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Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
1998
Edition
1st Harcourt Young Classics ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
298 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Escaping from an attic where they had been held captive over the long, dark winter, a family of tiny people set up house in an old rectory.
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?
4) 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.
5) 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
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.
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...
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...
10) 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
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...
12) Walk two moons
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Winner of Newbery Award, 1995. After her mother leaves home suddenly, thirteen-year-old Sal and her grandparents take a car trip retracing her mother's route. Along the way, Sal recounts the story of her friend Phoebe, whose mother also left.
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.
14) Allergic
Author
Series
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition ;
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 Wonderbook (234 pages) : digital, color illustrations ; 21 cm ; 1 attached digital audio player.
Language
English
Description
A coming-of-age middle-grade graphic novel featuring a girl with severe allergies who just wants to find the perfect pet!
At home, Maggie is the odd one out. Her parents are preoccupied with getting ready for a new baby, and her younger brothers are twins and always in their own world. Maggie loves animals and thinks a new puppy is the answer, but when she goes to select one on her birthday, she breaks out in hives and rashes. She's severely allergic...
Author
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition ;
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
200 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Clementine is supposed to be on her way to school... but why not go out for a day of adventure and exploration instead? She recruits her friends Nubbins Squirrel and Penelope Rabbit and head to the beach, where Jesse Otter is preparing to take his giant Turtle, Annabella, to a mysterious local island. Clementine's great-aunt Marnie lives there--far away from math tests and tutors--so Clementine and her friends hitch a ride to the island as stowaways....
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
309 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Pedro/Peter Martin is a Mexikid, or a kid born in the US to parents from Mexico, a kid who doesn't quite belong either place.
So he's not sure what to expect when his dad announces that the whole family (all 11 of them) will be piling into their winnebago to drive 2,000 miles down to Mexico with a mission: bring their mysterious, Mexican-Revolution-era Abuelito home to live with them. But their grandfather has a mission of his own, and he won't leave...
17) Ferris
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"It's the summer before fifth grade, and for Ferris Wilkey, it is a summer of sheer pandemonium: Her little sister, Pinky, has vowed to become an outlaw. Uncle Ted has left Aunt Shirley and, to Ferris's mother's chagrin, is holed up in the Wilkey basement to paint a history of the world. And Charisse, Ferris's grandmother, has started seeing a ghost at the threshold of her room, which seems like an alarming omen given that she is also feeling unwell....