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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Told through the voices of the children, this inside view of life on their farm is authentic and sometimes surprising. Readers will learn about baling hay, tending cattle, work dogs, hunting, manure, and other activities on the Bennett farm, as well as some insights into the culture of living in a rural area.
Author
Publisher
[Distributed by] Publishers Group West
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
When Holland was under Nazi rule, the Dutch lived extremely harsh lives. Thousands were in hiding, especially Jews who had managed to escape transport to the death camps. Frans Braal and his wife Mies took in anyone in need of help--Jews, children whose parents could no longer look after them, resistance fighters, and people who were starving--providing them with a temporary home. Twice their place was searched by the Nazis, and on both occasions...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"The star of Orange Is the New Black and Jane the Virgin, Diane Guerrero presents her personal story in this middle grade memoir about her parents' deportation and the nightmarish struggles of undocumented immigrants and their American children"--
10) Moo
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Follows the efforts of twelve-year-old Reena, who has recently moved to rural Maine, to adjust to a new environment while unexpectedly bonding with an ornery cow.
11) Ahimsa
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Gandhi asks for one member of each family to join the fight for independence from the British, and when ten-year-old Anjali's mother is jailed for doing so, Anjali must step out of her comfort zone to take over her mother's work.
12) Hardscrabble
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Belle Martin and her family move to Mingo, Colorado, in 1910 when the U.S. government offers 320 acres of land free to homesteaders.
13) Spymasters
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1814, redcoats burned the White House to the ground. In 1889, Harry Houdini discovered a trick that would save his life. In 1955, the U.S. launched the world's first nuclear submarine. And one family pulled the strings behind the scenes at each of these events: the Cahills--the most powerful family the world has ever known. Now the Cahills have opened their vault and dangerous secrets are pouring out. This book contains three of them--three stories...
Author
Series
Applewhites volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Jake, a budding juvenile delinquent, is sent for home schooling to the arty and eccentric Applewhite family's Creative Academy, where he discovers talents and interests he never knew he had.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
One hilarious Harlem family is on a mission to find the perfect way to celebrate their Papa's fortieth birthday while discovering more about their mysterious grandparents in this heartfelt romp and latest installment to the New York Times best-selling series, perfect for fans of the Penderwicks. It's summer on 141st Street, and the Vanderbeekers are looking forward to Papa's surprise fortieth birthday party. But then Papa must leave town to help his...
16) Everywhere blue
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Maddie, who suffers from anxiety, loves music, math, and everything in its place, but when her older brother Strum disappears from his college campus, her family starts slipping away from her.
17) Right as Rain
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Eleven-year-old Rain must adjust to a new normal after her brother dies and her family moves to New York City"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
My sister lives on the mantelpiece. Well, some of her does. Everyone kept saying it would get better with time, but thats just one of those lies that grown ups tell. Five years on, it.s worse than ever: Dad drinks, Mums gone and Jamies left with questions that he must answer for himself.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Lise watches her safe world fall apart when her strong, self-reliant mom is injured in a car accident. To recuperate, Mom takes Lise and her bright little brother to live in a rattletrap house on the beach in Maine for the summer. Although her mother grew up there, this is Lise's first experience with the ocean. She's terrified by what may be lurking in the cold depths and confused by the ways that Maine is changing her mother.
As...