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41) Swing it, Sunny!
Author
Series
Sunny side up volume 2
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Summer's over, and it's time for Sunny Lewin to enter the strange and unfriendly hallways of ... middle school. When Gramps calls her from Florida to ask how she's doing, she always tells him she's fine. But the truth is that Sunny is NOT having the best time. Not only is the whole middle school thing confusing, but life at home is confusing, too. Sunny misses her brother Dale, who's been sent away to boarding school. But when he comes back on vacation,...
42) Smell my foot!
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Look! Look! A book! A book from Cece Bell! It's a very funny book about Chick and Brain."-- cover page 4.
Author
Series
Phoebe and her unicorn volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A unicorn in bowling shoes is quite a STRIKE-ing sight. But for nine-year-old Phoebe Howell, it s just another fun outing with her best friend, the illustrious unicorn Marigold Heavenly Nostrils. This unique and magical friendship is at the heart of the ninth Phoebe and Her Unicorn collection, which includes adventures such as writing original songs, publishing rival news websites, and making a summer visit to the exclusive Camp Shimmerhorn. Life...
44) Egg or eyeball?
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Oh! Oh, oh, oh! Look what Brain found. Chick and Spot say it is an egg. Brain says it is an eyeabll. Is it an egg? Or is it an eyeball?"-- cover page 4.
Author
Series
Dog Man volume 6
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Is Dog Man bad to the bone? The heroic hound is sent to the pound for a crime he didn't commit! While his pals work to prove his innocence, Dog Man struggles to find his place among dogs and people. Being a part of both worlds, will he ever fully fit in with one?"-- provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Youve got to know where you stand to survive sixth grade, and Nate Wrights found the perfect spot: right next to Sherman, the class gerbil. Can Nates furry friend bail him out of his latest homework jam with Mrs. Godfrey? Or will there be a paper trail leading straight to detention? Nate has no answers, but plenty of ideaslike directing a superhero movie starring the amazing Mega-Chad, inventing a new name for his pal Francis, and living up to his...
47) Twins
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Coretta Scott King Honor author Varian Johnson teams up with rising cartoonist Shannon Wright for a delightful middle-grade graphic novel! Maureen and Francine Carter are twins and best friends. They participate in the same clubs, enjoy the same foods, and are partners on all their school projects. But just before the girls start sixth grade, Francine becomes Fran -- a girl who wants to join the chorus, run for class president, and dress in fashionable...
Author
Series
Zita the spacegirl volume 2
Publisher
First Second
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Zita is determined to find her way home to Earth, but her exploits have made her an intergallactic megastar, and as her true self is eclipsed by her public persona, she faces a robot doppelganger, unsure of who she can trust.
49) Just Jaime
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Friends. Frenemies. Middle school... The last day of seventh grade has Jaime and Maya wondering who their real friends are. Jaime knows something is off with her friend group. They ve started to exclude her and make fun of the way she dresses and the things she likes. At least she can count on her BFF, Maya, to have her back . . . right? Maya feels more and more annoyed with Jaime, who seems babyish compared to the other girls in their popular group....
50) Allergic
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"All Maggie really wants is a puppy and ... achoo! At home, Maggie is the odd one out. Her parents are preoccupied with getting ready for a new baby, and her younger brothers are twins and always in their own world. Maggie loves animals and thinks a new puppy to call her own is the answer, but when she goes to select one on her birthday, she breaks out in hives and rashes. She's severely allergic to anything with fur! Can Maggie outsmart her allergies...
Publisher
Archie Comics
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Holidays come to Riverdale in this can't miss stocking-stuffer! Packed with 250+ pages of classic Christmas tales, this festive collection is sure to get you in the spirit! Filled with warmth and laughter, this chronological anthology features the most humorous and heartwarming holiday stories from the past eight decades, lovingly hand-picked and remastered. The Best of Archie series is back, and it will make the greatest gift of all!"-- cover...
