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1) Jumper
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2022.
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Description
"Blair Scott is in her second season as a wildland firefighter when the Forest Service puts out a call for an additional class of smokejumpers. She and her best friend Jason both apply, though neither expects to get in since they're only nineteen. But it's been a devastating fire season, and they are both accepted. But going to training camp is only the first step--everyone expects the teenage rookies will wash out in the first week. Blair has always...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
960L
Language
English
Description
Long ago the dam formed, the lively river turned into a swamp, and the wasting illness came to Luna's village, and now that her little sister is sick Luna will do anything to save her, even offer herself to the creature that lives in the swamp on the dayof the nearer moon--a lonely and bitter water sprite who was left behind when her people fled through a door to another world.
3) Audacity
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
1120L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"A historical fiction novel in verse detailing the life of Clara Lemlich and her struggle for women's labor rights in the early 20th century in New York."--
4) Parched
Author
Publisher
New York
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
Told from three perspectives, Sarel, who just witnessed the brutal murder of her parents, Nandi, the leader of a pack of dogs who looks out for her pups and Sarel, and Musa, an escaped prisoner with the water song inside him, struggle to survive in a land without water.
5) Mazie
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Lexile measure
940L
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Mazie Butterfield leaves her family and boyfriend behind in small-town Nebraska to find fame on 1950s Broadway, but when her big break comes it means going back to the Corn Belt and facing her past.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
Referring to the I-Ching and a trio of good-luck pennies whenever she is bounced to a new foster home, Marin finds herself in a place that feels like a forever home while trying to find her birth mother.
Author
Publisher
Mit Kids Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Exploring 14 winds of the world, from Japan's blustery oroshi to Hawai'i's sweet-smelling moani, this dynamic collection of poems reflects the characteristics and sometimes the location of each wind--includes sidebars with scientific facts and meteorological details.
