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1) Taking sides
Author
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Fourteen-year-old Lincoln Mendoza, an aspiring basketball player, must come to terms with his divided loyalties when he moves from the Hispanic inner city to a white suburban neighborhood.
Author
Series
Spiderwick chronicles volume 1
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When the Grace children go to stay at their Great Aunt Lucinda's worn Victorian house, they discover a field guide to fairies and other creatures and begin to have some unusual experiences.
Author
Series
Football genius novels volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Twelve-year-old Troy always dreamed of meeting his father, but when the man finally appears his mother's anger, his father's shady business dealings, and Troy's own feelings make the reunion difficult and confusing.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Formats
Description
Thirteen-year-old Conor awakens one night to find a monster outside his bedroom window, but not the one from the recurring nightmare that began when his mother became ill--an ancient, wild creature that wants him to face truth and loss.
Author
Series
Dirt diary volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Rachel Lee is enjoying a summer of baking class and flirting with her almost-boyfriend Evan until a rival cleaning business comes to town, stealing her mother's clients, and she must focus on protecting Lee Cleaners rather than Whit, her cute new classmate.
Author
Series
Spiderwick chronicles volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Three ordinary kids, Jared, Simon, and Mallory Grace, have entered another world -- without leaving this one!
10) Infinity
Author
Series
Chronicles of Nick volume 1
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Formats
Description
Fourteen-year-old sarcastic, street-savvy Nick is drawn into the world of the Dark-Hunters, but must hide his participation in the battle against werewolves, vampires, and zombies from his mother and high school principal.
Author
Series
Virals novels volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 13
Description
"The Virals must find a geocache concealing a bomb--and the clock is ticking."--
12) Ralph S. Mouse
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Presents the further adventures of a motorcycle-riding mouse who goes to school and becomes the instigator of an investigation of rodents and the peacemaker for two lonely boys.
13) Wish
Author
Series
Journey trilogy (Joseph Monninger) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Description
While trying to help her eleven-year-old brother who suffers from cystic fibrosis get his greatest wish, fifteen-year-old Bee discovers that she has some special wishes of her own.
14) The dirt diary
Author
Series
Dirt diary volume 1
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Description
After her parents' divorce, eighth-grader Rachel Lee joins her mother's new housecleaning business, which has her scrubbing bathrooms in her more popular classmates' homes and learning useful secrets.
15) My single parent
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Some children have only one parent, but they still have fun with their family.
16) My name is Mina
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Creative, intelligent, nine-year-old Mina keeps a journal in her own disorderly way that reveals how her mind is growing into something extraordinary, especially after she begins homeschooling under the direction of her widowed mother.
17) Only Emma
Author
Series
Emma McGraw series volume 1
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Third-grader Emma's peaceful life as an only child is disrupted when she has to temporarily share her tidy bedroom with four-year-old Anthony Scarpetto, a bona fide "pain in the patootie."
18) Change the locks
Author
Pub. Date
1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Eleven-year-old Steven has vague and distubring memories of being left alone on a road in the middle of nowhere when he was young, but his mother, faced with her own problems, continually avoids answering his questions about their earlier life in an Australian city.
19) Fitz: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Fifteen-year-old Fitz kidnaps the father he has never known, taking him from his St. Paul apartment building at gunpoint, in an attempt to address his bewildering mix of resentment and yearning.
Author
Series
The Penderwicks volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Formats
Description
While vacationing with their widowed father in the Berkshire Mountains, four lovable sisters, ages four through twelve, share adventures with a local boy, much to the dismay of his snobbish mother.