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81) Naming Maya
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When Maya accompanies her mother to India to sell her grandfather's house, she uncovers family history relating to her parents divorce and learns more about herself and her relationship with her mother.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
On his way to spend Christmas at his mother's house in Canterbury, England, Joe meets a young witch named Twiggy and becomes part of a mystery involving a missing page from an ancient book of magic.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert are looking to adopt a boy to help out on their farm, so when the orphanage delivers a red-haired eleven-year-old girl named Anne instead, they are determined to fix the mistake. However, as Anne's vibrant character and vivid imagination brighten up their home, the Cuthberts soon realise Anne must stay at Green Gables. The inimitable Anne Shirley is fanciful, talkative and dramatic, and this novel describes her joyful...
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Princess Ivy wants nothing more than to have a little fun in the company of her dragon friend, Elridge, but unless she can recover the magical harp snatched by a thieving youth named Jack long ago, her entire kingdom will suffer an unspeakable fate.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In 1848, eleven-year-old Bridie runs away to Seneca Falls, New York, where she meets a free black girl named Rose and gets caught up in Elizabeth Cady Stanton's plans for a women's rights convention. Includes historical notes.
86) Puerto Rico
Author
Publisher
Chelsea House Publishers
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Explores the people, history, climate, economy, and topography of Puerto Rico, whose name means "rich port" in Spanish.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
While vacationing at a spooky cabin on Perch Lake, nine-year-old Chad tries to clear the name of Tim Tapper, the cabin's ghostly inhabitant, who was blamed for a truck accident in the 1930s.
88) Darcy
Author
Series
Horse diaries volume 10
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Born on a windy hill off the coast of Ireland in 1917, a Connemara pony named Darcy is sold to a farm family and trained to pull a cart and plow.
90) Lily
Author
Series
Horse diaries volume 15
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
In 1939 Wales, a strawberry roan Welsh pony named Lily and her rider Gwen are Pony Club members who enjoy competing in gymkhana games, but the start of World War II brings changes to their routine and a new member to the Pony Club--a prickly girl named Bridget, sent to the country to escape the threat of bombings in London.
Author
Series
Tales from the House of Bunnicula volume 6
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Under a deadline from his editor, Howie the wire-haired dachshund creates a story featuring a superhero whose ability to stink enables him and his sidekick, a sparrow named Little D, to fight crime in Central City.
92) Hiss-s-s-s!
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When a Muslim American boy named Omar finally convinces his family that he should have a pet snake, it escapes and Omar learns why his mother is so scared of them.
Author
Series
Ranger in time volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
This time the mysterious box that Ranger the Golden retriever found transports him to a Maryland plantation before the Civil War, where he must help a young house slave named Sarah and her younger brother Jesse find their way to the underground railroad and North to freedom, before Jesse is sold to a plantation further South.
Author
Publisher
Emerson Publishing House
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
My name is Brody Valentine (please don't make fun of my last name), and this is the story of how I accidentally became a 6th grade secret agent at my school. My life is plain and boring, but I do my best to keep it that way. That's why when a dangerous secret fell into my lap, I wasn't exactly jumping for joy. Everything I knew to be true was completely flipped around and suddenly I've found myself buried in special codes and conspiracies. Now I'm...
95) Jingle Bells
Author
Series
Horse diaries volume 11
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
In 1915 Wisconsin, a farm horse named Jingle Bells worries that his family will replace him when the older son brings home a brand new Model-T Ford car. Includes facts about Clydesdale horses.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The inspiring story of a young Swedish schoolgirl who sparked a worldwide revolution. When she was just fifteen years old, Greta Thunberg knew she wanted to change the world. With a hand-painted sign that read "School strike for the climate" in Swedish, Greta sat alone on the steps of the Swedish parliament to call for stronger action on climate change. Her one-person strike would soon spark a worldwide movement. This exciting story details the defining...
97) The old house
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
From three-time Edgar Award winning author Willo Davis Roberts comes the instantly compelling ("Kirkus Reviews") classic mystery, originally published as "Buddy Is a Stupid Name for a Girl," about a young girl who unravels her family s deepest, darkest secrets. All Buddy ever wanted was a normal family. But with her mother dead, her father missing, and her brother on the road searching for him, Buddy has a hard time believing it will ever happen....
Author
Series
Secrets of the manor volume 1
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Beth is excited for her twelfth birthday, when she will receive her great-grandmother's heirloom necklace as a gift, but when the necklace goes missing, Beth must learn the secrets of her manor house in order to clear the name of her maid and friend, Shannon.
99) More than magic
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books, an imprint of Random House Children's books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"Ryder always thought something special would happen when she turned eleven, and this year she misses her mom, who died several years ago, more than ever. Ryder's parents created a cartoon show featuring an eleven year old hero named Rory. Then on Ryder's eleventh birthday, Rory steps out of the screen--Rory needs help!"--