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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
The Vanderbeekers have always lived in the brownstone on 141st Street. It's practically another member of the family. So when their reclusive, curmudgeonly landlord decides not to renew their lease, the five siblings have eleven days to do whatever it takes to stay in their beloved home and convince the dreaded Beiderman just how wonderful they are. And all is fair in love and war when it comes to keeping their home.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
HL 570L
Language
English
Description
After meeting at their private school in New York, fifteen-year-old Jeremiah, who is black and whose parents are separated, and Ellie, who is white and whose mother has twice abandoned her, fall in love and then try to cope with people's reactions.
3) Safe at home
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Description
After the death of his father, Elijah Breeze, a ten-year-old African American boy, moves back to New York City with his mother and attends a summer baseball camp as he tries to make new friends and adapt to urban ways.
4) Rooftop
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
Still reeling from seeing police shoot his unarmed cousin to death on the roof of a New York City housing project, seventeen-year-old Clay is dragged into the whirlwind of political manipulation that follows.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
Amara visits her father's family in Harlem for her twelfth birthday, hoping to better understand her family and herself, but New York City is not what she expected.--
Author
Series
Vanderbeekers volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
One hilarious Harlem family is on a mission to find the perfect way to celebrate their Papa's fortieth birthday while discovering more about their mysterious grandparents in this heartfelt romp and latest installment to the New York Times best-selling series, perfect for fans of the Penderwicks. It's summer on 141st Street, and the Vanderbeekers are looking forward to Papa's surprise fortieth birthday party. But then Papa must leave town to help his...
Author
Series
Vanderbeekers volume 2
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
"When catastrophe strikes their beloved upstairs neighbors, the Vanderbeeker children set out to build the best, most magical healing garden in Harlem--in spite of a locked fence, thistles and trash, and the conflicting plans of a wealthy real estate developer"--
8) Game
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
If Harlem high school senior Drew Lawson is going to realize his dream of playing college, then professional, basketball, he will have to improve at being coached and being a team player, especially after a new--white--student threatens to take the scouts' attention away from him.
Author
Series
Vanderbeekers volume 4
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
As they look forward to the New York City Marathon in which their friend Mr. B. will run, the Vanderbeeker children learn that one of their good friends is homeless.
10) Looking like me
Author
Publisher
Egmont USA
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
560L
Language
English
Description
Jeremy sets out to discover all of the different "people" that make him who he is, including brother, son, writer, and runner.
Author
Series
Vanderbeekers volume 3
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
The Vanderbeeker children, ages six to thirteen, race to help save their mother's baking business from closure after it fails an inspection.--
Author
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Bo is used to it being just her and her mom in their cozy New York apartment, but when her mom gets married, Bo must adjust to her new sisters and a music-minded blended family that is much larger, louder, and more complex than she ever imagined.
13) P.S. Be eleven
Author
Series
Gaither sisters volume 2
Publisher
Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
The Gaither sisters are back in Brooklyn, where changes large and small come to their household as they grow up during the turbulent 1960s.
15) Slam dunk!
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
HL 540L
Language
English
Description
At Harlem's Langston Hughes Middle School, eleven-year-old Elijah "Jumper" Breeze and his friends compete against Nia and her girlfriends on the basketball court, in a video dance tournament, and for a Student Council seat, and, meanwhile, several of the students face issues with their fathers.