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2) The Doldrums
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
An eccentric like all Helmsleys, eleven-year-old Archer escapes his overprotective mother and recruits two friends, Oliver and Adelaide, to help him plan a rescue of his long-lost grandparents, world-famous explorers who disappeared atop an iceberg in the Antarctic.
3) Remarkables
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eleven-year-old Marin and her neighbor Charley hope that by preventing a disaster that occurred twenty years ago, they can save Charley's dad from a future of guilt and self-destructive behavior.
5) Finally seen
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
When ten-year-old Lina Gao leaves China to live with her parents and sister, after five years apart, she must reckon with her hurt, anger, and curiosity and find a way to get her bearings in this new country--and the almost-new family that comes along with it.
6) The plan
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Coping with a loss, a father and daughter rediscover an important piece of family history and begin to build a new life filled with adventure, in a book that features twenty letter-by-letter word shifts.
7) Life on Mars
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Arcturus Betelgeuse Chambers' quest to find life on other planets seems at an end when his parents decide to move to Las Vegas, but while they look for a house he stays with his neighbor, an astronaut who soon becomes a friend.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Fern helps to take care of her impoverished family by foraging for food in the forest, but when a fracking company rolls into town, she realizes that her peaceful woods and her family's livelihood could be threatened.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's the Chinese year of the dog! When Pacy's mom tells her that this is a good year for friends, family, and "finding herself," Pacy begins searching right away. As the year goes on, she struggles to find her talent, deals with disappointment, makes a new best friend, and discovers just why the year of the dog is a lucky one for her after all.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Summertime brings the Fletcher Family back to Rock Island where the good times never end, but this summer the boys' favorite lighthouse is all boarded up and with the help from their new neighbors, the Garcia girls, the boys are determined to find out what is really happening with their lighthouse and saving it, no matter what the cost.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Relates the adventures of a family with two fathers, four adopted boys, and a variety of pets as they make their way through a school year, Kindergarten through sixth grade, and deal with a grumpy new neighbor.
12) Leeva at last
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
"What are people for? That's the burning question on the mind of Leeva Spayce Thornblossom. Fame! says Leeva's mom, the mayor of Nutsmore. Money! says her dad, the town treasurer. With the help of an orphaned badger, a risk-averse boy in a hazmat suit, and the town's librarians, Leeva sets off to discover her own answer--setting off a chain of events that will change Nutsmore forever"--Publisher.
13) American panda
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
A freshman at MIT, seventeen-year-old Mei Lu tries to live up to her Taiwanese parents' expectations, but no amount of tradition, obligation, or guilt prevent her from hiding several truths--that she is a germaphobe who cannot become a doctor, she prefers dancing to biology, she decides to reconnect with her estranged older brother, and she is dating a Japanese boy. Can she find a way to be herself, before her web of lies unravels?
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Life was better in the old days. Or was it? That's the question Greg Heffley is asking as his town voluntarily unplugs and goes electronics-free. But modern life has its conveniences, and Greg isn't cut out for an old-fashioned world. With tension building inside and outside the Heffley home, will Greg find a way to survive?"--
Series
Publisher
Weston Woods
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Diary of a worm: This fun-filled chronicle of the daily ins and outs of a loveable underground dweller shows us that a worm's life is really not so different from ours.
Anatole: An honorable little French mouse anonymously reveals his remarkably good taste in cheese and helps a cheese factory to become the best.
Frog goes to dinner: Frog causes trouble and embarrassment for the family after popping out of a boy's pocket in a fancy restaurant.
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