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Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
299 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Zeus would rather be anywhere than here--Buffalo Falls, the tiny town his family moved to at the end of the school year. Having left all his friends back in Chicago, and with nothing to look forward to except helping out at his mother's cafe and biking around town with his weird little brother, Zeus is pretty sure this is destined to be the worst summer of his life. But then he meets Rose--funny, beautiful, smart, and an incredible musician.
22) Ghost boys
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 360L
Physical Desc
214 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"After seventh-grader Jerome is shot by a white police officer, he observes the aftermath of his death and meets the ghosts of other fallen black boys including historical figure Emmett Till"--
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.
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Lexile measure
630L
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1940s Chicago, fifteen-year-old Ruby hopes to escape poverty by becoming a taxi dancer in a nightclub, but the work has unforeseen dangers and hiding the truth from her family and friends becomes increasingly difficult.
25) 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...
26) Time after time
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Told from his point of view, continues the love story of Bennett, a time traveler from 2012 San Francisco, and Anna, sixteen, of 1995 Evanston, Illinois, as they try to make their relationship work despite his fear that it is not meant to be.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Paperback edition.
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Derek Fitzpatrick is kicked out of boarding school and must move with his stepmother to her childhood home in Illinois, where he meets Ashtyn Parker, who may be able to achieve her dream with Derek's help.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 660L
Physical Desc
359 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Jules has always wished for a close-knit family. She never knew her father, and her ex-addict mother has always seemed more interested in artistic endeavors than in bonding with her only daughter. Jules's life and future look as flat and unchanging as her small Illinois town. Then a simple quest to find a baby picture for the senior yearbook leads to an earth-shattering discovery: for most of the first two years of her life, Jules...
29) Cicada summer
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Lexile measure
840L
Physical Desc
167 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Lily mourns her brother, and has not spoken since the accident she feels she could have prevented, but the summer Tinny comes to town she is the only one who realizes Lily's secret.
30) Claim to fame
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
770L
Physical Desc
256 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Lindsay, a former child star whose career ended when she developed the ability to hear what anyone, anywhere says about her and apparently suffered a nervous breakdown, comes to see this as an asset when, after her father's death, she learns that she is not alone.
31) Illegal
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 680L
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
To escape the violent cartel that is after them in Ciudad Juárez, siblings Sara and Emiliano flee across the border, seeking a better life in the United States and hoping to bring their pursuers to justice, only to discover that an even greater danger awaits them.
What does it mean to be illegal in the United States? Life in Mexico is a death sentence for Emiliano and his sister Sara. To escape the violent cartel that is after them, they flee across...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Lexile measure
640L
Physical Desc
179 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
As the war continues into May 1945, eleven-year-old Molly finds herself pulled in many different directions trying to cope with her troubled father's return from war, the abrupt resignation of her favorite Red Cross volunteer, a scrap-paper drive, and a mysterious neighborhood prowler.
33) 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
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Lexile measure
HL 750L
Physical Desc
344 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Micah Summers runs a popular Instagram full of drawings of his numerous imaginary boyfriends (ninety-nine so far)--though he's never had a real boyfriend before. But when a meet-cute with Boy 100 goes wrong, Micah embarks on a Prince Charming-like quest throughout Chicago to find true love--for real this time."--Amazon.
Will Boy 100 be the One? Micah is rich, dreamy, and charming. As the {28}Prince of Chicago,
35) Follow that bird
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Kermit, Oscar, Bert, Ernie and Cookie Monster join Big Bird in a bighearted, cross-country adventure. A meddling social worker sends poor Big Bird off to live with a feathered foster family in Illinois. But try as he might, he doesn't fit in and runs away to return to Sesame Street. Now his old friends need to find him before he runs 'afowl' of trouble en route.
36) Coaltown Jesus
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 390L
Physical Desc
122 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Walker shouldn't have been so surprised to find Jesus standing in the middle of his bedroom. After all, he'd prayed for whoever was up there to help him, and to help his mom, who hadn't stopped crying since Noah died two months ago. But since when have prayers actually been answered? And since when has Jesus been so irreverent?" - Amazon.com
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
600L
Physical Desc
248 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Frankie Joe Huckaby, forced to live with the father he never knew, a stepmother, and four half-brothers in Illinois, starts a delivery service to finance his escape back to his mother in Texas, not realizing he is making a better life for himself than he ever had with her.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2022.
Lexile measure
760L
Physical Desc
332 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The night little Madison disappears from her crib, Luce sees a pair of eyes--two points of gold deep in the forest behind her house--and feels certain they belong to a wolf. Her town, Picnic, Illinois, is the kind of place where everyone knows one another and no one locks their doors. It's not the kind of place where a toddler goes missing without a trace, where wolves lurk in the shadows. In town, people are quick to blame Madison's mom. But when...
39) Time between us
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
HL 780L
Physical Desc
368 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1995 Evanston, Illinois, sixteen-year-old Anna's perfectly normal life is turned upside-down when she meets Bennett, whose ability to travel through space and time creates complications for them both.
Author
Series
Charlie Collier snoop for hire volume Mystery 1
Pub. Date
2012
Lexile measure
570L
Physical Desc
248 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Charlie's analytical skills win him few friends at school, but when the most popular girl in class comes to the makeshift private investigation office in his parent's garage asking Charlie's help to find her missing bird, he and friend Henry begin their first real case.