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(0)Rebecca Stead
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
Despite her parents' divorce, her father's coming out as gay, and his plans to marry his boyfriend, ten-year-old Bea is reassured by her parents' unconditional love, excited about getting a stepsister, and haunted by something she did last summer at her father's lake house.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
As her mother prepares to be a contestant on the 1980s television game show, "The $20,000 Pyramid," a twelve-year-old New York City girl tries to make sense of a series of mysterious notes received from an anonymous source that seems to defy the laws of time and space.
3) Liar & spy
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
Seventh-grader Georges adjusts to moving from a house to an apartment, his father's efforts to start a new business, his mother's extra shifts as a nurse, being picked on at school, and Safer, a boy who wants his help spying on another resident of their building.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
560L
Language
English
Description
As Bridge makes her way through seventh grade on Manhattan's Upper West Side with her best friends, curvacious Em, crusader Tab, and a curious new friend--or more than friend--Sherm, she finds the answer she has been seeking since she barely survived an accident at age eight: "What is my purpose?".
5) First Light
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
This remarkable and acclaimed debut novel, by the Newbery-winning author of When You Reach Me and the new instant classic The List of Things That Will Not Change, introduces readers to a captivating, hidden world below the ice.
Peter is thrilled to join his parents on an expedition to Greenland. But when they finally reach the ice cap, he struggles to understand a series of frightening yet enticing visions....
Peter is thrilled to join his parents on an expedition to Greenland. But when they finally reach the ice cap, he struggles to understand a series of frightening yet enticing visions....
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
As her mother prepares to be a contestant on the 1980s television game show, "The $20,000 Pyramid," a twelve-year-old New York City girl tries to make sense of a series of mysterious notes received from an anonymous source that seems to defy the laws of time and space.
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Like A Wrinkle in Time (Miranda's favorite book), When You Reach Me far surpasses the usual whodunit or sci-fi adventure to become an incandescent exploration of 'life, death, and the beauty of it all.'" —The Washington Post
This Newbery Medal winner that has been called "smart and mesmerizing," (The New York Times) and "superb" (The Wall Street Journal) will appeal to
9) Bob
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
Description
Visiting her grandmother in Australia, Livy, ten, is reminded of the promise she made five years before to Bob, a strange, green creature who cannot recall who or what he is.
10) Other worlds
Series
Guys read volume 4
Publisher
Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
An anthology of original science fiction and fantasy stories.
11) Other Worlds
Author
Series
Publisher
Walden Pond Press
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Other Worlds, the fourth volume in Jon Scieszka's Guys Read anthology series for tween boys, features ten thrilling new tales of science fiction and fantasy from some of the biggest names in children's literature.
Prepare yourself for ten trips into the unknown, as ten of your favorite writers—Rick Riordan, who has written an all-new and exclusive Percy Jackson tale, Tom Angleberger of Origami Yoda fame, Newbery medalist Rebecca Stead,
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