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1) Liar & spy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Seventh-grader Georges adjusts to moving from a house to an apartment, his father's efforts to start a new business, his mother's extra shifts as a nurse, being picked on at school, and Safer, a boy who wants his help spying on another resident of their building.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Description
In 1941, circumstances bring together Brick, a boy from New York's apple country, and Mariel, a young girl made shy by her bout with polio, and the two make a journey from Brooklyn back to help Brick's elderly neighbors save their apple crop and to help Mariel learn about her past.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Description
"Eleven-year-old Brooklyn girl Delphine feels overwhelmed with worries and responsibilities. She's just started sixth grade and is self-conscious about being the tallest girl in the class, and nervous about her first school dance. She's supposed to be watching her sisters, but Fern and Vonetta are hard to control. Her uncle Darnell is home from Vietnam and seems different. And her pa has a girlfriend. At least Delphine can write to her mother in Oakland,...
8) The Alley
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Formats
Description
Ten-year-old Connie, who lives in the Brooklyn neighborhood called The Alley, investigates a burglary with her friend Billy Maloon.
9) Tight
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
600L
Description
Tight: Lately Bryan's been feeling it in all kinds of ways... Bryan knows what's tight for him - reading comics, drawing superheroes, and hanging out with no drama. But drama is every day where he's from, and that gets him tight, wound up. And now Bryan's friend Mike pressures him with ideas of fun that are crazy risky. At first, it's a rush following Mike, hopping turnstiles, subway surfing, and getting into all kinds of trouble. But Bryan never...
10) Moonwalking
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 4
Formats
Description
In 1980s Brooklyn, new student JJ Pankowski, an autistic, punk-rock-lover, befriends Pie Velez, an Afro-Latinx math geek and graffiti artist.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Formats
Description
When thirteen-year-old Dina emigrates from Germany to America in 1871, her only wish is to return home as soon as she can, but as the months pass and she survives a multitude of hardships living with her uncle and his young wife and baby, she finds herself thinking of Brooklyn as her home.
12) Mouseheart
Author
Series
Mouseheart volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Formats
Description
The Warriors series meets Redwall in this first book in an epic animal adventure series set in the subway tunnels of Brooklyn. Hopper is just an ordinary pet shop mouse before he escapes. Soon he finds himself below the bustling streets of Brooklyn, deep within the untamed tangles of transit tunnels, and in Atlantia, a glorious utopian rat civilization. But all is not what it seems. Though Hopper is treated as a royal guest, he misses his siblings...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Formats
Description
In autumn 1932 Tommy McKnight, a twelve-year-old boy disabled by polio, and bullied at school for his disability--but inspired by Franklin Roosevelt's story and his campaign for the presidency, decides to run for the seventh grade class presidency at his Brooklyn school.
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