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101) Squished
Author
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
GN 520L
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Description
"Eleven-year-old Avery Lee loves living in Hickory Valley, Maryland. She loves her neighborhood and school and the end-of-summer fair she always goes to with her two best friends. But she's tired of feeling squished by her six siblings! They're noisy and chaotic and the younger kids all love her a little too much. All Avery wants is her own room--her own space to be alone and make art. So she's furious when Theo, her grumpy older brother, gets his...
103) Come Juneteenth
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
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Description
Fourteen-year-old Luli and her family face tragedy after failing to tell their slaves that President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation made them free.
Author
Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
Description
The pressure's really piling up on Greg Heffley. His mom thinks video games are turning his brain to mush, so she wants her son to put down the controller and explore his "creative side." As if that's not scary enough, Halloween is just around the corner and the frights are coming at Greg from every angle.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
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Description
"Brothers Marcus and Julian Sedgwick team up to pen this haunting tale of another pair of brothers, caught between life and death in World War II. Harry Black, a conscientious objector, artist, and firefighter battling the blazes of German bombing in London in 1944, wakes in the hospital to news that his soldier brother, Ellis, has been killed. In the delirium of his wounded state, Harry's mind begins to blur the distinctions between the reality of...
Author
Series
Jasmine Toguchi volume 1
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Eager to do something her big sister has not done first, Jasmine Toguchi, eight, decides to pound mochi with the men and boys when her family gets together for New Year's.
107) The tiptoeing tiger
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
Everyone knows that tigers are sleek, silent, and totally terrifying... most tigers, that is. But no one is afraid of Little Tiger. He's just too small and clumsy to frighten anyone.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 3
Description
In a poor village outside of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Serafina works hard to help her family, but dreams of going to school and becoming a doctor--then the earthquake hits and Serafina must summon all her courage to find her father and still get medicine for her sick baby brother as she promised.
109) One crazy summer
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
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Description
In the summer of 1968, after travelling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they discover that their mother, a dedicated poet and printer, is resentful of the intrusion of their visit and wants them to attend a nearby Black Panther summer camp.
110) Norman, speak!
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
After a family adopts a dog from a local shelter, they cannot understand why he doesn't respond to commands, until a chance encounter in the dog park reveals that their new dog only understands Chinese.
111) A medal for Leroy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Formats
Description
In World War II-era England, Michael learns about his black British Army soldier grandfather, a World War I officer who risked his life to save wounded men but who did not receive special commendations because of his race.
112) Bread and roses, too
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
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Description
Jake and Rosa, two children, form an unlikely friendship as they try to survive and understand the 1912 Bread and Roses strike of mill workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts.
113) Endangered
Author
Series
Ape quartet volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
900L
Formats
Description
Sophie is not happy to be back in the Congo for the summer, but when she rescues an abused baby bonobo she becomes more involved in her mother's sanctuary--and when fighting breaks out and the sanctuary is attacked, it is up to Sophie to rescue the apes and somehow survive in the jungle.
114) Threatened
Author
Series
Ape quartet volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
910L
Formats
Description
Luc is an orphan living in debt slavery in Gabon. Then a man calling himself Prof comes to town with a mysterious mission. When Luc tries to rob him, the man isn't angry. Instead, he offers Luc a job. Together, Luc and Prof head into the rough, dangerous jungle in order to study the elusive chimpanzees. There, Luc finally finds a new family--and must act when that family comes under attack.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Description
A dazzling wordless picture book celebrates creative problem-solving, teamwork, and the sun-splashed wonder of a day at the beach. The creators of the acclaimed Over the Shop evoke a perfect summer beach day -- and themes of creativity, cooperation, flexibility, and persistence -- all without a word in this sun-warmed, salt-stained delight of a story. A busload of beachgoers spills out onto the sand for a day of fun and frolic. Three siblings begin...
Author
Publisher
First Second
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 2
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Description
"A middle grade graphic memoir based on bestselling author and Caldecott Medalist Dan Santat's awkward middle school years and the trip to Europe that changed his life. Dan's always been a good kid. The kind of kid who listens to his teachers, helps his mom with grocery shopping, and stays out of trouble. But being a good kid doesn't stop him from being bullied and feeling like he's invisible, which is why Dan has low expectations when his parents...
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