Andrew Clements
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Alec, a sixth-grade bookworm always in trouble for reading instead of listening and participating in class, starts a book club, solely to have a place to read, and discovers that real life, although messy, can be as exciting as the stories in his favorite books.
2) Frindle
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
When he decides to turn his fifth grade teacher's love of the dictionary around on her, clever Nick Allen invents a new word and begins a chain of events that quickly moves beyond his control.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Grace and Ellie have been best friends since second grade. Ellie's always right in the center of everything--and Grace is usually happy to be Ellie's sidekick. But what happens when everything changes? This time it's Grace who suddenly has everyone's attention when she accidentally starts a new fad at school. It's a fad that has first her class, then her grade, and then the entire school collecting and trading and even fighting over . . . buttons?!...
4) No talking
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
The noisy fifth grade boys of Laketon Elementary School challenge the equally loud fifth grade girls to a "no talking" contest.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old identical twins Jay and Ray have long resented that everyone treats them as one person, and so they hatch a plot to take advantage of a clerical error at their new school and pretend they are just one.
7) Lunch money
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Greg, who has always been good at moneymaking projects, is surprised to find himself teaming up with his lifelong rival, Maura, to create a series of comic books to sell at school.
8) Extra credit
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
As letters flow back and forth--between the prairies of Illinois and the mountains of Afghanistan, across cultural and religious divides--sixth-grader Abby, ten-year-old Amira, and eleven-year-old Sadeed begin to speak and listen to each other.
Author
Series
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Sixth-grader Ben Pratt's life is full of changes that he does not like--his parents' separation and the plan to demolish his seaside school to build an amusement park--but when the school janitor gives him a tarnished coin with some old engravings and then dies, Ben is drawn into an effort to keep the school from being destroyed.
10) Trouble-maker
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
When his older brother gets in serious trouble, sixth-grader Clay decides to change his own mischief-making ways, but he cannot seem to shake his reputation as a troublemaker.
11) About average
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
As the end of sixth grade nears, Jordan Johnston, unhappy that she is only average in appearance, intelligence, and athletic ability, reveals her special skills when disaster strikes her central Illinois elementary school.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Life is usually easy for popular sixth-grader Hart Evans, but when his music teacher puts him in charge of the holiday concert, Hart must use all of his leadership skills to unite the other students.
Author
Series
Jake Drake series volume 4
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Miss Bruce is the new student teacher in second grade, and she never smiles. Never. But when Jake cracks up the class during a spelling bee, he sees the tiniest hint of a smile at the corner of her mouth. Suddenly, Jake has a new mission in life: to be so funny that even Miss Bruce will laugh!"--P. [4] of cover.
Author
Series
Jake Drake series volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Fourth-grader Jake Drake relates how he comes to terms with SuperBully Link Baxter, especially after they are assigned to be partners on a class project.
16) Fear itself
Author
Series
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
As the new Keepers of the School, sixth-graders Ben and Jill must decipher a handful of clues written as maritime riddles to save their school from demolition by a greedy company.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Ted Hammond, the only sixth grader in his small Nebraska town's one-room schoolhouse, searches for clues to the disappearance of a homeless family. Ted Hammond loves a good mystery, and in the spring of his fifth-grade year, he's working on a big one. How can his school in the little town of Plattsford stay open next year if there are going to be only five students? Out here on the Great Plains in western Nebraska, everyone understands that if you...
18) Things not seen
Author
Series
Things not seen volume 1
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When fifteen-year-old Bobby wakes up and finds himself invisible, he and his parents and his new blind friend Alicia try to find out what caused his condition and how to reverse it.
Author
Series
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"The Keepers of the School--known to their friends as Ben, Jill, and Robert--have one last chance to save their school before it's torn down to make room for a seaside amusement park. But their nemeses, janitors Lyman and Wally, are just as determined to keep the kids out of the way and the demolition on schedule"--
20) Things hoped for
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Gwen, who has been living with her grandfather in Manhattan while she attends music school, joins up with another music student to solve the mystery when her grandfather suddenly goes missing.