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2) Smile
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Raina Telgemeier's #1 New York Times bestselling, Eisner Award-winning graphic memoir based on her childhood!Raina just wants to be a normal sixth grader. But one night after Girl Scouts she trips and falls, severely injuring her two front teeth. What follows is a long and frustrating journey with on-again, off-again braces, surgery, embarrassing headgear, and even a retainer with fake teeth attached. And on top of all that, there's...
3) House rules
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Description
Unable to express himself socially but possessing a savant-like knack for investigating crimes, a teenage boy with Asperger's Syndrome is wrongly accused of killing his tutor when the police mistake his autistic tics for guilty behavior.
4) Dreadnought
Author
Series
Nemesis (April Daniels) volume 1
Publisher
Diversion Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
After inheriting the powers of Dreadnought, Danny Tozer's hidden transgender identity is brought into the open when her body assumes the gender she identifies with, bringing personal complications just as she is forced to face the original Dreadnought's killer.
Author
Series
Legacy of Orisha volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Zélie, her older brother Tzain, and rogue princess Amari fight to restore magic to the land and activate a new generation of magi, but they are ruthlessly pursued by the crown prince, who believes the return of magic will mean the end of the monarchy.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
An amusing story tells of the adventures of the author and his friends who attempted extreme sporting before it was extreme sporting, such as jumping three barrels on a bicycle and hang gliding from an Army surplus target kite.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
Shares insights into the teen transgender experience, tracing six individual's emotional and physical journey as it was shaped by family dynamics, living situations, and the transition each teen made during the personal journey.
Author
Series
Dodge Cove volume 2
Publisher
Swoon Reads
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
Nathan is in love with his best friend Preston but cannot bring himself to tell Preston how he feels, and with Preston about to go off and train for the Olympics, Nathan is running out of time.
Author
Publisher
Lucent Books, an imprint of Gale Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"Each title in the series delves into some of the hottest nutrition and health topics being discussed today. The series also provides readers with tools for evaluating conflicting and ever-changing ideas about nutrition and health"--
Author
Publisher
Lyons Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A lyrical and authentic book that recounts the story of a border-town family in Brownsville, Texas in the 1980's, as each member of the family desperately tries to assimilate and escape life on the border to become "real" Americans, even at the expense of their shared family history. This is really un-mined territory in the memoir genre that gives in-depth insight into a previously unexplored corner of America"--Provided by publisher.
13) The Curvy Tree
Author
Series
Land of stories (Picture books) volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A friendless girl who is teased for being different runs away from her village in tears and finds herself having a conversation with a very unusual tree, who tells a story of how his differences not only saved his life, they helped him see that he is not so very different after all.
16) Fever
Author
Series
Chemical Garden trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In a future where genetic engineering has cured humanity of all diseases and defects but has also produced a virus that kills all females by age twenty and all males by the age twenty-five, teenaged Rhine escapes her forced marriage and journeys back to New York to find her twin brother.
Author
Series
Ratso Brothers volume 4
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Challenged by former scout master Grandpa Ratso to go camping without asking for help, Ralphie and Louie struggle through pitching a tent, building a fire and exploring the woods before discovering that they are supposed to work together as a team.
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Ben Franklin loved to swim and, at the age of eleven, he was determined to swim like a fish—fins and all! This fascinating and lively account of young Ben’s earliest invention follows the budding scientist’s journey as he tests and retests his swim fins. That first big splash led Ben to even more innovations and inventions. Includes Franklin quotes, a timeline, bibliography, and source notes.
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