52) Ozy and Millie
Author
Series
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Meet Ozy and Millie, two best friends from Seattle who also happen to be foxes. Millie is a mischievous, inquisitive 10-year-old girl with a talent for evading homework and a habit of questioning authority. Ozy is her calm, thoughtful counterpart, whose adoptive father, a red dragon named Llewellyn, is full of strange stories and ancient wisdom. Also featured are Felicia, a sheep at the head of the cool clique, and Avery, a hapless raccoon who just...
Author
Series
I survived (Graphic novels) volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In a Jewish ghetto, Max Rosen and his sister, Zena, struggle to live after their father is taken away by the Nazis. With barely enough food to survive, the siblings make a daring escape from Nazi soldiers into the nearby forest. Max and Zena are brought to a safe camp by Jewish resistance fighters. But soon, bombs are falling all around them. Can Max and Zena survive the fallout of the Nazi invasion?
Author
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Eleven-year-old Diana has an almost perfect life on the island of Themyscira. But even though she has a loving mother and many "aunties," she is an only child. The only child on the entire island, in fact. Every other person on the island is an adult who's the best in their trade and mighty in body, while Diana is small, sometimes clumsy, and not particularly good at anything. She's not Wonder Woman...yet. What Diana needs is someone her own age...
Author
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Nate Wright is born to be wild! And when Enslave the Mollusk is invited to play at the P.S. 38 annual open house, he and his bandmates are on the stairway to heaven. While the kids rock, the school year rolls on. Mrs. Godfrey is back in black, Gina thinks she's hot stuff, and Coach John is dazed and confused. The good news: Nate's finally reunited with Trudy, his summer crush. But when he finds out she's a--gulp--seventh grader, will Nate lose that...
56) Unlikely friends
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ally the alligator is perfectly happy being alone . . . until one day a noisy bird named Beak lands on her snout and wont stop bugging her! Much to Allys annoyance, this super talkative bird likes to sing all the time and has chose a nearby tree to build his new nest. Even worse, Beak insists he and Ally will be best friends. In fact, he has all kinds of friendship goals in mind, and it seems nothing Ally says will convince him that shed rather be...
57) Yorick and Bones
Author
Series
Yorick and Bones volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Hear ye, hear ye! Alas, this is Yorick. Bu hark! This is Bones. Yorick is a skeleton who was just dug up after a few hundred years of sleep. Bones is the one who did the digging. What is to become of these two unlikely companions? Will Yorick ever find the friend he seeks? Will Bones ever find a tasty treat that does not talk back? The course of true friendship never did run smooth!"-- cover page 4.
Author
Series
Jedi Academy volume 5
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Victor Starspeeder here, back at Jedi Academy for year two, but it's not going the way I planned. I was excited about Drama Club and I thought at the lead role in this year's play, but a new kid got it! Plus, Master Yoda is totally mad at me because I keeps oversleeping... All of that would be fine if there weren't rumors going around that my sister, Christina, is a Sith! What gives?! I thought year two of Jedi Academy would be fun, you know? I'm...
Publisher
DC Zoom
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Thirteen-year-old Tai Pham lives in the apartment above his grandmother's store, where his bedroom is crammed with sketchpads and comic books. But not even his most imaginative drawings can compare to the colorful worlds he's about to discover. When Tai inherits his grandmother's jade ring, he soon finds out it's more than just a piece of jewelry. Suddenly he's inducted into a group of space cops known as the Green Lanterns. He is about to learn...
Author
Series
My weird school (Graphic novels) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this first book, A.J. and his friends at Ella Mentry School are headed on a field trip to NASA headquarters. But their tour guide, Mr. Corbett, is a total space cadet! And what happens when A.J. accidentally launches the whole class into outer space?! Full of visual gags, space aliens, and hilarious full-color illustrations, this is the weirdest graphic novel in the history of the world!"-- provided by publisher.
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