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Author
Series
The one and only Ivan volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this novel-in-verse that picks up a few months after the events of The One and Only Bob, Ruby recounts her life before the circus when her caretaker from the elephant orphanage in Africa comes for a visit.
Author
Publisher
Labyrinth Road
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
449 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Ariel grapples with her fear of her own mind and violent fantasies, driven by her desire to meet her parents' expectations and societal norms, until a summer job at a carnival leads her to new friends who help her discover her struggle with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and find acceptance and support for her true self.
3) Heartstopper
Author
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2020]-
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
volumes : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Shy and softhearted Charlie Spring sits next to rugby player Nick Nelson in class one morning. A warm and intimate friendship follows, and that soon develops into something more for Charlie, who doesn't think he has a chance. But Nick is struggling with feelings of his own, and as the two grow closer and take on the ups and downs of high school, they come to understand the surprising and delightful ways in which love works"--
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
James Henry hasn’t been the same since that fateful night at the lighthouse when his momma went into the sea. Now months later, he is barely able to leave the house without having a panic attack, and talking to people, well, that’s just too hard. His feisty twin sister Hattie intervenes on his behalf again and again—protecting him from neighborhood bullies and an uncle who just wants him to snap out of it.
But it's 1939, and without a local...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Selah knows her rules for being normal. And she always, always sticks to them. This means keeping her feelings locked tightly inside, despite the way they build up inside her as each school day goes on, so that she has to tear off her normal person mask the second she gets home from school and listen to her favorite pop song on repeat, trying to recharge. Selah feels like a dragon stuck in a world of humans, but she knows how to hide it.
Until the...
7) Ferris
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
226 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
During the summer before fifth grade, Ferris Wilkey has her hands full with her little sister terrorizing the town, her Aunt Shirley moving into their basement and her grandmother seeing a ghost--one who has wild, impractical and illuminating plans.
Author
Series
The one and only Ivan volume 4
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When silverback gorilla Ivan and his mate Kinyani welcome a set of twins to their family, Ivan can't help but recall his childhood in the jungle - and his own twin - as he navigates joys and challenges of parenthood.
9) The dark sun
Author
Series
Bamboo kingdom volume 4
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
242 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The Bamboo Kingdom is once again safely led by guidance of a real Dragon Speaker-three Dragon Speakers, in fact! But a troubling vision from the Great Dragon warns of a "Dark Sun" coming soon. And while Rain, Leaf, and Ghost argue amongst themselves about what it means, the monkeys are hatching a plan to use this moment of uncertainty to their best advantage... Unless the pandas learn to trust each other, their biggest challenges may still lurk on...
Author
Series
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Nathaniel Knox becomes caught up in a gunfight between American and British troops during the American Revolution.
11) Control freaks
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When the principal of the super competitive Benjamin Banneker STEAM Academy announces the start of an epic Team Competition, Frederick Douglass Zezzmer is determined to win the trophy and prove to his dad he's worthy, but soon he learns there is no "i" in Team.
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
What if you switched places with your cat?
After falling prey to her friends' bullying one too many times, Poppy makes a wish for an easier life--and it comes true in a very unexpected way: she swaps bodies with her cat, Mitten Man.
Mayhem ensures as Poppy attempts to navigate the wilds of the wilderness as a cat. Now not only can she understand all animals--grasshoppers speak in rhyming couplets that only foretell doom--but she has to rescue a turtle...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Atheneum Books for Young Readers paperback edition.
Physical Desc
172 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Faced with the difficulties of growing up and choosing a religion, a twelve-year-old girl talks over her problems with her own private God.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
364 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
On the run after her mother disappears, eleven-year-old Daisy Thistledown steps through a mysterious hidden doorway and enters the realm of Greenwild, where she must uncover the truth about who she really is to save this land of magic and amazing natural wonders from being destroyed.
15) Lolo's Light
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
220 pages : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
This is a truth about growing up.
Once in your life, sometime after your first memory but before you can drive a car, something is going to happen to you that doesn't happen to anyone else you know. It might be something good. It might be something bad, or special, or funny, or shocking.
For Millie, it's something really sad. Lolo, her neighbors' infant daughter, dies--unexpectedly, suddenly, inexplicably--on the night Millie babysits.
There's...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
360 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Two brothers who rule the School for Good and Evil in exchange for power and immortality find their loyalty corrupted, bringing them to the brink of war and a shocking conclusion that will change the course of the school forever.
17) Rewind
Author
Publisher
Philomel
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
248 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"As far as twelve-year-old McKinley O'Dair is concerned, the best thing about living in Gap Bend, Pennsylvania, is the Time Hop--the giant party the town throws every June to celebrate a single year in history. That one day is enough to make the few things that aren't so fantastic about McKinley's life--like her crabby homeroom teacher or her super-scheduled father--worth suffering through. And when McKinley learns that this year's theme is 1993,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
375 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Training as a Silhouette, an apprentice to the immortals, 12-year-old orphan Yeung Zhi Ging gets a chance to prove her worth when an evil spirit called Fui Gwai returns, giving her the opportunity to use her newfound powers to save her friends and the world beyond.
19) Gone Wolf
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
348 pages : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the future, a Black girl known only as Inmate Eleven is kept confined--to be used as a biological match for the president's son, should he fall ill. She is known as a Blue, for the color of her sadness. She lives in a small room with her dog, who is going wolf--he's pacing and imagining he's free. Inmate Eleven wants to go wolf, too. She wants to know what is beyond her room.
In the present, Imogen lives outside of Charlottesville, Virginia. The...
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
309 pages : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Any Zhou is used to being what people need him to be: the good kid for his parents, and now grandparents visiting from Shanghai, or the helpful sidekick for his best friend Cindy's rebellious plans and schemes.
So when Cindy decides they should try out for Movement after school on the first day of sixth grade, how can Andy say no? But between feeling out of place with the dancers, being hassled by his new science partner Jameel, and sensing tension...