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(0)Lucy Frank
Author
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Katya convinces her parents to try homeschooling her for a month, but while she is finally excited about learning--and about Milo, the violin prodigy who lives nearby--not everything works out as she had hoped.
2) Lucky stars
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Music entwines Kira, a thirteen-year-old singer who hates that her father makes her perform for money on New York City subway platforms; Eugene, the class clown; and Jake, who longs to sing and to approach Kira, but feels held back by his stuttering.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In the summer before seventh grade, twelve-year-old Iris Diaz-Pinkowitz goes up and down the fire escape outside her new New York City apartment, becoming an integral part of the lives of her human and animal neighbors.
6) Oy, Joy!
Author
Publisher
DK Pub
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Although her ailing uncle creates problems for her whole family when he moves in with them, Joy survives his bungling attempts at matchmaking even as she plays the game herself.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Working as a mother's helper in New York City, fifteen-year-old Sarah finds herself caught in the middle of a troubled relationship between an eccentric writer and her anorexic daughter.