Jerry Spinelli
2) Maniac Magee
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
A Newbery Medal winning modern classic about a racially divided small town and a boy who runs.
Jeffrey Lionel "Maniac" Magee might have lived a normal life if a freak accident hadn't made him an orphan. After living with his unhappy and uptight aunt and uncle for eight years, he decides to run—and not just run away, but run. This is where the myth of Maniac Magee begins, as he changes the lives of a racially divided small town with his...
Jeffrey Lionel "Maniac" Magee might have lived a normal life if a freak accident hadn't made him an orphan. After living with his unhappy and uptight aunt and uncle for eight years, he decides to run—and not just run away, but run. This is where the myth of Maniac Magee begins, as he changes the lives of a racially divided small town with his...
3) Loser
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Even though his classmates from first grade on have considered him strange and a loser, Daniel Zinkoff's optimism and exuberance and the support of his loving family do not allow him to feel that way about himself.
Author
Series
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Still moping months after being dumped by her Arizona boyfriend Leo, fifteen-year-old Stargirl, a home-schooled free spirit, writes "the world's longest letter" to Leo, describing her new life in Pennsylvania.
5) Crash
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventh-grader John "Crash" Coogan has always been comfortable with his tough, aggressive behavior, until his relationship with an unusual Quaker boy and his grandfather's stroke make him consider the meaning of friendship and the importance of family.
6) Eggs
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Mourning the loss of his mother, nine-year-old David forms an unlikely friendship with independent, quirky thirteen-year-old Primrose, as the two help each other deal with what is missing in their lives.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Newbery medalist Jerry Spinelli has penned his early autobiography with all the warmth, humor, and drama of his best-selling fiction. And don't miss the author's highly anticipated new novel, Dead Wednesday!
"A master of those embarrassing, gloppy, painful, and suddenly wonderful things that happen on the razor's edge between childhood and full-fledged adolescence" —The Washington Post
From first memories through high...
"A master of those embarrassing, gloppy, painful, and suddenly wonderful things that happen on the razor's edge between childhood and full-fledged adolescence" —The Washington Post
From first memories through high...
8) Stargirl
Author
Series
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"In this story about the perils of popularity, the courage of nonconformity, and the thrill of first love, an eccentric student named Stargirl changes Mica High School forever"--T.p. verso.
9) Milkweed
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
A stunning novel of the Holocaust from Newbery Medalist, Jerry Spinelli. And don't miss the author's highly anticipated new novel, Dead Wednesday!
He's a boy called Jew. Gypsy. Stopthief. Filthy son of Abraham.
He's a boy who lives in the streets of Warsaw. He's a boy who steals food for himself, and the other orphans. He's a boy who believes in bread, and mothers, and angels.
He's a boy who wants to be a Nazi, with...
He's a boy called Jew. Gypsy. Stopthief. Filthy son of Abraham.
He's a boy who lives in the streets of Warsaw. He's a boy who steals food for himself, and the other orphans. He's a boy who believes in bread, and mothers, and angels.
He's a boy who wants to be a Nazi, with...
11) Wringer
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
As Palmer comes of age, he must either accept the violence of being a wringer at his town's annual Pigeon Day or find the courage to oppose it.
Newbery honor book : 1998
13) Smiles to go
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Will Tuppence's life has always been ruled by science and common sense but in ninth grade, shaken up by the discovery that protons decay, he begins to see the entire world differently and gains new perspective on his relationships with his little sister and two closest friends.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Last year, Masie Potter was voted most outstanding seventh grade female athlete. She is a super basketball player. But last summer, she developed a crush on classmate Eric Delong. Now her priorities have changed. She will do anything to be near Eric-even join the wrestling team. From the first, Masie gets opposition and antagonism from all sides: friends, classmates, teachers. Soon, her place on the team isn't about Eric any more. It's about determination,...
Author
Language
English
Description
Megin is 12; her brother Greg is 14. Megin is a slob; Greg is fastidious. They call each other Megamouth and Grosso. Between the two, the household is filled with their teasing and fighting. They are experts at the usual games of sibling rivalry and experts at inventing new ones. From carefully-planted cockroaches to creme doughnut fights, Megin and Greg's antics keep them in constant trouble. But even as they think up new ways to bug each other,...