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Author
Series
Jo Jo volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Jo Jo Makoons Azure is a spirited seven-year-old who moves through the world a little differently than anyone else on her Ojibwe reservation. It always seems like her mom, her kokum (grandma), and her teacher have a lot to learn--about how good Jo Jo is at cleaning up, what makes a good rhyme, and what it means to be friendly. Even though Jo Jo loves her #1 best friend Mimi (who is a cat), she's worried that she needs to figure out how to make more...
Author
Series
Ivy + Bean volume 9
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Seven-year-old Bean is too young to go to the camp her sister Nancy is attending, so she and her best friend Ivy decide to create their own camp.
Author
Series
Eerie Elementary volume 1
Publisher
Branches/ Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Discovering that his elementary school is alive and menacing, hall monitor Sam Graves, assisted by his friends Lucy and Antonio, works to defend his fellow students as they rehearse for the class play.
Author
Series
Ivy + Bean volume 8
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Ivy and Bean try to make money by writing a newspaper about Pancake Court but the neighbors are not pleased to read about themselves.
Author
Series
Craftily ever after volume 1
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Best friends Emily and Maddie spend all their time together making crafts, but when Maddie begins spending more time with gadget whiz Bella, Emily worries that she is losing her best friend.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
With her best friend moving away, Rica Baptista needs a pet so she won't get lonely, but her parents are against it until an act of kindness and courage proves she is ready for the pet of her dreams.
Author
Series
Notebook of doom volume 3
Publisher
Branches, Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The latest monsters threatening Stermont Elementary are shadowy shapeshifters that attach themselves to people, eat their shadows, and block out all light--but before he can think of a way to deal with them, Alexander has to deal with a startling revelation from his friend Nikki.
Author
Series
Isla of adventure volume 2
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
While on vacation at her family cabana, eight-year-old Isla Verde along with best friend Tora and gecko Fitz, search for the mysterious Canto Coast namesake--a mermaid.
10) Team spirit
Author
Series
Dave the unicorn volume 2
Publisher
Imprint
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Mira and her unicorn BFF are struggling during the Unicorn School Field Day when they discover a series of mishaps that make them wonder if everyone is playing fair.
11) Making the band
Author
Series
Craftily ever after volume 2
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After their teacher announces that there will be an upcoming talent show, eight-year-old Maddie and her best friends are inspired to form a band and use their craft skills to make their own instruments.
12) Lost and found
Author
Series
Arnold and Louise volume 2
Publisher
Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Arnold, a bear who likes to collect things, reluctantly lends one of his treasures to best friend Louise the chipmunk, who oftens loses things.
13) Happy fell
Author
Series
Arnold and Louise volume 3
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Arnold wants to celebrate the start of the cozy autumn season indoors. Louise does not. How can they celebrate fell if they're not celebrating together?"--
Author
Series
Diary of an ice princess volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Lina, a Windtamer who controls the wind and lives in a palace in the clouds, wants to go to a regular, non-magical school with her best friend Claudia, but first her grandfather must teach her to control her powers.
Author
Series
Nina Soni volume 1
Publisher
Peachtree Publishing Company Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Organized but sometimes forgetful Nina has a lot to keep track of as she rushes to complete a school project, help with little sister Kavita's birthday party, and make up with best friend Jay.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Only a week into his job as hall monitor and class protector, Sam Graves and his friends Lucy and Antonio are trying to uncover the secrets of Eerie Elementary, their living and malevolent school--and then Lucy gets eaten by her locker.
Author
Series
Ivy + Bean volume 11
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When classmate Vanessa insists that all single children are spoiled, Ivy wonders whether she can become "unspoiled" by giving away all her clothes at school (which does not go over well with her teacher or parents)--but ultimately decides that all she needs to accomplish her goal is a little sister.
18) Rock star
Author
Series
Jada Jones volume 1
Publisher
Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Fourth-grader Jada's best friend moved away but a class project on rocks and minerals, her favorite topic, could mean new friends. For Jada, rocks are easier to find than friends. Or are they?
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Sam, Lucy, and Antonio have a new substitute teacher, who happens to be the great-great-grandson of Orson Eerie, the evil scientist whose spirit possesses and infects their elementary school--and the friends are afraid he may be trying to bring Orson back to life.
20) Hydrant-hydra
Author
Series
Binder of doom volume 4
Publisher
Branches/Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
It has been a busy summer of makerspace projects at the library and monster hunting for the three members of the Super Secret Monster Patrol, and the puddles that are appearing all over town are a clue to the identity of another monster--an angry hydra water monster who is obsessed with cleaning up (literally) the town of Stermont, even if it means drowning all the messy children who live there.
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