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1) Hold fast
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
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
Series
Maya and the rising dark volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
In this highly anticipated sequel, Maya and the godlings must return to the sinister world of The Dark to retrieve the one thing keeping the veil between the worlds from crumbling: her father's soul. Perfect for fans of Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky and Willa of the Wood.
Author
Series
Chicagoland detective agency volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
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
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Dove "Birdie" Randolph's close bond with her parents is threatened by a family secret, and by hiding her relationship with Booker, who has been in juvenile detention.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Maria Luisa O'Neill-Morales (who really prefers to be called Malu) 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.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In 1968 Chicago, fourteen-year-old Sam Childs is caught in a conflict between his father's nonviolent approach to seeking civil rights for African Americans and his older brother, who has joined the Black Panther Party.
8) Hollow Fires
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
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
9) Ghost boys
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 3
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
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
A genie informs twelve-year-old Amira and her younger brother Hamza that they are the chosen ones who must defeat a monstrous demon of Islamic folklore to save the Earth and a parallel dimension.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Working as a Wench--i.e., waitress--at a cheesy medieval-themed restaurant in the Chicago suburbs, Kit Sweetly wishes she could be a Knight like her brother. She has the moves, is capable on a horse, and desperately needs the raise that comes with knighthood, so she can hold a spot at her dream college and help her mom pay the mortgage. Company policy allows only guys to be Knights. So when Kit takes her brother's place, clobbers the Green Knight,...
12) Timebound
Author
Publisher
Skyscape
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
When Kate Pierce-Keller's grandmother gives her a strange blue medallion and speaks of time travel, sixteen year old Kate assumes the old woman is delusional. But it all becomes horrifyingly real when a murder in the past destroys the foundation of Kate's present-day life. Suddenly, that medallion is the only thing protecting Kate from blinking out of existence. Kate learns that the 1893 killing is part of something much more sinister, and her genetic...
Author
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Lily's parents have sent her to a fancy boarding school in Chicago filled with the ultra-rich. If that wasn't bad enough, she's hearing and seeing bizarre things on St. Sophie's creepy campus. Her roommate, Scout, keeps her sane, but keeps disappearing at night. When one day Lily finds Scout running from real-life monsters, she learns the hard way that Scout is involved in a splinter group of rebel teens. They protect Chicago from demons, vamps, and...
Author
Series
Stalking Jack the Ripper volume 4
Publisher
Jimmy Patterson Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
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...
Author
Series
Maya and the rising dark volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
A twelve-year-old girl discovers her father is the keeper of the gateway between our world and The Dark, and when he goes missing she'll need to unlock her own powers and fight a horde of spooky creatures set on starting a war--
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
When Wendy Boychuck's father, a Chicago cop, was escorted from their property in handcuffs, she knew her life would never be the same. Her father gets a years-long jail sentence, her family falls on hard times, and the whispers around their neighborhood are impossible to ignore. If that wasn't bad enough, she gets jumped walking home from a party one night. Wendy quickly realizes that in order to survive her father's reputation, she'll have to make...
17) Simon B. Rhymin'
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Chicago fifth-grader Simon, an aspiring rapper who lacks self-confidence, uses his rhymes to help bring his community together.
18) Divergent
Author
Series
Divergent trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
In a future Chicago, sixteen-year-old Beatrice Prior must choose among five predetermined factions to define her identity for the rest of her life, a decision made more difficult when she discovers that she is an anomoly who does not fit into any one group, and that the society she lives in is not perfect after all.
Author
Series
Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 125
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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