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Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
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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....
2) Liar & spy
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 5
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Description
Seventh-grader Georges adjusts to moving from a house to an apartment, his father's efforts to start a new business, his mother's extra shifts as a nurse, being picked on at school, and Safer, a boy who wants his help spying on another resident of their building.
3) 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
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
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Perry's parents insist that he take Gobi, their quiet, Lithuanian exchange student, to senior prom but after an incident at the dance he learns that Gobi is actually a trained assassin who needs him as a henchman, behind the wheel of his father's precious Jaguar, on a mission in Manhattan.
5) Hero
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
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Description
Fourteen-year-old Zach learns he has the same special abilities as his father, who was the President's globe-trotting troubleshooter until "the Bads" killed him, and now Zach must decide whether to use his powers in the same way at the risk of his own life.
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 8
Formats
Description
In 1893 New York, thirteen-year-old Maks, a newsboy, teams up with Willa, a homeless girl, to clear his older sister, Emma, from charges that she stole from the brand new Waldorf Hotel, where she works. Includes historical notes.
Author
Series
Gaither sisters volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
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Eleven-year-old Brooklyn girl Delphine feels overwhelmed with worries and responsibilities. She's just started sixth grade and is self-conscious about being the tallest girl in class, and nervous about her first school dance. She's 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 mother in Oakland, California...
Author
Series
Birthright (Gabrielle Zevin) volume 1
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Anya Balanchine, daughter of New York City's most notorious crime boss in 2083, tries to keep a low profile, but she cannot avoid the spotlight when her loser ex-boyfriend is accidently poisoned by illegal chocolate manufactured by her family.
9) Masterpiece
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Formats
Description
After Marvin, a beetle, makes a miniature drawing as an eleventh birthday gift for James, a human with whom he shares a house, the two new friends work together to help recover a Durer drawing stolen from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
10) Goodbye stranger
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 7
Description
As Bridge makes her way through seventh grade on Manhattan's Upper West Side with her best friends, curvacious Em, crusader Tab, and a curious new friend--or more than friend--Sherm, she finds the answer she has been seeking since she barely survived an accident at age eight: "What is my purpose?".
11) SPHDZ book #2!
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
Description
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.
Author
Series
Invisible Inkling volume 2
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Halloween brings out the worst in fourth-grader Henry Wolowitz and his invisible, squash-eating friend Inkling, as Henry tries to go trick-or-treating while keeping Inkling from eating all the jack-o-lanterns.
13) Permanent record
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Description
Nineteen-year-old Pablo Neruda Rind is working in an upscale health food store in New York CIty when pop star Leanna Smart rushes in and turns his life upside-down.
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Series
Family tree (Ann M. Martin) volume 2
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
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.
15) Game
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Description
If Harlem high school senior Drew Lawson is going to realize his dream of playing college, then professional, basketball, he will have to improve at being coached and being a team player, especially after a new--white--student threatens to take the scouts' attention away from him.
17) Bystander
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Thirteen-year-old Eric discovers there are consequences to not standing by and watching as the bully at his new school hurts people, but although school officials are aware of the problem, Eric may be the one with a solution.
18) Suite Scarlett
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Fifteen-year-old Scarlett Marvin is stuck in New York City for the summer working at her quirky family's historic hotel, but her brother's attractive new friend and a seasonal guest who offers her an intriguing and challenging writing project improve her outlook.
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Series
Vanderbeekers volume 4
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Description
When autumn arrives on 141st Street, the Vanderbeekers are busy helping Mr. Beiderman get ready for the New York City Marathon and making sure the mysterious person sleeping in the community garden gets enough to eat. But when they discover the true identity of the person making a home in the community garden's shed, their world turns upside down as they learn what it means to care for someone in an impossible situation.
In this fourth book in the...
Author
Series
Birthright (Gabrielle Zevin) volume 2
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
Description
In 2083, seventeen-year-old Anya Balanchine seeks a way to make Balanchine Chocolate legitimate, and although a trip to Mexico gives her new insights and ideas, escaping her mobster family's legacy of violence may prove impossible.