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Author
Language
English
Description
Dylan Tang wants to win a Mid-Autumn Festival mooncake-making competition for teen chefs--in memory of his mom, and to bring much-needed publicity to his aunt's struggling Chinese takeout in Brooklyn. Enter Theo Somers: charming, wealthy, with a smile that makes Dylan's stomach do backflips. AKA a distraction. Their worlds are sun-and-moon apart, but Theo keeps showing up. He even convinces Dylan to be his fake date at a family wedding in the Hamptons....
2) Liar & spy
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
Seventh-grader Georges adjusts to moving from a house to an apartment, his father's efforts to start a new business, his mother's extra shifts as a nurse, being picked on at school, and Safer, a boy who wants his help spying on another resident of their building.
Author
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Jaxon is sent to spend the day with a mean old lady his mother calls Ma, he finds out she's not his grandmother - but she is a witch! She needs his help delivering baby dragons to a magical world where they'll be safe. There are two rules when it comes to the dragons: Don't let them out of the bag, and don't feed them anything sweet. Before he knows it, Jax and his friends Vikram and Kavita have broken both rules! Will Jax get the baby dragons...
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 29
Publisher
Random House
Lexile measure
400L
Language
English
Description
"Jack and Annie use the magic tree house to travel back in time to 1947 Brooklyn, New York, where they pretend to be batboys at Jackie Robinson's first game with the Brooklyn Dodgers against the Boston Braves"--
Author
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Lydia, feeling threatened by the attention her changing body is getting from boys and men, finds a way to take control of her own skin.
Lydia hasnt felt comfortable in her own skin since the boys at her school started commenting on the way she looks in her uniform. Her cousin and friends think she should be flattered, but the boysand sometimes her moms boyfriend, Jeremymake Lydia uncomfortable and confused. Even more confusing is...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2015].
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 760L
Physical Desc
255 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Soon after his mother's death, Matt takes a job at a funeral home in his tough Brooklyn neighborhood and, while attending and assisting with funerals, begins to accept her death and his responsibilities as a man." -- Provided by publisher.
10) Isla to island
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"A wordless graphic novel in which twelve-year-old Marisol must adapt to a new life 1960s Brooklyn after her parents send her to the United States from Cuba to keep her safe during Castro's regime" --
Author
Series
Lexile measure
HL 700L
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a harrowing defection to the United States in 1982, Russian teenager Marya and her father settle in Brooklyn, where Marya is drawn into a web of intrigue involving her gift of foresight, her mother's disappearance, and a boy she cannot bring herself to trust.
12) Shadowhouse fall
Author
Series
Shadowshaper cypher volume 2
Lexile measure
HL 670L
Description
In addition to the ordinary problems of a Puerto Rican teenager in Brooklyn, Sierra Santiago is working on developing her shadowshaping skills, and she is beginning to think she may need all the skill she can summon because it seems that when she channeled hundreds of spirits through herself in order to defeat Wick she woke up something very powerful and very unfriendly and put her family and friends at risk.
13) Shadowhouse fall
Author
Series
Shadowshaper cypher volume 2
Lexile measure
HL 670L
Language
English
Description
In addition to the ordinary problems of a Puerto Rican teenager in Brooklyn, Sierra Santiago is working on developing her shadowshaping skills, and she is beginning to think she may need all the skill she can summon because it seems that when she channeled hundreds of spirits through herself in order to defeat Wick she woke up something very powerful and very unfriendly and put her family and friends at risk.
14) Shock waves
Author
Series
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Lexile measure
GN 450L
Physical Desc
113 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Miles Morales is a normal school kid who happens to juggle school at Brooklyn Visions Academy while swinging through the streets of Brooklyn as Spider-Man. After a disastrous earthquake strikes his birthplace of Puerto Rico, Miles springs into action to help set up a fundraiser for the devastated island. But when a new student's father goes missing, Miles begins to make connections between the disappearance and a giant corporation sponsoring Mile's...
Author
Series
SPHDZ volume 1
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
580L
Physical Desc
163 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
On his first day at Brooklyn's P.S. 858, fifth-grader Michael K. is teamed with two very strange students, and while he gradually comes to believe they are aliens who need his help, he has trouble convincing anyone else of the truth.
16) Tight
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Lexile measure
600L
Physical Desc
180 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After his quick-tempered father gets in a fight and is sent back to jail, sixth-grader Bryan, known for being quiet and thoughtful, snaps and follows new friend Mike into trouble.
Bryan knows what's tight for him--reading comics, drawing superheroes, and hanging out with no drama. But drama is every day where he's from, and that gets him tight, wound up. And now Bryan's friend Mike pressures him with ideas of fun that are crazy risky. At first, it's...
Author
Series
Witches of Brooklyn volume 4
Publisher
RH Graphic
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
GN 300L
Physical Desc
217 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A trip to Coney Island to pick up trash goes sideways when Effie and Garance learn that there is a missing...mermaid?! Every time Effie thinks she finally has this magic life down, something new pops up! But this time, with the help of Garance, some talkative seagulls, and a rather helpful turtle, Effie is going to save the day and find this mermaid!" --
18) Moonwalking
Author
Language
English
Description
In 1980s Brooklyn, new student JJ Pankowski, an autistic, punk-rock-lover, befriends Pie Velez, an Afro-Latinx math geek and graffiti artist.
Author
Series
Randi Rhodes ninja detective volume 2
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Randi Rhodes and her friends are heading back to Brooklyn to solve another mystery." -- Provided by publisher.