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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
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Description
Celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Newbery and Coretta Scott King Honoree about an unforgettable family on a road-trip during one of the most important times in the civil rights movement. When the Watson family--ten-year-old Kenny, Momma, Dad, little sister Joetta, and brother Byron--sets out on a trip south to visit Grandma in Birmingham, Alabama, they don't realize that they're heading toward one of the darkest moments in America's history. The...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
1010L
Language
English
Description
The first time Melanie Ross meets April Hall, she?s not sure they have anything in common. But she soon discovers that they both love anything to do with ancient Egypt. When they stumble upon a deserted storage yard, Melanie and April decide it?s the perfect spot for the Egypt Game. Before long there are six Egyptians, and they all meet to wear costumes, hold ceremonies, and work on their secret code. Everyone thinks it?s just a game until strange...
3) Holes
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Description
Stanley Yelnats is under a curse. A curse that began with his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather and has since followed generations of Yelnatses. Now Stanley has been unjustly sent to a boys? detention center, Camp Green Lake, where the boys build character by spending all day, every day digging holes exactly five feet wide and five feet deep. There is no lake at Camp Green Lake. But there are an awful lot of holes. It doesn?t...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
1090L
Language
English
Description
The life of the eighteenth-century African prince who, after being captured by slave traders, was brought to Massachusetts where he was a slave until he was able to buy his freedom at the age of sixty.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Description
This is an extraordinarily moving novel -- one you will not easily forget. Set in Mississippi at the height of the Depression, it is the story of one family's struggle to maintain their integrity, pride, and independence. It is a story of physical survival, but more important, it is a story of the survival of the human spirit. And, too, it is Cassie's story -- Cassie Logan, an independent girl raised by a family for whom independence is primary, a...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
The three Morgan children accompany their recently widowed professor father to Wales, where their worsening family life is transformed by twelve-year-old Peter's discovery of the harp-tuning key of the great Welsh bard Taliesin.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Brash young apprentice Johnny Tremain, injured in an accident that leaves him unable to practice his trade, becomes involved with Rab, a Boston printer, who draws Johnny with him into the events of the Revolutionary War.
10) Up a road slowly
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
1130L
Language
English
Description
A seven-year-old orphan goes to live with her aunt, where she learns new values as she grows to young womanhood. There are many happy memories and sad times too; jealousy of her sister, death of a schoolmate, and disappointment of first love.
11) Roller skates
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
Liberated for a year from her parents' restrictions, ten-year-old Lucinda discovers true freedom in the care of her temporary guardians as she roller skates around the streets of turn-of-the-century New York.
12) Blue willow
Author
Series
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
1976.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Description
A little girl, who wants most of all to have a real home and to go to a regular school, hopes that the valley her family has come to, which so resembles the pattern on her treasured blue willow plate, will be their permanent home.
13) Rabbit hill
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
1050L
Language
English
Description
New folks are coming to live in the Big House and the animals of Rabbit Hill wonder if they will plant a garden and thus be good providers,
14) King of the Wind
Author
Series
Newbery medal award volume 1949
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
Follows the adventures of the Arabian stallion brought to England to become one of the founding sires of the Thoroughbred breed and the mute Arab stable boy who tended him with loyalty and devotion all his life.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
990L
Language
English
Description
A biography of the author's mother, concentrating on her childhood in Turkey before the Turkish government deported its Armenian population, and ending at the age of 16 when she left for America as a mail-order bride. The story continues in Finding home.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Chris, bitterly hating the Yankees for invading his Tennessee mountain home, learns a difficult lesson about the waste of war and the meaning of tolerance and courage when he reports the approach of a Yankee supply troop to the Confederates, only to learn that his brother is probably part of that troop.
18) Adam of the road
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
1030L
Language
English
Description
The adventures of eleven-year-old Adam as he travels the open roads of thirteenth-century England searching for his missing father, a minstrel, and his stolen red spaniel, Nick.
19) Moccasin trail
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
960L
Language
English
Description
A pioneer boy, brought up by Crow Indians, is reunited with his family and attempts to orient himself in the white man's culture.
20) Crazy lady!
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
570L
Language
English
Description
As he tries to come to terms with his mother's death, Vernon finds solace in his growing relationship with the neighborhood outcasts, an alcoholic and her retarded son.
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