Ronald Kidd
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
500L
Language
English
Description
In 1955 California, as "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" is filmed in their hometown, thirteen-year-old Arnie discovers a real enemy when he and three friends go against a young government agent determined to find communists at a nearby university or on the movie set.
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"When thirteen-year-old Billie Sims learns that the Freedom Riders, a civil rights group protesting segregation on buses in the summer of 1961, will be traveling through Anniston, Alabama, she thinks change could be coming to her stubborn town. But what starts as angry grumbles soon turns to brutality, and Billie is forced to reconsider her own views"--
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
540L
Language
English
Description
After moving into a creepy house, David begins having strange dreams about a secret room, and violent pranks that resemble Edgar Allen Poe's stories follow him everywhere.
4) Dream bender
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
470L
Language
English
Description
In a world where dreambenders manipulate dreams in order to remove emotions both negative and positive, Jeremy, an apprentice dreambender, discovers Callie's dreams of singing and wonders if there is more to life than security at any cost.