M. E Kerr
1) Night kites
Author
Pub. Date
[1986]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Erick's comfortable and well-ordered life begins to fall apart when he is forced to keep two secrets: the identity of his new girlfriend and the nature of his brother's debilitating disease.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
Edgar Tobbit meets Neal Kraft at a group session arranged by their psychotherapist and their friendship ends up thwarting the plans of an eccentric widow to get revenge on the town where she was mistreated as a young girl.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Parr Burrman and his family face some difficult times when word spreads through their rural Missouri town that his older sister is a lesbian, and she leaves the family farm to live with the daughter of the town's banker.
5) Gentlehands
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
A teenage boy falls in love with an "upper-class" girl and gets to know his estranged grandfather in one heartbreaking summer which climaxes in a shattering search for Nazi war criminals.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
Life in their Pennsylvania hometown changes for Jubal Shoemaker and his family when his older brother witnesses to his Quaker beliefs by becoming a conscientious objector during World War II.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
1997.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
Description
Three generations suffer the consequences of an ill-fated romance between a young girl from the wrong side of the tracks and the son of the richest family in a small upstate New York town.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
1998.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
Using examples from five novels and five short stories, young adult writer M. E. Kerr offers insights into ways writers can get ideas and create successful stories.
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Description
An upper-middle-class white girl from Long Island and an immigrant worker from Colombia fall in love despite objections from both their families and their community.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
In their small New York town, two teenaged girls become friends while helping each other make sense of their families, neighbors, and selves as they approach adulthood in the years preceding World War II.
19) Shoebag returns
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[1996]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Shoebag, a happy young cockroach who finds himself suddenly changed into a little boy, enrolls in Miss Rattray's School for Girls.