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1) Hero
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Formats
Description
Fourteen-year-old Zach learns he has the same special abilities as his father, who was the President's globe-trotting troubleshooter until "the Bads" killed him, and now Zach must decide whether to use his powers in the same way at the risk of his own life.
2) Spaceheadz
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Description
On his first day at Brooklyn's P.S. 858, fifth-grader Michael K. is teamed with two very strange students, and while he gradually comes to believe they are aliens who need his help, he has trouble convincing anyone else of the truth.
4) Quit it
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Diagnosed with a neurological disorder that causes uncontrollable tics, such as coughing and head jerking, sixth-grader Carrie must cope with the embarrassment and strain of various reactions from family, friends, and strangers.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Description
After meeting at their private school in New York, fifteen-year-old Jeremiah, who is black and whose parents are separated, and Ellie, who is white and whose mother has twice abandoned her, fall in love and then try to cope with people's reactions.
6) Indivisible
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 14
Description
New York City high school student Mateo dreams of becoming a Broadway star, but his life is transformed after his parents are deported to Mexico.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 8
Formats
Description
In 1893 New York, thirteen-year-old Maks, a newsboy, teams up with Willa, a homeless girl, to clear his older sister, Emma, from charges that she stole from the brand new Waldorf Hotel, where she works. Includes historical notes.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Emma's senator-father is running for president, and when her rebellious style and indifference to rules and convention create problems, she relies on her good friends, who are also the daughters of well-known people, to help her gain perspective.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Perry's parents insist that he take Gobi, their quiet, Lithuanian exchange student, to senior prom but after an incident at the dance he learns that Gobi is actually a trained assassin who needs him as a henchman, behind the wheel of his father's precious Jaguar, on a mission in Manhattan.
11) Keeping score
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Formats
Description
In Brooklyn in 1951, a die-hard Giants fan teaches nine-year-old Maggie, who is a "Bums" (Dodgers) fan, how to use a technique to keep score of a baseball game which creates a special friendship between them.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Smart, occasionally insecure, and ambitious Brooklyn fourteen-year-old Kelsey Finkelstein embarks on her freshman year of high school in Manhattan with the intention of "rebranding" herself, but unfortunately everything she tries to do is a total disaster.
Author
Series
Invisible Inkling volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 3
Formats
Description
Halloween brings out the worst in fourth-grader Henry Wolowitz and his invisible, squash-eating friend Inkling, as Henry tries to go trick-or-treating while keeping Inkling from eating all the jack-o-lanterns.
Author
Series
Confessions (James Patterson) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Formats
Description
Tandy Angel leads a privileged life as a member of one of Manhatten's wealthiest and most connected families. But outside of the public eye, Tandy is haunted - by teh sudden, mysterious death of her sister; by holes in her memory that she can't make sense of; by the ever-watchful presence of her parents. Convinced that secrets are being kept from her, Tandy sets out to uncover her dark past. That is, until her parents are found dead and all eyes turn...
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