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21) Crunch
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 7
Formats
Description
The oldest Marriss brother, fourteen-year-old Dewey, attempts to be the "embodiment of responsibility" as he juggles the management of the family's bicycle repair business while sharing the household and farm duties with his siblings after a sudden energy crisis strands their parents far from home.
22) Slob
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Picked on, overweight genius Owen tries to invent a television that can see the past to find out what happened the day his parents were killed.
23) The disappeared
Author
Publisher
Dial Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Silvia tries to save her brother, Eduardo, after he is captured by the military government in 1970s Argentina.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
Fang, a bat, is having a tough time getting to sleep. His brother Fink decides he needs a story - a scary story. Now Fan really can't get to sleep. Next, brother Batrick thinks he has the answer - an adventurous pirate story! Fang is so excited that he is even more wide awak. Then sister Batsy offers a dramatic romance story about Cleobatra. That's even worse! How will Fang finally get to sleep? There's one story yet to hear . . . will it be the one...
Author
Series
Flyy Girls volume 4
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Lexile measure
810L
Description
High school senior Tobyn, who attends a performing arts school in Harlem, finds support from her fellow Flyy Girls as she pursues fame as a singer, grows closer to Noelle, and struggles to connect with her older sister.
26) Trading places
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Formats
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.
27) Indigo's star
Author
Series
Casson family volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Formats
Description
Spurred on by his youngest sister, Rose, twelve-year-old Indigo sticks up for himself and an American boy who has replaced him as the primary target of the school bullies.
28) Permanent Rose
Author
Series
Casson family volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Formats
Description
While trying to reconnect with her friend Tom, who has returned to the United States without leaving a forwarding address, eight-year-old Rose inadvertently discovers the identity of her adopted sister Saffy's father.
29) In the woods
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Formats
Description
When Cameron discovers a baby abandoned in the woods, he tries to discover whether his sister is the mother.
30) The red pyramid
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
650L
Description
Brilliant Egyptologist Dr. Julius Kane accidentally unleashes the Egyptian god Set, who banishes the doctor to oblivion and forces his two children to embark on a dangerous journey, bringing them closer to the truth about their family and its links to a secret order that has existed since the time of the pharaohs.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Moose Flanagan, who lives on Alcatraz along with his family and the families of the other prison guards, is frightened when he discovers that noted gangster Al Capone, a prisoner there, wants a favor in return for the help that he secretly gave Moose.
33) Big red lollipop
Author
Publisher
Viking
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Having to take her younger sister along the first time she is invited to a birthday party spoils Rubina's fun, and later when that sister is asked to a party and baby sister wants to come, Rubina must decide whether to help.
35) Maggie's monkeys
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When Maggie reports that pink monkeys have moved into the refrigerator, her mother and father play along and accommodate the invisible visitors, much to the frustration of Maggie's older, reality-obsessed brother.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 10
Description
A fictionalized biography of Jane Austen focusing on her early life growing up with her sister Cassandra in a large country parsonage family in southern England, and the experiences and people which may have inspired the plots and characters of her famous novels.
37) Wait for me
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Description
As her senior year in high school approaches, Mina yearns to find her own path in life but working at the family business, taking care of her little sister, and dealing with her mother's impossible expectations are as stifling as the southern California heat, until she falls in love with a man who offers a way out.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Description
When sixteen-year-old Missy Vianello decides to try to convince her classmates that her cousin Claire is really her long-lost identical twin, she has no idea that the results of her prank will be so life-changing.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
860L
Description
Through letters to his little sister, who is living in a different foster home, sixth-grader Lonnie, also known as "Locomotion," keeps a record of their lives while they are apart, describing his own foster family, including his foster brother who returns home after losing a leg in the Iraq War.
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