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1) Ghost boys
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 3
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Twelve-year-old Jerome is shot by a police officer who mistakes his toy gun for a real threat. As a ghost, he observes the devastation unleashed on his family and community. This gripping story is about how children, families--and one boy--grow to understand American blackness.
3) Hollow fires
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Formats
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.
Author
Series
Clockwork dark volume 3
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
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In The Nine Pound Hammer, John Bemis introduced middle-grade readers to a whole new approach to epic fantasy, founded on characters and themes from American mythology and lore, including the legend of John Henry. Now in the third and final book, the heroes come together at the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago for a final confrontation with a businessman and tycoon who is in fact an ageless evil known as the Gog. With his Dark Machine, he intends...
5) The Wright 3
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Description
In the midst of a series of unexplained accidents and mysterious coincidences, sixth-graders Calder, Petra, and Tommy lead their classmates in an attempt to keep Frank Lloyd Wright's famous Robie House from being demolished.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 8
Description
When some quirky art donated to a school fundraising effort to help a Pakistani American family, victims of a possible hate crime, is revealed to be an unknown work by a famous outsider artist, worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, adults and teenagers alike debate who should get the money and begin to question each other's motivations.
Author
Series
Sugar Creek Gang volume 5
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Thanks to Old Man Paddler the gang is off to Chicago, where they minister at a rescue mission, perform on the radio at Moody Bible Institute, see the sights and have a run-in with Bob Till.
Author
Series
Chicagoland detective agency volume 2
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
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Description
As the founders of the Chicagoland Detective Agency, a haiku-writing girl and a boy with a talking dog have more than enough cases on their hands (and paws) when a friend vanishes, a mummy's amulet disappears, and an evil scientist stalks human brains and hearts.
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Devastated by her parents' decision to split up, pressured by her boyfriend to have sex, and saddled with a case of chicken pox, fifteen-year-old Keek finds consolation in her beloved, well-worn copy of Sylvia Plath's "The Bell Jar."
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
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When two teens, one gay and one straight, meet accidentally and discover that they share the same name, their lives become intertwined as one begins dating the other's best friend, who produces a play revealing his relationship with them both.
11) Cuckoo feathers
Author
Series
Simply Sarah volume 2
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When two pigeons that Sarah wants as pets move from her Chicago apartment's window ledge to the building next door, Sarah tries to figure out how to get them to come back.
12) Hold fast
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
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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
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
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Description
Publisher Annotation: Perfect Mexican daughters do not go away to college. And they do not move out of their parents' house after high school graduation. Perfect Mexican daughters never abandon their family. But Julia is not your perfect Mexican daughter. That was Olga's role. Then a tragic accident on the busiest street in Chicago leaves Olga dead and Julia left behind to reassemble the shattered pieces of her family. And no one seems to acknowledge...
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Series
Stalking Jack the Ripper volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 19
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Description
"Audrey Rose Wadsworth and Thomas Cresswell have landed in America, a bold, brash land unlike the genteel streets of London. But like London, the city of Chicago hides its dark secrets well. When the two attend the spectacular World's Fair, they find the once-in-a-lifetime event tainted with reports of missing people and unsolved murders. Determined to help, Audrey Rose and Thomas begin their investigations, only to find themselves facing a serial...
15) The Westing Game
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
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The mysterious death of an eccentric millionaire brings together an unlikely assortment of heirs who must uncover the circumstances of his death before they can claim their inheritance. Includes previously unpublished artwork and author's notes about design elements.
16) Panic
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"When aspiring performer Madelaine finds a poem that helps her finish a song she is writing, she decides to find the author in hopes of starting a collaboration."--Provided by publisher.
17) Tangled
Author
Series
Torn trilogy (Erica O'Rourke) volume 2
Pub. Date
℗♭2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
Description
After preventing the fulfillment of an ancient prophecy, Mo Fitzgerald wants to return to a normal life, but finds she cannot ignore the magic inside herself.
18) Knight's scheme
Author
Series
Blackgaard chronicles volume 5
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
The scheming Dr. Regis Blackgaard continues his fevered pursuit of the Applesauce program and access to Whit's End. This time, on a trip to Chicago, Whit and Connie get caught up in a dangerous mystery involving a stolen laptop, the Department of Defense, and some familiar (but not very friendly) faces.
19) Simon B. Rhymin'
Author
Series
Simon B. Rhymin' volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
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Description
Chicago fifth-grader Simon, an aspiring rapper who lacks self-confidence, uses his rhymes to help bring his community together.
20) Karen's big move
Author
Series
Baby-sitters little sister. Main series volume 96
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Karen is moving to Chicago for six months. Will she like it, or will she miss her home and friends too much?