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Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"In a big abandoned house, on a barren hill, lives a skull. A brave girl named Otilla has escaped from terrible danger and run away, and when she finds herself lost in the dark forest, the lonely house beckons. Her host, the skull, is afraid of something too, something that comes every night. Can brave Otilla save them both?"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Built to explore Mars, Resilience begins to develop human-like feelings as he learns from the NASA scientists who assembled him, and as he blasts off and explores Mars, Resilience must overcome different obstacles as he explores the red planet.
4) Odder
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Description
"Odder spends her days off the coast of central California, practicing her underwater acrobatics and spinning the quirky stories for which she's known. She's a fearless daredevil, curious to a fault. But when Odder comes face-to-face with a hungry great white shark, her life takes a dramatic turn, one that will challenge everything she believes about herself--and about the humans who hope to save her"--
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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"With Hurricane Katrina on track to hit New Orleans, twelve-year-old Claudia and her family are preparing to weather the storm. But nothing can prepare them for the awful flooding that occurs when the levees that surround the city fail. Even worse, after a chaotic helicopter evacuation, Claudia and her younger sister become separated from the rest of their family. Now it is up to Claudia to protect and comfort her sister through the tragedy. Readers...
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English
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"Ketanji Brown Jackson is no stranger to overcoming obstacles. When a high school guidance counselor told her she should set her sights lower than Harvard, she decided to go to Harvard for college and law school. When she became a public defender and saw inequalities in the justice system, she used her legal skills to advocate for people who needed help, but couldn't afford an attorney. Ketanji's path to the Supreme Court was unique: She's the only...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"Rafael Fuentes isn't easily scared. He loves writing ghost stories, reading scary books, and entertaining his friends with terrifying tales he creates on the spot. Rafa has come up against enough real-life scary situations that fictional hauntings seem like no big deal. Rafa's incarcerated mom is being released from jail soon, and will be coming to live with him, his sister, and their grandparents. For the first time in a while, Rafa feels a pit...
Author
Series
Stuntboy volume 2
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"From Newbery Medal honoree and #1 New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds comes the sequel to the hilarious, hopeful, and action-packed middle grade novel Stuntboy, in the Meantime about the greatest young superhero you ve never heard of, jam packed with illustrations by Raúl the Third!" -Provided by Publisher
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
Free dog Johannes' job is to observe everything that happens in his urban park and report back to the park's three bison elders, but changes are afoot, including more humans, a new building, a boatload of goats, and a shocking revelation that changes his view of the world.
13) The Vanquishers
Author
Series
Vanquishers volume 1
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Description
In an alternate San Antonio, there have been no known cases of vampirism since a group of masked vampire hunters called the Vanquishers wiped out the last horde of the undead twenty years ago, but twelve-year-old Malika "Boog" Wilson's parents are not taking any chances, especially when Boog's new classmate Aaron goes missing.
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Will summer break be a drag or a blast for meticulous Shermy when rambunctious Shake moves in next door? From Newbery Honor recipient Kirby Larson comes a bighearted chapter book about two boys' friendship. When a new kid comes to stay with his grandmother at the house next door, Shermy's plans for a quiet, relaxing summer are completely upended. That's because Shake is nothing like Shermy. And Shermy is nothing like Shake. Shermy likes to read quietly...
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Parker must unravel a curse to save his family's beloved Maine motel. Twelve-year-old Parker has grown up in his family's Home Away Inn, nestled on a wooded peninsula in Maine called Spruce Point. His best friend, Frankie, has been staying at the inn every summer for years with her family. Together, they've had epic adventures based out of a nearby old treehouse that serves as their official headquarters for Kids Confidential Meetings....
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Tori, Marvin, and Noah would rather be anywhere else than on the seventh grade class field trip to Raven Island prison ... But when the three of them stumble upon a dead body in the woods, miss the last ferry back home, and then have to spend the night on Raven Island, they find that they need each other now more than ever"--
"When three seventh graders are stranded on Raven Island for the night because of a class field trip, they must figure out...
18) Diper overlode
Author
Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: When he decides to tag along with his brother Rodrick's band, Löded Diper, Greg doesn't realize what he's getting into. But he soon learns that late nights, unpaid gigs, fighting between band members, and money troubles are all part of the rock 'n' roll lifestyle. Can Greg help Löded Diper become the legends they think they are? Or will too much time with Rodrick's band be a diper överlöde?
19) The big cheese
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
Publisher Annotation: The Big Cheese is the best at everything, and brags about it, too. When the annual Cheese-cathlon comes around, the Big Cheese is prepared to win, as always. But what happens when the quiet new kid, Wedge Wedgeman, comes out on top? Is a slice of humility all the Big Cheese needs to discover that some things are better than being the best?
20) The lost library
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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When a mysterious Little Free Library guarded by a large orange cat appears overnight, eleven-year-old Evan plucks two weathered books from its shelves, never suspecting that his life is about to change.
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