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Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
As an overworked employee of the Ministry of Magic, a husband, and a father, Harry Potter struggles with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs while his youngest son, Albus, finds the weight of the family legacy difficult to bear.
Author
Series
Ashbury/Brookfield books volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Author Jaclyn Moriarty's first novel is a #1 bestseller in its native Australia and a Book Sense 76 Pick, and has been nominated Best Book of the Year by the ALA. Told entirely through sticky notes from her mother, messages to "a Complete and Utter Stranger," and letters from fictitious companies, listeners get a peek into the complex life of teenager Elizabeth Clarry.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"1890, Atlanta. By day, seventeen-year-old Jo Kuan works as a lady's maid for the cruel Caroline Payne, the daughter of one of the wealthiest men in Atlanta. But by night, Jo moonlights as the pseudonymous author of a newspaper advice column for 'the genteel Southern lady'" --Provided by publisher.
1890, Atlanta. Jo Kuan works as a lady's maid for the cruel daughter of one of the wealthiest men in Atlanta. But by night she moonlights as the pseudonymous...
5) House arrest
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Young Timothy is sentenced to house arrest after impulsively stealing a wallet, and he is forced to keep a journal into which he pours all his thoughts, fears, and frustrations.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Takei's firsthand account of years spent in a Japanese concentration camp, the joys and terrors of growing up under legalized racism, his mother's hard choices, his father's faith in democracy, and the way those experiences planted the seeds for his astonishing future.
Author
Publisher
Publicaciones y Ediciones Salamandra, S.A
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
Español
Description
"Ser Harry Potter nunca ha sido tarea fàcil, menos aún desde que se ha convertido en un atareadìsimo empleado del Ministerio de Magia, un hombre casado y padre de tres hijos. Y si Harry planta cara a un pasado que se resiste a quedar atràs, su hijo menor, Albus Severus, ha de luchar contra el peso de una herencia familiar de la que él nunca ha querido saber nada. Cuando el destino conecte el pasado con el presente, padre e hijo deberàn afrontar...
Author
Series
Cupcake queen volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
While longing to return to life in New York City, thirteen-year-old Penny helps her mother and grandmother run a cupcake bakery in Hog's Hollow, tries to avoid the beastly popular girls, to be a good friend to quirky Tally, and to catch the eye of enigmatic Marcus.
10) A summer life
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Gary Soto writes that when he was five "what I knew best was at ground level." In this lively collection of short essays, Soto takes his listener to a ground-level perspective, recreating in vivid detail the sights, sounds, smells, and textures he knew growing up in his Fresno, California, neighborhood. The "things" of his boyhood tie it all together: his Buddha "splotched with gold," the taps of his shoes, and the "engines of sparks that lived beneath...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"16-year-old Wendy Davies crashes her car into a lake on a late summer night in New England with her two younger brothers in the backseat. When she wakes in the hospital, she is told that her youngest brother, Michael, is dead. Wendy -- a once rational teenager - shocks her family by insisting that Michael is alive and in the custody of a mysterious flying boy. Placed in a new school, Wendy negotiates fantasy and reality as students and adults around...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Swinging London, Summer 1967. Sixteen-year-old Estella, gifted with talent, ingenuity, and ambition, dreams of becoming a renowned fashion designer. But life seems intent on making sure her dreams never come true. Having arrived in London as a young girl, Estella now runs wild through the city streets with Jasper and Horace, amateur thieves who double as Estella's makeshift family and partners-in-(petty)-crime. How can Estella dedicate herself to...
13) Backlash
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lara just got told off on Facebook.
She thought that Christian liked her, that he was finally going to ask her to his school's homecoming dance. It's been a long time since Lara's felt this bad, this depressed. She's worked really hard since starting high school to be happy and make new friends.
Bree used to be BBFs with overweight, depressed Lara in middle school, but constantly listening to Lara's problems got to be too much. Bree's secretly glad...
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
As an overworked employee of the Ministry of Magic, a husband, and a father, Harry Potter struggles with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs while his youngest son, Albus, finds the weight of the family legacy difficult to bear.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
The morning after her eighteenth birthday, Andrea McNulty wakes up in a motel room, covered in blood and unable to remember what happened the previous night. According to the news, Andi's parents were brutally attacked in the middle of the night. Her father is dead, her mother is in a coma, her little brother Josh is missing-- and Andi is the prime suspect. On the run from the police, Andi teams up with Nate, the sympathetic boy working the motel's...
Author
Series
Drama! volume 2
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
School's out, but the drama never stops at the superposh Orion Academy. Hartley Blackstone has chosen Orion to hold auditions for one lucky guy and girl to attend his summer theater program in NYC. Naturally, every wannabe-it girl and boy at Orion is going mad, prepping to win Blackstone;s approval. With any luck, it could be Bryan and his BFF stepping onto a Broadway stage.
17) Show, Don't Tell
Author
Series
Drama! volume 3
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
The Renaissance Faire has come to town! Okay, so the exclamation point doesn't make it any cooler, but Sam is overjoyed to reunite with her former faire talk (say that ten times fast). Bryan on the other ahnd can do without all the "thees," "thous," and man tights.