Elissa Brent Weissman
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
"From opposite sides of the globe - New York to New Zealand - cousins Noah and Nora decide to have a competition. Winter vs. summer: Who can have the world's best Hanukkah? But as the eight nights of Hanukkah go on, the contest proves tougher than they imagined. Even as each cousin celebrates the holiday with their own unique traditions, they realize they have more in common than they thought. This delightfully upside down holiday story from acclaimed...
2) Nerd camp
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Description
For ten-year-old Gabe, the Summer Center for Gifted Enrichment is all that he dreamed it would be, but he must work hard to write about the fun in letters to Zack, his cool future stepbrother, without revealing that it is a camp for "nerds."
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Gabe has looked forward to another six glorious weeks at the Summer Center for Gifted Enrichment, but when a wildfire closes the nearby camp that Zack, Gabe's stepbrother, was supposed to attend, the Nerd Camp faces a "cool-kid invasion" that could mean big trouble.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Twelve-year-old Imani, the only black girl in Hebrew school, is preparing for her bat mitzvah and hoping to find her birthparents when she discovers the history of adoption in her own family through her great-grandma Anna's Holocaust-era diary.
Author
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Description
At the end of fifth grade, Fara decides to wear mismatched socks as a statement of individuality, but once middle school starts and she wants to be known for her ideas rather than her clothing, she feels burdened by an image that she no longer wants.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Sixth-graders Ashley and her best friend Maya were banished from the live "News at Nine" broadcast at John Dos Passos Elementary in Baltimore after an embarrassing incident in the previous year; at loose ends the pair, together with their classmate Brielle, decide to become investigative reporters with their own online broadcast: "The Underground News"--and soon they stumble upon a major story about an educational software company that is illegally...