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22) Never Say Die
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Fifteen-year-old half-Inuit Nick and his white brother, Ryan, meet and share an adventure on the Firth River in the Canadian Arctic, facing white water, wild animals, and fierce weather as Ryan documents the effects of climate change on caribou for National Geographic magazine.
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Series
Cece Rios volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Formats
Description
Privately questioning her remote community's superstitions about dangerous powerful spirits in their Devil's Alley home, Cecelia Rios experiments with the forbidden art of brujeraia to rescue her kidnapped sister.
24) The Willoughbys
Author
Series
Willoughbys volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Description
In this tongue-in-cheek take on classic themes in children's literature, the four Willoughby children set about to become "deserving orphans" after their neglectful parents embark on a treacherous around-the-world adventure, leaving them in the care of an odious nanny.
25) B is for baby
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
B is for Baby. B is for Brother. B is for going to see Baba! One morning after breakfast, Baby's big brother is getting ready to take the basket of bananas all the way to Baba's bungalow in the next village. He'll have to go along the bumpy road, past the baobab trees, birds, and butterflies, and all the way over the bridge. But what he doesn't realize is that his very cute, very curious baby sibling has stowed away on his bicycle. Little ones learning...
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Series
Ramona Quimby volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Ramona likes that shes old enough to be counted on, but must everything depend on her? Mrs. Quimby has gone back to work so that Mr. Quimby can return to school, and Ramona is expected to be good for Mrs. Kemp while her parents are away, to be brave enough to ride the school bus by herself, and to put up with being teased by Danny the Yard Ape.
27) Ruby Holler
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Thirteen-year-old fraternal twins Dallas and Florida have grown up in a terrible orphanage but their lives change forever when an eccentric but sweet older couple invites them each on an adventure, beginning in an almost magical place called Ruby Holler.
28) Ramona forever
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Series
Ramona Quimby volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
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Description
Ramona's year in third grade is highlighted by the arrival of Howie's rich Uncle Hobart, a change in her after-school situation, a surprise wedding, a death and a new arrival in the family, and her father's getting a job.
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Series
Ramona Quimby volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
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Description
When her father loses his job, seven-year-old Ramona Quimby thinks of ways to deal with the many problems that develop.
30) A faraway island
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Formats
Description
In 1939 Sweden, two Jewish sisters wait for their parents to join them in fleeing the Nazis in Austria, but while eight-year-old Nellie settles in quickly, twelve-year-old Stephie feels stranded at the end of the world, with a foster mother who is as cold and unforgiving as the island on which they live.
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Series
Stink Moody volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
The shortest kid in the second grade, James Moody, also known as Stink, learns all about the shortest president of the United States, James Madison, when they celebrate Presidents' Day at school.
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Series
The Penderwicks volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Description
While vacationing with their widowed father in the Berkshire Mountains, four lovable sisters, ages four through twelve, share adventures with a local boy, much to the dismay of his snobbish mother.
Author
Series
The Penderwicks volume 4
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Formats
Description
As spring arrives on Gardam Street, there are surprises in store for each Penderwick, from neighbor Nick Geiger's expected return from the war to Batty's new dog-walking business, but her plans to use her profits to surprise her family on her eleventh birthday go astray.
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Series
The Penderwicks volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Formats
Description
The four Penderwick sisters are faced with the unimaginable prospect of their widowed father dating, and they hatch a plot to stop him.
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Series
Land of stories (Chapter books) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
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Description
"Through the mysterious powers of a cherished book of stories, twins Alex and Conner leave their world behind and find themselves in a foreign land full of wonder and magic where they come face-to-face with the fairy tale characters they grew up reading about"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Description
"When her new baby sister is born deaf, Jilly makes an online connection with a fellow fantasy fan, who happens to be black and deaf, and begins to learn about the many obstacles that exist in the world for people who are different from her." --
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Rat brothers Louie and Ralphie Ratso try to prove they can be as rough and tough as their father in the Big City, but every time they try to show how tough they are, they end up accidentally doing good deeds instead.