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2) Strider
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Description
In a series of diary entries, Leigh tells how he comes to terms with his parents' divorce, acquires joint custody of an abandoned dog, and joins the track team at school.
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Ramona Quimby volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Ramona meets lots of interesting people in kindergarten class, like Davy whom she keeps trying to kiss and Susan whose springy curls seem to ask to be pulled.
4) Wonder
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
790L
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Description
August Pullman was born with a facial deformity that, up until now, prevented him from going to a mainstream school. Starting 5th grade at Beecher Prep, he wants nothing more than to be treated as an ordinary kid -- but his classmates can't get past Auggie's extraordinary face. Wonder begins from Auggie's point of view, but soon switches to include his classmates, his sister, her boyfriend, and others. These perspectives converge in a portrait of...
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Wayside School volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Unusual things continue to happen in the classroom on the thirtieth floor of Wayside School, which was accidentally built sideways with one classroom on each story.
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Adam Canfield volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Description
While serving as co-editors of their school newspaper, middle-schoolers Adam and Jennifer uncover fraud and corruption in their school and in the city's government.
7) The misfits
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Series
Misfits (James Howe) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Four students who do not fit in at their small-town middle school decide to create a third party for the student council elections to represent all students who have ever been called names.
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Series
Children of the Red King volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Charlie and his friends unite to rescue Ollie, a boy who was turned invisible and made to live in the attics at Bloor's Academy more than a year ago, but they are hindered by a mysterious new student who lives with Charlie's aunts.
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Series
Harriet the spy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Description
The story about eleven-year-old Harriet, who is a spy, plans to be a writer, and keeps a secret notebook filled with thoughts and notes on her schoolmates and people she observes on her after-school "spy route". However, when her classmates find and read her notebook, their anger and retaliation and Harriet's unexpected responses explode in a hilarious and often touching way.
10) The school mouse
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
860L
Description
Flora, the world's most educated mouse, saves her family during a crisis.
11) Toothpick
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Description
With the help of a terminally ill friend, eleventh-grade Jamie begins to question the values of some of his fellow students who seem to specialize in ridicule.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Description
"Mysti Murphy wishes she were a character in a book. If her life were fictional, she'd magically know how to deal with the fact that her best friend, Anibal Gomez, has abandoned her in favor of being a 'hipster.' She'd be able to take care of everyone when her dad has to spend time in the hospital. And she'd certainly be able to changer her family's secret: that her mother never leaves the house. Seventh grade is not turning out the way Mysti had...
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Series
A series of unfortunate events volume 5
Publisher
HarperCollins
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 6
Description
As their outrageous misfortune continues, the Baudelaire orphans are shipped off to a miserable boarding school, where they befriend the two Quagmire triplets and find that they have been followed by the dreaded Count Olaf.
14) The Landry News
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
950L
Description
A fifth-grader starts a newspaper with an editorial that prompts her burnt-out classroom teacher to really begin teaching again, but he is later threatened with disciplinary action as a result.
16) Losers, Inc
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Although he knows that his efforts to impress a beautiful student teacher and outdo his perfect older brother jeopardize his status in the losers' club that he and his best friend have started, twelve-year-old Ethan realizes that he no longer wants to be a loser.
17) The report card
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Nora always gets average grades so she can forgo the pressure-cooker gifted program or Brainiac Academy. But when Nora gets one hundred percent fed up over testing and the fuss everyone makes about grades, she brings home a terrible report card just to prove a point.
18) Loser
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Even though his classmates from first grade on have considered him strange and a loser, Daniel Zinkoff's optimism and exuberance and the support of his loving family do not allow him to feel that way about himself.
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Series
Wayside School volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 4
Description
More humorous episodes from the classroom on the thirtieth floor of Wayside School, where students learn to tango, face the cafeteria's dreaded Mushroom Surprise, and study a hobo during Show and Tell. Sequel to "Sideways Stories from Wayside School."
More humorous episodes from the classroom on the thirtieth floor of Wayside School, where students learn to tango, face the cafeteria's dreaded Mushroom Surprise, and study a hobo during Show and Tell....
20) Ramona the brave
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Six-year-old Ramona tries to cope with an unsympathetic first-grade teacher. In this touching and funny story, the ebullient Ramona, feeling brave and grown-up, enters first grade. Quickly she finds that her new teacher, Mrs. Griggs, appears perplexed by pupils who like to be different. Since Ramona cannot help being different, clearly the two are incompatible. Nevertheless, Ramona can be counted on to keep things lively. Enraged when Susan copies...
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