Andrew Clements
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
173 p.: 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fifth-grader Nora Rowley has always hidden the fact that she is a genius from everyone because all she wants is to be normal, but when she comes up with a plan to prove that grades are not important, things begin to get out of control.
3) Troublemaker
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2011/07/26
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
With a key to the Oakes School in his possession Benjamin, his friend Jill, and a new friend continue to seek ways to protect the school and their town but Lyman, the janitor and a spy, has new tricks up his sleeve.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Sixth-grader Ben Pratt's life is full of changes that he does not like--his parents' separation and the plan to demolish his seaside school to build an amusement park--but when the school janitor gives him a tarnished coin with some old engravings and then dies, Ben is drawn into an effort to keep the school from being destroyed.
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
88 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jake is determined to win the third grade science fair not only for the grand prize, but to beat the annoying class know-it-alls, as well.
7) Extra credit
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
As letters flow back and forth--between the prairies of Illinois and the mountains of Afghanistan, across cultural and religious divides--sixth-grader Abby, ten-year-old Amira, and eleven-year-old Sadeed begin to speak and listen to each other.
Author
Publisher
Sandpiper
Pub. Date
[2009], c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 21 x 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
When things go wrong during a day at the beach, like a ball that drifts away or a gooey ice cream mess, a father could do a lot of things but always picks the loving one.
9) Lunch money
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
222 p.: ill.; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Greg, who has always been good at moneymaking projects, is surprised to find himself teaming up with his lifelong rival, Maura, to create a series of comic books to sell at school.
10) No talking
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
146 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The noisy fifth grade boys of Laketon Elementary School challenge the equally loud fifth grade girls to a "no talking" contest.
11) Lost and found
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
161 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old identical twins Jay and Ray have long resented that everyone treats them as one person, and so they hatch a plot to take advantage of a clerical error at their new school and pretend they are just one.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
166 p.: 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Life is usually easy for popular fifth grader Hart Evans, but when his music teacher puts him in charge of the holiday concert, Hart must use all of his leadership skills to unite the other students.
13) Fear itself
Author
Series
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
204 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
As the new Keepers of the School, sixth-graders Ben and Jill must decipher a handful of clues written as maritime riddles to save their school from demolition by a greedy company.
14) About average
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
120 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
As the end of sixth grade nears, Jordan Johnson, unhappy that she is only average in appearance, intelligence, and athletic ability, reveals her special skills when disaster strikes her central Illinois elementary school.
15) No talking
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
The noisy fifth grade boys of Laketon Elementary School challenge the equally loud fifth grade girls to a "no talking" contest.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
173 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Grace takes boxes of old buttons from a building her grandfather bought, she starts a fad at school that draws her closer to one friend, but further from another.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
168 p.: ill.; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ted Hammond, the only sixth grader in his small Nebraska town's one-room schoolhouse, searches for clues to the disappearance of a homeless family.
18) The Landry News
Author
Publisher
[Manufactured and distributed by] Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2010], p2009
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
1 sound media player (ca. 2 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
Description
A fifth-grader starts a newspaper with an editorial that prompts her burnt-out classroom teacher to really begin teaching again, but he is later threatened with disciplinary action as a result.
Author
Series
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
258 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
School protectors Ben, Jill, and Robert leap at a final chance to save their school from being torn down to make room for a seaside amusement park, a demolition that is supported by dastardly janitors Lyman and Wally.
20) The school story
Author
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
196 p.: ill.; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
After twelve-year-old Natalie writes a wonderful novel, her friend Zoe helps her devise a scheme to get it accepted at the publishing house where Natalie's mother works as an editor.