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Series
My weird school volume 8
Language
English
Description
The new lunch lady at Ella Mentry School, Ms. LaGrange, writes secret messages in the mashed potatoes and tries her best to get A.J. and the other students to eat healthy foods.
Author
Series
Genius Files volume 5
Language
English
Description
"Tween twins Coke and Pepsi McDonald have finally reached the last leg of their wacky and dangerous cross-country road trip, but they must fend off a host of strange assassins before they reach their home in California"-- Provided by publisher.
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Language
English
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Indigenous Authors: Books for Elementary Grades
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2021 Graded Reading Lists: Grades 5 & 6
Indigenous Authors: Books for Elementary Grades
Description
It’s been a hard year for Maisie Cannon, ever since she hurt her leg and could not keep up with her ballet training and auditions. Her blended family is loving and supportive, but Maisie knows that they just can’t understand how hopeless she feels. With everything she’s dealing with, Maisie is not excited for their family midwinter road trip along the coast, near the Makah community where her mother grew up. But soon, Maisie’s anxieties and...
5) Pinned
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Language
English
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Adonis is smart, intellectually gifted and born without legs; Autumn is strong, a great wrestler, and barely able to read in ninth grade--but Autumn is attracted to Adonis and determined to make him a part of her life whatever he or her best friend thinks.
6) Dear pen pal
Author
Series
Mother-Daughter Book Club volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Four very different friends in Concord, Massachusetts, and their mothers continue their book club, reading Jean Webster's "Daddy Long-Legs," while getting to know their own pen pals from Wyoming.
Author
Series
Iris Anderson mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
In 1942 New York City, fifteen-year-old Iris grieves for her mother who committed suicide and for the loss of her life of privilege, and secretly helps her father with his detective business since he, having lost a leg at Pearl Harbor, struggles to make ends meet.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
Skylar Evans, seventeen, yearns to escape Creek View by attending art school, but after her mother's job loss puts her dream at risk, a rekindled friendship with Josh, who joined the Marines to get away then lost a leg in Afghanistan, and her job at the Paradise motel lead her to appreciate her home town.
11) Patina
Author
Series
Track (Jason Reynolds) volume 2
Language
English
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Description
"A newbie to the track team, Patina "Patty" Jones must learn to rely on her family and teammates as she tries to outrun her personal demons"--
12) Watchdog
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Orphaned and homeless, fourteen-year-old twins Vick and Tara, who is autistic, go up against a crime lord and her four-legged robotic army, with help from their robotic dog, Daisy.--Provided by Publisher.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Found abandoned in a bear cave as a baby, and cursed with unusual size and strength, twelve-year-old Yanka the bear has never felt she belonged in the small village where she grew up; the Snow Forest seems to call to her and when she wakes up one day with her legs transformed into bear legs she flees the village, and embarks on a dangerous journey to uncover clues to her mysterious origin and identity.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"All 12-year-old Marinka wants is a friend. A real friend. Not like her house with chicken legs. Sure, the house can play games like tag and hide-and-seek, but Marinka longs for a human companion. Someone she can talk to and share secrets with. But that's tough when your grandmother is a Yaga, a guardian who guides the dead into the afterlife. It's even harder when you live in a house that wanders all over the world . . . carrying you with it. Even...
15) Pet disasters
Author
Series
Mason Dixon volume 1
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Mason's parents keep trying to get him a pet, but until he and his best friend Brody adopt a three-legged dog, he's not interested.
Author
Series
Doctor Proctor's fart powder volume 3
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
New adventures await Doctor Proctor, Lisa, and Nilly as they try to protect Oslo, Norway, from invading aliens, enormous snakes in the sewers, seven-legged Peruvian sucking spiders, and sinister waffle irons.
18) The call
Author
Publisher
David Fickling Books/Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
For the last twenty-five years every teenager in Ireland has been subject to "the call" which takes them away to the land of the Sídhe, where they are hunted for twenty four hours (though only three minutes pass in this world)--handicapped by her twisted legs, Nessa Doherty knows that very few return alive, but she is determined to be one of them.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Through letters to his little sister, who is living in a different foster home, sixth-grader Lonnie, also known as "Locomotion," keeps a record of their lives while they are apart, describing his own foster family, including his foster brother who returns home after losing a leg in the Iraq War.
20) Emmett and Jez
Author
Series
Adventures in Fosterland volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
When the piglet Emmett arrives in Fosterland, he relies on a three-legged kitten named Jez to show him the ropes.--
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