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4th Grade Reading
6th Grade Reading
Books by National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature Meg Medina
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6th Grade Reading
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"Merci Suárez knew that sixth grade would be different, but she had no idea just how different. For starters, Merci has never been like the other kids at her private school in Florida, because she and her older brother, Roli, are scholarship students. They don't have a big house or a fancy boat, and they have to do extra community service to make up for their free tuition. So when bossy Edna Santos sets her sights on the new boy who happens to be...
2) Queen bee
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Haley is smart, funny, nice, and determined to be super-popular in her new middle-school.
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Greg Heffley goes on tour with his brother Rodrick and Roderick's band Diper Överlöde hoping to experience the glamorous rock lifestyle. However, Greg soon learns being on tour means money problems, inter-band fighting, and lots of thankless late nights. Though Greg is determined to help the band succeed, the realities of life on the road threaten to sink them.
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"Sakura Kinomoto's about to start middle school, and everything's coming up cherry blossoms. Not only has she managed to recapture the scattered Clow Cards and make them her own Sakura Cards, but her sweetheart Syaoran Li has moved from Hong Kong to Tokyo and is going to be attending her school! But her joy is interrupted by a troubling dream in which the cards turn transparent, and when Sakura awakens to discover her dream has become reality, it's...
5) Playground
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After beating up Maurice on the playground, Butterball is forced to see the school therapist.
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"Torn with guilt over their failed escapade, the bookworm visits the reject's home. In having no real reason to rebel other than feeling the emptiness of life with particular acuity, Sawa Nakamura emerges, oddly enough, as the noblest and purest of manga heroines" -- p. [4] of cover.
9) Lights
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"Marjorie Glatt's life was forever changed the day she discovered a group of ghosts hiding in her family's laundromat. One of those ghosts was Wendell: a lonely phantom turned Marjorie's best friend. When he and Marjorie are joined by ghost-enthusiast Eliza Duncan, the three friends band together in friendship, bravery, and all things paranormal. Wendell died far too young and now must wander the Land of Humans with nothing more than a sheet for a...
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"In this sixth volume of The Flowers of Evil, Takao and Nakamura are now deep in the darkness. After creating their own secret world in the rice paddies of rural Gunma, someone who resented their relationship attempted to destroy that haven, in an attempt to disrupt the beautiful chaos the pair had created. Now the duo have been wrongly-accused of a crime, and their previous hijinks -including many school pranks- have placed them in an awkward position...
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"The fifth grade. The threshold to puberty, and the beginning of the end of childhood innocence. Shuichi Nitori and his new friend Yoshino Takatsuki have happy homes, loving families, and are well-liked by their classmates. But they share a secret that further complicates a time of life that is awkward for anyone: Shuichi is a boy who wants to be a girl, and Yoshino is a girl who wants to be a boy"--Publisher's web site.
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"The true story of a group of boy resistance fighters in Denmark after the Nazi invasion"--
"At the outset of World War II, Denmark did not resist German occupation. Deeply ashamed of his nation's leaders, fifteen-year-old Knud Pedersen resolved with his brother and a handful of schoolmates to take action against the Nazis if the adults would not. Naming their secret club after the fiery British leader, the young patriots in the Churchill Club committed...
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"In this second installment, a surreal triangle begins to form between bookworm Kasuga and two girls from his middle school class: model student Saeki and reject extraordinaire Nakamura. Having stolen Saeki's gym clothes on a whim, Kasuga is forced by Nakamura, sole witness to the theft, to secretly wear them on a date with none other than their rightful owner."--P. [4] of cover.