sharecropper father is killed in an accident and leaves the family in debt, twelve-year-old Little Charlie agrees to accompany fearsome plantation overseer Cap'n Buck north in pursuit of people who have stolen from him; Cap'n Buck tells Little Charlie that his father's debt will be cleared when the fugitives are captured, which seems like a good deal until Little Charlie comes face-to-face with the people he is chasing.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
Four English school children find their way through the back of a wardrobe into the magic land of Narnia and assist its ruler, the golden lion Aslan, in defeating the White Witch who has cursed the land with eternal winter.
15) As brave as you
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
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
Formats
Description
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.
16) The wild robot
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Children's Special Topics: STEAM
Children’s Special Topics: Earth Day and Environment
NYT - Children’s Series
Read in Full Bloom: 3rd - 5th Grade
Children’s Special Topics: Earth Day and Environment
NYT - Children’s Series
Read in Full Bloom: 3rd - 5th Grade
Description
When robot Roz opens her eyes for the first time, she discovers that she is alone on a remote, wild island. She has no idea how she got there or what her purpose is - but she knows she needs to survive. After battling a fierce storm and escaping a vicious bear attack, she realizes that her only hope for survival is to adapt to her surroundings and learn from the island's unwelcoming animal inhabitants. As Roz slowly befriends the animals, the island...
17) Freak the Mighty
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
At the beginning of eighth grade, learning disabled Max and his new friend Freak, whose birth defect has affected his body but not his brilliant mind, find that when they combine forces they make a powerful team.
18) Forge
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Separated from his friend Isabel after their daring escape from slavery, fifteen-year-old Curzon serves as a free man in the Continental Army at Valley Forge until he and Isabel are thrown together again, as slaves once more.
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