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1) Messenger
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
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Description
In this novel that unites characters from "The Giver" and "Gathering Blue," Matty, a young member of a utopian community that values honesty, conceals an emerging healing power that he cannot explain or understand.
2) Unfadeable
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Description
"A young graffiti artist learns to fight smart against the gentrification threatening her neighborhood"--
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
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Description
A little boy is excited to work alongside his Papa as they collect eggs, plums, peppers and pumpkins to sell at their stand in the farmer's market, but when Papa cannot make it to the stand, his community gathers around him, with dishes made of his own produce.
4) Breakout
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Description
From multiple perspectives, tells of a time capsule project and the middle schoolers who contribute, including future journalist Nora Tucker and newcomer Elidee Jones, whose brother is in the local prison.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"It’s Maya’s first morning in India, but Grandma is already rushing her — it’s market day and they must make the most of Maya’s visit. When Maya comes out of her room wearing her favorite ripped jeans, Grandma wants to sew them! Maya finds the market too hot, too loud, and it’s full of Grandma’s nosy neighbors. Even back at home, Grandma’s friends keep dropping by. Maya just longs to be left alone. But the next morning the house is...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Formats
Description
Thirteen-year-old Jillian Robichaux's coastal Louisiana town of Boutin suffers a catastrophic flood that might be too much for her community to overcome, but she is determined to keep both Boutin and its indomitable spirit alive.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Formats
Description
While true-crime aficionado Ellery and her twin brother are staying with their grandmother in a Vermont community known for murder, a new friend goes missing and Ellery may be next. Determined to protect herself and get to the bottom of things, Ellery uses his knowledge of true-crimes to seek out the answers to the secrets everyone in town seems to be keeping.
Author
Series
Doughnut fix volume 1
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Description
When his family moves to tiny Petersville, eleven-year-old Tris stops focusing on his perfect sister, Jeanine, by using his cooking expertise to revive a town tradition of chocolate cream doughnuts.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Mighty Mike is the mightiest heavy equipment operator of them all! When the town has to stop plans to build a library, he knows he has to help get it built. Will a few calls to his construction friends get mighty Mike the help he needs to bring a new library to the town?
15) New in town
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Pub. Date
[2021]
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Description
The people of Puddletrunk are accustomed to their bridge collapsing and being rebuilt by Mortimer Gulch--when they provide funds and labor--but a newcomer to town may have a better idea.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"A glimpse into a day in the life of the different residents who live alongside one another in an apartment building at 3 Biscuit Street. Centring on the Bunny family, readers will also discover another 11 mini-narratives in the illustrations, where they'll see what the apartment building's other residents are up to on every floor, track the antics of passersby, and observe the Bird family in the neighbouring tree. This multilayered (and multilevel!)...
17) Curtain up
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Description
After twelve-year-old Anya fails to make the soccer team, she decides to pursue her true passion, musical theater, and, with the help of her sister and new friend Austin, pulls together a summer theater troupe.
18) The grace year
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
Formats
Description
Tierney James, sixteen, struggles to endure the year in which she and other young women are banished to the wild until, purified, the survivors are allowed to return home and marry.
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
The Giver: Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives. -- Gathering blue: Lame and suddenly orphaned, Kira is mysteriously removed from her squalid village to live in the palatial Council Edifice, where she is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to do the bidding of the all-powerful Guardians....