E. L Konigsburg
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
Having run away with her younger brother to live in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, twelve-year-old Claudia strives to keep things in order in their new home and to become a changed person and a heroine to herself.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
Four students, with their own individual stories, develop a special bond and attract the attention of their teacher, a paraplegic, who choses them to represent their sixth-grade class in the Academic Bowl competition.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
Upon leaving an oppressive summer camp, twelve-year-old Margaret Rose Kane spearheads a campaign to preserve three unique towers her great-uncles have been building in their backyard for more than forty years.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
When he is wrongly accused of gravely injuring his baby half-sister, thirteen-year-old Branwell loses his power of speech and only his friend Connor is able to reach him and uncover the truth about what really happened.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
[1973]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
While waiting in heaven for divine judgement to be passed on her second husband, Eleanor of Aquitaine and three of the people who knew her well recall the events of her life.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
[1993]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
Spending the summer in Florida with her stepfather's sister who operates a "meals-on-wheels" van, twelve-year-old Chloe and her aunt become involved in a controversy surrounding the wearing of T-back bathing suits.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
1982.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
Bo learns about kindness, love, loyalty, appearances, and pretense from the unusual characters he meets when he is sent to live with his father after his mother decides to remarry.
17) (George)
Author
Publisher
Dell Publishing
Pub. Date
1970.
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old Benjamin refuses to see what is going on in his chemistry lab, the little man who lives inside of him must finally speak out in public for the safety of all concerned.
Author
Publisher
Everest
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
860L
Language
Español
Description
Four students, with their own individual stories, develop a special bond and attract the attention of their teacher, a paraplegic, who chooses them to represent their sixth-grade class in the Academic Bowl competition.