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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 • Older Readers |
| 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 • Mature Readers |
| 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 • Older Readers |
| 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 » Action / Adventure
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| Title | 39 Clues: Storm Warning |
| Author | Linda Sue Park |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Middle Readers • Older Readers |
| 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...
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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 • Older Readers |
| 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 |
| 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. Â This...
Books » Historical Fiction
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| Title | A Boy No More |
| Author | Harry Mazer |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Older Readers |
| 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...
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| Title | A Cool Moonlight |
| Author | Angela Johnson |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Middle Readers • Older Readers |
| 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 • Older Readers |
| 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 • Older Readers |
| 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 • Mature Readers |
| 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 • Mature Readers |
| 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. Â 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 • Older Readers |
| 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 • Mature Readers |
| 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 • Mature Readers |
| 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 • Mature Readers |
| 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 » Action / Adventure
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| Title | A Week in the Woods |
| Author | Andrew Clements |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Middle Readers • Older Readers |
| 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 • Older Readers • Mature Readers |
| 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 » Suspense / Thriller
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| Title | Acceleration |
| Author | Graham McNamee |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Older Readers • Mature Readers |
| 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...
Books » Historical Fiction
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| Title | Across Five Aprils |
| Author | Irene Hunt |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Older Readers • Mature Readers |
| Keywords | boys • boys/girls • American history • bravery • character • choices • Civil War • coming of age • family • fathers/sons • historical fiction • mature reader • older reader • war • Belonger/Connector • Seeker/Leader • If You Liked My Brother Sam Is Dead |
| Reluctant Reader | Good for Reluctant Readers |
The five Aprils are the five years of the American Civil War. Fifteen-year-old Jethro Creighton lives those five Aprils, and it's through his experiences that we follow the paths of...
Books » Science Fiction
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| Title | Adoration of Jenna Fox |
| Author | Mary E. Pearson |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Older Readers • Mature Readers |
| Keywords | girls • boys/girls • accidents • choices • ethics • experiments • family • identity • medical ethics • medicine • older readers • parenting • reluctant reader • science |
| Reluctant Reader | Good for Reluctant Readers |
Seventeen year old Jenna awakens from a coma following a car accident with no memory of her past life. However, she has many questions: How can she remember...
Books » Non-Fiction
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| Title | Adventures of Marco Polo, The |
| Author | Russell Freedman |
| Illustrator | Bagram Ibatoulline |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Non-Fiction |
| Reading Level | Middle Readers • Older Readers |
| Keywords | Middle Reader-Careful Content • boys • girls • boys/girls • adventure • Asian culture • biography • character • Chinese • exploration • history • journeys • middle readers • older readers • truth • Belonger/Connector • Seeker/Leader • Answerman |
Who was Marco Polo? Did he really travel to China or was he a man of a million lies? Born into a family of adventurers, Marco joined his father and...
Books » Realistic Fiction
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| Title | After Ever After |
| Author | Jordan Sonnenblick |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Middle Readers • Older Readers |
| Keywords | Middle Reader-Careful Content • boys • girls • boys/girls • a tissue box book • acceptance • accepting others • brothers • cancer • change • character • choices • coming of age • courage • diseases • family • finding yourself • first love • friends • friendship • growing up • middle readers • middle school • older readers • physical challenges • relationships • reluctant reader • risk • role-models • self-reliance • special needs • standing up for yourself • Jokester/Thrill Seeker/Party Animal • Belonger/Connector • Seeker/Leader • Answerman |
| Reluctant Reader | Good for Reluctant Readers |
Jeffrey Alper, eighth grader, is headed to the first day of a new school year when he stops to help a girl in the hallway who has dropped her papers....
Books » Realistic Fiction
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| Title | Alabama Moon |
| Author | Watt Key |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Middle Readers • Older Readers |
| Keywords | boys • girls • boys/girls • acceptance • action/adventure • adventure • change • choices • coming of age • death • growing up • homelessness • If You Liked Hatchet • If You Liked Tangerine • journeys • loss • middle reader • older reader • realistic fiction • self-control • self-reliance • society • Survival • Belonger/Connector • Seeker/Leader |
Ten-year-old Moon Blake has been living in the wilds with his father for years. He knows how to build a fire without matches and how to make his own bow...
Books » Action / Adventure
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| Title | Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians |
| Author | Brandon Sanderson |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Middle Readers • Older Readers |
| Keywords | boys • girls • boys/girls • action/adventure • adventure • coming of age • edgy • fiction • humor • library story • middle reader • older reader • relatives • reluctant reader • superpowers • Jokester/Thrill Seeker/Party Animal • Belonger/Connector |
| Reluctant Reader | Good for Reluctant Readers |
Alcatraz Smedry has a gift - he breaks everything he touches. This gift has caused him to move from foster home to foster home. Now, as he approaches his 13th...
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