Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
1) Shiloh
Author
Series
Shiloh quartet volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Appears on list
Description
When he finds a lost beagle in the hills behind his West Virginia home, Marty tries to hide it from his family and the dog's real owner, a mean-spirited man known to shoot deer out of season and to mistreat his dogs.
Author
Series
Shiloh quartet volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Formats
Description
When mean and angry Judd, who has never known kindness, takes to drinking and mistreats his dogs, Marty discovers how deep a hurt can go and how long it takes to heal.
Author
Series
Shiloh quartet volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Formats
Description
Sixth-grader Marty and his family try to help their rough neighbor, Judd Travers, change his mean ways, even though their West Virginia community continues to expect the worst of him.
Author
Series
Alice McKinley. Main series volume 11
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Eighth-grader Alice has lots of questions about sex, relationships, prejudice, and change.
7) Ice
Author
Pub. Date
[1995]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Description
When thirteen-year-old Chrissa is sent to her paternal grandmother's farm, she learns more about her absent father and some of the reasons for her distant relationship with her mother.
Author
Series
Hatfords and Malloys volume 6
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Are Beth and Josh really in love or just pretending to be in order to spy and continue the feud between the Malloy sisters and the Hatford brothers?
10) Alice in lace
Author
Series
Alice McKinley. Main series volume 8
Pub. Date
[1996]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Description
While planning a wedding as part of an assignment for her eighth-grade health class, Alice thinks about her father's and older brother's love lives and learns that you cannot prepare for all of life's decisions.
13) Blizzard's Wake
Author
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 8
Description
In March of 1941, when a severe blizzard suddenly hits Bismarck, North Dakota, a girl trying to save her stranded father and brother inadvertently helps the man who killed her mother four years before.
Author
Series
Alice McKinley. Main series volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Alice experiences the joys and embarrassments of seventh grade while advising her father and older brother on their love lives.
16) The grand escape
Author
Series
Cat pack series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Description
"A Yearling book." After years of being strictly house cats, Marco and Polo escape into the wonderful, but dangerous, outside world. Soon they are sent on three challenging adventures by a group of cats who belong to the Club of Mysteries.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Description
From the Newbery Award-winning author of Shiloh comes a middle-grade novel that combines adrenaline-fueled adventure with a poignant coming-of-age story about a boy who loves the challenges he faces when caving but finds daily life dealing with his stuttering problem a most difficult challenge.Buck Andersons life seems to be changing completely. His best friend, David, has moved away; his anxious parents are hounding him more than ever; he has reluctantly...
Author
Series
Alice McKinley. Main series volume 9
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Alice is in the eighth grade, and while she wants her life to be exciting and outrageous, she also wants to feel protected and safe.
19) The Fear Place
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Description
When he and his older brother Gordon are left camping alone in the Rocky Mountains, twelve-year-old Doug faces his fear of heights and his feelings about Gordon--with the help of a cougar.
20) Alice alone
Author
Series
Alice McKinley. Main series volume 13
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Alice's first year in high school gets off to a difficult start when she and her boyfriend Patrick break up, but with the help of her father, older brother, and best friends, she gains a better sense of her own self-worth.