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Author
Series
Catwings series volume 4
Publisher
Orchard Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Jane, a cat with wings, leaves the safety of her farm to explore the world, she falls into the hands of a man who keeps her prisoner and exploits her for money.
2) Fog magic
Author
Series
The Borrowers volume 3
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Description
A child of Nova Scotia who loves the fog is transported by it to a secret world of her own.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Children's Recommended: E-Audiobook Fiction for Middle Grades
Children's Special Topics: Fiction with Lexile Over 1000
Children's Special Topics: Fiction with Lexile Over 1000
Description
A journey through a land where Milo learns the importance of words and numbers in providing a cure for his boredom.
Author
Series
Books of Ember volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Children's Book Battles: 5th Grade
Children's Read Alikes: Hunger Games
Children's Special Topics: Middle School Book Battles - Past & Present
Children's Read Alikes: Hunger Games
Children's Special Topics: Middle School Book Battles - Past & Present
Description
In the year 241, twelve-year-old Lina trades jobs on Assignment Day to be a Messenger to run to new places in her decaying but beloved city, perhaps even to glimpse Unknown Regions.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Children's Classics: Chapter Books
Children's Classics: for Middle School Students
Children's Special Topics: Fiction with Lexile Over 1000
Children's Classics: for Middle School Students
Children's Special Topics: Fiction with Lexile Over 1000
Description
Bilbo Baggins, a hobbit, becomes a thief for a band of dwarves and soon finds himself in the midst of a war with the evil goblins and wargs, and forced to make a decision between the call of duty and the pull of the simple life.
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Alice's adventures begin when she sees a White Rabbit take a watch out of its waistcoat pocket and rush away into a rabbit hole. As she jumps to her feet to follow it, she tumbles into Wonderland, where things get "curiouser and curiouser". She meets some peculiar and unforgettable characters too - there is the Caterpillar who smokes a hookah, the vanishing Cheshire Cat with his enormous grin, and the cantankerous Queen of Hearts who constantly threatens...
Author
Series
Trials of Apollo volume 5
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Will the Greek god Apollo, cast down to Earth in the pathetic mortal form of a teenager named Lester Papadopoulos, finally regain his place on Mount Olympus? Lester's demigod friends at Camp Jupiter just helped him survive attacks from bloodthirsty ghouls, an evil Roman king and his army of the undead, and the lethal emperors Caligula and Commodus. Now the former god and his demigod master Meg must follow a prophecy uncovered by Ella the harpy. Lester's...
10) Tik-Tok of Oz
Author
Series
The Wizard of Oz series volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Introduces Ann Soforth, Queen of Oogaboo, whom Tik-Tok, the clockwork man, assists in conquering the Nome King.
Author
Series
Trials of Apollo volume 4
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
"In his penultimate adventure, a devastated but determined Apollo travels to Camp Jupiter, where he must learn what it is to be a hero, or die trying"--
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Eldest of three sisters in a land where it is considered to be a misfortune, Sophie is resigned to her fate as a hat shop apprentice until a witch turns her into an old woman and she finds herself in the castle of the greatly feared wizard Howl.
Author
Series
Earthsea series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Children's Classics: for Middle School Students
Children's Special Topics: Fiction with Lexile Over 1000
Children's Special Topics: Fiction with Lexile Over 1000
Description
Ged was the greatest sorcerer in all Earthsea, but once he was called Sparrowhawk, a reckless youth, hungry for power and knowledge, who tampered with long-held secrets and loosed a terrible shadow upon the world. This is the tale of his testing, how he mastered the mighty words of power, tamed an ancient dragon, and crossed death's threshold to restore the balance.
Author
Series
Dragon keepers volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Cousins Jesse and Daisy always knew they would have a magical adventure, but they are not prepared when the "thunder egg" Jesse has found turns out to be a dragon egg that is about to hatch.
17) Magyk
Author
Series
Septimus Heap volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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Description
After learning that she is the Princess, Jenna is whisked from her home and carried toward safety by the Extraordinary Wizard, those she always believed were her father and brother, and a young guard known only as Boy 412--pursued by agents of those who killed her mother ten years earlier.
18) Flyte
Author
Series
Septimus Heap volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Description
When Princess Jenna is pursued by a dark wizard, it is the apprentice, Septimus Heap, who must save her while enduring such terrors as a night in the Forest with hungry wolverines and carnivorous trees.
Author
Series
Books of Ember volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Lina and Doon helped the citizens of Ember escape the city that threatened to destroy them. They've been given safe haven in a small village called Sparks, a place filled with color and life. Although Sparks seems like the answer the long-suffering Emberites have been hoping for, tempers soon escalate. The villagers have never had to share their world before, and it only takes a tiny "spark" to ignite a battle between the two struggling groups. Lina...
20) The Marvellers
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Children's New Books: September 2022 Middle Grade Fiction
Children's Special Topics: 2022 SLJ Best Books of the Year_Chapter Books
Children's Special Topics: Black History Month 2024
Children's Special Topics: 2022 SLJ Best Books of the Year_Chapter Books
Children's Special Topics: Black History Month 2024
Description
"Eleven-year-old Ella Durand is the first Conjuror to attend the Arcanum Training Institute, a magic school in the clouds where Marvellers from around the world practice their cultural arts. Despite her excitement, Ella discovers that being the first isn't easy-some Marvellers mistrust her magic. Eventually, she finds friends in elixirs teacher, Masterji Thakur, and fellow misfits Brigit and Jason. When a dangerous criminal escapes prison, supposedly...
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