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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Verbena Polter gets through a difficult summer of turbulent emotions and the revelation of a disturbing family secret with an odd new friend who believes she is the ghost of a girl who drowned many years before.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Over the course of the summer of 1963, fourteen-year-old Esther Young discovers the passion within her when eighteen-year-old King-Roy Johnson, accused of murdering a white man in Alabama, comes to live with her family.
3) The haunted
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
To evade her manipulative ex-boyfriend, sixteen-year-old Hendricks' family moves to small-town New York, where she joins the popular crowd, but only her outcast neighbor, Eddie, can help chase vindictive ghosts from her new house.
4) Dreamsleeves
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
During a momentous summer, thirteen-year-old Aislinn's dreams include that her father will stop drinking and give her more freedom, that her fifth sibling will be born safely, that she will not lose her best friend or her potential boyfriend, and that she can teach members of her community both to express their dreams and to help others' dreams come true.
5) Hidden roots
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Howard's family are Abenaki Indians who fled to New York from Vermont in the early twentieth century. They hid their Indian ancestry to avoid the Vermont Eugenics Project, an attempt to sterilize those who were infirm, mentally ill, of mixed heritage, or illegitimate. Many Abenaki were victims of this program and as a result the Abenaki culture faced possible extinction. In this story Howard's Uncle Louis, an Abenaki, tries to prevent that possibility...
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Justine Silver, a teenaged middle child, questions her faith when her best friend, Mary Catherine McAllister gives up chocolate for Lent, but when her grandmother suffers a stroke, Jussy has to face her relationship with religion.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Eve gave up her belief in stories and magic after her mother's death, but a mysterious seed given her as an eleventh-birthday gift by someone she has never met takes her and a boy who claims to be a ghost on a strange journey, to where their supposedly cursed town of Beaumont, New York, flourishes.
Author
Series
The haunted volume 2
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Hendricks discovers that even though Steele House is gone, the hauntings in Drearfield are far from over -- and it's up to her to stop them"--
10) Farmer Boy Days
Author
Series
Little house chapter books. Laura volume 6
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
As he grows up on his family's farm in New York, Almanzo Wilder dreams of having a colt of his own.
11) The missing girl
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In Mallory, New York, as five sisters, aged eleven to seventeen, deal with assorted problems, conflicts, fears, and yearnings, a mysterious middle-aged man watches them, fascinated, deciding which one he likes the best.
12) Slipping
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury U.S.A. Children's Books
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Michael and an unlikely group of allies journey to the river of the dead to help Michael's grandfather release his hold on a ghostly life and, in the process, heal wounds that have kept Michael's father distant.
13) Wild girl
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
When twelve-year-old Lidie leaves Brazil to join her father and brother on a horse ranch in New York, she has a hard time adjusting to her changed circumstances, as does a new horse that has come to the ranch.
14) Here today
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In 1963, when her flamboyant mother abandons the family to pursue her dream of becoming an actress, eleven-year-old Ellie Dingman takes charge of her younger siblings, while also trying to deal with her outcast status in school and frightening acts of prejudice toward the "misfits" that live on her street.
15) One-handed catch
Author
Publisher
H. Holt and Co
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
After losing his hand in an accident in his father's butcher shop in 1946, sixth-grader Norman uses hard work and humor to learn to live with his disability and to succeed at baseball, art, and other activities.
Author
Publisher
American Girl Pub
Pub. Date
©2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Caroline worries that British spies may be lurking in Sackets Harbor, but when strange things start happening at Abbott's Shipyard Caroline wonders if a spy, either someone she has known all her life or Papa's long-lost friend, is responsible.
17) Farmer boy days
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
As he grows up on his family's farm in New York, Almanzo Wilder dreams of having a colt of his own.
18) Gingersnap
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her brother Rob, a Navy cook, goes missing in action during World War II, Jayna, desperate for family, leaves upstate New York and their cranky landlady, accompanied by a turtle and a ghost, to seek their grandmother, who Rob believes may live in Brooklyn. Includes soup recipes.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Growing up on his family's farm in New York, Almanzo Wilder wishes for just one thing -- his very own horse. But Father doesn't yet trust him with such a big responsibility. Almanzo needs to prove himself -- but how?"--P. [4] of cover.
Author
Publisher
American Girl Publishing
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A modern-day girl finds herself on the shore of Lake Ontario during the War of 1812, and as she and Caroline Abbott experience life in this turbulent time, the reader is invited to choose how the twosome might help the Americans beat the British.