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1) Jo's boys
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
"Ten years after the school at Plumfield was founded, Jo's boys--including wanderer Dan, sailor Emil and musician Nat--are grown up and discovering more about the world. But life after childhood can be confusing and frightening, and it is Jo and the warm-hearted March family who can comfort and guide the boys when they need it most."--Page [4] of cover.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
In this story inspired by Jules Verne's "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea," Ana Dakkar, a freshman at Harding-Pencroft Academy, a five-year high school that graduates the best marine scientists, naval warriors, navigators, and underwater explorers in the world, makes astounding discoveries about her heritage and puts her leadership skills to the test against deadly enemies from a rival school.
Author
Series
Junie B. Jones series volume 19
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Junie B. cannot play in the school kickball tournament because of a sore toe, she brings her unique talents to the halftime show.
4) Jane Eyre
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
Description
"Charlotte Bronte (21 April 1816 - 31 March 1855) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Bronte sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels became classics of English literature. She enlisted in school at Roe Head in January 1831, aged 14 years. She left the year after to teach her sisters, Emily and Anne, at home, returning in 1835 as a governess. In 1839 she undertook the role as governess for the Sidgwick family but...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In 1982 Buncombe County, North Carolina, sixteen-year-old Alex Stromm writes of the aftermath of the accidental drowning of a friend, as his English teacher reaches out to him while he and a fellow boarding school student try to cover things up.
Author
Series
School for Good and Evil volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Formats
Description
For their fourth-year quests, Tedros and Agatha attempt to return Camelot to its glory as king and queen, while Sophie endeavors to mold evil in her own image.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12 - AR Pts: 32
Language
English
Description
Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper. It is 1757. Across north-eastern America the armies of Britain and France struggle for ascendancy. Their conflict, however, overlays older struggles between nations of native Americans for possession of the same lands and between the native peoples and white colonisers. Through these layers of conflict Cooper threads a thrilling narrative, in which Cora and Alice Munro, daughters of a British commander...
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Language
English
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Description
The Singleton family's fortunes seem unaffected by the Great Depression, and Perri--along with the other girls at Atlanta's elite Washington Seminary--lives a carefree life of tea dances with college boys, matinees at the cinema, and debut parties. But when tragedies strike, Perri is confronted with a world far different from the one she has always known. At the insistence of her parents, Mary "Dobbs" Dillard, the daughter of an itinerant preacher,...
11) Tell me no lies
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1980s Philadelphia, Lizzy, a studious high school senior, befriends a new girl in her class and is introduced to a life of clubs, street life and art scene, and a new life filled with doubts and deceptions.
12) Like Vanessa
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
It is 1983 and Vanessa Martin, a thirteen-year-old African American girl in Newark's public housing, dreams of following in the footsteps of the first black Miss America, Vanessa Williams; but with a dysfunctional family (mother in jail, father withdrawn, drunken grandfather, gay cousin) the odds are against her--until a new teacher at school organizes a beauty pageant and encourages Vanessa to enter.
Author
Series
Gemma Doyle trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 30
Language
English
Formats
Description
At Spence Academy, sixteen-year-old Gemma Doyle continues preparing for her London debut while struggling to determine how best to use magic to resolve a power struggle in the enchanted world of the realms, and to protect her own world and loved ones.
14) Sky color
Author
Series
Creatrilogy volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Marisol loves to paint. So when her teacher asks her to help make a mural for the school library, she can't wait to begin! But wait-how can Marisol ever make a sky without blue paint? After gazing out the bus window and watching from her porch as day turns into night, she closes her eyes and starts to dream"--
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Series
Captain Underpants volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When George and Harold hypnotize their principal into thinking that he is the superhero Captain Underpants, he leads them to the lair of the nefarious Dr. Diaper, where they must defeat his evil robot henchmen.
16) Bliss
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Having grown up in a California commune, Bliss sees her aloof grandmother's Atlanta world as a foreign country, but she is determined to be nice as a freshman at an elite high school, which makes her the perfect target for Sandy, a girl obsessed with the occult.
17) Forever
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two high school seniors believe their love to be so strong that it will last forever.
Author
Series
Mysterious Benedict Society volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
After passing a series of mind-bending tests, four children are selected for a secret mission that requires them to go undercover at the Learning Institute for the Very Enlightened, where the only rule is that there are no rules.
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Series
Wayside School volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
More humorous episodes from the classroom on the thirtieth floor of Wayside School, where students learn to tango, face the cafeteria's dreaded Mushroom Surprise, and study a hobo during show and tell. Sequel to "Sideways Stories from Wayside School."
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