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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
On a summer visit to her grandmother's cottage by the ocean, twelve-year-old Martha gains perspective on the death of a classmate, on her relationship with her grandmother, on her feelings for an older boy, and on her plans to be a writer.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
540L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In a story of the Ila people, the colorful birds of Africa ask Blackbird, whom they think is the most beautiful of birds, to decorate them with some of his "blackening brew."
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
Description
Eighth-grade football hero Wallace Wallace is sentenced to detention attending rehearsals of the school play where, in spite of himself, he becomes wrapped up in the production and begins to suggest changes that improve not only the play but his life as well.
Author
Publisher
Tilbury House
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
500L
Language
English
Description
A child who never says anything when other children are being teased or bullied finds herself in their position one day when jokes are made at her expense and no one speaks up.
9) Duck & Goose
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 630L
Language
English
Description
Duck and Goose learn to work together to take care of a ball, which they think is an egg.
10) Mama zooms
Author
Pub. Date
[1993]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 440L
Language
English
Description
A boy's wonderful mama takes him zooming everywhere with her, because her wheelchair is a zooming machine.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
1010L
Language
English
Description
The story of one of rock's biggest legends, from his birth during a 1940 World War II air raid on Liverpool, through his turbulent childhood and teen years, to his celebrated life writing, recording, and performing with the Beatles and beyond.
13) The moon ring
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2002]
Lexile measure
AD 470L
Language
English
Description
One hot night, Maxine goes on a wild adventure thanks to the magic of the blue moon.
14) Coolies
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 870L
Language
English
Description
A young boy hears the story of his great-great-great-grandfather and his brother who came to the United States to make a better life for themselves helping to build the transcontinental railroad.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 620L
Language
English
Description
While walking through a forest of sequoias, a father tells his family the story of the tree's namesake. Sequoyah was a Cherokee man who invented a system of writing for his people. His neighbors feared the symbols he wrote and burned down his home. All of his work was lost, but, still determined, he tried another approach. The Cherokee people finally accepted the written language after Sequoyah taught his six-year-old daughter to read.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
1130L
Language
English
Description
It's 1793, and there's an invisible killer roaming the streets of Philadelphia. The city's residents are fleeing in fear. This killer has a name--yellow fever--but everything else about it is a mystery. Its cause is unknown and there is no cure. This powerful dramatic account by award-winning author Jim Murphy traces the devastating course of the epidemic. An American Plague offers a fascinating glimpse into the conditions in American cities at the...
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
A claustrophobic boy dreams of going to college and becoming a newspaperman rather than a miner like his father, but when all union miners in the Coeur d'Alene Mining District are arrested, Mick develops new respect for his father while taking over responsibility for his family.
Author
Publisher
Arte Publico Press
Pub. Date
1997.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
In this moving coming-of-age novel set in rural New Mexico, the young protagonist, Flavio, is torn between the seductiveness of progress and new technology and his loyalty to village traditions so steadfastly preserved by his grandfather, El Grande.