Lisa Yee
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"Eleven-year-old Maizy Chen visits her estranged grandparents, who own and run a Chinese restaurant in Last Chance, Minnesota; as her visit lengthens, she makes unexpected discoveries about her family's history and herself"--Provided by publisher.
2) Warp speed
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Marley Sandelski has always felt invisible at school when he is not facing bullies, but a series of unexpected events gives him a taste of popularity and insights into some classmates, well-liked or greatly-feared.
Author
Series
Girl of the year. 2011: Kanani volume 1
Kanani an American girl volume Bk. 1
Girl of the year. 2011 Kanani volume 1
American Girl collection
Kanani an American girl volume Bk. 1
Girl of the year. 2011 Kanani volume 1
American Girl collection
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
When Kanani's cousin Rachel comes to stay for a month, Kanani can't wait to show her what life is like in a friendly Hawaiian town; nothing seems to make Rachel feel at home until an urgent animal rescue on the beach brings the girls together.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a series of journal entries, eleven-year-old child prodigy Millicent Min records her struggles to learn to play volleyball, tutor her enemy, deal with her grandmother's departure, and make friends over the course of a tumultuous summer.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
After flunking sixth-grade English, basketball prodigy Stanford Wong must struggle to pass his summer-school class, keep his failure a secret from his friends, and satisy his academically demanding father.
Author
Series
DC super hero girls (Lisa Yee) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Wonder Woman's desire to become a superhero takes her to Super Hero High, where she juggles new friendships, intensive training, and a roommate obsessed with social media.
Author
Series
Bobby Ellis-Chan books volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fourth-grader Bobby is hurt when he hears his father, a former professional football player, say that the two of them are nothing alike, but finally summons the courage to talk about it after he suffers a public asthma attack.
9) Lea dives in
Author
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Excited for her family's trip to Brazil, Lea is worried about going into the ocean, but when a new friend encourages her to embrace all that Brazil has to offer, fun turns to danger and she must prove to herself, and her brother, that she is brave.
Author
Series
DC super hero girls (Lisa Yee) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Supergirl is the new girl in school, and she just also happens to be the most powerful teenager in the galaxy! After losing her home planet of Krypton and everyone she knows, Supergirl has made a new home on Earth, but she's isn't so sure that Super Hero High School is the right place for her. Wonder Woman, other new friends, and a kindly librarian make her feel welcome, but breached inter-dimensional portals, invading alien armies, and bad dreams...
11) Absolutely Maybe
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
When living with her mother, an alcoholic ex-beauty queen, becomes unbearable, almost seventeen-year-old Maybelline "Maybe" Chestnut runs away to California, where she finds work on a taco truck and tries to track down her birth father.
Author
Series
Misfits (Lisa Yee) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
An elite group of underdogs trained to fight crime must save their unique school from shutting down.
13) Good job, Kanani
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
When a ten-year-old Hawaiian girl spends more time selling "shave ice" and less time surfing, her relationship with her best friend begins to unravel.
Author
Series
DC super hero girls (Lisa Yee) volume 5
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Harley Quinn loves fighting crime with her classmates like Wonder Woman, Batgirl, and Supergirl, but she always does it her with own madcap style--and a big mallet! It's no surprise that Harley can't resist getting involved with an upcoming inter-school battle of the bands and a fantastic cosmic carnival that appears only once a year--and this year, it's coming to Earth! But as things get stranger, Harley knows how to get to the bottom of a mystery--and...
15) Lea and Camila
Author
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When she invites her friend Camila to St. Louis for spring break, Lea rescues a stray kitten and makes a mysterious discovery while visiting a crumbling mansion that makes her forget to be a good host.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lisa Yee gives us her most fascinating flawed genius since Millicent Min.
Higgs Boson Bing has seven days left before his perfect high school career is completed. Then it's on to Harvard to fulfill the fantasy portrait of success that he and his parents have cultivated for the past four years. Four years of academic achievement. Four years of debate championships. Two years of dating the most popular girl in school. It was, literally, everything...
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
A week before high school graduation, Harvard-bound Higgs suddenly finds his life falling apart and the other students turning against him, and somehow it all started with a hypothetical question about donating a kidney--but really it goes much deeper, all the way back to the death of his older brother.
19) Bobby vs. Girls
Author
Language
English
Description
With the hilarious adventures of Bobby Ellis-Chan, Lisa Yee and Caldecott Medalist Dan Santat bring their gifts for finding the funny (and the truth) in everyday situations to chapter-book readers.
All of Bobby Ellis-Chan's problems in life can be summed up in one word: GIRLS.There's his sister Casey, who has a weird obsession with Bobby's goldfish, Rover.There's Jillian Zarr, who gets mad every time a boy even looks at her.Most of all, there's Holly...
Author
Series
DC super hero girls (Lisa Yee) volume 3
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Recruited to Super Hero High by Supergirl, intelligent Barbara Gordon trains for her new role as Batgirl alongside some of the most powerful teenagers in the galaxy.