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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
In 1904, twelve-year-old Orphelia follows her dream by running away from home to join an all-black minstrel show headed for the Saint Louis World's Fair, and learns about her family's troubled past in the process.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
In James Johnson's family, everybody strums and sings. With their music, his mamma, daddy, and uncle get crowds stomping at county fairs. Eleven-year-old James loves to sing harmony with his grandma on their favorite old mountain ballads. One day, the Johnson family hires a manager to book their appearances. But when the manager hears James sing, he quickly gives the boy a stage name and puts him on national TV. As his popularity grows, James will...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Minna wishes for many things. She wishes she understood the quote taped above her mother's typewriter: Fact and fiction are different truths. She wishes her mother would stop writing long enough to really listen to her. She wishes her house were peaceful and orderly like her friend Lucas's. Most of all, she wishes she could find a vibrato on her cello and play Mozart the way he deserves to be played. Minna soon discovers that some things can't be...
5) Alcatraz
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
"After thwarting the ghost cell's chemical attack in Chicago, Q and his stepsister Angela arrive in San Francisco to continue their parents' concert tour. They find themselves helping Boone and the S.O.S. team in the final showdown with the ghost cell and its leader, Number One"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Spurred by a special project from her social studies teacher, seventh-grader Bethesda Fielding uncovers the secret identity of her music teacher, which leads to a most unusual concert performance and a tutoring assignment.
Author
Series
New policeman trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
When eleven-year-old Jenny Liddy, in turmoil over learning that she is a changeling, makes a deal with a devil creature, she endangers the human race but her own cleverness, her human and fairy fathers, and the last of Ireland's High Kings help to make things right.
8) The Alamo
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Quest (Q) and his stepsister Angela head to Texas for their parents' concert, they discover traces of the terrorist group Ghost Cell in the Lone Star state"-Provided by publisher.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eleven-year-old Carly Bean Bitters, an orphan, can only sleep during the day and feels very lonely until she meets a rat, Lewis, and sets off on an adventure to figure out what is threatening the woods and its inhabitants.
10) Trilogy of two
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Pursued by ominous Enforcers, identical twins Sonja and Charlotte, musical prodigies with extraordinary powers, must embark on a perilous journey through enchanted lands in hopes of unlocking the secrets of their mysterious past.
Author
Series
Eagle Rock trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When her band's drummer and fellow guitarist start dating, life gets awkward for eighth-grader Bina, a talented musician and songwriter, whose discomfort only multiplies when her best friend Austin develops a crush on her.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Life is becoming dangerous for the Jews of Krakow in 1936 with incidents of violence and persecution increasing day by day. Twelve-year-old Anna begs her father to leave Poland, but he is reluctant to give up his position as an acclaimed clarinetist in the Krakow Philharmonic Orchestra. After barely escaping from an attack by a group of violent thugs, it becomes clear that the family must leave. Anna's father auditions for the famous Bronislaw Huberman,...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Frankie Flip Phone knows he's about to be recycled by his owner, so he runs away to the town of Bremen to start a band instead! Soon, he's joined by other tossed-out devices eager to become famous musicians. But their dreams are put on pause when they visit a repair shop and discover hackers trying to shut down the internet! Can the retro tech get in sync and perform like never before to scare off the computer crooks? Enjoy a modern twist on the Brothers...
Author
Series
I Q volume 1
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Q and fifteen-year-old Angela expect their lives to become complicated when his mother and her father, wildly popular musicians, marry, but not that they will face spies and terrorists in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
15) Hip Cat
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
c1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Hip Cat journeys to the city by the bay to live his dream of being a jazz musician.
16) Rock royalty
Author
Series
Camp Rock second session volume 5
Publisher
Disney Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
When Tess's mom makes a surprise visit to camp, Mitchie starts to wonder what it would be like to live as rock royalty.
17) Toes
Author
Publisher
Laura Geringer Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
After getting lost on Halloween night when he is only a few months old, an intelligent seven-toed kitten makes his way into the life of a struggling musician.
18) 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
Knopf
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In the small town of Rusty Nail, Minnesota, in the early 1950s, musically talented ten-year-old Franny wants to take advanced piano lessons from newcomer Olga Malenkov, a famous Russian musician suspected of being a communist spy by gossipy members of the community.
Author
Series
Publisher
Magic Attic Press
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
On another adventure through the mirror in the magic attic, Rose finds herself chosen to play a saxophone solo in a jazz performance at the presidential inaugural celebration.