Listening Library
1) Double Fudge
Author
Series
Fudge books volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 5
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Description
His younger brother Fudge's obsession with money and an unexpected encounter with twin cousins Flora and Fauna and a weird younger cousin also named Farley Drexel Hatcher, just like Fudge, provide many embarrassing moments for twelve-year-old Peter.
2) Eragon
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 25
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Description
In Alagað̀ưsia, a fifteen-year-old boy of unknown lineage called Eragon finds a mysterious stone that weaves his life into an intricate tapestry of destiny, magic, and power, peopled with dragons, elves, and monsters.
4) The river
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Paulsen takes the wilderness adventure beyond self-preservation & makes teen Brian responsible for saving someone else. Because of his success surviving alone in the wilderness for fifty-four days, fifteen-year-old Brian, profoundly changed by his time in the wild, is asked to undergo a similar experience to help scientists learn more about the psychology of survival. "We want you to do it again."
These words, spoken to Brian Robeson, will change...
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Merlin missions volume 17
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Description
The magic tree house whisks Jack and Annie to India during the Mogul Empire in the 1600s to search for an emerald needed to break a magic spell.
Author
Series
Grandma Dowdel volume Bk 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
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Description
In 1937, during the Depression, fifteen-year-old Mary Alice, initially apprehensive about leaving Chicago to spend a year with her fearsome, larger-than-life grandmother in rural Illinois, gradually begins to better understand and admire her grandmother's unusual qualities.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
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Description
Billy isn't one to back down from a bet. But this one is gross: If he eats fifteen worms in fifteen days, Alan will pay him fifty dollars. Billy takes the bet and tries worms smothered in ketchup, drowned in mustard, even breaded and fried. Worm by worm, Billy gets closer to victory, and to buying the minibike he's always wanted. But Alan won't let him win that easily...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Living in the shadow of the Fruitless Mountain, Minli and her parents spend their days working in the rice fields, barely growing enough to feed themselves. Every night, Minli's father tells her stories about the Jade Dragon that keeps the mountain bare, the greedy and mean Magistrate Tiger, and the Old Man of the Moon who holds everyone's destiny. Determined to change her family's fortune, Minli sets out to find the Old Man of the Moon, urged on...
10) The Giver
Author
Series
Giver quartet volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
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Description
Living in a "perfect" world without social ills, a boy approaches the time when he will receive a life assignment from the Elders, but his selection leads him to a mysterious man known as the Giver, who reveals the dark secrets behind the utopian facade.
11) Inkdeath
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 29
Formats
Description
As Bluejay--Mo's fictitious double--tries to keep the Book of Immortality from unraveling, Adderhead kidnaps all the children in the kingdom, asking for Bluejay's surrender or the children will be doomed to slavery in the silver mines.
12) The necromancer
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
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Description
Back in London, fifteen-year-old twins Sophie and Josh Newman must determine whom they can and cannot trust as they search for both Scatty and an immortal who can teach Josh the magic of fire, while Doctor Dee and Machiavelli continue to seek power.
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
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A tree house that travels through time? Not possible, says Jack. But he has to admit--when he and his younger sister, Annie, start running into dinosaurs--that they're not in Frog Creek, Pennsylvania, anymore.
Eight-year-old Jack and his younger sister Annie find a magic treehouse, which whisks them back to an ancient time zone where they see live dinosaurs.
14) Number the Stars
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
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Description
Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan, which entails enduring the taunting and fear of his classmates as he struggles to be seen as just another student.
In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter...
15) Airman
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 16
Formats
Description
In the late nineteenth century, when Conor Broekhart discovers a conspiracy to overthrow the king, he is branded a traitor, imprisoned, and forced to mine for diamonds under brutal conditions while he plans a daring escape from Little Saltee prison by way of a flying machine that he must design, build, and, hardest of all, trust to carry him to safety.
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Merlin missions volume 19
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
Formats
Description
Jack and Annie go back in time to meet Abraham Lincoln himself! They need to get a special feather from him to save Penny the penguin. But President Lincoln is much too busy running a country at war. So the kids go even further back to look for Abe as a boy. Instead, they meet a ragged orphan named Sam who also needs their help. Can Jack and Annie do the right thing - and still save a president, a troubled nation, and Penny as well?
18) Little Brother
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 17
Formats
Description
After being interrogated for days by the Department of Homeland Security in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack on San Francisco, California, seventeen-year-old Marcus, released into what is now a police state, decides to use his expertise in computer hacking to set things right.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 29
Description
"The war against Voldemort is not going well: even Muggle governments are noticing. Ron scans the obituary pages of The Daily Prophet looking for familiar names. Dumbledore is absent from Hogwarts for long stretches of time, and the Order of the Phoenix has already suffered losses. And yet... As in all wars, life goes on. Sixth-year students learn to Apparate, and lose a few eyebrows in the process. The Weasley twins expand their business. Teenagers...
20) New moon
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 20
Description
When the Cullens, including her beloved Edward, leave Forks rather than risk revealing that they are vampires, it is almost too much for eighteen-year-old Bella to bear, but she finds solace in her friend Jacob until he is drawn into a "cult" and changes in terrible ways.