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4) Girlchild
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Follows the struggles of Rory Hendrix as she searches for a way out of her life of poverty at the Calle, a run-down Reno trailer park where she lives with her mother Jo, a hard-luck bartender at the Truck Stop.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Ronnie Miller is resentful when her mother insists she and her ten-year-old brother spend the summer with their estranged father in North Carolina, and while things get off to a rocky start, Ronnie eventually makes friends and begins to better understand her dad and why he wanted her to visit.
8) First ballet
Author
Publisher
Disney/Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Simple text and illustrations detail the experience of going to the ballet for the first time.
10) Girls: A to Z
Author
Publisher
Boyds Mills Press
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Girls with names ranging from Aliki to Zoe imagine themselves in various fun and creative professions.
12) After
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Devon Davenport is a straight-A student and prominent player on her school's soccer team, but when she is linked to an abandoned baby found in the trash she is accused of attempted murder.
15) Tallgrass
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Rennie Stroud finds her hometown of Tallgrass, Colorado, changed forever when the government builds a Japanese internment camp in the rural area and the prisoners become the target of the townspeople who believe Japanese-Americans are the enemy.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eliza Naumann is used to being the unremarkable member of her family, but when she wins a series of spelling bees, her once distant family begins to lavish praise on her, bringing about surprising complications.
19) Swamplandia!
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
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