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1) Wink
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
After being diagnosed with a rare eye cancer, twelve-year-old Ross discovers how music, art, and true friends can help him survive both treatment and middle school.
Author
Series
Cookie chronicles volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eight-year-old Ben takes a fortune cookie literally, and believing he has only one day left to live, tries to do everything he has always wanted to before nightfall
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a racist incident rocks her small Michigan town, eleven-year-old Lekha must decide whether to speak up or stay silent, even as she struggles to navigate her life at home, where she can be herself, and at school, where she is teased about her culture
6) Fuzzy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Max (Maxine Zealster) befriends her new robot classmate Fuzzy, she helps him navigate Vanguard Middle School and together they reveal the truth behind the Robot Integration Program.
7) Touch blue
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the state of Maine threatens to shut down their island's one-room schoolhouse because of dwindling enrollment, eleven-year-old Tess, a strong believer in luck, and her family take in a trumpet-playing foster child, to increase the school's population.
8) Scat
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nick and his friend Marta decide to investigate when a mysterious fire starts near a Florida wildlife preserve and an unpopular teacher goes missing.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bell has spent his whole life--all eleven years of it--on Mars. But he's still just a regular kid--he loves cats, any kind of cake, and is curious about the secrets the adults in the US colony are keeping. Like, why don't they have contact with anyone on the other Mars colonies? Why are they so isolated? When a virus breaks out and the grown-ups all fall ill, Bell and the other children are the only ones who can help. It's up to Bell--a regular kid...
11) Front desk
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Recent immigrants from China and desperate for work and money, ten-year-old Mia Tang's parents take a job managing a rundown motel in Southern California, even though the owner Mr. Yao is a nasty skinflint who exploits them; while her mother (who was an engineer in China) does the cleaning, Mia works the front desk and tries to cope with demanding customers and other recent immigrants--not to mention being only one of two Chinese in her fifth grade...
12) Song for a whale
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Iris and her grandmother, both deaf, drive from Texas to Alaska armed with Iris's plan to help Blue-55, a whale unable to communicate with other whales.
13) Half a chance
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lucy, with her mother and her photographer father, has just moved to a small rural community in New Hampshire, and with her new friend Nate she plans to spend the summer taking photos for a contest, but pictures sometimes reveal more than people are willing to see.
14) Hoot
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Roy, who is new to his small Florida community, becomes involved in another boy's attempt to save a colony of burrowing owls from a proposed construction site.
15) Walk two moons
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
On a long car trip from Ohio to Idaho, 13-year-old Salamanca Tree Hiddle regales her grandparents with a story about her friend Phoebe, who receives a message from a potential lunatic and must cope with the disappearance of her mother. Beneath Phoebe's story is Sal's own--and her seach for her own mother who left for Idaho one sunny morning and never returned. (CHARGER NOT INCLUDED) Run time: 5:28:00.
16) Birdie and me
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Ever since their free-spirited mama died ten months ago, twelve-year-old Jack and her gender creative nine-year-old brother, Birdie, have been living with their fun-loving Uncle Carl, but now their conservative Uncle Patrick insists on being their guardian which forces all four of them to confront grief, prejudice, and loss, all while exploring what 'home' really means"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Despite her parents' divorce, her father's coming out as gay, and his plans to marry his boyfriend, ten-year-old Bea is reassured by her parents' unconditional love, excited about getting a stepsister, and haunted by something she did last summer at her father's lake house.
18) Ginger Pye
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
The disappearance of a new puppy named Ginger and the appearance of a mysterious man in a mustard yellow hat bring excitement into the lives of the Pye children.
19) Elsewhere
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
After fifteen-year-old Liz Hall is hit by a taxi and killed, she must adjust to her new surroundings and figure out how to "live."
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