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| Title | Billy Bones: Tales from the Secrets Closet |
| Author | Christopher Lincoln |
| Illustrator | Avi Ofer |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Middle Readers (Ages 8-10) • Older Readers (Ages 11-13) |
| Keywords | boys • girls • boys/girls • adventure • bravery • creepy • death • fantasy • friendship • ghosts • greed • injustice • middle readers • murder • mystery • older readers • orphans • reluctant reader • supernatural • truth • Jokester/Thrill Seeker/Party Animal • Belonger/Connector |
| Reluctant Reader | Good for Reluctant Readers |
| Part of a Series | Part of a Series |
good for upper elementary/middle reluctant reader
Billy Bones lives in the Secrets-Closet of the Biglum Family’s High Manners Manor, a...
Books » Realistic Fiction
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| Title | House of Djinn |
| Author | Suzanne Fisher Staples |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Older Readers (Ages 11-13) • Mature Readers (Ages 14 and up) |
| Keywords | girls • boys/girls • desert • family • finding your voice • finding yourself • intrigue • mature readers • mothers/daughters • multicultural • older readers • Pakistan • self-control • self-reliance • standing up for yourself • struggle • trilogy |
| Part of a Series | Part of a Series |
Muti lives with her relatives and suffers death by"a thousand pinpricks" at the hands of Leyla. Her cousin, Jameel, is her best friend, but he lives in San Francisco, so...
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| Title | 10 Lucky Things That Have Happened To Me Since I Nearly Got Hit By Lightning |
| Author | Mary Hershey |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Middle Readers (Ages 8-10) • Older Readers (Ages 11-13) |
| Keywords | girls • being yourself • family • fears • friends • middle readers • older reader • puberty • sisters • realistic fiction • humor |
Fourth-grader Effie Maloney has a list of the lucky things that have happened to her since she was hit by lightning. Life is good when you have a great mom...
Books » Realistic Fiction
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| Title | 11 Birthdays |
| Author | Wendy Mass |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Middle Readers (Ages 8-10) • Older Readers (Ages 11-13) |
| Keywords | Middle Reader-Careful Content • boys • girls • boys/girls • adventure • birthdays • choices • If You Liked Ella Enchanted • magic • middle readers • problem-solving • risk • self-confidence • self-reliance • siblings • time • understanding others • Belonger/Connector |
| Reluctant Reader | Good for Reluctant Readers |
Amanda should be really excited. She's waking up to her eleventh birthday. But, last year on this day, her best friend, Leo, who shares her birth date, hurt Amanda's feelings...
Books » Action / Adventure
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| Title | 39 Clues: Storm Warning |
| Author | Linda Sue Park |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Middle Readers (Ages 8-10) • Older Readers (Ages 11-13) |
| Keywords | Middle Reader-Careful Content • boys • girls • boys/girls • action • action/adventure • adventure • animals • Canada • Caribbean • family • great read aloud • journeys • middle readers • older readers • problem-solving • responsibility • risk • self-reliance • Belonger/Connector • Seeker/Leader • Answerman |
Storm Warning is a mesmerizing story of intrigue, double-crossing, adventure, loss and self-discovery. Amy and Dan are led to the Caribbean in search of the next clue, but they...
Books » Fiction
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| Title | A Bear Named Trouble |
| Author | Marion Dane Bauer |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Independent Readers (Ages 6-8) • Middle Readers (Ages 8-10) • Older Readers (Ages 11-13) |
| Keywords | Middle Reader-Careful Content • boys • girls • boys/girls • acceptance • animals • bears • choices • feelings • nature • understanding others • wildlife • Belonger/Connector • Seeker/Leader |
Ten year old Jonathan feels a strong connection to wild animals and befriends a brown bear cub and draws in into his father's zoo where it kills a goose, one...
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| Title | A Beginning, A Muddle and An End The Right Way to Write Writing |
| Author | Avi |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Middle Readers (Ages 8-10) • Older Readers (Ages 11-13) |
| Keywords | fiction • humor • middle reader • older reader • reluctant reader • puns • writing |
| Reluctant Reader | Good for Reluctant Readers |
Remember the old "Who's on first?" routine by Abbott and Costello? Well, if you loved that, you will love this. The humor and the puns just keep on...
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| Title | A Bone From a Dry Sea |
| Author | Peter Dickinson |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Older Readers (Ages 11-13) |
| Keywords | girls • boys/girls • adventure • Africa • girl power • If You Liked Among the Hidden • If You Liked City of Ember • inventions • older readers • problem-solving • self-reliance • society • paleontology |
When a team of anthropologists finds a dolphin's scapula on a dig in Africa, the lives of two girls separated in time by millions of years will connect. This...
