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1) Little women
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
Formats
Description
The classic story of the March family whose four daughters are growing up in New England in the mid-1800s. There are numerous sequels, for example, Little Men and Jo's Boys. Annotation. Little Women is the heartwarming story of the March family that has thrilled generations of readers. It is the story of four sisters--Jo, Meg, Amy and Beth-- and of the courage, humor and ingenuity they display to survive poverty and the absence of their father during...
Author
Series
Baby-sitters Club volume 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her mother's remarriage takes her family into a much wealthier neighborhood, thirteen-year-old Kristy finds herself surrounded by snobbish girls who compare clothes, make fun of the Baby-sitters Club, and insult her aging dog.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hazel Kaplansky and new student Samuel Butler investigate rumors that a Russian spy has infiltrated their small Vermont town, amidst the fervor of Cold War era McCarthyism, but more is revealed than they could ever have imagined.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1984 Newark, Beatriz Mendez navigates romance, gang culture, and her family's past. After her gang-leader brother is killed, Beatriz gives up her dreams of dancing in order to run the gang. But her eyes are reopened to her dream of a career in dance when the school brainiac asks her to compete in a dance competition with him--but will the gang let her go?"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Bolivia in 1999, when their father is unjustly arrested and their mother leaves, Francisco, seventeen, and his sister Pilar, eight, must move to the dirty, dehumanizing, and corrupt prison.
1999, Bolivia. Francisco's father is arrested on false charges and sent to prison by a corrupt system. Now Francisco and his young sister must move into prison with their father. There, they find a world unlike anything they've ever known. Prison life is dirty,...
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
After a fight at school leaves Marcus facing suspension, Marcus's mother takes him and his younger brother, who has Down syndrome, to Puerto Rico to visit relatives they do not remember or have never met, and while there Marcus starts searching for his father, who left their family ten years ago and is somewhere on the island.
7) Starfish
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Summer Passport
Golden Sower Nominees 2023-2024
Library Novel-in-Verse
Summer Passport
Description
Bullied and shamed her whole life for being fat, twelve-year-old Ellie finally gains the confidence to stand up for herself, with the help of some wonderful new allies.--
9) Like Vanessa
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
It is 1983 and Vanessa Martin, a thirteen-year-old African American girl in Newark's public housing, dreams of following in the footsteps of the first black Miss America, Vanessa Williams; but with a dysfunctional family (mother in jail, father withdrawn, drunken grandfather, gay cousin) the odds are against her--until a new teacher at school organizes a beauty pageant and encourages Vanessa to enter.
11) Bicycle mystery
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
While on bicycle trip to their aunt's farm, the four Aldens help solve a mystery.
14) One true way
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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.
15) Loser
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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.
16) A night divided
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
With the rise of the Berlin Wall, twelve-year-old Gerta finds her family suddenly divided. She, her mother, and her brother Fritz live on the eastern side, controlled by the Soviets. Her father and middle brother, who had gone west in search of work, cannot return home. Gerta knows it is dangerous to watch the wall, to think forbidden thoughts of freedom, yet she can't help herself. She sees the East German soldiers with their guns trained on their...
17) Fudge-a-mania
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Brother Peter and Fudge must spend the summer with the dreaded Sheila the Great. Peter Hatcher describes his family's Maine vacation highlighted by the antics of his younger brother Fudge and the presence of his sworn enemy Sheila Tubman and her family.
18) The red umbrella
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1961 after Castro has come to power in Cuba, fourteen-year-old Lucia and her seven-year-old brother are sent to the United States when her parents, who are not in favor of the new regime, fear that the children will be taken away from them as others have been.
19) Semiprecious
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Uprooted and living with an aunt in 1960s Oklahoma, thirteen-year-old Garnet and her older sister Opal brave their mother's desertion and their father's recovery from an accident, learning that "the best home of all is the one you make inside yourself."
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