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Author
Series
All-of-a-kind family volume 1
Publisher
Wilcox
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Portrays the joys and troubles of five high-spirited Jewish sisters as they grow up in New York City.
3) The barn
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
1994, 1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
106 p.: 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ben is away at school when his father mysteriously falls ill in the spring of 1855. With no adults to help, he and his brother and sister must take over the family farm in Oregon Territory's rugged Willamette Valley. Despite his siblings' doubts, Ben is determined to build the barn his Father had planned, in hope of waking him from his silent, frozen state. But will it be enough?
Author
Series
Mindy Kim volume 5
Publisher
Spotlight, a division of Abdo
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Reinforced library bound edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
81 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Mindy is super excited to visit her grandparents in South Korea, but when the traditional meal she makes with her dad's new girlfriend has a few mishaps, she fears they are cooking up a big disaster." - ABDO
Author
Series
Capital mysteries volume 14
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
89 p. : ills. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
"KC and Marshall convince the President of the United States to pardon more than one turkey for Thanksgiving, but all 117 of them are stolen off the National Mall"--
6) Caught
Author
Series
Missing volume 5
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
343 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Jonah and Katherine travel to early 1900s Switzerland and Serbia to return Albert Einstein's daughter, Lieserl, to history, her mother Mileva grasps entirely too much about time travel and has no intention of letting her daughter go.
7) Risked
Author
Series
Missing volume 6
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2013
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
308 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jonah, thirteen, and Katherine, eleven, travel through time to 1918 Russia just as Alexei, Anastasia, and the rest of Tsar Nicholas II's family is about to be executed. Author's note includes facts about the Romanov's and the mystery surrounding their deaths.
Author
Publisher
Two Lions, a trademark of Amazon.com, Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
239 pages : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Life is always more fun when the Ridgeway siblings team up!
Susan, George, and Dumpling have a special life in Midwest City, where they life with their college-professor dad and mystery-writer mom. Not only can they watch Midwest University's football games from the tower of their house on College Avenue, but now Tommy Tokarynski, who mows their lawn, is famous. He's the university's star quarterback!
There's only one problem: Tommy's grades are...
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Branded as traitors by the king's authorities, Crispin and his guardian, Bear, flee to coastal towns in fourteenth-century England, where they perform a musical juggling act and bond as a family after befriending a disfigured girl.
11) Conjure Island
Author
Publisher
Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
307 pages : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
If you ask Delphinia Baker, she'd tell you she has all the family she needs. Sure, her mom passed away when she was young, her dad is often away on deployment, and she's never had anyone she can call her people, but she has always had Gramma--and for Del, that's enough.
All this changes, though, when Gramma falls ill and Del is sent to stay with her great-grandmother. Del has never heard of Nana Rose, and she has no interest in staying on an unbearably...
12) My life begins!
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Dubbing his new triplet sisters "the Trips," nine-year-old Jacob studies them for a science project by watching them grow and realizes they aren't just "the Trips" anymore, but individuals he has come to love.
Jacob wants a litter of puppies. His parents have a different surprise: he's going to be a brother... to triplets. The babies look identical to him and he gives them a name: "the Trips." For a school science project, Jacob decides to study...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The story begins with a young orphan running for his life. Lucky for him he runs into Samir, a portly huckster whose silver tongue saves the boy. Samir names him Monkey, and claims him as his new servant. But Monkey, a strict and devout soul, is horrified to discover that his new master is a liar whose dealings have angered every village he's ever passed through.
The villagers have hired a collection of murderers, including a Viking berserker, a...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
282 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Maybelle Lane collects sounds. She records the Louisiana crickets chirping, Momma strumming her guitar, their broken trailer door squeaking. But the crown jewel of her collection is a sound she didn't collect herself: an old recording of her daddy's warm-sunshine laugh, saved on an old phone's voicemail. It's the only thing she has of his, and the only thing she knows about him. Until the day she hears that laugh--his laugh--pouring...
Author
Series
Little house books volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Laura and her family move to Minnesota where they live in a dugout until a new house is built and face misfortunes caused by flood, blizzard, and grasshoppers.
Author
Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Greg Heffley tells about his summer vacation and his attempts to steer clear of trouble when he returns to middle school and tries to keep his older brother Rodrick from telling everyone about Greg's most humiliating experience of the summer.
19) Ferris
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
When a ghost shows up at the threshold to Ferris's grandmother Charisse's room, Ferris worries that she's there to take Charisse to the Great Beyond. But Charisse says that the ghost has something else in mind--something unpredictable, a task that's impractical and illuminating. But how can Ferris focus on completing an assignment for a ghost when her little sister is terrorizing the town, her uncle keeps sending her to spy on her aunt, and the house...
Author
Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Middle-schooler Greg Heffley nimbly sidesteps his father's attempts to change Greg's wimpy ways until his father threatens to send him to military school.