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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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"When a mysterious little free library (guarded by a large orange cat) appears overnight in the small town of Martinville, eleven-year-old Evan plucks two weathered books from its shelves, never suspecting that his life is about to change. Evan and his best friend Rafe quickly discover a link between one of the old books and a long-ago event that none of the grown-ups want to talk about. The two boys start asking questions whose answers will transform...
Author
Series
Mr. Lemoncello's library volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"Mr. Lemoncello holds a contest for his young friends where they must race to bring interesting facts back to his library"--
3) Brute-cake
Author
Series
Publisher
Branches/Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
It has been several months since monsters last plagued the town of Stermont, and frankly Alexander Bopp (leader of the Super Secret Monster Patrol) is bored, and misses his friends Rip (immersed in video games) and Nikki (soccer camp), so when his father signs him up for a summer maker program at the library he is happy to go--but soon he starts finding weird old-timey objects, and monster trading cards, and it starts to look like maybe monsters are...
Author
Series
Dinosaur (Bob Shea) volume 3
Publisher
Disney/Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Dinosaur is going to one of his favorite places, the library, and on the way he encounters a series of animals, including a cow, baby chicks, a turtle, and an owl, and shares his roars with each.
Author
Series
Mr. Lemoncello's library volume 2
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"Mr. Lemoncello has invited teams from all across America to compete in the first ever LIBRARY OLYMPICS...but someone is trying to censor what the kids are reading"--
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"An anonymous correspondence between two seventh graders becomes an unlikely friendship after they start leaving notes in a school library book. Bookish Jane MacDonald is seeking a new friend after her best friend Sienna moves away; reputed troublemaker Tyson Flamand stumbles upon the first note while waiting for a detention. Both end up in a race to improve Tyson's grades--and their teachers' understanding of him--so that he can help complete the...
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.
Author
Series
Magnolia says don't! volume 3
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Magnolia returns to explain the many downsides to bringing a circus to a local library"--
Author
Series
Lola books (Anna McQuinn) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Every Tuesday Lola and her mother visit their local library to return and check out books, attend story readings, and share a special treat.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Pinkalicious reads in bed, at the table, and even while she is walking. When Pinkalicious can't find any new books to read at the library, what does she do?"--
Author
Series
Mr. Lemoncello's library volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
"Twelve-year-old Kyle gets to stay overnight in the new town library, designed by his hero (the famous gamemaker Luigi Lemoncello), with other students but finds that come morning he must work with friends to solve puzzles in order to escape"--
12) Boa constructor
Author
Series
Publisher
Branches/Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Something is stealing machine parts from all over Stermont, including a wrecking ball from a local construction site, and Alexander and his fellow monster hunters, Rip, and Nikki, fear that it is building a Stermont-smashing machine--so the friends must use the resources of the summer maker program at the library to stop this monster, and perhaps even solve the mystery of who is leaving monster trading cards where the Super Secret Monster Patrol can...
Author
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Catboy, Owlette, and Gekko try to save the library from the villain Romeo, who is using a nefarious machine to erase the text from library books and replace it with his own photographs.
Author
Publisher
Viking, published by Penguin Group
Pub. Date
[2016].
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Froggy, Mom, and Pollywogilina set out for the library, Froggy brings a wheelbarrow to hold all the books he plans to borrow but he is so excited that he forgets to use his indoor voice.
18) Library lion
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A lion starts visiting the local library but runs into trouble as he tries to both obey the rules and help his librarian friend.
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