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Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"Celeste knows she should be excited to spend two weeks at her grandparents' lake house with her brother, Owen, and their cousins Capri and Daisy, but she's not. Bugs, bad cell reception, and the dark waters of the lake... no thanks. On top of that, she just failed her swim test and hates being in the water-it's terrifying. But her grandparents are strong believers in their family knowing how to swim, especially having grown up during a time of segregation...
3) Moonflower
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Moon is convinced that she does not belong to this world: that most of the time she is invisible (unless she stays still too long), that she belongs to the stars, and wants to go back to them--she lives entirely in her imagination with an imaginary spirit guide who can appear in any shape and refuses to speak to anyone, lest her words tie her to a world she rejects.
Author
Series
Frankie and friends volume 2
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"There's breaking news on TV at Frankie's house--a protest to demand justice! Frankie's mama, a journalist, gets a call to cover the story, and Frankie wants to do her own reporting, too. But what is a protest, exactly, and why do people do it? Along with her news crew, including Farrah the doll, Dan the teddy bear, and Nina the cat, Frankie prepares a feature story by doing research and conducting interviews with Papa and big sister Raven. And when...
Author
Series
Frankie and friends volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
In a charming new chapter-book series by a social-change advocate, young Frankie emulates her journalist mama by reporting on household news with the help of her sister and an unlikely news crew.
Author
Series
Lola books (Anna McQuinn) volume 5
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
More than anything Lola would like a cat, but first she must learn how to care for it.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"Three girls start a hair-braiding business at their summer camp to make money, while competing against a rival business that threatens their plans"--
When Maggie learns that her father has a second daughter, Callie, she won't let a new family member get in the way of her summer plans with best friend Daija. They are determined to make tons of money braiding hair for kids around the neighborhood.Daija doesn't want Callie to interfere with their new...
8) Big
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Praised for acting like a big girl when she is small, as a young girl grows, "big" becomes a word of criticism, until the girl realizes that she is fine just the way she is.
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
More than anything Lola would like a cat, but first she must learn how to care for it.
Su mamá le explica que un gato da mucho trabajo, entonces Lola practica cuidando a sus gatitos de juguete y leyendo muchos libros sobre gatos. Junto con su mamá, investiga sobre adoptar gatos, compra alimento y suministros, y visita un refugio de animales. Finalmente, Lola escoge a su gata y tiene la paciencia de esperar que el animalito se adapte a su nuevo...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Candice Miller is spending the summer in Lambert, South Carolina, in the old house that belonged to her grandmother, who died after being dismissed as city manager for having the city tennis courts dug up looking for buried treasure--but when she finds the letter that sent her grandmother on the treasure hunt, she finds herself caught up in the mystery and, with the help of her new friend and fellow book-worm, Brandon, she sets out...
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year old Joy dreams of writing music for the movies, but first she has to survive her family's move into a small apartment when her father loses his job.
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
Inspired by a collection of garden poems, Lola wants to grow her own garden of silver bells and cockle shells and pretty maids in a row. Lola plants a flower garden with her parent's help, and watches it grow.
Spanish translation of English summary: Inspirada en una colección de poemas de jardín, Lola quiere cultivar su propio jardín de campanas de plata y cáscaras de berberechos y bonitas criadas en fila. Lola planta un jardín de flores con...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When eleven-year-old Iris sneaks out at night to make snow angels, she was not expecting to raise the ghost of Avery Moore, a girl her own age; but bringing to light the segregated and abandoned black cemetery seems like the perfect way to help Avery get the recognition she craves, and it will also be a good idea for the school project about the history of her small North Carolina town, where racial tensions are never far from the surface--only it...
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