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1) Cabin fever
Author
Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Middle-schooler Greg Heffley is the prime suspect when it is discovered that school property has been damaged, but when a surprise blizzard hits and school is closed, Greg is stuck indoors with his family, unable to prove his innocence.
Author
Series
Scaredy Squirrel volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Meet Scaredy Squirrel, a squirrel who never leaves his nut tree because he's afraid of the unknown "out there." But then, something unexpected happens that may just change his outlook.
Author
Series
Scaredy Squirrel volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Scaredy comes up with a Bad Dream Action Plan to avoid sleep but between counting stars, playing cymbals and making scrapbooks, disaster still strikes and exhaustion takes its toll. Will Scaredy survive this ordeal? Will he find sweet dreams?
4) Fraidyzoo
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Little T remembers that she was frightened last time her family visited the zoo but not why, so her creative family helps by imitating animals from A to Z until she recalls exactly what caused her fear.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Splat does not want to have a playdate with Spike and both are afraid to learn how to swim. When the rest of their classmates rush straight into the pool, Splat and Spike find that they may have more in common than they thought.
6) Fox at night
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fox overcomes his fear of monsters when he meets real nocturnal animals.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A storm is brewing and Little Blue Truck and his good friend Toad are hurrying home for bed. But who can sleep with all that racket? It's not long before other friends show up seeking safety from the storm. Thunder and lightening sure can be scary, but it's easy to be brave together. When the clouds roll on and the sky is clear, it's all aboard for a bedtime ride! Beep! Beep! Shhh.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Told in text messages, middle-schooler Ava is having a really bad day: her parents are getting divorced, she has had a big argument with her best friends, and the charge on her cellphone is getting low; but things are about to get a lot worse because the lockdown alarm has just gone off, and there is an intruder in the school building.
10) Big chickens
Author
Series
Big chickens books volume 1
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
While trying to escape from a wolf, four frightened chickens keep getting themselves into the very predicaments they are trying to avoid.
13) Swim team
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"Bree can't wait for her first day at her new middle school, Enith Brigitha, home to the Mighty Manatees--until she's stuck with the only elective that fits her schedule, the dreaded Swim 101. The thought of swimming makes Bree more than a little queasy, yet she's forced to dive headfirst into one of her greatest fears. Lucky for her, Etta, an elderly occupant of her apartment building and former swim team captain, is willing to help"--
14) When lions roar
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Loud, scary noises frighten a child until quiet and calmness return.
15) Night animals
Author
Publisher
VIKING, Published by Penguin Group
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Possum is hiding from the sounds in the night, and his fear sets off a chain reaction in the other night animals.
16) I'm a shark!
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A boastful shark is not afraid of anything, which impresses his underwater friends until they ask about spiders.
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Creepy! Crawly! Criminy! Stink is bonkers about most scientific things. But dangle a spider in front of him and he goes berserk! Stink is so freaked out by spiders that he can't read about them. He can't look at them. He can't think about them. And he for sure can't touch them! Stink has arachnophobia (a fear of spiders), and he has it bad. But when a hairy backyard emergency arises, Stink is forced to face his fear--and eight beady eyes--head-on....
20) Going batty
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
It's almost Halloween and Freddy thinks that there are monsters in his attic.
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