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81) Joss
Author
Series
Girl of the year 2020 volume 1
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"When the surf's up, she pops out her hearing aid, hops on her board and paddles out to the lineup. Joss is stoked to enter a surfing video contest with her friend Sofia and Murph, the surfing bulldog. If she can master a killer aerial like the frontside air and get her brother Dylan to catch it on video, maybe she'd even have a shot at winning. But Dylan throws her a curve: he dares her to try out for the cheer team. No way--Joss can't see herself...
Author
Series
Lunch witch volume 1
Publisher
Papercutz
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The witch Grunhilda takes a job in an elementary school lunchroom.
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books, House an Anansi Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Parvana, whose father was arrested by the Taliban, and whose family lives in one room of a bombed-out apartment building, must disguise herself as a boy to work and support her family.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"The story of how a young Southern girl who was raised on a pig farm became one of the most influential and inspiring people in the world. We all know Oprah Winfrey as a talk-show host, actress, producer, media mogul, and philanthropist, but the "Queen of Talk" wasn't always so fortunate. She suffered through a rough childhood and went on to use her personal struggles as motivation. Oprah's kindness, resilience, and determination are just some of...
Author
Series
Publisher
Lerner Publications
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Her songs have been streamed millions of times, and winning five Grammy awards in 2020 cemented Billie Eilish as her generation's biggest pop star. Read about her musical beginnings and her rise to fame"--
Author
Publisher
KaBOOM!
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Brianna Jakobsson has big cooking dreams, and when her ailing father, a world-renowned chef, poses a challenge to his only daughter and fifteen sons, she seizes the opportunity. She's going to have the best restaurant around and earn the family empire. Thing is, the only place she can afford to set up shop is in Monster City. Her menu is full of weird delicacies, her kitchen is run by a half-bird harpy, and her dining room is filled with skeleton...
88) Alex Morgan
Author
Series
Publisher
Black Rabbit Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Series
Anne of Green Gables volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Anne, now a joyful wife and mother, returns to visit the fishing village of Avonlea in this portrayal of family life on picturesque Prince Edward Island.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Christian Publishing
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
The inspiring autobiography from Gabrielle Douglas—the first African-American gymnast in Olympic history to become the individual All-Around champion—revealing her journey from the time she first entered a gym to her gold-medal-winning performances.
In the 2012 London Olympics, US gymnast Gabrielle Douglas stole hearts and flew high as the All-Around Gold Medal winner and the brightest star of the US gold-medal-winning
...Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2022
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
A funny, feminist, and queer contemporary middle grade debut about 12-year-old loner Hazel Hill, who after one of her classmates is harassed online, devises a plan to catch the school's golden boy in the act.
Seventh grader Hazel Hill is too busy for friends. No, really. She needs to focus on winning the school-wide speech competition and beating her nemesis, the popular and smart Ella Quinn, after last year's embarrassing hyperbole/hyperbowl mishap...
92) Candy smash
Author
Series
Lemonade war series volume 4
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Explores the distinctive power of poetry and love--fourth grade style"--
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Ruth Gruener was a hidden child during the Holocaust. At the end of the war, she and her parents were overjoyed to be free. But their struggles as displaced people had just begun. In war-ravaged Europe, they waited for paperwork for a chance to come to America. Once they arrived in Brooklyn, they began to build a new life, but spoke little English. Ruth started at a new school and tried to make friends -- but continued to fight nightmares and flashbacks...
Author
Publisher
Dey Street Books, An Imprint of William Morrow Publishers
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg offers a visually rich, intimate, unprecedented look at the Justice and how she changed the world. From Ginsburg's refusal to let the slammed doors of sexism stop her to her innovative legal work, from her before-its-time feminist marriage to her perch on the nation's highest court--with the fierce dissents to match--get to know RBG as never before. As the country struggles with the unfinished...
Author
Series
Gold seer trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Lee Westfall, a young woman with the magical ability to sense the presence of gold, must flee her home to avoid people who would abuse her powers, so when her best friend Jefferson heads out across Gold Rush-era America to stake his claim, she disguises herself as a boy and sets out on her own dangerous journey.
98) Cowgirl grit
Author
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Sydney Todachine is looking forward to a summer on the beaches of San Diego before starting sixth-grade, but instead she finds herself on her Grandfather's ranch on the Navajo Nation reservation with no wi-fi, and while a couple of the kids are pretty nice, her cousin Hadley is as nasty as ever--but Sydney bonds with a spirited horse called Midnight, and together they start training at night for the upcoming rodeo.
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press, a capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"On the morning of January 10, 1917, thirteen determined women stood at the gates of the White House and held banners reading "HOW LONG MUST WOMEN WAIT FOR LIBERTY?" They were there to force President Woodrow Wilson to take notice of their demand for the right to vote. It was the first day of weeks of picketing, which would stop only when the women were arrested and jailed. Despite criticism from the public and mistreatment by public officials, the...
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Presents, in graphic novel format, the story of Korean War correspondent Marguerite Higgins, who risked her life in dangerous situations to provide eyewitness accounts of many of the major events of the war.
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