Books » Historical Fiction
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| Title | A Boy at War: A Novel of Pearl Harbor |
| Author | Harry Mazer |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Middle Readers (Ages 8-10) • Older Readers (Ages 11-13) • Mature Readers (Ages 14 and up) |
| Keywords | boys • girls • boys/girls • action/adventure • American history • courage • danger • fathers/sons • Japan • risk • trilogy • war • World War II • Belonger/Connector • Seeker/Leader |
| Part of a Series | Part of a Series |
It’s 1941 and the Japanese planes are streaking over Pearl Harbor. Adam knows his farther is down there on the Arizona and he slips down under the barbed wire to...
Books » Historical Fiction
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| Title | A Boy No More |
| Author | Harry Mazer |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Older Readers (Ages 11-13) |
| Keywords | boys • girls • boys/girls • choices • fathers/sons • friendship • older readers • risk • war • World War II • Belonger/Connector |
| Part of a Series | Part of a Series |
After witnessing the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Adam moves to California with his mother and younger sister. He has difficulty adjusting to their new life--not only is he dealing...
Books » Realistic Fiction
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| Title | A Certain Strain of Peculiar |
| Author | Gigi Amateau |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Middle Readers (Ages 8-10) • Older Readers (Ages 11-13) |
| Keywords | girls • boys/girls • acceptance • accepting others • being different • being yourself • belonging • bullies • bullying • change • coming of age • consequences • determination • farm • finding yourself • friendship • grandma • grandmother • hazing • loneliness • making a difference • middle readers • mothers/daughters • older readers • relationships • relatives • reluctant reader • running away • self-reliance • sensitivity • single parent • standing up for yourself • telling the truth |
| Reluctant Reader | Good for Reluctant Readers |
Thirteen year old Mary Harold Woods has a tough time getting along with others in her suburban Virginia community because she has been bullied and suffers panic attacks. Now she...
Books » Fiction
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| Title | A Cool Moonlight |
| Author | Angela Johnson |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Middle Readers (Ages 8-10) • Older Readers (Ages 11-13) |
| Keywords | accepting others • diseases • fiction • girls • middle reader • older reader • sensitivity |
Imagine for a moment that you cannot go outside during the daylight because of a disease. The only time you come out of your house is after the sun...
Books » Realistic Fiction
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| Title | A Corner of the Universe |
| Author | Ann M. Martin |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Middle Readers (Ages 8-10) • Older Readers (Ages 11-13) |
| Keywords | family • middle reader • Newbery Honor • older reader • realistic fiction |
Hattie lives with her family in their home which has been turned into a boarding house. She knows all the boarders and their peculiarities. She can't walk around town without...
Books » Realistic Fiction
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| Title | A Day No Pigs Would Die |
| Author | Robert Newton Peck |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Middle Readers (Ages 8-10) • Older Readers (Ages 11-13) |
| Keywords | boys • girls • coming of age • death • family • fathers • fathers/sons • growing up • If You Liked Hatchet • If You Liked Tangerine • If You Liked The Lost Years of Merlin • middle readers • older readers • realistic fiction • respect • responsibility • self-control • self-reliance • Belonger/Connector • Seeker/Leader |
Robert is a young boy of the Plain People. This is the story of his pilgrimage to manhood. Life presents Robert with many lessons and behind them all is the...
Books » Mystery
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| Title | A Face First |
| Author | Priscilla Cummings |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Older Readers (Ages 11-13) • Mature Readers (Ages 14 and up) |
| Keywords | acceptance • being different • being yourself • boys/girls • burns • choices • fairness • family • feelings • getting along • honesty • hope • hospital • mature readers • mystery • older readers • point of view • realistic fiction • responsibility • self-confidence • self-esteem • self-reliance • telling the truth |
She wakes up in the hospital after a really bad car crash. She has been really badly burned. Her face is covered to protect the skin. Day by day she...
Books » Historical Fiction
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| Title | A Million Shades of Gray |
| Author | Cynthia Kadohata |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Older Readers (Ages 11-13) • Mature Readers (Ages 14 and up) |
| Keywords | boys • girls • boys/girls • adventure • Asian culture • danger • elephants • journeys • mature readers • older readers • responsibility • risk • traditions • Vietnam War • war • Belonger/Connector • Seeker/Leader • Answerman |
You are about to enter the world of South Vietnam just as the American War is ending. Y'Tin's father has helped the Americans on several missions and now there is...
Books » Picture Book
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| Title | A Practical Guide to Monsters |
| Author | Nina Hess |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Non-Fiction |
| Reading Level | Middle Readers (Ages 8-10) • Older Readers (Ages 11-13) |
| Keywords | girls • information • middle readers • monsters • older readers • reluctant reader |
| Reluctant Reader | Good for Reluctant Readers |
When one is going to be encountering various monsters during one's day, it's important to be armed with the appropriate defenses comprised of knowledge of the enemy and appropriate weaponry....
