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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...
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...
Books » Fiction
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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. 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...
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. 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 » 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 » 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 » 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 » Historical Fiction
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| Title | Alchemy and Meggy Swann |
| Author | Karen Cushman |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Middle Readers • Older Readers |
| Keywords | boys • girls • boys/girls • apprenticeship • being yourself • disabilities • dysfunctional families • English history • England • fathers/daughters • finding yourself • friendship • historical fiction • love • middle readers • murder • older readers • overcoming obstacles • science • self-confidence • self-esteem • self-reliance • Seeker/Leader |
To be released April 2010: “If she could find sixpence for the carter she could return to the village and the alehouse” where her mother, bad temper and all, was...
Books » Action / Adventure
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| Title | Alex Rider, Book 1: Stormbreaker |
| Author | Anthony Horowitz (Alex Ryder series) |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Middle Readers • Older Readers • Mature Readers |
| Keywords | boys • girls • boys/girls • action • action/adventure • adventure • boys • danger • espionage • If You Liked Alex Rider • If You Liked Indiana Jones • intrigue • middle reader • middle readers • older reader • older readers • reluctant reader • self-reliance • series • spies • Jokester/Thrill Seeker/Party Animal • Belonger/Connector • Seeker/Leader |
| Reluctant Reader | Good for Reluctant Readers |
| Part of a Series | Part of a Series |
Okay, if you haven't heard about these books and if you missed the movie somehow, don't wait any longer. The Alex Ryder series, as it is referred to, is really...
Books » Action / Adventure
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| Title | Alex Rider, Book 2: Point Blank |
| Author | Anthony Horowitz |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Older Readers |
| Keywords | boys • girls • boys/girls • action • action/adventure • adventure • danger • espionage • fiction • If You Liked Alex Rider • If You Liked Indiana Jones • middle readers • older readers • school story • secret agents • self-reliance • spies • Jokester/Thrill Seeker/Party Animal • Belonger/Connector • Seeker/Leader |
| Reluctant Reader | Good for Reluctant Readers |
| Part of a Series | Part of a Series |
Fourteen-year-old Alex Ryder is going to be called into action in this the second book in the series. This time he'll be infiltrating a private school for wealthy,...
Books » Action / Adventure
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| Title | Alex Rider, Book 3: Skeleton Key |
| Author | Anthony Horowitz |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Older Readers • Mature Readers |
| Keywords | boys • girls • boys/girls • action • action/adventure • adventure • courage • danger • espionage • fiction • If You Liked Alex Rider • If You Liked Indiana Jones • intrigue • mature readers • middle readers • older readers • reluctant reader • self-reliance • spies • Jokester/Thrill Seeker/Party Animal • Belonger/Connector • Seeker/Leader |
| Reluctant Reader | Good for Reluctant Readers |
| Part of a Series | Part of a Series |
James Bond has nothing on this young man. Alex Ryder is headed into his third action-packed adventure novel. Armed with wondrous gadgets, Alex is 'man' enough to tackle this latest...
Books » Action / Adventure
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| Title | Alex Rider, Book 6: Ark Angel |
| Author | Anthony Horowitz |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Middle Readers • Older Readers • Mature Readers |
| Keywords | boys • girls • boys/girls • action • action/adventure • adventure • courage • danger • espionage • If You Liked Alex Rider • If You Liked Indiana Jones • intrigue • mature reader • mature readers • middle reader • middle readers • older reader • older readers • self-reliance • spies • Jokester/Thrill Seeker/Party Animal • Belonger/Connector • Seeker/Leader |
| Reluctant Reader | Good for Reluctant Readers |
| Part of a Series | Part of a Series |
The Alex Rider series continues.
Books » Action / Adventure
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| Title | Alex Rider, Book 7: Snakehead |
| Author | Anthony Horowitz |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Middle Readers • Older Readers • Mature Readers |
| Keywords | boys • girls • boys/girls • action • action/adventure • adventure • Australia • bravery • choices • courage • danger • espionage • fathers/sons • fiction • If You Liked Alex Rider • If You Liked Indiana Jones • intrigue • mature reader • mature readers • middle reader • middle readers • older reader • older readers • reluctant reader • secret agents • self-reliance • spies • Jokester/Thrill Seeker/Party Animal • Belonger/Connector • Seeker/Leader |
| Reluctant Reader | Good for Reluctant Readers |
| Part of a Series | Part of a Series |
Alex splashes down in his space capsule in the ocean off the coast of Australia and is taken to a base to recover. While there, the Australian Intelligence folks ask...
Books » Mystery
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| Title | All the Lovely Bad Ones |
| Author | Mary Downing Hahn |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Older Readers • Mature Readers |
| Keywords | boys • girls • boys/girls • ghosts • if you Liked Stuck in Neutral • macabre • mature readers • mystery • older readers • spooky • suspense • suspense thriller • Jokester/Thrill Seeker/Party Animal • Belonger/Connector • If You Liked Wolf Rider |
Corey and Travis are going to spend the summer at their grandmother's inn in Vermont. The inn hasn't been getting many guests because it's rumored to have ghosts. Corey and...
Books » Mystery
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| Title | An Echo Falls Mystery: Down the Rabbit Hole |
| Author | Peter Abrahams (An Echo Falls Mystery) |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Older Readers • Mature Readers |
| Keywords | adventure • boys/girls • girl power • girls • mature reader • murder • mystery • older readers • soccer • suspense • grandfather |
| Part of a Series | Part of a Series |
Thirteen-year-old Ingrid Levin-Hill is fascinated by Sherlock Holmes, but she never expected to have to carry on his work in her own town. She's involved in the town community theater,...
Books » Realistic Fiction
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| Title | Anything But Typical |
| Author | Nora Raleigh Baskin |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Middle Readers • Older Readers |
| Keywords | boys • girls • boys/girls • accepting others • autism • being yourself • character • compassion • differences • diversity • feelings • fiction • friends • friendship • getting along • middle reader • middle readers • older readers • overcoming obstacles • risk • Schneider Award • stereotypes • values • Belonger/Connector • Seeker/Leader |
If you 'see' someone, how much do you know about that person? This is the stereotype-crashing story of a boy with autism who meets a girl who is blind. What...
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