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Author
Series
Spiderwick chronicles volume 1
Pub. Date
2003
Lexile measure
600L
Physical Desc
107 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
When the Grace children go to stay at their Great Aunt Lucinda's worn Victorian house, they discover a field guide to fairies and other creatures and begin to have some unusual experiences.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Dani Capelli has never truly belonged anywhere. And from her earliest days as a foster child in Queens, she would have been lost if it weren't for her love of animals. Until high school, when she fell hard for the wrong boy, and found herself pregnant--and married--by graduation. Two daughters later, Dani realized her mistake and filed for divorce, and with the help of scholarships and loans--and a lot of macaroni and cheese dinners--she enrolled...
3) Donuthead
Author
Series
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Franklin Delano Donuthead, a fifth-grader obsessed with hygiene and safety, finds an unlikely friend and protector in Sarah Kervick, the tough new student who lives in a dirty trailer, bonds with his mother, and is as "irregular" as he is.
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Newly-single mother Caroline Evans dreams of restoring an old barn into a restaurant, but her chance at happiness suddenly hangs in the balance as whispers of murder and vengeance find their way to her and her daughter Issy, hovering in that limbo between girl and young woman, begins to make some dangerous choices.
Author
Lexile measure
HL 830L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Norris Kaplan is clever, cynical, and quite possibly too smart for his own good. A Black French Canadian whose family just moved to Austin, Texas, Norris finds himself cataloging everyone he meets: the Cheerleaders, the Jocks, the Loners, and even the Manic Pixie Dream Girl. He's amusing himself until it's time to go back to Canada. But soon those labels soon become actual people: loner Liam, who makes it his mission to befriend Norris; Madison the...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Lexile measure
HL 800L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Marvin Johnson's twin brother, Tyler, is shot and killed by a police officer, Marvin must fight injustice to learn the true meaning of freedom"--
When Marvin Johnson's twin, Tyler, goes to a party, Marvin decides to tag along to keep an eye on his brother. But what starts as harmless fun turns into a shooting, followed by a police raid. The next day Tyler is missing, and it's up to Marvin to find him. But when Tyler is found dead, a video leaked...
7) Gloom town
Author
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Rory and his friend Izzy try to foil the plans of Lord Foxglove, for whom Rory works as a valet, and his inhuman accomplices from taking over the world.
9) Slant
Author
Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (149 pages)
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Lauren, a Korean American adoptee, is best friends with the prettiest - and tallest - girl in the school, Julie, who has an endless amount of confidence. Lauren, on the other hand, has been saving for years to pay for a special eye surgery that will deepen the crease of her eyelids. It's not that she wants to look like everyone else in her suburban Connecticut school; she'd just be happy if kids stopped calling her "slant" and "gook."...
10) On the come up
Author
Lexile measure
HL 550L
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Bri wants to be one of the greatest rappers of all time. Or at least win her first battle. As the daughter of an undersground hip-hop legend who died right before he hit big, Bri's got massive shoes to fill. But it's hard to get your come up when you're labeled a hoodlum at school and your fridge at home is empty after your mom loses her job. So Bri purs her anger and frustration into her first song, which goes viral ... for all the...
11) Almost perfect
Author
Lexile measure
HL 620L
Language
English
Formats
Description
With his mother working long hours and in pain from a romantic break-up, eighteen-year-old Logan feels alone and unloved until a zany new student arrives at his small-town Missouri high school, keeping a big secret.
12) The dirt diary
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
After her parents' divorce, eighth-grader Rachel Lee joins her mother's new housecleaning business, which has her scrubbing bathrooms in her more popular classmates' homes and learning useful secrets.
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Large print ed.
Physical Desc
431 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Lark is in Last Chance, South Carolina, looking into her father's past and stirring up trouble without meaning to; Ruby Rhodes' son Stone, the chief of police, has his hands full trying to keep up with Lark as well as avoiding the town's matchmakers and their plans for Lark and Stone.
Author
Series
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
For five years, Coyote and her dad, Rodeo, have lived on the road in an old school bus, criss-crossing the nation. It's also how long ago Coyote lost her mom and two sisters in a car crash. Coyote hasn't been home in all that time, but when she learns that the park in her old neighborhood is being demolished--the very same park where she, her mom, and her sisters buried a treasured memory box--she devises an elaborate plan to get her dad to drive...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thirteen-year-old Drew starts the summer of 1986 helping in her mother's cheese shop and dreaming about co-worker Nick, but when her widowed mother begins dating, Drew's father's book of lists, her pet rat, and Emmett, a boy on a quest, help her cope.
16) The seeing stone
Author
Series
Spiderwick chronicles volume 2
Pub. Date
2008
Lexile measure
560L
Physical Desc
108 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Mallory and Jared attempt to rescue Simon from goblins, they use a magical stone which enables them to see things that are normally invisible.
17) Redemption
Author
Series
Publisher
Flux
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (352 pages)
Language
English
Description
Aude Vanier is a sixteen-year-old rock star with a problem-stone monsters keep attacking her. And when they do, she finds herself chanting in a language she doesn't understand. Guillaume de Rouen has been stuck as a gargoyle on a church for the last seventy years, until Aude's chanting releases him back to his seventeen-year-old human form. An ancient Iroquois prophecy about the destruction of Montreal is coming true. Together, Aude and Guillaume...
Author
Series
Team cheer volume 3
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Lexile measure
780L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (98 pages).
Language
English
Description
Lissa Marks is the fund-raising chair for her middle school cheer team, but will her widowed mother be able to afford to keep Lissa on the team?
20) The secret hour
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Attorney John O'Rourke is juggling the demands of a controversial murder case and raising his two children in a community that is hostile towards him. Just when a brick through his window signals a new level of hatred in the community, Kate Harris arrives to ask his help in finding her sister, Willa, who disappeared after mailing a single post card to her family six months before.