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Author
Series
Time quintet volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Meg Murry, her little brother Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin are guided by unearthly strangers as they go on a journey through space and time to search for Meg's and Charles' scientist father who disappeared while experimenting with a new form of space travel. Includes related readings and study questions.
Author
Series
Mr. Lemoncello's library volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Appears on list
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"--
3) Snakehead
Author
Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
While working with the Australian Secret Service on a dangerous mission, teenaged spy Alex Rider uncovers information about his parents.
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In 1948, Nikko Spirakis, twelve, loves baseball but must get past his hard-working immigrant parents--and the rhino in the outfield--to become a batboy for the local minor league team.
Author
Series
Magic animal friends volume 22
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Join Lily and Jess on Magic Mountain, where all of Friendship Forest's special magic grows. But when the magic crystals start not working properly, the girls know wicked Grizelda is behind it. Can tiny chipmunk Lola Fluffywhiskers help, before magic is lost from Friendship Forest forever?
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Spread the Christmas cheer with this whimsical retelling of Clement C. Moore's cherished poem, "A Visit from St. Nicholas." This new edition of the classic features the text of Moore's original poem, illustrated with beautifully detailed LEGO brick scenes and characters"--
"Spread the Christmas cheer with this whimsical retelling of Clement C. Moore's cherished poem, "A Visit from St. Nicholas." This new edition of the classic features the text...
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Dust Bowl refugee Gloria Mae Willard finds herself uprooted and working on a California peach orchard, where she tries to join the secret, all-boys baseball team that she's desperate to play on"--
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When the Depression hits in Cairo, Illinois, and Oscar Ogilvie's father must sell their home and vast model train set-up to look for work in California, eleven-year-old Oscar is left with his dour aunt, where he befriends a mysterious drifter, witnesses a stunning bank robbery, and is suddenly catapulted onto a train that takes him to a different time and place.
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
A proprietor from a Washington State wildlife sanctuary shares true stories about some of the most remarkable animals she has worked with, including a mother cat and kittens who were shot with a pellet gun, a bear who was targeted by a poacher, and Pete, the feline co-author of three of her books.
Author
Series
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Connecting Gandhi's ideas and his life's work to contemporary issues this useful resource for parents and teachers makes Gandhi relevant for kids today. Packed with historic images, the book includes informative sidebars, a time line, a glossary, and a resource section, along with 21 activities that illuminate Gandhi's life, environment, and ideas. Kids can make a traditional Indian lamp called a diya, create a henna hand design, practice anti-consumerism...
11) Rooster
Author
Series
Publisher
Groundwood Books
Pub. Date
©2004
Language
English
Description
A mythical poem about the rooster and his role in making the day begin.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Focus
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"In Nazi Saboteurs, Samantha Seiple brings readers into the high-stakes world of Hitler's most trusted team of saboteurs as the eight men are hand-selected by top Nazi officials to be trained in spycraft and sabotage. With black-and-white photos and fast-paced storytelling, readers follow the men to the coasts of New York and Florida, where they work to establish secret identities for themselves in America, identify the country's key military targets,...
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In 1931 Worcester, Massachusetts, Joey Singer, the teenaged son of Jewish immigrants, suffers with his family through the early part of the Great Depression, trying to finish high school, working a milk delivery route, marching on Washington, and eventually even becoming a hobo, all the while trying to figure out how to go to college and realize his dream of becoming a writer.
Author
Series
Publisher
Little Tiger Press Ltd
Pub. Date
c2020
Language
English
Description
It's time to say our bedtime prayers --our day is almost done. Let's bless our family and the world, my precious little one. With soft, comforting illustrations and a gentle rhyming verse, this is the perfect book to help sleepy little ones say a goodnight prayer and offer blessings at bedtime.--Back cover.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks eXplore
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
An inspiring and engaging historical nonfiction book for kids 9 to 12, this newly adapted young readers' edition of the acclaimed national bestseller tells the story of America's glowing girls and their brave fight for justice. Amid the excitement of the early twentieth century, hundreds of young women spend their days hard at work painting watch dials with glow-in-the-dark radium paint. The painters consider themselves luckyuntil they start suffering...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Focus
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
An evocative chronicle of the battle that led to America's landmark Brown v. Board of Education ruling shares insights into the abuses of the "separate but equal" system and how such courageous activists as Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois helped end legal segregation.
Author
Publisher
TarcherPerigee, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Based on more than twenty-five years of clinical work with juvenile offenders as well training parents, teachers, counselors and law enforcement, and supported by research in neuroscience, Changeable presents a radical new way of thinking about challenging and unwanted behavior -- Collaborative Problem Solving -- that builds empathy, helps others reach their full potential, and most of all really works. With illuminating scientific evidence, remarkable...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In 1983 seventh-grader David Da-Wei Horowitz has a lot to worry about--his bar mitzvah is coming soon, his Jewish and Chinese grandmothers argue about everything, his teammates for the upcoming trivia contest, Scott and Hector, do not like each other, he is beginning to notice girls, and Scott has persuaded him to begin digging a fallout shelter just in case the Cold War heats up.
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