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Frances O'Roark Dowell
Author
Series
Secret language of girls trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Well, except for last year when they weren't friends anymore....... And except for this year when they both want to be friends again, but just don't know how. But the thing is, even as they are trying to fix their broken friendship, they are becoming more and more unalike. And that's becoming harder and harder to deal with.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 7
Formats
Description
Because living with "modern-hippy" parents on a goat farm means fourteen-year-old Janie Gorman cannot have a normal high school life, she tries joining Jam Band, making friends with Monster, and spending time with elderly former civil rights workers.
Author
Series
Secret language of girls trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Marylin and Kate have been friends since nursery school, but when Marylin becomes a middle school cheerleader and Kate begins to develop other interests, their relationship is put to the test.
Author
Series
Secret language of girls trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Best friends Marylin and Kate compete for limited school resources when Kate helps her boyfriend seek funding for the Audio Lab, while Marylin covers her interest in the student body president by claiming she only wants his support for new cheerleading uniforms.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Formats
Description
When twelve-year-old Jamie Dexter's brother joins the Army and is sent to Vietnam, Jamie is thrilled. SHe can't wait to get letters from the fornt lines describing the excitement of real-life combat: the sound of helicopters, the smell of gunpowder, the exhilaration of being right in the thick of it all.
8) The class
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Description
"A sixth-grade class comes together to support a classmate in need, each of them giving their own perspective on the goings on"--
10) Falling in
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Formats
Description
Middle-schooler Isabelle Bean follows a mouse's squeak into a closet and falls into a parallel universe where the children believe she is the witch they have feared for years, finally come to devour them.
11) Anybody shining
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Formats
Description
In a series of letters to her cousin, twelve-year-old Arie Mae relates her life in a mountain valley of North Carolina in the 1920s.
12) Dovey Coe
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Accused of murder in her North Carolina mountain town in 1928, Dovey Coe, a stronged-willed twelve-year-old girl, comes to a new understanding of others, including her deaf brother, as she attempts to clear her name.
13) Hazard
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Told in a series of reports to his therapist, Hazard is resentful about being forced into counseling after being suspended from his school football team for unsportsmanlike conduct, angry that his father has served four tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, angry that his father has lost a leg when an IED blew up--but as his therapy progresses he begins to process what has happened to him and his family, including his father's psychological trauma...
Author
Series
Sam the Man volume 2
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Description
"Sam the Man is not a vegetable man. But when a school project has him paired up with the worst of all the vegetables -- the rutabaga-- he soon will learn that it's not half bad. And as he grows fond of his new little friend, Sam the Man will have to come up with plan on how to keep him happy before he rots!"--
Author
Series
Sam the Man volume 1
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When seven-year-old Sam Graham, eager for some spending money, volunteers to look after a neighbor's chickens, the experience inspires him to get his own chicken--a special bird named Helga.
17) Chicken boy
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Since the death of his mother, Tobin's family life and school life have been in disarray, but after he starts raising chickens with his seventh-grade classmate, Henry, everything starts to fall into place.
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Description
In the segregated south of Kentucky in 1953, twelve-year-olds Callie, who is black, and Wendell, who is white, are brought together by an old dog that is clearly seeking something or someone, but they not only face prejudice, they find trouble at a haunted cabin in the woods.
Author
Series
Phineas L. MacGuire volume 1
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Fourth-grade science whiz Phineas MacGuire is forced to team up with the new boy in class on a science fair project, but the boy's quirky personality causes Phineas to wonder if they have any chance of winning.
Author
Series
Sam the Man volume 5
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Second-grader Sam Graham wants a cell phone to do research and share information but when his parents say no, he devises a new plan that starts a fad at school.
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