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Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2016, 2015.
Lexile measure
800L
Physical Desc
306 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When thirteen high-value pieces of art are stolen from a secret museum, Calder, Petra, and Tommy are grouped with two new companions to solve puzzles that are complicated by the clever Mrs. Sharpe.
Author
Series
Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
289 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
War is coming. Despite everything Maya and her father have done, the veil that protects the human world is failing. The Lord of Shadows has raised an army powerful enough to challenge the orishas. And it's only a matter of time before he breaks through the veil and destroys Maya's neighborhood and the rest of the world. Maya and her friends aren't going down without a fight. She's honing her guardian powers, with the help of two new allies--her long...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
234 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
While visiting Chicago, twins Ashley and Bryce catch up with old friends, visit the house where they grew up, see many reminders of their deceased father, and help search for their best friends' uncle, who disappeared days before his wedding.
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
810L
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 22 cm
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.
26) Scritch scratch
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Lexile measure
HL 610L
Physical Desc
277 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Haunted after helping her father on his ghost-themed Chicago bus tour, twelve-year-old Claire must discover what the spectral boy from the bus wants before it is too late.
Claire has absolutely no interest in the paranormal. She's a scientist, which is why she can't think of anything worse than having to help out her dad on one of his ghost-themed Chicago bus tours. She thinks she's made it through when she sees a boy with a sad face and dark eyes...
27) Hold fast
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
780L
Physical Desc
274 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
On a cold winter day in Chicago, Early's father disappeared, and now she, her mother and her brother have been forced to flee their apartment and join the ranks of the homeless--and it is up to Early to hold her family together and solve the mystery surrounding her father.
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Aladdin hardcover edition.
Lexile measure
620L
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When lights start flickering and temperatures suddenly drop, twelve-year-old Tessa Woodward, sensing her new house may be haunted, recruits some new friends to help her unravel the mystery of who or what is trying to communicate with her and why. -- Provided by Publisher.
29) Girls like us
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Four teenage girls. Four different stories. What they all have in common is that they're dealing with unplanned pregnancies. In rural Georgia, Izella is wise beyond her years, but burdened with the responsibility of her older sister, Ola, who has found out she's pregnant. Their young neighbor, Missippi, is also pregnant, but doesn't fully understand the extent of her predicament. When her father sends her to Chicago to give birth, she meets the final...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2017]
Lexile measure
670L
Physical Desc
310 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old María Luisa O'Neill-Morales (who really prefers to be called Malú) reluctantly moves with her Mexican-American mother to Chicago and starts seventh grade with a bang--violating the dress code with her punk rock aesthetic and spurning the middle school's most popular girl in favor of starting a band with a group of like-minded weirdos.
31) Lolo's light
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Lexile measure
820L
Physical Desc
220 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Once in your life, sometime after your first memory but before you can drive a car, something is going to happen to you that doesn't happen to anyone else you know. It might be something good. It might be something bad, or special, or funny, or shocking. For Millie, it's something really sad. Lolo, her neighbors' infant daughter, dies--unexpectedly, suddenly, inexplicably--on the night Millie babysits. There's nothing she could have done. There's...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
330 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
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Description
Twelve-year-old orphan Eva Root travels to the great World's Fair in Chicago where she discovers her magical abilities and becomes entangled in a sinister plan.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
295 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Visiting her lovable, younger cousin in Chicago over the summer, twelve-year-old Leah tries to help him recover from the trauma of a school shooting.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Primera edición Vintage Español.
Physical Desc
288 pages ; 21 cm
Language
Español
Description
Julia no es la hija mexicana perfecta. Ese era el rol de su hermana Olga. Olga no fue a la universidad, se quedó en casa para cuidar a sus padres, limpiar la casa y trabajar a medio tiempo. Julia tiene grandes sueños y no quiere formar parte del camino de su hermana mayor. Pero un solo error, que ocurre mientras enviaba un mensaje de texto al mismo tiempo que cruzaba la calle más concurrida de Chicago, resulta en la muerte de Olga, dejando atrás...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
850L
Physical Desc
225 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Fifth-grader Brittany struggles to plan, or even imagine, a future away from her mother's abusive boyfriend and the poverty and crime of Chicago's West Side.
36) Hollow fires
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
404 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After discovering the body of fourteen-year-old Jawad Ali in Jackson Park, seventeen-year-old journalism student Safiya Mirza begins investigating his murder and ends up confronting white supremacy in her own high school.
37) Simon B. Rhymin'
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
230 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Chicago fifth-grader Simon, an aspiring rapper who lacks self-confidence, uses his rhymes to help bring his community together.
Author
Series
Epic series of failures volume 1
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
After discovering his dwarf heritage, Greg is whisked away to the Dwarf Underground where he gains fantastical friends and learns about dwarven history, but big changes lead to tensions with the elves.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
820L
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Amber Sand has the magical ability to envision anyone's soul mate, but when Charlie Blitzman, the Chicago mayor's son and most-desired boy in school, comes to Amber for help in finding his father's missing girlfriend, Amber sadly sees that Charlie is not destined for her.