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Lexile Measure
550L
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2024 Summer Reading K-5 Challenge #18 - Reading is an Adventure - Realisitic Fiction
NYT - Middle Grade Paperback
NYT - Middle Grade Paperback
Summary
Ally has been smart enough to fool a lot of smart people. Every time she lands in a new school, she is able to hide her inability to read by creating clever yet disruptive distractions. She is afraid to ask for help; after all, how can you cure dumb? However, her newest teacher Mr. Daniels sees the bright, creative kid underneath the trouble maker. With his help, Ally learns not to be so hard on herself and that dyslexia is nothing to be ashamed of....
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Summary
Struggling through his dyslexia to try to fulfill his girlfriend Fiorella's request for a letter revealing his secret self, eighteen-year-old Karl asks Fiorella's favorite author for help, and he agrees only if Karl will submit to a series of interviews, which prove helpful to both men.
5) May B
Author
Lexile Measure
680L
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2024 Summer Reading K-5 Challenge #18 - Reading is an Adventure - Poetry & Novels in Verse
Wilderness, Adventure, and Survival
Wilderness, Adventure, and Survival
Summary
May is helping out on a neighbor's homestead - just until Christmas, her pa promises. But when a terrible turn of events leaves her all alone, she must try to find food and fuel - and courage - to make it through the approaching winter.
7) Double Dutch
Author
Lexile Measure
760L
Summary
Three eighth-grade friends, preparing for the International Double Dutch Championship jump rope competition in their home town of Cincinnati, Ohio, cope with Randy's missing father, Delia's inability to read, and Yo Yo's encounter with the class bullies.
10) Loveboat reunion
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Series
Pub. Date
[2022]
Summary
Sophie Ha and Xavier Yeh have what some would call a tumultuous past, but at least they're friends now. They left the drama behind them at the summer program in Taipei. Sophie is determined to be the best student Dartmouth's ever had. Xavier just wants to stay under his overbearing father's radar, collect his trust fund when he turns eighteen, and concentrate on what makes him happy, for the first time ever. But Sophie's college professor thinks her...
Author
Series
Family tree volume 3
Pub. Date
2014.
Lexile Measure
730L
Summary
In 1977 in Princeton, Dana's daughter seven-year-old Francie is struggling to keep her dyslexia a secret from her teachers and family, and even the thought of high school and college is part of the remote and unattainable future.