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Pub. Date
p2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 4
Description
While older sister Alex is trying to orchestrate a perfect first kiss with her heartthrob and younger sister Joey prefers frogs to boys, Stevie Reel wonders if she is ready for a boyfriend while being pursued by a new boy in her class.
4) Angel burn
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Series
Pub. Date
p2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 17
Description
In a world where angels are fierce stalkers whose irresistible force allows them to feed off humans and drain them of their vitality, a ruthless teenaged assassin of angels falls in love with a half-angel half-human girl, with devastating consequences.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Twelve-year-old Cole's behavior causes his mother to drive him from Detroit to Philadelphia to live with a father he has never known, but who soon has Cole involved with a group of African-American "cowboys" who rescue horses and use them to steer youths away from drugs and gangs.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
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Thirteen-year-old Conor awakens one night to find a monster outside his bedroom window, but not the one from the recurring nightmare that began when his mother became ill--an ancient, wild creature that wants him to face truth and loss.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Description
A twelve-year-old Indian immigrant in New York City and a Kentucky coal miner's son become pen pals, and eventually best friends, through a series of revealing letters exploring such topics as environmental activism, immigration, and racism.
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Pub. Date
[2012]
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Stone examines the role of African Americans in the military through the lens of the untold story of the Triple Nickels as they became America's first black paratroopers and fought a little-known World War II attack on the American West by the Japanese.
10) Maggot moon
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Description
"An unlikely teenager risks all to expose the truth about a heralded moon landing. What if the football hadn't gone over the wall. On the other side of the wall there is a dark secret. And the devil. And the Moon Man. And the Motherland doesn't want anyone to know. But Standish Treadwell--who has different-colored eyes, who can't read, can't write, Standish Treadwell isn't bright--sees things differently than the rest of the "train-track thinkers."...
12) Juana & Lucas
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Series
Pub. Date
p2016
Description
A spunky young girl from Colombia loves playing with her canine best friend and resists boring school activities, especially learning English, until her family tells her that a special trip is planned to an English-speaking place.
13) Juana and Lucas
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
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Juana loves many things drawing, eating Brussels sprouts, living in Bogota, Colombia, and especially her dog, Lucas, the best amigo ever. She does not love wearing her itchy school uniform, solving math problems, or going to dance class. And she especially does not love learning the English. Why is it so important to learn a language that makes so little sense? But when Juana's abuelos tell her about a special trip they are planning one that Juana...
14) The wonderling
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
Description
Publisher Annotation: In this extraordinary debut novel with its deft nod to Dickensian heroes and rogues, Mira Bartok tells the story of Arthur, a shy, fox-like foundling with only one ear and a desperate desire to belong, as he seeks his destiny.
16) Trowbridge Road
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
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It's the summer of '83 on Trowbridge Road, and June Bug Jordan is hungry. Months after her father's death from complications from AIDS, her mother has stopped cooking and refuses to leave the house, instead locking herself away to scour at the germs she believes are everywhere. June Bug threatens this precarious existence by going out into the neighborhood, gradually befriending an imaginative boy who is living with his Nana Jean after experiencing...