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Author
Publisher
Putnam, G. P. Putnam's Sons
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 15
Description
After a mining accident kills her father and leaves her brother missing, twelve-year-old Ana puts her dreams on hold and goes into the mine to help her family survive in their impoverished Bolivian silver mining community.
63) What I believe
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Formats
Description
A young girl faces her problems by writing down her thoughts about the family's personal and financial crises, including the loss of her father's job and the selling of their home.
64) Masterpiece
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Formats
Description
After Marvin, a beetle, makes a miniature drawing as an eleventh birthday gift for James, a human with whom he shares a house, the two new friends work together to help recover a Durer drawing stolen from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
66) Lo & behold
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
HL 420L
Description
"With her life recently turned upside down, 12-year-old Addie is uncomfortable in her own skin until the world of virtual reality sparks her imagination and leads to an exciting new project, a new friend, and to reconnecting with who she's always been"--Provided by the publisher.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 11
Formats
Description
When a diphtheria outbreak forces twelve-year-old Cissy to leave her Oklahoma hometown in the 1890s, she and her two classmates embark on a wild adventure down the Missouri River with a team of traveling actors who are living on a dilapidated paddle steamer.
71) After ever after
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Formats
Description
Although Jeff and Tad, encouraged by a new friend, Lindsey, make a deal to help one another overcome aftereffects of their cancer treatments in preparation for eighth-grade graduation, Jeff still craves advice from his older brother Stephen, who is studying drums in Africa.
Author
Series
Calvin Coconut volume 3
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 2
Description
When his teacher asks him to write a persuasive argument about something he really wants, fourth-grader Calvin creates a unique way to express his desire for a dog.
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Down on their luck, the Tooting family buys an old camper van and begins repairing it, but after installing an engine that once belonged to an extraordinary car, they are off to find other original parts, pursued by a sinister man who wants Chitty for himself.
75) Once a witch
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Formats
Description
Born into a family of witches, seventeen-year-old Tamsin is raised believing that she alone lacks a magical "Talent," but when her beautiful and powerful sister is taken by an age-old rival of the family in an attempt to change the balance of power, Tamsin discovers her true destiny.
76) Girls don't fly
Author
Publisher
Viking
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Myra, a high school senior, will do almost anything to win a contest and earn money for a study trip to the Galapagos Islands, which would mean getting away from her demanding family life in Utah and ex-boyfriend Erik, but Erik is set on winning the same contest.
Author
Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 6
Publisher
Amulet Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
1060L
Description
"Greg Heffley is in big trouble. School property has been damaged, and Greg is the prime suspect. But the crazy thing is, he's innocent. Or at least sort of. The authorities are closing in, but when a surprise blizzard hits, the Heffley family is trapped indoors. Greg knows that when the snow melts he's going to have to face the music, but could any punishment be worse than being stuck inside with your family for the holidays?"--Back cover.
"Greg...
78) Trading places
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Description
When fifth-grade twins, Amy and Todd, tackle a school project, they also have to cope with issues of friendship at school and problems at home, including their father's unemployment.
79) One-handed catch
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
Description
After losing his hand in an accident in his father's butcher shop in 1946, sixth-grader Norman uses hard work and humor to learn to live with his disability and to succeed at baseball, art, and other activities.
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Twelve-year-old Quijana is a biracial girl, desperately trying to understand the changes that are going on in her life; her mother rarely gets home before bedtime, her father suddenly seems to be trying to get in touch with his Guatemalan roots (even though he never bothered to teach Quijana Spanish), she is about to start seventh grade in the Texas town where they live and she is worried about fitting in--and Quijana suspects that her parents are...
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