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Author
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
Having been recently dumped for the nineteenth time by a girl named Katherine, recent high school graduate and former child prodigy Colin sets off on a road trip with his best friend to try to find some new direction in life while also trying to create a mathematical formula to explain his relationships.
Author
Series
Publisher
Graphic Universe
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (46 pages) : chiefly color illustrations.
Language
English
Description
After a prank puts dangerous chemicals in the fountain at Stacy's new science magnet school, four friends from Sifu Faiza's Kung Fu School use multiplication and division to help figure out who did it and how.
Author
Series
Publisher
Graphic Universe
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (46 pages) : chiefly color illustrations.
Language
English
Description
The students of Sifu Faiza's Kung Fu School use their knowledge of fractions as they try to discover what happened to Leung Jan's long-lost healing formula.
Author
Series
Publisher
Graphic Universe
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (46 pages) : chiefly color illustrations.
Language
English
Description
After the fence gate is left unlatched, Amy's playful new puppy, Brada, escapes! The other kids want to help Amy and her parents look for Brada. But to find her quickly, they will need to figure out where she's most likely to go. They'll use what they know about where she's gone in the past and probability to find . . . The Runaway Puppy.
Author
Series
Critter Club volume 3
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Description
"Members of the Critter Club are all excited about their summer plans until Liz learns that, instead of taking an art class, she will have to be in summer school to improve her math skills, but a fun teacher, a classroom pet, support from her friends, and advice from her brother might get her through" --
9) Nearly gone
Author
Publisher
Kathy Dawson Books, a imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Lexile measure
HL 690L
Physical Desc
386 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Nearly Boswell knows how to keep secrets. Living in a DC trailer park, she knows better than to share anything that would make her a target with her classmates. But when a serial killer goes on a killing spree and starts attacking students, leaving cryptic ads in the newspaper that only Nearly can decipher, she confides in the one person she shouldn't trust: the new guy at school-- a reformed bad boy working undercover for the police, doing surveillance......
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008
Lexile measure
500L
Physical Desc
30 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Detective Jeffrey Bones hates taking math tests, especially one he has forgotten to study for, so when his test paper goes missing he must make a choice--retake the test and try to do better, or find the missing paper.
12) Fibonacci Zoo
Author
Publisher
Arbordale Publishing
Pub. Date
[2015].
Lexile measure
510L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
When Eli and his father visit an unusual zoo, Eli keeps track of the numbers of animals and soon sees there is a pattern that will predict how many creatures are in the next exhibit. Includes an activity and facts about number sequences.
13) Hannah, divided
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
790L
Physical Desc
264 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1934, a thirteen-year-old with a gift for numbers is offered the chance to leave her family's dairy farm to spend one term at an exclusive Philadelphia girls' school preparing for a scholarship exam.
14) Forever changes
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
890L
Physical Desc
181 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Although encouraged to apply to colleges, Brianna Pelletier, a mathematically-gifted high school senior with cystic fibrosis, dwells on her mortality and the unfairness of life.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
600L
Physical Desc
85 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Worried that he will not pass his math quiz on Monday, Frankie cannot find any time to study over the weekend. Comic strip illustrations are interspersed throughout the text.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
1100L
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A mathematically gifted sixth-grader is recruited by a group of students to game the system at the biggest theme park in the world--and win the big prize.
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Henri has attended a special school for her learning disability, dyscalculia, but when she is mainstreamed, she finds herself struggling to balance other parts of her life, and not just in math class--a family feud, drama on the soccer team, and a passion for poetry.
20) Math curse
Author
Pub. Date
1995
Lexile measure
560L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
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Description
When the teacher tells her class that they can think of almost everything as a math problem, one student acquires a math anxiety which becomes a real curse.