Books » Historical Fiction
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| Title | A Ride Into Morning The Story of Tempe Wick |
| Author | Ann Rinaldi |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Older Readers (Ages 11-13) • Mature Readers (Ages 14 and up) |
| Keywords | adventure • American history • American Revolution • boys/girls • courage • girl power • girls • historical fiction • mature reader • older reader • values • war |
Strong-minded Tempe Wick is struggling to care for her addled mother, her "lunatic" brother, and her farm, amidst the turmoil of the American Revolution. The war is reaching into Tempe's...
Books » Realistic Fiction
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| Title | A Summer To Die |
| Author | Lois Lowry |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Older Readers (Ages 11-13) • Mature Readers (Ages 14 and up) |
| Keywords | girls • change • coming of age • death • family • growing up • identity • journeys • loss • mature reader • older reader • older readers • realistic fiction • sisters • If You Liked Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants |
Two sisters, Molly and Meg, are moving into a new, small house out in the country, so Dad can write his book. Molly, 15, is the beautiful sister, the cheerleader,...
Books » Historical Fiction
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| Title | A Thousand Never Evers |
| Author | Shana Burg |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Older Readers (Ages 11-13) • Mature Readers (Ages 14 and up) |
| Keywords | prejudice • multicultural • fiction |
It's 1963 in Kuckachoo, Mississippi, and Addie Mae Pickett is about to start junior high school. She's also about to enter into the heart of the Civil Rights movement...
Books » Historical Fiction
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| Title | A Troubled Peace |
| Author | L.M. Elliott |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Older Readers (Ages 11-13) • Mature Readers (Ages 14 and up) |
| Keywords | boys • girls • boys/girls • action • action/adventure • adventure • bravery • compassion • Europe • freedom • healing • helping others • heroes • historical fiction • Holocaust • imagery • loyalty • making a difference • mature readers • military families • older readers • overcoming obstacles • pilots • point of view • relationships • sequel • very mature readers • World War II • Belonger/Connector • Seeker/Leader |
Henry Forester is a 19 year old Army veteran who has been released before the end of World War II due to the injuries he sustained while parachuting into...
Books » Action / Adventure
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| Title | A Week in the Woods |
| Author | Andrew Clements |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Middle Readers (Ages 8-10) • Older Readers (Ages 11-13) |
| Keywords | boys • girls • boys/girls • action/adventure • adventure • being different • being yourself • belonging • change • character • If You Liked Tangerine • individuality • middle readers • older readers • outdoors • realistic fiction • school story • self-confidence • self-reliance • stereotypes • survival • thoughtful • Jokester/Thrill Seeker/Party Animal • Belonger/Connector • Seeker/Leader |
Eleven-year-old Mark is a rich kid who has just moved into a new house and, consequently, will attend a new school. But Mark has decided he doesn't need to get...
Books » Science Fiction
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| Title | A Wrinkle in Time |
| Author | Madeleine L'Engle |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Middle Readers (Ages 8-10) • Older Readers (Ages 11-13) • Mature Readers (Ages 14 and up) |
| Keywords | boys • girls • boys/girls • being different • being yourself • books that make a difference • character • classic • family • fathers • identity • If You Liked A Wrinkle in Time • If You Liked Among the Hidden • If You Liked City of Ember • journeys • mature readers • middle readers • older readers • science fiction • society • space • struggle • time travel • values • Seeker/Leader • Answerman |
"You were a star once, weren't you?" Charles Wallace asks Mrs. Whatsit and that line alone will give you the sense that this book takes you to a new place....
Books » Action / Adventure
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| Title | Abner & Me: A Baseball Card Adventure |
| Author | Dan Gutman |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Middle Readers (Ages 8-10) • Older Readers (Ages 11-13) |
| Keywords | boys • girls • boys/girls • adventure • baseball • Civil War • historical fiction • sports • time travel |
| Reluctant Reader | Good for Reluctant Readers |
| Part of a Series | Part of a Series |
Did Abner Doubleday REALLY invent baseball, or is it a myth? Stosh goes back to 1863 to find out for sure, but finds himself in the middle...
Books » Suspense / Thriller
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| Title | Acceleration |
| Author | Graham McNamee |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Older Readers (Ages 11-13) • Mature Readers (Ages 14 and up) |
| Keywords | boys • girls • boys/girls • action/adventure • danger • if you Liked Stuck in Neutral • intrigue • mature readers • mystery • older readers • reluctant reader • suspense • suspense thriller • Jokester/Thrill Seeker/Party Animal • Belonger/Connector |
| Reluctant Reader | Good for Reluctant Readers |
Our young friend has a job working in the Lost and Found department of a subway system. This is a fairly mundane job until the day he discovers a journal...
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