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Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Rose Lee Carter, a thirteen-year-old African-American girl, dreams of life beyond the Mississippi cotton fields during the summer of 1955, but when Emmett Till is murdered and his killers are unjustly acquitted, Rose is torn between seeking her destiny outside of Mississippi or staying and being a part of an important movement.
Author
Series
The forgotten five volume 2
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"The Forgotten Five become spies to uncover the corrupt President's schemes and bring the world one step closer to justice for all supernaturals"--
64) One crazy summer
Author
Publisher
Amistad
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
218 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1968, after traveling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they discover that their mother, a dedicated poet and printer, is resentful of the intrusion of their visit and wants them to attend a nearby Black Panther summer camp.
65) Soccer on Sunday
Author
Series
Magic tree house. A Merlin mission volume 52
Publisher
Random House
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jack and Annie search for the fourth secret of greatness for Merlin the Magician in Mexico City at the 1970 World Cup Games where they hope to learn something new from soccer player great, Pele.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year old orphan Emma Casey lives by a haunted graveyard in her Tennessee town by giving tours and helping her brother and Granny Blue with the family bakery. She is waiting for the destiny dream of her ancestors, but when it comes it shows her only a key, and she finds that she must solve a ghostly mystery that has haunted her town for generations.
67) Hatchet
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Headed for Canada to visit his father for the first time since his parents' divorce, thirteen-year-old Brian is the sole survivor of a plane crash, with only the clothes he has on and a hatchet to help him live in the wilderness. .
Author
Series
Bravelands curse of the sandtongue volume 3
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Grandmother's attacks on the creatures of Bravelands come to a head"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
After her father returns from the war moody and tired, Marly's family decides to move to Maple Hill Farm in the Pennsylvania countryside where they share many adventures, restoring their spirits and their bond with each other.
71) Krakens and lies
Author
Series
Menagerie volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
When Logan and Zoe discover that someone is sabotaging the Menagerie at the same time that the basilisk escapes its enclosure and the merpeople go on strike, they must find a way to save all of the mythical creatures and their home.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
237 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the early 1960s, twelve-year-old songwriter Livy Two Weems dreams of seeing the world beyond the Maggie Valley, North Carolina, holler where she lives in poverty with her parents and eight brothers and sisters, but understands that she must put family first.
74) Like Vanessa
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
It is 1983 and Vanessa Martin, a thirteen-year-old African American girl in Newark's public housing, dreams of following in the footsteps of the first black Miss America, Vanessa Williams; but with a dysfunctional family (mother in jail, father withdrawn, drunken grandfather, gay cousin) the odds are against her--until a new teacher at school organizes a beauty pageant and encourages Vanessa to enter.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
357 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"It's 1914, and twelve-year old Darleen Darling has the most exciting job in the world--she gets to dangle from cliffs and stop moving trains and soar through the sky in runaway balloons! Yes, that's right: Darleen is a hero and a star--in the make-believe world of the movies ... But Darleen's fictional adventures collide with reality when a fake kidnapping intended as a publicity stunt becomes all too real. Now she is in the hands of the dastardly...
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 36
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
The magic tree house carries Jack and Annie to New York City in 1938 on a mission to rescue the last unicorn.
Author
Series
Keeper of the lost cities volume 4
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
"Sophie Foster is on the run--but at least she's not alone. Her closest friends from the Lost Cities have gone with her to join the Black Swan. they still have doubts about he shadowy organization, but the only way to find answers is to start working with them. As they settle into their new lives, they uncover secrets far bigger than anything they'd imagined. But their enemies are far from done, unleashing a terrifying plague that threatens the safety...
79) Salt magic
Author
Publisher
Margaret Ferguson Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
238 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Vonceil Taggart, willing to risk everything to set things right, leaves her family's Oklahoma farm in 1919 seeking the salt witch who cast a spell that turned their spring to saltwater.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
90 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
A nest of invisible baby dragons has been discovered in Queen Sofia's castle so Drake, Worm, and Val, Carlos's cousin, must journey to the dangerous Dove Island to find the parents and the fruit that keeps the dragons' invisible powers.