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1) Power chord
Author
Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Ace starts a band and learns a tough lesson about plagiarism.
Author
Series
Jake the fake volume 1
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
©2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Having faked his way into the Music and Art Academy, a performing arts school for gifted students where his talented older sister rules, sixth-grader Jake, a jokester who can barely play an instrument, will have to think of something quick before the last laugh is on him.
3) The tempest
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"This book presents a historical overview of The Tempest in performance, recommends film versions, takes a detailed look at specific productions and includes interviews with three leading directors - Peter Brook, Sam Mendes and Rupert Goold - so that we may get a sense of the extraordinary variety of interpretations that are possible, a variety that gives Shakespeare his unique capacity to be reinvented and made 'our contemporary' four centuries after...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
One of William Shakespeare's most farcical comedies, "The Comedy of Errors" is notable for its use of mistaken identity to achieve a slapstick comedic effect. Ripe with the bard's characteristic word play, the comedy concerns the lives of two sets of identical twins that were accidentally separated shortly after their birth. The play begins by the elderly Syracusian trader Egeon relating the back-story of his family. When Egeon was young, he married...
5) Echo
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lost in the Black Forest, Otto meets three mysterious sisters and finds himself entwined in a prophecy, a promise, and a harmonica--and decades later three children, Friedrich in Germany, Mike in Pennsylvania, and Ivy in California find themselves caught up in the same thread of destiny in the darkest days of the twentieth century, struggling to keep their families intact, and tied together by the music of the same harmonica.
6) Dancing solo
Author
Publisher
Capstone Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Sarah knows that she is the best dancer in her class, and she is eager to show off at the upcoming recital--but when a new move proves unexpectedly difficult and she has to ask for help, her confidence is shaken.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Planning a school or amateur Shakespeare production? The best way to experience the plays is to perform them, but getting started can be a challenge: The complete plays are too long and complex, while scene selections or simplified language are too limited. "The 30-Minute Shakespeare" is a new series of abridgements that tell the "story" of each play from start to finish while keeping the beauty of Shakespeare's language intact. Specific stage directions...
8) Jacky Ha-Ha
Author
Series
Jacky Ha-Ha volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Adapted from James Patterson's #1 bestselling story, this hilarious and heartwarming graphic novel introduces Jacky Ha-Ha, a class clown who makes people laugh with her so they can't laugh at her! With her irresistible urge to tell a joke in every situation--even when it's a bad idea--Jacky Ha-Ha loves to make people laugh. And cracking wise helps distract her from thinking about not-so-funny things in her life, like her mom serving in a dangerous,...
9) Replay
Author
Publisher
Joanna Cotler Books
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
While preparing for a role in the school play, twelve-year-old Leo finds an autobiography that his father wrote as a teenager and ponders the ways people change as they grow up. Includes the text for the play, "Rumpopo's Porch."
Author
Series
Publisher
Magic Wagon
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
The Benton Bluff Junior High band is one of a number of bands that will compete to perform for a chance to play for the governor, and two of the band members are fighting over who gets to be the soloist--Baylor Meece (clarinet) is not one of them, so can she come up with a plan to bring the band back into harmony?
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
When seventh-grader Bette finds an angel coin she puts it in her pocket and forgets it but soon the mysterious and kind Gabby moves into her building and helps her face her major losses, and then the coin connects her with three classmates who all find new ways to believe in themselves.
Author
Series
Publisher
Magic Wagon
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Seventh-grader Davis Beadle joins the Benton Bluff Junior High band, stubbornly determined to play the trumpet--but that section is full, so the band director instructs him to spend time with several of the other instruments, hoping Davis will find his true place in the band.
14) Julius Caesar
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
William Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" is a gripping political drama that delves into the complex themes of power, betrayal, and the consequences of ambition.
Set in ancient Rome, the play unfolds in the wake of Caesar's triumphant return from war. As the city celebrates his victories, a group of senators, including Brutus and Cassius, grows increasingly concerned about Caesar's growing influence and potential tyranny. They plot his assassination...
Author
Series
Publisher
Magic Wagon
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
When her grandparents sign her up for the Benton Bluff Junior High band Tally Nguyen is horrified and worried about what the kids on her snowboarding team will think--but she comes to realize that she doesn't need to choose between the groups.
16) First chair
Author
Series
Publisher
Magic Wagon
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Flutist Hope James is under a lot of pressure from her mother to win first chair in the band, so when Sherman Frye enrolls at Benton Bluff Junior High she panics because he could steal it from her--so Hope and her friend Baylor come up with a plan to sabotage Sherman, not realizing that he is under pressure too.
17) Notes from a pro
Author
Series
Publisher
Magic Wagon
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
When one of the other members of Benton Bluff Junior High band shows up with a shiny new trombone, Kori Neal's school-loaner suddenly seems beat-up and old so she comes up with an idea to organize a fund-raiser to buy new instruments--until advice from a famous local jazz musician gives her a clearer perspective on the issue.
18) Shadow
Author
Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
In this high-interest novel for middle readers, blind filmmaker Preston Craft investigates the case of the missing movie reel.
Author
Series
Red gloves series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this powerful holiday story, a man who lost everything has his whole life changed after a little girl’s letter reminds him of the true meaning of Christmas.
Ten years later Big Earl meets Gideon, a seven-year-old leukemia patient who believes with all her heart that "Christmas means never having to ask God how much he loves us." Gideon is determined to reach this lonely and hurting man who hates Christmas — and he...20) The Marvels
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In 1766, a boy, Billy Marvel, is shipwrecked, rescued, and goes on to found a brilliant family of actors that flourishes in London until 1900--and nearly a century later, Joseph Jervis, runs away from home, seeking refuge with his uncle in London, and is captivated by the Marvel house, with its portraits and ghostly presences.
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