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Fountas & Pinnell Guided Reading List Level Z |
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The War That Saved My Life
by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
A young disabled girl and her brother are evacuated from London to the English countryside during World War II, where they find life to be much sweeter away from their abusive mother.
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A Tale of Magic...
by Chris Colfer
A tale set in the universe of the Land of Stories finds 14-year-old Brystal pursuing creative ways of obtaining books in an oppressive Southern Kingdom where women are forbidden to read.
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Ghostlight
by Sonia Gensler
Disappointed when her brother pursues other interests during their annual summer visit to their grandmother's farm, Avery befriends a famous man's son, who announces his intentions to film a ghost story at a scary nearby mansion.
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The Breakaways
by Cathy G. Johnson
An introverted fifth-grader with a vivid imagination is recruited by a popular older student onto a ragtag soccer team where, despite limited athletic performance, teammates form strong bonds that challenge their notions of loyalty, identity, friendship and unity.
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The Seventh Wish
by Kate Messner
Feeling shunted aside by her mother's new job, her sister's college life and everything else that seems more important, Charlie catches a floppy fish while ice fishing that requests its freedom in exchange for wishes that end up going awry despite Charlie's best intentions.
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Cloud and Wallfish
by Anne Nesbet
Picked up by his parents and taken to the airport with stern instructions to avoid answering questions, Noah is rushed to East Berlin, where he confronts astonishing secrets about his and his family's true identity.
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Red Menace
by Lois Ruby
During the summer of 1953, thirteen-year-old Marty's parents are suspected of communist sympathies, upending his life and causing him to question what it really means to be a patriotic American.
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Where on Earth? Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Life
by Chris Barker
Featuring specially commissioned maps of early Earth and more than 50 profiles of prehistoric animals, a latest entry in the best-selling series introduces the important field of paleontology and explains how scientists know what the world looked like millions of years ago.
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A New Recruit
by Michael D Beil
After turning in a bag of money he found on the street following a bank robbery, Andy captures the attention of the Agents of the Glass and soon, as one of its newest recruits, is tasked with determining the identity of the dangerous student at his new school before the evil organization known as NTRP catches on to him.
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The Long Ride
by Marina Tamar Budhos
In New York in 1971, Jamila and Josie are bused across Queens where they try to fit in at a new, integrated junior high school while their best friend, Francesca, tests the limits at a private school.
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Catching Fire
by Suzanne Collins
By winning the annual Hunger Games, District 12 tributes Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark have secured a life of safety and plenty for themselves and their families, but because they won by defying the rules, they unwittingly become the faces of an impending rebellion.
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The Hunger Games
by Suzanne Collins
Set in the cruel world in the Capital of the nation of Panem, the annual Hunger Games pits young children against one another in a battle to the death on national t.v., so when Katniss is ordered to represent her district, she knows an important decision between survival and the love of another will have to be made when she is called to enter the ring.
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Mockingjay
by Suzanne Collins
In a final installment in the dramatic trilogy by the author of The Hunger Games and Catching Fire, two-time Hunger Games survivor Katniss Everdeen is targeted by a vengeful Capitol that vows to make Katniss and all of District 12 pay for the ensuing unrest.
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Lily and Dunkin
by Donna Gephart
In a poignant tale by an award-winning author, a transgender girl and a boy struggling with bipolar disorder forge a friendship based on their respective experiences as outsiders trying to fit in.
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Code of Honor
by Alan Gratz
When his brother is wrongly labeled a terrorist, 17-year-old Iranian-American Kamran Smith joins a ragtag team of underground intelligence professionals to prove his brother's innocence and prevent a large-scale terrorist attack.
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The Mark of the Dragonfly
by Jaleigh Johnson
Scavenging objects from barely veiled parallel universes to support herself in the dangerous outer provinces, Piper discovers an unconscious, well-dressed stranger from another land and embarks on a life-changing journey.
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Time Stoppers
by Carrie Jones
Swept up by a sassy dwarf on a flying snowmobile, Annie, a girl who thinks of herself as insignificant, is taken to a hidden magical town where she discovers her identity as a Time Stopper before she teams up with a new friend to outmaneuver a shadowy adversary.
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In the Hall With the Knife
by Diana Peterfreund
A debut entry in a modern, game-inspired series finds a motley band of students stranded at an elite prep school and navigating secrets and danger when they discover the murdered body of their headmaster.
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The Hired Girl
by Laura Amy Schlitz
Fourteen-year-old Joan Skraggs chronicles her life in a journal when she leaves her family's farm in Pennsylvania to work as a hired girl in Baltimore in the summer of 1911.
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We Used to Be Friends
by Amy Spalding
At the start of their senior year in high school, James (a girl with a boy's name) and Kat are inseparable, but by graduation, they're no longer friends. James prepares to head off to college as she reflects on the dissolution of her friendship with Kat, while, in alternating chapters, Kat thinks about being newly in love and having a future that feels wide open.
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Goodbye Stranger
by Rebecca Stead
Three best friends—a haunted accident survivor, a girl who faces a difficult choice to please the boy she likes and a girl who claims she can see through everyone's games—find their resolve to avoid fighting tested during their seventh-grade year.
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All the Greys on Greene Street
by Laura Tucker
A 12-year-old artist in 1981 SoHo searches for answers when her father, a restorer of antique paintings, abruptly disappears in the middle of the night amid questions about a partner's suspicious behavior and a missing work or art.
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The Rise of Kyoshi
by F. C. Yee
A latest origin story follows the life of the longest-living Earth Kingdom-born Avatar, Kyoshi, detailing her humble origins, establishment of the Kyoshi Warriors and secret founding of the corrupt and nation-destroying Dai Li.
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The Shadow of Kyoshi
by F. C. Yee
A follow-up to the best-selling The Rise of Kyoshi finds true Avatar Kyoshi and Rangi joining forces with unlikely allies when a mysterious threat emerges from the Spirit World.
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The Borden Murders: Lizzie Borden & the Trial of the Century
by Sarah Elizabeth Miller
Draws on sensationalized, period newspaper articles to recreate the events of the infamous Borden murders and the trial and acquittal of Lizzie Borden, sorting out fact from fiction to explore Lizzie's story and consider what probably happened.
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Rising Water: The Story of the Thai Cave Rescue
by Marc Aronson
An account of the incredible true story of the Wild Board soccer team's summer 2018 rescue from a flooded cave in Thailand describes the sudden downpour that trapped them, the tragic death of a Thai Navy SEAL and the international effort to swim the boys and their coach to safety.
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It's Trevor Noah: Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
by Trevor Noah
A middle-grade adaptation of The Daily Show host's best-selling adult memoir traces his experiences growing up half black, half white in South Africa under and after apartheid, describing how he used his wits and humor to navigate a harsh life under a racist government.
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