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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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In this sequel to "Anne of Green Gables," teenage Anne Shirley becomes a schoolteacher in a small village on Prince Edward Island.
At sixteen Anne is grown up...almost. Her gray eyes shine like evening stars, but her red hair is still as peppery as her temper. In the years since she arrived at Green Gables as a freckle-faced orphan; she has earned the love of the people of Avonlea and a reputation for getting into scrapes. But when Anne begins her...
2) Little men
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
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Description
Continues the story of Little Women. This story takes place at Plumfield, a school founded by Jo and Father Bhaer for young boys and girls. Meg's and Jo's children are in the story, as are Marmee, Aunt Amy, and Uncle Laurie.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
In 1958 Little Rock, Arkansas, painfully shy twelve-year-old Marlee sees her city and family divided over school integration, but her friendship with Liz, a new student, helps her find her voice and fight against racism.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Since her mother died when she was born Sara and her father became very close. Sara has to go away to an all girl boarding school in Britian, because her father has to fight in the war. One day a messenger comes and tells her that her father is dead. Since Sara will lose all the money her father has she is forced to be a maid with the other maid who is black named Becky just so she can have a place to live. She finds out that her father is not dead,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"1937. Naomi Vargas is Mexican American. Wash Fuller is Black. These teens know the town's divisive racism better than anyone. But sometimes the attraction between two people is so powerful it breaks through even the most entrenched color lines. And the consequences can be explosive. Naomi and Wash dare to defy the rules, and the New London school explosion serves as a ticking time bomb in the background. Can their love survive both prejudice and...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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"During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker's classrooom, where they read the plays of William Shakespeare and Holling learns much of value about the world he lives in."--T.p. verso.
Author
Series
My weirder school volume 8
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A local college professor comes to Ella Mentry School to help students learn basic history and improve their scores on a standardized test, using some very unusual techniques.
Author
Series
Rush Revere volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rush Revere takes his students back in time to the writing of the "Star-Spangled Banner."
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl Pub
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
In 1974 at her new San Francisco school, nine-year-old Julie does not want to tell her class about her parents' divorce, or to tell her sister about messing up her school assignment, but when she breaks her finger playing basketball and her whole family rallies around her, she realizes the importance of telling the truth.
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Based on the acclaimed series-a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize-an intimate account of the devastating effects of gun violence on our nation's children, and a call to action for a new way forward In 2017, seven-year-old Ava in South Carolina wrote a letter to Tyshaun, an eight-year-old boy from Washington, DC. She asked him to be her pen pal; Ava thought they could help each other. The kids had a tragic connection-both were traumatized by gun violence....
12) Eleanor & Park
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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"Set over the course of one school year in 1986, this is the story of two star-crossed misfits--smart enough to know that first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try"--
14) London calling
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Seventh-grader Martin Conway believes that his life is monotonous and dull until the night the antique radio he uses as a night-light transports him to the bombing of London in 1940.
15) Okay for now
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
As a fourteen-year-old who just moved to a new town, with no friends, an abusive father, and a louse for an older brother, Doug Swieteck has all the stats stacked against him until he finds an ally in Lil Spicer--a fiery young lady. Together, they find a safe haven in the local library, inspiration in learning about the plates of John James Audubon's birds, and a hilarious adventure on a Broadway stage.
Author
Series
Amazing days of Abby Hayes volume 14
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Now that she's in sixth grade, Abby's discovering new friends and new talents. She's also discovering a major new interest: a boy!
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In 1955 Hadley, Virginia, twelve-year-old Dawnie Rae Johnson, a tomboy who excels at baseball and at her studies, becomes the first African American student to attend the all-white Prettyman Coburn school, turning her world upside down. Includes historical notes about the period.
Author
Series
Rush Revere volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Substitute middle-school history teacher Rush Revere takes his students back in time to experience American history as it happens aboard the Mayflower and on Plymouth Plantation.
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl Pub
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Julie is in school detention for passing a note to Joy, a deaf student who has trouble understanding what their teacher is saying. Indignant, Julie decides to run for student body president so she can make changes to the detention system. But the other students are put off by Joy, her choice for vice president, and Julie worries that she'll have little chance of winning if she partners with someone who seems so different. With persistence and creative...