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Vanderbeekers volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Description
As they look forward to the New York City Marathon in which their friend Mr. B. will run, the Vanderbeeker children learn that one of their good friends is homeless.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
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The campaign to save the earth from being turned off is going well, but Michael K. must enlist fellow fifth-graders Venus and TJ to help hide the SPHDZ from Agent Umber, especially when they become involved in a school play.
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Series
All-of-a-kind family volume 1
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Description
The adventures of five sisters growing up in a Jewish family in New York in the early twentieth century.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Eleven-year-old Brooklyn girl Delphine feels overwhelmed with worries and responsibilities. Shes just started sixth grade and is self-conscious about being the tallest girl in the class, and nervous about her first school dance. Shes supposed to be watching her sisters, but Fern and Vonetta are hard to control. Her uncle Darnell is home from Vietnam and seems different. And her pa has a girlfriend. At least Delphine can write to her...
5) Okay for now
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
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Description
As a fourteen-year-old who just moved to a new town, with no friends, an abusive father, and a louse for an older brother, Doug Swieteck has all the stats stacked against him until he finds an ally in Lil Spicer, a fiery young lady. Together, they find a safe haven in the local library, inspiration in learning about the plates of John James Audubon's birds, and a hilarious adventure on a Broadway stage.
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Description
Ollie the purple elephant is delighted to move into the McLaughlin family's New York City apartment, but their cat, Ginger, is not pleased and devises a plan to send Ollie away with the circus.
7) Spaceheadz
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Series
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
163 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Description
On his first day at Brooklyn's P.S. 858, fifth-grader Michael K. is teamed with two very strange students, and while he gradually comes to believe they are aliens who need his help, he has trouble convincing anyone else of the truth.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
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Description
Ten-year-old Albie has never been the smartest, tallest, best at gym, greatest artist, or most musical in his class, as his parents keep reminding him, but new nanny Calista helps him uncover his strengths and take pride in himself.
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Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
243 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
In 1960s New York, fifth-grader Ruthie, a Cuban-Jewish immigrant, must rely on books, art, her family, and friends in her multicultural neighborhood when an accident puts her in a body cast.
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Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
163 pages ; 20 cm.
Description
"What if you, as a girl battling stage fright before a dance recital, suddenly found yourself in Rebecca's world in 1914? Join Rebecca on adventures where the two of you can try out for a vaudeville show, put on a musical, or even sneak into a factory to deliver an important message. Your journey back in time can take whatever twists and turns you choose, as you select from a variety of options in this multiple-ending story"--
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Series
Family tree (Ann M. Martin) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
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Description
Dana is Abby and Zander's daughter, but growing up in New York City in the late nineteen fifties is not always easy, especially when you would like your own room separate from your twin sister--and when your beloved father dies and you are forced to move things just get worse.
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Series
Pub. Date
©1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
188 pages : illustrations, maps, music ; 20 cm.
Description
Twelve-year-old Zippy, a Jewish immigrant from Russia, keeps a diary account of the first eighteen months of her family's life on the Lower East Side of New York City in 1903-1904.
13) SPHDZ 4 life!
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Series
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
181 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Description
With a mysterious new principal and fifth-grade graduation fast approaching, will Michael K. and his friends be able to find the missing Brainwave before the chief of the Anti-Alien Agency uses it to destroy a planet?
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
HL 570L
Description
After meeting at their private school in New York, fifteen-year-old Jeremiah, who is black and whose parents are separated, and Ellie, who is white and whose mother has twice abandoned her, fall in love and then try to cope with peoples' reactions.
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Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
303 pages : genealogical tables ; 21 cm
Description
From 1965 through the present, an Indian American family adjusts to life in New York City, alternately fending off and welcoming challenges to their own traditions. Ranee worries that her children are losing their Indian culture. Sonia is wrapped up in a forbidden biracial love affair. Tara seeks the limelight to hide her true self. Shanti desperately tries to make peace in the family. Anna fights to preserve Bengal tigers and her Bengali identity....
16) All for one
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Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
386 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
"1785. New York, New York. As a young nation begins to take shape, Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler are on top of the world. They're the toast of the town, keeping New York City buzzing with tales of their lavish parties, of Eliza's legendary wit, and of Alex's brilliant legal mind. But new additions to Alex & Eliza's little family mean change is afoot in the Hamilton household. When they agree to take in an orphaned teenage girl along with...
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