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1) Little Women
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 33
Lexile measure
1300L
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Description
For generations, children around the world have come of age with Louisa May Alcott's March girls: hardworking eldest sister Meg, headstrong, impulsive Jo, timid Beth, and precocious Amy. With their father away at war, and their loving mother Marmee working to support the family, the four sisters have to rely on one another for support as they endure the hardships of wartime and poverty. We witness the sisters growing up and figuring out what role...
2) Starfish
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
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Description
Told in verse, Ellie lives by Fat Girl Rules to avoid being bullied, but with the support of her dad, her therapist and her neighbor Catalina, can Ellie set aside these rules and just be herself?
Author
Series
Fourteenth goldfish volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Ellie's scientist grandfather has discovered a way to reverse aging, and consequently has turned into a teenager--which makes for complicated relationships when he moves in with Ellie and her mother, his daughter.
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Series
Mother-Daughter Book Club volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
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Description
Four girls continue their mother-daughter book club, reading Charles Dickens's "A Christmas Carol," but from unexpected blizzards to a sledding disaster, nothing goes as planned.
6) Caught
Author
Series
The missing volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Formats
Description
When Jonah and Katherine travel to early 1900s Switzerland and Serbia to return Albert Einstein's daughter, Lieserl, to history, her mother Mileva grasps entirely too much about time travel and has no intention of letting her daughter go.
Author
Series
Mother-Daughter Book Club volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
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Description
Entering seventh grade at Walden Middle School, four girls continue their mother-daughter book club, reading Lucy Maud Montgomery's "Anne of Green Gables," while dealing with a mean, troublemaking classmate.
8) One true way
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Description
From the moment she met Samantha, star of the school basketball team, on her first day at Daniel Boone Middle School, Allison Drake felt she had found a friend, something she needs badly since her brother died and her father left--but as their friendship grows it begins to evolve into a deeper emotion, and in North Carolina in 1977, it is not easy to discover that you might be gay.
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Formats
Description
Massachusetts thirteen year old Clare, grieving after her mother's recent death, reluctantly travels with her father to spend nine weeks in a remote village in Malawi, where new friends and experiences help open her mind and heart.
11) Air
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
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Description
Twelve-and-a-half year old Emelyn Ethrige lives with her father in South Carolina, dreams of wheelchair motocross, and makes custom chair bags trying to earn enough money to buy a serious set of wheels; she has been in a wheelchair all her life, and is just fine getting around without help, but it seems that since her mother was killed in an accident everyone (father, grandparents, teachers, and classmates) have started treating her differently: urging...
12) Seven stories up
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 6
Formats
Description
In 1987, while her mother sits in a Baltimore hotel at the deathbed of a grandmother twelve-year-old Annie never knew, Annie travels back fifty years and shares adventures with the lonely girl who will grow up to be her feisty grandmother.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
740L
Description
It was a dark and stormy night. Meg Murry, her small brother Charles Wallace, and her mother had come down to the kitchen for a midnight snack when they were upset by the arrival of a most disturbing stranger. "Wild nights are my glory," the unearthly stranger told them. "I just got caught in a downdraft and blown off course. Let me sit down for a moment, and then I'll be on my way. Speaking of ways, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract."...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
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Description
Percy Jackson is about to be kicked out of boarding school...again. And that's the least of his troubles. Lately, mythological monsters and the gods of Mount Olympus seem to be walking straight out of the pages of Percy's Greek mythology textbook and into his life. And worse, he's angered a few of them. Zeus's master lightning bolt has been stolen, and Percy is the prime suspect. Now Percy and his friends have just ten days to find and return Zeus's...
15) Hold fast
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Formats
Description
On a cold winter day in Chicago, Early's father disappeared, and now she, her mother and her brother have been forced to flee their apartment and join the ranks of the homeless--and it is up to Early to hold her family together and solve the mystery surrounding her father.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
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Description
One summer's day, ten-year-old India Opal Buloni goes down to the local supermarket for some groceries - and comes home with a dog. But Winn-Dixie is no ordinary dog. It's because of Winn-Dixie that Opal begins to make friends. And it's because of Winn-Dixie that she finally dares to ask her father about her mother, who left when Opal was three. In fact, as Opal admits, just about everything that happens that summer is because of Winn-Dixie.
17) The silent boy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Formats
Description
Katy, the precocious ten-year-old daughter of the town doctor, befriends a retarded boy.