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1) Peeled
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In an upstate New York farming community, high school reporter Hildy Biddle investigates a series of strange occurrences at a house rumored to be haunted.
2) Firegirl
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
A middle school boy's life is changed when Jessica, a girl disfigured by burns, starts attending his Catholic school while receiving treatment at a local hospital.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Minna wishes for many things. She wishes she understood the quote taped above her mother's typewriter: Fact and fiction are different truths. She wishes her mother would stop writing long enough to really listen to her. She wishes her house were peaceful and orderly like her friend Lucas's. Most of all, she wishes she could find a vibrato on her cello and play Mozart the way he deserves to be played. Minna soon discovers that some things can't be...
4) The wish
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When granted her wish to be the most popular girl in school, Wilma, an eighth grader, forgets that she will graduate in three weeks and her popularity will vanish.
Author
Series
Origami Yoda book volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Sixth-grader Tommy and his friends describe their interactions with a paper finger puppet of Yoda, worn by their weird classmate Dwight, as they try to figure out whether or not the puppet can really predict the future. Includes instructions for making Origami Yoda.
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Afraid to actually ask Tina Zabinski for a date, eighth-grader Kevin spends most of his time theorizing about love and romance and observing and analyzing male/female interaction.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
All twelve-year-old Josh wants to do is play baseball but when his father, a minor league pitcher, signs him up for a youth championship team, Josh finds himself embroiled in a situation with potentially illegal consequences.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
When armed thugs crash into the house and take them away to a cabin in the woods, babysitter Amy realizes she and little Kendra have become pawns in a dangerous ransom plot and so must find a way for the two of them to escape safely before their captors make their next move.
10) Finally
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
After her twelfth birthday, Rory checks off a list of things she is finally allowed to do, but unexpected consequences interfere with her involvement in the movie being shot at her school, while a weird prediction starts to make sense.
11) Falling in
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Middle-schooler Isabelle Bean follows a mouse's squeak into a closet and falls into a parallel universe where the children believe she is the witch they have feared for years, finally come to devour them.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a year in exile on an Alaskan island as punishment for severely beating a fellow student, Cole Matthews returns to school in Minneapolis having made peace with himself and his victim--but he finds that surviving the violence and hatred of high school is even harder than surviving in the wilderness.
14) Storm Mountain
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Two thirteen-year-old cousins are trapped in a blizzard on the same treacherous mountain in the Cascades that claimed the lives of their world-famous, mountain-climber, twin fathers exactly two years earlier.
15) After ever after
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Although Jeff and Tad, encouraged by a new friend, Lindsey, make a deal to help one another overcome aftereffects of their cancer treatments in preparation for eighth-grade graduation, Jeff still craves advice from his older brother Stephen, who is studying drums in Africa.
16) Danger zone
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When he joins a predominantly black "Teen Dream Team" that will be representing the United States in an international basketball tournament in Rome, Jimmy Doyle makes some unexpected discoveries about prejudice, racism, and politics.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker's classroom where they read the plays of William Shakespeare and Holling learns much of value about the world he lives in.
19) Schooled
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Homeschooled by his hippie grandmother, Capricorn (Cap) Anderson has never watched television, tasted a pizza, or even heard of a wedgie. But when his grandmother lands in the hospital, Cap is forced to move in with a guidance counselor and attend the local middle school. While Cap knows a lot about tie-dyeing and Zen Buddhism, no education could prepare him for the politics of public school.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Afraid that she is crazy, thirteen-year-old Mia, who sees a special color with every letter, number, and sound, keeps this a secret until she becomes overwhelmed by school, changing relationships, and the loss of something important to her.
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