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Author
Series
Secret box books volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"On her twelfth birthday, Jax Malone receives an odd, unopenable present from an estranged aunt. When Jax and her cousins Ethan and Tyler go on a quest to open the box, they uncover a mystery with magical consequences"--
Author
Series
Football genius novels volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Troy always dreamed of meeting his father, but when the man finally appears his mother's anger, his father's shady business dealings, and Troy's own feelings make the reunion difficult and confusing.
Author
Series
The Penderwicks volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
The four Penderwick sisters are faced with the unimaginable prospect of their widowed father dating, and they hatch a plot to stop him.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Middle schooler Ariel Goldberg must find her own voice and define her own beliefs after her big sister elopes with a young man from India following the Supreme Court decision that strikes down laws banning interracial marriage.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
Decades after Toby’s life-changing summer with Zachary Beaver, Toby’s daughter Rylee is at a crossroads—her best friend Twig has started pushing her away just as Joe, a new kid from New York, settles into their small town of Antler. Rylee befriends Joe and learns that Joe’s father was a first responder on 9/11. The two unlikely friends soon embark on a project to find Zachary Beaver and hopefully reconnect him with Rylee's father almost thirty...
Author
Series
Dirt diary volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
After her parents' divorce, eighth-grader Rachel Lee joins her mother's new housecleaning business, which has her scrubbing bathrooms in her more popular classmates' homes and learning useful secrets.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Kirsten and Walk, seventh-graders at an elite private school, alternate telling how race, wealth, weight, and other issues shape their relationships as they and other misfits stand up to a mean but influential classmate, even as they are uncovering a long-kept secret about themselves.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Casey lives with his father and grandfather at their family-run umpire school, and as he deals with middle school and his mother's unwelcome return, he stumbles on a sensational story that has him questioning his dream of becoming a journalist.
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Fifth-grader Cally Louise Fisher stops talking, partly because her father and brother never speak of her mother who died a year earlier, but visions of her mother, friendships with a homeless man and a disabled boy, and a huge dog ensure that she still communicates.
12) Close to famous
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Foster McFee and her mother escape from her mother's abusive boyfriend and end up in the small town of Culpepper, West Virginia, where they use their strengths and challenge themselves to build a new life, with the help of the friends they make there.
13) Lemons
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
After her mother dies in 1975, ten-year-old Lemonade must live with her grandfather in a small town famous for Bigfoot sightings and soon becomes friends with Tobin, a quirky Bigfoot investigator.
14) The prank list
Author
Series
Dirt diary volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Rachel Lee is enjoying a summer of baking class and flirting with her almost-boyfriend Evan until a rival cleaning business comes to town, stealing her mother's clients, and she must focus on protecting Lee Cleaners rather than on Whit, her cute new classmate.
15) The deceivers
Author
Series
Greystone secrets volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Told from separate viewpoints, as Finn, Emma, and Chess Greystone and Natalie Mayhew, ages eight to thirteen, continue their quest to rescue their mothers they must return to the alternate dimension where truth is illegal.
17) Stumptown kid
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In a small Iowa town in 1952, eleven-year-old Charlie Nebraska, whose father died in the Korean War, learns the meanings of both racism and heroism when he befriends a black man who had played baseball in the Negro Leagues.
18) Okay for now
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
While Doug struggles to be more than the thug that his teachers and the police think him to be, he finds and unlikely ally in Lil Spicer, as they explore Audubon's art.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Struggling to come to terms with adolescent body changes that have attracted unwanted attention, a tween begins wearing layers and escaping into horror novels before moving to a dilapidated new home, where she discovers a book of spells.
20) The Gossip File
Author
Series
Dirt diary volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Rachel Lee has looked forward to relaxing for two weeks at a Florida resort with her father, but when his girlfriend asks her to help in a cafe, Rachel adopts a "cool" new persona, Ava, to fit in with her older co-workers, until they ask her to help with their Gossip File.
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