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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
After his family hires migrant Mexican workers to help save their Vermont farm from foreclosure, eleven-year-old Tyler befriends the oldest daughter, but when he discovers they may not be in the country legally, he realizes that real friendship knows no borders.
2) Chirp
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Moving to Vermont the summer after seventh grade, a young gymnast hides a secret as she makes new friends and investigates her grandmother's claim that someone is trying to destroy her cricket farm.--
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
As a Young Scientist, twelve-year-old Addie studies pollution in the lake where her twin brother recently drowned, while secretly continuing his investigation of the creature he believed lives in the lake's depths.--
Author
Series
Publisher
Yearling, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Random House, Inc
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
Español
Description
Juanita and Miguel's great aunt, Tía Lola, comes from the Dominican Republic to help take care of them after their parents divorce, and soon she is so involved in their small Vermont community that when her visa expires, the whole town turns out to support her.
La t̕a abuela de Juanita y Miguel, T̕a Lola, viene de Rep︢blica Dominicana para ayudar a cuidarlos despǔs del divorcio de sus padres, y pronto se involucra tanto en su pequęa comunidad...
Author
Series
Publisher
Yearling
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When three girls and their father visit for a week in the summer, it takes Tía Lola to make Miguel forget his unhappiness at the absence of any boys and embrace the adventures that ensue.
Author
Series
Sneaky Pony series volume 4
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
New life abounds in the Vermont springtime along with baby groundhogs in her pony's field, but knowing how her father feels about them, ten-year-old Keeker decides to stage a "Save the Groundhogs" play.
Author
Series
Publisher
Yearling
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
Español
Description
Cuando tres nįas y su padre los visitan durante una semana en el verano, se necesita a T́́̕a Lola para hacer que Miguel olvide su infelicidad por la ausencia de cualquier nįo y abrace las aventuras que sobrevienen.
When three girls and their father visit for a week in the summer, it takes T́́ía Lola to make Miguel forget his unhappiness at the absence of any boys and embrace the adventures that ensue.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Travis and his sister, Corey, can't resist a good trick. When they learn that their grandmother's quiet Vermont inn, where they're spending the summer, has a history of ghost sightings, they decide to do a little "haunting" of their own. Before long, their supernatural pranks have tourists flocking to Fox Hill Inn,and business booms. But Travis and Corey soon find out that theirs aren't the only ghosts at Fox Hill. Their thoughtless games have awakened...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When Delilah, her mother, and her aunt spend the summer in Vermont settling Delilah's estranged grandmother's estate, long-held family secrets are painfully brought to light and Delilah finally learns some difficult truths about her family's past.
Author
Series
Sneaky pony volume 7
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Katherine "Keeker" Dana decides to run away rather than give up her beloved pony, Plum, when her parents suggest they will buy her a bigger pony for her eleventh birthday, but an interesting new neighbor girl might lead to a better solution.
12) Zombie blondes
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Each time fifteen-year-old Hannah and her out-of-work father move she has some fears about making friends, but a classmate warns her that in Maplecrest, Vermont, the cheerleaders really are monsters.
13) Love, Aubrey
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
While living with her Gram in Vermont, eleven-year-old Aubrey writes letters as a way of dealing with losing her father and sister in a car accident, and then being abandoned by her grief-stricken mother.
Author
Series
Publisher
Yearling
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Esta novela "cuenta la deliciosa historia de una familia dominicana, instalada en Vermont, que recibe la visita de una pariente muy especial. La irresistible, incontrolable e incluso mágica tía Lola transforma la vida de su familia. Sombreros, pañuelos, vestidos alegres, tacones, maracas, un tambor para las fiestas, café, hierbabuena, orégano, anís, hojas de guanábana, ajíes--su alegría invade la casa y--poco a poco--a todo el pueblo. Un...
Author
Series
The puppy place. Main series volume 58
Publisher
Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020].
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Charles and Lizzie Peterson love puppies. Their family fosters these young dogs, giving them love and proper care, until they can find the perfect forever home. Charles is so excited for his spring break trip to his dad's friend Steve's cozy cabin in Vermont. Especially once he spots Freckles, a shy, stray pup out alone on the snowy trail. Dad and Steve agree to foster the lonely pup. When they're joined by Fluffy, an undersized newborn lamb from...
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