Lexile: 6OOL, Accelerated Reader: IL: MG; BL: 4.2; AR Pts: 6
In Pakistan, Amal holds onto her dream of being a teacher even after becoming an indentured servant to pay off her family's debt to the wealthy and corrupt Khan family.
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- Lexile: 670, Accelerated Reader: IL: MG+, BL: 5.1, AR Pts: 7 After the death of the uncle who had been his guardian, fourteen-year-old Alex Rider is coerced to continue his uncle's dangerous work for Britain's intelligence agency, MI6.
- Lexile: 680, Accelerated Reader: IL: MG, BL: 4.9, AR Pts: 13 - Lost in the Black Forest, Otto meets three mysterious sisters and finds himself entwined in a prophecy, a promise, and a harmonica--and decades later three children,…
- Lexile: 690, Accelerated Reader: IL: MG, BL: 4.8, AR Pts: 9 In 1871 Wisconsin, thirteen-year-old Georgia sets out to find her sister Agatha, presumed dead when remains are found wearing the dress she was last seen in, and before the end…
- Lexile: 710, Accelerated Reader: IL: UG, BL: 5.6, AR Pts: 25 - In Alagaesia, a fifteen-year-old boy of unknown lineage called Eragon finds a mysterious stone that weaves his life into an intricate tapestry of destiny, magic, and power,…
- Lexile: 720, Accelerated Reader: IL: MG, BL: 5.1, AR Pts: 17 Kendra and Seth seek help from the Giant Queen as the war against dragons moves into Titan Valley, a magical realm of towering giants and enslaved dragons.
- Lexile: 730, Accelerated Reader: IL: UG, BL: 5.1, AR Pts: 18 - Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her…
- Lexile: 740, Accelerated Reader: IL: MG, BL: 4.7, AR Pts: 7 - Meg Murry and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg's father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government.
- Lexile: 740, Accelerated Reader: IL: MG, BL: 5, AR Pts: 7 - Twelve-year-old Suzy Swanson wades through her intense grief over the loss of her best friend by investigating the rare jellyfish she is convinced was responsible for her…
- Lexile: 760L, Accelerated Reader: IL: MG, BL: 4.5, AR Pts: 3 Discovering a book of Langston Hughes' poetry in the library helps Langston cope with the loss of his mother, relocating from Alabama to Chicago as part of the Great Migration,…
- Lexile: 780, Accelerated Reader: IL: MG, BL: 5.6, AR Pts: 9 It is June 6, 1944, D-Day, and Dee Carpenter (true name Dietrich Zimmermann), an underage private in the United States Army, is headed for Omaha Beach, seeking revenge for his…
- Lexile: 780, Accelerated Reader: IL: MG+, BL: 5.6, AR Pts: 21 - When one of Serilda's outlandish tales draws the attention of the sinister Erlking and his undead hunters, she finds herself swept away into a grim world where ghouls and…
- Lexile: 790, Accelerated Reader: IL: MG, BL: 5.2, AR Pts: 11 - Abruptly placed in a boy's boarding school in Maine after his mother's death at the end of World War II, Kansas youth Jack Baker befriends Early Auden, an unusual boy with…
- Lexile: 790, Accelerated Reader: IL: MG+, BL: 5.8, AR Pts: 14 - As plague ravages the overcrowded Earth, observed by a ruthless lunar people, Cinder, a gifted mechanic and cyborg, becomes involved with handsome Prince Kai and must…
- Lexile: 790, Accelerated Reader: IL: MG, BL: 8, AR Pts: 7 - The adventures of an unusual dog, part St. Bernard, part Scotch shepherd, that is forcibly taken to the Klondike gold fields where he eventually becomes the leader of a wolf…
- Lexile: 790L, Accelerated Reader: IL: MG, BL: 5.6, AR Pts: 14 - A cursed child destined to die on her eleventh birthday is rescued and whisked away to a secret realm called Nevermoor and given the chance to compete for a place in a…
- Lexile: 790L, Accelerated Reader: IL: MG, BL: 5.3, AR Pts: 7 Free dog Johannes' job is to observe everything that happens in his urban park and report back to the park's three bison elders, but changes are afoot, including more humans, a…
- Lexile: 800, Accelerated Reader: IL: UG, BL: 5.4, AR Pts: 17 - Told in separate voices, eighteen-year-old Tyler Jones, top graduate of Aurora Academy, and a group of misfits and troublemakers embark on their first mission with Auri, a…
- Lexile: 810, Accelerated Reader: IL: MG+, BL: 5.5, AR Pts: 14 - 1890, Atlanta. By day, seventeen-year-old Jo Kuan works as a lady's maid for the cruel Caroline Payne, the daughter of one of the wealthiest men in Atlanta. But by night, Jo…
- Lexile: 830, Accelerated Reader: IL: MG, BL: 5.9, AR Pts: 7 - I Am Malala. This is my story. Malala Yousafzai was only ten years old when the Taliban took control of her region. They said music was a crime. They said women weren't allowed…
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