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2) Freewater
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Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Description
After fleeing the plantation where they were enslaved, siblings Ada and Homer discover the secret community of Freewater, and work with freeborn Sanzi to protect their new home from the encroaching dangers of the outside world.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 4
Description
"In Kenny Wright's active imagination he's a world famous superhero, but in the real world he's a sixth grade "Grandma's Boy" whose struggles to fit in at his Washington D.C. inner city school will put his grades and family loyalty to the test"--
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
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Description
"A twelve-year-old girl discovers her father is the keeper of the gateway between our world and The Dark, and when he goes missing she'll need to unlock her own powers and fight a horde of spooky creatures set on starting a war"--
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Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
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Description
Barry's family tries to evacuate before Hurricane Katrina hits their home in New Orleans. But when Barry's little sister gets terribly sick, they're forced to stay home and wait out the storm. At first, Katrina doesn't seem to be as bad as predicted. But overnight the levees break, and Barry's world is literally torn apart. He's swept away by the floodwaters, away from his family. Can he survive the storm of the century -- alone?
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Dragons in a bag volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Description
"In Brooklyn, nine-year-old Jax joins Ma, a curmudgeonly witch who lives in his building, on a quest to deliver three baby dragons to a magical world, and along the way discovers his true calling"--Provided by Publisher.
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Nic Blake and the Remarkables volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 11
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Description
"It's not easy being a Remarkable in the Unremarkable world. Some things are cool--like getting a pet hellhound for your twelfth birthday. Others, not so much--like not being trusted to learn magic because you might use it to take revenge on an annoying neighbor. All Nic Blake wants is to be a powerful Manifestor like her dad. But before she has a chance to convince him to teach her the gift, a series of shocking revelations and terrifying events...
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Ryan Hart volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Formats
Description
In the summer before fifth grade, Ryan Hart continues to grow through changes and challenges, such as waiting for a new baby sister to be born, a summer camp trip, and more.--
12) The crossover
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Fourteen-year-old twin basketball stars Josh and Jordan wrestle with highs and lows on and off the court as their father ignores his declining health.
13) P.S. be eleven
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Description
"Eleven-year-old Brooklyn girl Delphine feels overwhelmed with worries and responsibilities. She's just started sixth grade and is self-conscious about being the tallest girl in the class, and nervous about her first school dance. She's supposed to be watching her sisters, but Fern and Vonetta are hard to control. Her uncle Darnell is home from Vietnam and seems different. And her pa has a girlfriend. At least Delphine can write to her mother in Oakland,...
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Supernatural investigations volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Description
"So when the secretive League of Magicians offers her a chance to stand up for magiciankind as its new leader, she declines. She's got enough to worry about! But her refusal allows someone else to step forward, a magician with dangerous plans for the League. This challenge sparks the start of the Great Game, a competition to decide who will become the Night Brothers' successor and determine the future of magiciankind. The Great Game is both mysterious...
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Zoe Washington volume 2
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Follows fourteen-year-old Zoe and her recently exonerated father as they build their new relationship and work to open a restaurant together.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 14
Description
"In this comprehensive, inspiring, and all-too-relevant history of the Black Panther Party, Kekla Magoon introduces readers to the Panthers' community activism, grounded in the concept of self-defense, which taught Black Americans how to protect and support themselves in a country that treated them like second-class citizens. For too long the Panthers' story has been a footnote to the civil rights movement rather than what it was: a revolutionary...
19) Finding Langston
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Discovering a book of Langston Hughes' poetry in the library helps Langston cope with the loss of his mother, relocating from Alabama to Chicago as part of the Great Migration, and being bullied.
20) Ophie's ghosts
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Discovering her ability to see ghosts when a cruel act ends her father's life and forces her to move in with relatives in 1920s Pittsburgh, young Ophelia forges a helpful bond with a spirit whose own life ended suddenly and unjustly.
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