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12) Brave like that
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Formats
Description
Eleven-year-old Cyrus knows he is not cut out to be a football hero or fireman like his adopted father, but it takes a skittish stray dog to teach him that he, too, can be brave.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Fifth-grader Claire can do a perfect triple handspring. She can do a giant pirouette on the uneven bars. What she can't do is reading. With a lot of effort, she hides her secret until an alert vice principle suggests she get evaluated for a learning disability. Now Claire has to convince her mother--who's afraid her daughter will be labeled "stupid"--to let her get tested. And that turns out to be even harder than reading"--Provided by publisher....
Author
Pub. Date
c2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Description
"Maple Mehta-Cohen has been keeping a secret: she can't read all that well. She has an impressive vocabulary and loves dictating stories into her recorder--especially the adventures of a daring sleuth who's half Indian and half Jewish like Maple herself--but words on the page just don't seem to make sense to her. Despite all Maple's clever tricks to hide her troubles with reading, her teacher is on to her, and now Maple has to repeat fifth grade....