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1) Ghost boys
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 3
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Twelve-year-old Jerome is shot by a police officer who mistakes his toy gun for a real threat. As a ghost, he observes the devastation unleashed on his family and community. This gripping story is about how children, families--and one boy--grow to understand American blackness.
3) Hollow fires
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
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Description
After discovering the body of fourteen-year-old Jawad Ali in Jackson Park, seventeen-year-old journalism student Safiya Mirza begins investigating his murder and ends up confronting white supremacy in her own high school.
Author
Series
Clockwork dark volume 3
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
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In The Nine Pound Hammer, John Bemis introduced middle-grade readers to a whole new approach to epic fantasy, founded on characters and themes from American mythology and lore, including the legend of John Henry. Now in the third and final book, the heroes come together at the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago for a final confrontation with a businessman and tycoon who is in fact an ageless evil known as the Gog. With his Dark Machine, he intends...
5) The Wright 3
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Description
In the midst of a series of unexplained accidents and mysterious coincidences, sixth-graders Calder, Petra, and Tommy lead their classmates in an attempt to keep Frank Lloyd Wright's famous Robie House from being demolished.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
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When two teens, one gay and one straight, meet accidentally and discover that they share the same name, their lives become intertwined as one begins dating the other's best friend, who produces a play revealing his relationship with them both.
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Sixth-grader Amalia learns many important life-lessons while spending Friday afternoons with her beloved grandmother, and the teaching goes on even after Abuelita's sudden death as Amalia finds a way to connect with relatives and a friend who has moved away.
8) Hold fast
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
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Description
On a cold winter day in Chicago, Early's father disappeared, and now she, her mother and her brother have been forced to flee their apartment and join the ranks of the homeless--and it is up to Early to hold her family together and solve the mystery surrounding her father.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 8
Description
When some quirky art donated to a school fundraising effort to help a Pakistani American family, victims of a possible hate crime, is revealed to be an unknown work by a famous outsider artist, worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, adults and teenagers alike debate who should get the money and begin to question each other's motivations.
10) Panic
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"When aspiring performer Madelaine finds a poem that helps her finish a song she is writing, she decides to find the author in hopes of starting a collaboration."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
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Description
Publisher Annotation: Perfect Mexican daughters do not go away to college. And they do not move out of their parents' house after high school graduation. Perfect Mexican daughters never abandon their family. But Julia is not your perfect Mexican daughter. That was Olga's role. Then a tragic accident on the busiest street in Chicago leaves Olga dead and Julia left behind to reassemble the shattered pieces of her family. And no one seems to acknowledge...
12) The Westing Game
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
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The mysterious death of an eccentric millionaire brings together an unlikely assortment of heirs who must uncover the circumstances of his death before they can claim their inheritance. Includes previously unpublished artwork and author's notes about design elements.
13) Knight's scheme
Author
Series
Blackgaard chronicles volume 5
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
The scheming Dr. Regis Blackgaard continues his fevered pursuit of the Applesauce program and access to Whit's End. This time, on a trip to Chicago, Whit and Connie get caught up in a dangerous mystery involving a stolen laptop, the Department of Defense, and some familiar (but not very friendly) faces.
14) Tangled
Author
Series
Torn trilogy (Erica O'Rourke) volume 2
Pub. Date
℗♭2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
Description
After preventing the fulfillment of an ancient prophecy, Mo Fitzgerald wants to return to a normal life, but finds she cannot ignore the magic inside herself.
15) Simon B. Rhymin'
Author
Series
Simon B. Rhymin' volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
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Description
Chicago fifth-grader Simon, an aspiring rapper who lacks self-confidence, uses his rhymes to help bring his community together.
16) Karen's big move
Author
Series
Baby-sitters little sister. Main series volume 96
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Karen is moving to Chicago for six months. Will she like it, or will she miss her home and friends too much?
17) Bang
Author
Series
Visions (Lisa McMann) volume 2
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Description
"A teen who used to see a vision of a crash must help her boyfriend as he is now seeing a vision of a school shooting"--
Author
Series
Amira and Hamza volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
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Description
A genie informs twelve-year-old Amira and her younger brother Hamza that they are the chosen ones who must defeat a monstrous demon of Islamic folklore to save the Earth and a parallel dimension.
19) Virtuosity
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Just before the most important violin competition of her career, seventeen-year-old prodigy Carmen faces critical decisions about her anti-anxiety drug addiction, her controlling mother, and a potential romance with her most talented rival.
Author
Series
Maya and the rising dark volume 2
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Description
In this highly anticipated sequel, Maya and the godlings must return to the sinister world of The Dark to retrieve the one thing keeping the veil between the worlds from crumbling: her father's soul. Perfect for fans of Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky and Willa of the Wood.