Inc Recorded Books
Author
Series
Vanderbeekers volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Told that they will have to move out of their Harlem brownstone just after Christmas, the five Vanderbeeker children, ages four to twelve, decide to change their reclusive landlord's mind.
2) Like Vanessa
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
It is 1983 and Vanessa Martin, a thirteen-year-old African American girl in Newark's public housing, dreams of following in the footsteps of the first black Miss America, Vanessa Williams; but with a dysfunctional family (mother in jail, father withdrawn, drunken grandfather, gay cousin) the odds are against her--until a new teacher at school organizes a beauty pageant and encourages Vanessa to enter.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
When The Candymaker proposes that Logan, Miles, Philip and Daisy go on a road trip to promote the new, winning Harmonicandy they uncover a decades-old secret that challenges them to trust themselves and determine what really matters.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In 1704, Mohawk Indians attack the frontier village of Deerfield, Massachusetts, kidnapping and marching over 100 residents, including seven-year-old Eunice Williams, to Canada where she is eventually adopted into a Mohawk family and remains there willingly for the rest of her life. Based on a true story.
6) Wish
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A story about a girl who, with the help of the dog of her dreams, discovers that family doesn't always have to be related, they are simply people who love you for who you are.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Against the wishes of his mortician mother, Hadorah, twelve-year-old Walter and classmate Cordelia take a hearse on a road trip to meet legendary inventor Flasterborn, who once mentored Walter's long-dead father.
Author
Language
English
Description
"In the ancient moors of Scotland, the king of Calidon lies on his deathbed, cursed by a ring that cannot be removed from his finger. When a mysterious fey stranger appears to save the king, he also carries a secret that could tear the royal family apart. The kingdom's only hope will lie with two young men raised worlds apart. Aric is the beloved heir to the throne of Calidon; Albaric is clearly of noble origin yet strangely out of place. The Oddling...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In 1902 England, Clarry and Peter struggle with the challenges of living with an indifferent father, but the summers they spend in Cornwall with their grandparents and cousin Rupert provide much needed comfort, and in the years that follow Clarry looks back on those leisurely days to help her cope with the trying times of World War I and its aftermath.
10) Spark
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Naturally quiet since birth, Mina and her stormbeast, Pixit, lead others like themselves in defying authority and attempting to spread the truth that Alorria's idyllic weather comes at a steep cost.
11) Wonderland
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When her mother uproots them again to another home and takes a job as housekeeper, ten-year-old Mavis is determined to find a best friend in Landry, Alabama, where the summer also holds the promise of friendship and change for a sad man, a stray dog, and a timid girl.
Author
Series
Bronte Mettlestone volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"Told in multiple voices, after students from elite Brathelthwaite Boarding School and the Orphanage School compete in the Spindthrift Tournament, they team up to face the Whisperers"--Provided by publisher.
15) Jinxed
Author
Series
Jinxed volume 1
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
8 sound discs (8 hr., 30 min.) : digital, 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After fourteen-year-old Lacey Chu repairs a highly advanced smartphone/robotic pet companion, or baku, called Jinx, the baku gets her into her dream school, Profectus, where she is exposed to dangerous secrets.
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
6 sound discs (7 hr., 15 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker's classroom where they read the plays of William Shakespeare and Holling learns much of value about the world he lives in.
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
5 sound discs (6 hr.) : digital, 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Bertie Bradshaw never set out to become a spy. He never imagined traipsing around war-torn London, solving ciphers, practicing surveillance, and searching for a traitor to the Allied forces. He certainly never expected that a strong-willed American girl named Eleanor would play Watson to his Holmes (or Holmes to his Watson, depending on who you ask). But when a young woman goes missing, leaving behind a coded notebook, Bertie is determined to solve...
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
6 sound discs (6 hr., 30 min.) : digital, 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Convicted of thievery and transported from England to America, Oliver Cromwell Pitts, shackled to his fellow prisoners, endures inedible food, filthy conditions, and deadly storms on his voyage across the Atlantic. But the hazardous shipboard journey is nothing compared to the peril that waits for him on the colonial shores. In Annapolis, Oliver's indentured servitude is purchased by the foul, miserly Fitzhugh, who may have murdered another servant....
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2017
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
6 sound discs (6 hr., 15 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1724 England, twelve-year-old Oliver Cromwell Pitts embarks on a journey from his seaside home in Melcombe Regis to London to find his father and his older sister, a journey filled with thieves, adventurers, and treachery.
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
6 sound discs (7 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1810, Lucy Bluecrowne, twelve, is bored living ashore with her stepmother and half brother until two nefarious strangers identify her little brother as the pyrotechnical prodigy they need for their evil plan.