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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Appears on list
Description
Fifth-grader Cally Louise Fisher stops talking, partly because her father and brother never speak of her mother who died a year earlier, but visions of her mother, friendships with a homeless man and a disabled boy, and a huge dog ensure that she still communicates.
63) Now
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"Follow a little girl as she takes you on a tour through all of her favorite things, from the holes she digs to the hugs she gives"--
64) Gloom town
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Twelve-year-old Rory and his friend Izzy try to foil the plans of Lord Foxglove, for whom Rory works as a valet, and his inhuman accomplices from taking over the world.
65) About average
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
Formats
Description
As the end of sixth grade nears, Jordan Johnson, unhappy that she is only average in appearance, intelligence, and athletic ability, reveals her special skills when disaster strikes her central Illinois elementary school.
66) Rocky
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
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. Lizzie finds an ad in the paper for a dog in need of a new home. Rocky is a cuddly bulldog who would prefer to sleep than be a guard dog. But Lizzie understands that every puppy is special and Rocky would be the perfect for someone. All she has to do is find the right owner.
67) The Sea Pony
Author
Series
Piper Green and the fairy tree volume 3
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
On an island off the coast of Maine, where children ride lobster boats to school, Piper wants a horse but finds, instead, another object hidden in the red maple tree.
68) Fa la la
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
"It's almost Christmas, and baby simply cannot contain the exuberance. There are things to decorate-a tree, a gingerbread house, a doggy! There are very creative presents to make, Santa to see (must be brave), carols to sing, not to mention the big event itself"--Provided by publisher.
69) Gizmo
Author
Series
Puppy place. Main series volume 32
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Description
After taking in Gizmo the Sheltie puppy, the Petersons learn this little puppy must have something to do before his energy destroys everything in Charles and Lizzie's house.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c 2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Thirteen-year-old Anjali dreams of hosting a televised cooking show featuring foods based on her Hindu and Trinidadian heritage, but when an opportunity presents itself, she will have to defy her family to go to the audition. Includes recipes.
71) On the run
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Twelve-year-old Ben, who aspires to be a police officer, struggles to do the right thing when his parents suddenly take him and his little sister "on vacation," and he learns they took a large amount of money that was mistakenly deposited in their bank account.
Author
Series
The perfect score volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Description
In a story told from different viewpoints, five sixth-graders, facing various challenges and under pressure to do well on statewide assessment tests, agree to a plan for acing the tests.
74) Finding Mighty
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 10
Description
"Along the train lines north of New York City, twelve-year-old neighbors Myla and Peter search for the link between Myla's necklace and the disappearance of Peter's brother, Randall. Thrown into a world of parkour, graffiti, and diamond-smuggling, Myla and Peter encounter a band of thugs who are after the same thing as Randall. Can Myla and Peter find Randall before it's too late, and their shared family secrets threaten to destroy them all?"--
75) Excellent Ed
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Everyone in the Ellis family is excellent, except Ed the dog, who is determined to find something at which he, too, can excel.
76) Black dog
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When a large black dog appears outside the Hope family home, each member of the household cowers in fear except for the youngest Hope, who has the courage to face the black dog.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Description
From the publisher. Iris Anderson is only 15, but she's quickly mastering the art of deception in this YA novel for fans of Veronica Mars. It's the fall of 1942 and Iris's world is rapidly changing. Her Pop is back from the war with a missing leg, limiting his ability to do the physically grueling part of his detective work. Iris is dying to help, especially when she discovers that one of Pop's cases involves a boy at her school. Now, instead of sitting...
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
"Caldecott Medalist Allen Say presents a stunning graphic novel chronicling his journey as an artist during WWII, when he apprenticed under Noro Shinpei, Japan's premier cartoonist. Drawing from memory is Allen Say's own story of his path to becoming the renowned artist he is today. Shunned by his father, who didn't understand his son's artistic leanings, Allen was embraced by Noro Shinpei, Japan's leading cartoonist and the man he came to love as...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 16
Description
"17-year-old Gwen Castle is a working-class girl determined to escape her small island town, but when rich-kid Cass Somers, with whom she has a complicated romantic history, shows up, she's forced to reassess her feelings about her loving, complex family, her lifelong best friends, her wealthy employer, the place she lives, and the boy she can't admit she loves"--
80) Free Verse
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Description
"After her brother dies in a fire, Sasha Harless has no one left and nowhere to turn, but soon discovers family she didn't know she had, and begins to heal through poetry"--