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1) Hard luck
Author
Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
Description
"Greg Heffley's on a losing streak. His best friend, Rowley Jefferson, has ditched him, and finding new friends in middle school is proving to be a tough task. To change his fortunes, Greg decides to take a leap of faith and turn his decisions over to chance. Will a roll of the dice turn things around, or is Greg's life destined to be just another hard-luck story?"--
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
690L
Formats
Description
Lucy, with her mother and her photographer father, has just moved to a small rural community in New Hampshire, and with her new friend Nate she plans to spend the summer taking photos for a contest, but pictures sometimes reveal more than people are willing to see.
Author
Series
Big Nate (Chapter books) volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 2
Formats
Description
Both Nate Wright and school bully Randy Betancourt have crushes on the new girl Ruby, and altercations between the two boys result in peer counseling sessions that eventually lead to an unlikely friendship and their becoming teammates on the school's ultimate frisbee Mud Bowl team.
5) The Doldrums
Author
Series
Doldrums volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
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Description
An eccentric like all Helmsleys, eleven-year-old Archer escapes his overprotective mother and recruits two friends, Oliver and Adelaide, to help him plan a rescue of his long-lost grandparents, world-famous explorers who disappeared atop an iceberg in the Antarctic.
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Description
"As Trent Zimmerman struggles to move past a traumatic event that took place several months earlier, he befriends class outcast Fallon Little, who helps him understand that he can move on"--
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
850L
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Description
Sixteen-year-old Hazel, a stage IV thyroid cancer patient, has accepted her terminal diagnosis until a chance meeting with a boy at cancer support group forces her to reexamine her perspective on love, loss, and life. Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears...
Author
Series
Norvelt books volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
930L
Formats
Description
After an explosion, a new crime by an old murderer, and the sad passing of the founder of Norvelt, Pennsylvania, twelve-year-old Jack accompanies his slightly mental elderly mentor, Miss Volker, on a cross-country run as she pursues the oddest of outlaws.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Formats
Description
Because his family has moved again Josh Baxter is starting at a new school for the third time in two years, and this time he has really started off on the wrong foot--but when his mother takes away the video games that have become his refuge because of his poor grades, Josh realizes he has to come up with a new strategy for success.
11) Chomp
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Description
When the difficult star of the reality television show "Expedition Survival" disappears while filming an episode in the Florida Everglades using animals from the wildlife refuge run by Wahoo Crane's family, Wahoo and classmate Tuna Gordon set out to find him while avoiding Tuna's gun-happy father.
12) Sea change
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Series
Publisher
TOON Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Description
"Follows a young boy who is reluctantly sent to spend the summer in a remote part of Nova Scotia. As the summer wears on, the hero forges solid friendships with other kids in the small fishing community and is changed forever by the experience"--
13) Full of Beans
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 4
Description
"Beans Curry owns this town. He and his gang of barefoot buddies know everyone in Key West, and they know how to get things done -- and get paid. Most of the time, anyway. But it's the middle of the Great Depression, and times are tough. there are no jobs and everyone is out for themselves, which means it's hard for a kid to make a cent. Luckily, Beans isnt' like other kids. And when his first scheme doesn't work out, he realizes he has to think...
14) Batting order
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Matt Baker is the best all-rounder on his baseball team, but can he help Big Ben Roberson improve his hitting and stand up to his father?
Author
Series
Big Nate comix volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
Nate has a master plan. But will Mrs. Godfrey catch him in the act?
16) The bamboo sword
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Formats
Description
In Japan in 1853, at the time of U.S. Commodore Matthew Perry's visit to Japan, Yoshi, a young Japanese boy who dreams of becoming a samurai one day, learns about America from Majiro and has adventures with Jack, a young cabin boy aboard one of the U.S. ships. Includes historical notes and glossary.
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