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2001) The Berlin Boxing Club
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Description
In 1936 Berlin, fourteen-year-old Karl Stern, considered Jewish despite a non-religious upbringing, learns to box from the legendary Max Schmeling while struggling with the realities of the Holocaust.
2002) Fairy tale
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Morgan Sparks and her boyfriend Cam have been best friends since they were children, but just before their shared sixteenth birthday Cam confesses that he is a fairy who was switched at birth with a human child, and now the fairies want to switch them back.
2003) Ship out of luck
Author
Series
Antsy Bonano volume 3
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Brooklyn-native Antsy Bonano embarks on the largest cruise ship in the world, where mischief, adventure, and deportation await.
2004) Bound
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Description
In a novel based on Chinese Cinderella tales, fourteen-year-old stepchild Xing-Xing endures a life of neglect and servitude, as her stepmother cruelly mutilates her own child's feet so that she alone might marry well.
2006) The Sorcerer King
Author
Series
Faerie path volume 3
Publisher
Eos
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Sixteen-year-old Tania returns to the realm of Faerie with her mother, Queen Titania, only to find that it has been overtaken by the Sorcerer King of Lyonesse, an ancient enemy of the Faerie Court.
2007) All just glass
Author
Series
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Turned into a vampire by the boy she thought she loved, seventeen-year-old Sarah, daughter of a powerful line of vampire-hunting witches, is now hunted by her older sister Adia, who has been given the assignment to kill Sarah.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
In a stunning visual interpretation of a 12th-century epic poem by Chrétien de Troyes, readers are transported into a classic Arthurian romance complete with errant knights, plundering giants, and fire-breathing dragons.
2009) Wolfcry
Author
Series
Kiesha'ra volume 4
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Knowing that she must soon choose a mate, twenty-year-old Oliza, heir to the Wyvern throne that unites the avian and serpiente peoples, weighs the political ramifications of her choice while also longing to follow her heart.
2010) Watched
Author
Publisher
Ember
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Far from the "model teen," Naeem moves fast to outrun the eyes of his hardworking Bangladeshi parents, their gossipy neighbors, and the other forms of surveillance in his immigrant neighborhood in Queens, but when his mistakes catch up with him and the police offer a dark deal, will Naeem be a hero or a traitor?
2011) Trowbridge Road
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Description
"It's the summer of '83 on Trowbridge Road, and June Bug Jordan is hungry. Months after her father's death from complications from AIDS, her mother has stopped cooking and refuses to leave the house, instead locking herself away to scour at the germs she believes are everywhere. June Bug threatens this precarious existence by going out into the neighborhood, gradually befriending Ziggy, an imaginative boy who is living with his Nana Jean after experiencing...
2012) The blood lie: a novel
Author
Publisher
Cinco Puntos Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Description
In 1928 in Massena, New York, Jewish sixteen-year-old Jack Pool, in love with his Christian neighbor, is accused of killling her little sister for a blood sacrifice.
2013) My brother's keeper
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Thirteen-year-old Toby Malone struggles to keep his family together after his father leaves; however, keeping his older brother Jake's drug habit from their mother is getting harder and harder.
Author
Series
Icemark chronicles volume 3
Publisher
Chicken House
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 25
Description
After Medea is seemingly burned and cast out to the Spirit Plain, Oskan and Thirrin believe their daughter to be completely gone, but the young sorceress secretly plots revenge with the evil Cronus and gathers an army of demons to attack Icemark.
2015) The inventor's secret
Author
Series
Inventor's secret volume 1
Publisher
Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Description
In an alternate nineteenth-century America that is still a colony of Britain's industrial empire, sixteen-year-old Charlotte and her fellow refugees' struggle to survive is interrupted by a newcomer with no memory, bearing secrets about a terrible future.
Author
Series
Delilah Dirk volume 1
Publisher
First Second
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Lovable ne'er-do-well Delilah Dirk is an Indiana Jones for the 19th century. She has traveled to Japan, Indonesia, France, and even the New World. Using the skills she's picked up on the way, Delilah's adventures continue as she plots to rob a rich and corrupt Sultan in Constantinople. With the aid of her flying boat and her newfound friend, Selim, she evades the Sultan's guards, leaves angry pirates in the dust, and fights her way through the countryside"--Amazon.com....
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 3
Description
A photographic exploration of baseball and the Latin American world, describing the experiences of young men from Argentina, Venezuela, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, and throughout the Caribbean who come to the U.S. with dreams of scoring major league careers, looking at the fate of those who do not succeed, and profiling players who have won a big or small measure of fame.
2018) Dust girl
Author
Series
American fairy trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Random House
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Description
On the day in 1935 when her mother vanishes during the worst dust storm ever recorded in Kansas, Callie learns that she is not actually a human being.
2019) The wrong hands
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Fourteen-year-old Graham Sinclair, born with mysterious hands and a strange secret, finds his life further complicated when he saves a baby after a plane crash and meets a beautiful girl. Graham finds his life suddenly, thrillingly complicated--and his secret harder and harder to conceal.
Author
Series
Knight and rogue novels volume 2
Publisher
Eos
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 14
Description
In alternate chapters, eighteen-year-old Sir Michael Sevenson, an anachronistic knight errant, and seventeen-year-old Fisk, his street-wise squire, tell of their journey to Ruesport, Fisk's home town, to investigate blackmail and a series of suspicious fires.
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