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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Description
"A triumphant tale of friendship, healing, and the power of believing in ourselves told from the perspective of biracial sixth-graders June and Tyrell, two children living in a homeless shelter. As their friendship grows over a shared love of classical music, June and Tyrell confront a new housing policy that puts homeless families in danger"--
3) 96 miles
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Description
During a massive blackout in rural Nevada, two brothers struggle to survive without their self-reliance-obsessed dad and without enough water cross the desert for help.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Berkeley and her best friend, Garth, live on an old cruise ship, scavenging for supplies from the drowned cities left behind on the ocean floor after the sea swallowed up all the land. They think they've seen every kind of aquatic creature, but they never expected to find sea monsters... After awakening a Hydra, Berkeley and Garth are sent to live on a submarine, where they study and hunt sea monsters. But the Hydra wants revenge on their home ship--and...
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Winnie Zeng volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Armed with her fledgling powers, a magic cookbook, and the mentorship of a talking rabbit, sixth-grader Winnie Zeng must embrace her heritage and the powers of her ancestors to save her town from an evil spirit of Chinese legend.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
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Natty copes with her parents splitting up, moving in with her grandparents, and starting a new school by maintaining and spreading a positive attitude, but she soon realizes it is more important to feel her feelings than it is to be eternally peppy.
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Series
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Oni Press
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Blue has been living as a ghost for a year when he meets Hamal, a beautiful and sweet gardener who has the ability to see and communicate with spirits. Together, their friendship develops into something more, but being a ghost, Blue can never truly be connected with Hamal. When Blue realizes Hamal's strange ability may be putting him in danger, Blue has to find a way to protect Hamal - even if it means leaving him.
9) Escape
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Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
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Publisher Annotation: It's all anyone talks about, and it's all Cody dreams about. It's the biggest adventure park in the world, and it's more than mere rides and rollercoasters: At ESCAPE, you can do anything you want, be anyone you want, and there are no adults to tell you no. Cody's a nobody, but for some reason he receives an invitation and the opportunity of a lifetime. At first, it's the most fun he's ever had. But after a few days, everything...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
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"Brian knows that anxiety and depression aren't things that are magically fixed overnight, but he still doesn't understand why it's all hitting him so hard right now. Sure, his dad is still in prison and middle school is still stressful, but he's seeing a therapist, he's got good friends, and he's doing really well on the basketball team. He should be fine, so why does he feel too tired to get out of bed some days? And why does he turn into "Cursed...
11) Hush-a-bye
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Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
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Description
"Lucy and her younger sister find a broken doll that has astonishing powers and a sinister agenda"--
12) Wild poppies
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Formats
Description
Since the passing of their father, Oscar has tried to be the man of his family of Syrian refugees. As Oscar waits in line for rations, his younger brother Sufyan explores more nontraditional methods to provide for his family. Ignoring his brother's warnings, Sufyan gets more and more involved with a group that provides him with big rewards for doing seemingly inconsequential tasks. When the group abruptly gets more intense--taking Sufyan and other...
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Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
©2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Description
"...Jayson tries not to let it get to him---he enjoys playing basketball and spending time with his friends. Then Jayson's best friend, Gloria, is kicked off the debate team because of her stutter, and Jayson starts to notice other injustices happening at their school. In order to make their middle school a more inclusive place and to stand up for his friends, Jayson decides to run against Mack, the most popular boy at school and captain of the basketball...
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Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"Clementine Chan believes in the power of the written word. Under the pseudonym Hibiscus, she runs a popular blog reviewing tea shops and discussing larger issues within her Chinatown community. She has a loyal, kind following, save for this one sour grape named BobaBoy888. Danny Mok is allergic to change, and the gentrification seeping into Chinatown breaks his heart. He channels his frustration into his internet alter ego, BobaBoy888, bickering...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
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"Thanks to her Ye-Ye's epic scavenger hunts, thirteen-year-old Ruby Chu knows San Francisco like the back of her hand. But after his death, she feels lost, and it seems like everyone--from her best friends to her older sister--is abandoning her. After Ruby gets in major trouble at school, her parents decide she has to spend the summer at a local senior center, with her grandmother, Nai-Nai, and Nai-Nai's friends for company. When a new boy from Ruby's...
17) Dear Mothman
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Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Description
After the death of his best friend and the only other trans boy at school, Noah starts writing letters expressing his feelings to the humanoid creature Mothman and risks everything when he treks into the woods to prove Mothman's existence.
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Series
Publisher
Disney, Lucasfilm Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
In this follow-up to Path of Deceit, fortune-seeking explorers, mysterious followers, and brave Jedi find their paths intersecting, setting them on a collision course that will haunt the Republic for centuries to come.
Cousins Marda and Yana Ro belong to the Path of the Open Hand, which believes the Force must not be used by anyone, especially the Jedi. When a Path mission to the Pilgrim Moon of Jedha erupts in violence, the two find themselves at...
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Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"Thirteen-year-old Cassidy Drake wants nothing more than to race with her best dragon, Ranga, in the annual Great Texas Dragon Race. Her mother was a racing legacy, and growing up on her family's dragon sanctuary ranch, Cassidy lives and breathes dragons.She knows she could win against the exploitative FireCorp team that cares more about corporate greed than caring for the dragons. Cassidy is so determined to race that she sneaks out of her house...
20) Call me Adnan
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Twelve-year-old Adnan dreams of making it to the Ultimate Table Tennis championship, but when tragedy strikes his family, Adnan loses his passion for table tennis and must learn to channel his grief and heal.
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