Virginia Hamilton
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
Already a leader in New York's underground world of homeless children, Buddy Clark takes on the responsibility of protecting the overweight, emotionally disturbed friend with whom he has been playing hooky from eighth grade all semester.
Author
Pub. Date
[1982]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
550L
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Tree, resentful of her working mother who leaves her in charge of a retarded younger brother, encounters the ghost of her dead uncle and comes to a deeper understanding of her family's problems.
4) Cousins
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1990.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
550L
Language
English
Description
Concerned that her grandmother may die, Cammy is unprepared for the accidental death of another relative.
5) Zeely
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
Geeder's summer at her uncle's farm is made special because of her friendship with a very tall, composed woman who raises hogs and who closely resembles the magazine photograph of a Watutsi queen.
11) Second cousins
Author
Publisher
Blue Sky Press
Pub. Date
1998.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
460L
Language
English
Description
The friendship of twelve-year-old cousins Cammy and Elodie is threatened when the family reunion includes two other cousins near their age and Elodie is tempted to drop Cammy for a new companion.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
A black family of five moves into an enormous house once used as a hiding place for runaway slaves. Mysterious sounds and events as well as the discovery of secret passageways make the family believe they are in grave danger.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
560L
Language
English
Description
As a slag heap, the result of strip mining, creeps closer to his house in the Ohio hills, fifteen-year-old M.C. is torn between trying to get his family away and fighting for the home they love.
16) Plain City
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
490L
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Buhlaire, a "mixed" child who feels out of place in her community, struggles to unearth her past and her family history as she gradually discovers more and more about her long-missing father.
18) Jaguarundi
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Description
Although the other animals also feel threatened by the encroachment of humans, only Rundi and Coati journey north in search of a safer place to live.
19) Arilla Sun Down
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
A young girl, half black and half Indian, lives in a small town where her life revolves around family, school, and friends.