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Author
Series
The Penderwicks volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When the three younger Penderwick sisters go to Maine with Aunt Claire and are separated from oldest sister Rosalind for the first time in their lives, an uncertain Skye is left in charge as the OAP--oldest available Penderwick.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Children's Awards: Newbery Honor for Distinguished Literature
Children's Awards: Scott O'Dell Historical Fiction Award
Children's Book Battles: 4th Grade
Children's Awards: Scott O'Dell Historical Fiction Award
Children's Book Battles: 4th Grade
Formats
Description
Left alone to guard the family's wilderness home in eighteenth-century Maine, a boy is hard-pressed to survive until local Indians teach him their skills.
Author
Publisher
Down East Books
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized account of how Spot, a springer spaniel living on Penobscot Bay in the 1930's, loves to ring the lighthouse bell, and uses that skill to guide the mailboat safely through a storm.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a circus ship runs aground off the coast of Maine, the poor animals are left on their own to swim the chilly waters. Staggering onto a nearby island, they soon win over the wary townspeople with their kind, courageous ways. So well do the critters blend in that when the greedy circus owner returns to claim them, villagers of all species conspire to outsmart the bloated blowhard.
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Irreverent, foul-mouthed, seventeen-year-old Cricket Cherpin, living under the watchful eye of Mother Mary at a Catholic boys' home in Maine, has such bleak prospects he is considering suicide when Wynona Bidaban steps into his world.
6) Romeo blue
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
During World War II, Felicity Bathburn is living in Bottlebay, Maine, with her eccentric relatives and their foster child Derek, whom she has grown to love, but when a man claiming to be Derek's true father arrives and starts asking all sorts of strange questions Felicity becomes suspicious of his motives.
7) Moo
Author
Publisher
Joanna Cotler Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Follows the efforts of twelve-year-old Reena, who has recently moved to rural Maine, to adjust to a new environment while unexpectedly bonding with an ornery cow.
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
During World War II, eleven-year-old Felicity is sent from London to Bottlebay, Maine, to live with her grandmother, aunt, uncle, and a reclusive boy who helps her decode mysterious letters that contain the truth about her missing parents.
11) Fudge-a-mania
Author
Series
Fudge books volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Peter chronicles his family's vacation in Maine highlighted by the antics of his younger brother Fudge and the presence of his sworn enemy Sheila Tubman.
12) Delirium
Author
Series
Delirium trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lena looks forward to receiving the government-mandated cure that prevents the delirium of love and leads to a safe, predictable, and happy life, until right before her eighteenth birthday and her treatment, when she falls in love.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
After their mother falls mysteriously ill, eleven-year-old twins Gus and Leo and their mute younger sister, Ila, learn that they share their mother's ability to transform into animals, and to defeat the evil King of the Black Lakes, they must harness this newfound power.
14) Time of wonder
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[c1957]
Language
English
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Description
Follows the activities of two children spending their summer vacation on an island off the coast of Maine.
15) Bright Island
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Children's Awards: Newbery Honor for Distinguished Literature
Children's Classics: for Middle School Students
Children's Classics: for Middle School Students
Description
When sixteen-year-old Thankful Curtis must leave Bright Island, Maine, for the first time in 1937, she has trouble adjusting to life on the mainland, new people, and "proper schooling," and yearns for her days of farming with her father and sailing.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
©2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When a giant glowing fungus encroaches upon thirteen-year-old Eric's small town, he, his little brother Brian, and a runaway girl try to stop it--and figure out what happened to the Puritan town that had mysteriously disappeared from the same spot.
18) Orbiting Jupiter
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Appears on these lists
AUSD Book Battles 2024: 8th Grade
Children's Special Topics: Middle School Book Battles - Past & Present
Children's Special Topics: Middle School Book Battles - Past & Present
Formats
Description
Joseph was a father at thirteen, but has never seen his daughter, Jupiter. He has spent time in a juvenile facility, and now is with a foster family on a farm in rural Maine. Damaged and withdrawn, Joseph meets twelve-year-old Jack, Together they discover the true meaning of family and the sacrifices it requires when Joseph decides to find his baby at any cost.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Children's New Books: May 2022 Middle Grade Fiction
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Children's: New e-Books February 2023
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Children's: New e-Books February 2023
Patron Request 11/8/2023
Description
Eleven-year-old Aurora Petrequin's best friend has never spoken a word to her. In fact, Frenchie Livernois doesn't talk. Aurora is bouncy, loud and impulsive. Making friends has never come easily. When Frenchie, who is autistic, silently chose Aurora as his person back in third grade, she chose him back. They make a good team, sharing their love of the natural world in coastal Maine. In the woods, Aurora and Frenchie encounter a piebald deer, a rare...
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