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1) Pax
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Children's Awards: California Young Reader Medal (Intermediate Grades 3-5)
NYT - Middle Grade Paperback
NYT - Middle Grade Paperback
Description
"From bestselling and award-winning author Sara Pennypacker comes a beautifully wrought, utterly compelling novel about the powerful relationship between a boy and his fox. Pax is destined to become a classic, beloved for generations to come. Pax and Peter have been inseparable ever since Peter rescued him as a kit. But one day, the unimaginable happens: Peter's dad enlists in the military and makes him return the fox to the wild. At his grandfather's...
Author
Series
The thickety volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Formats
Description
When Kara Westfall was five years old, her mother was convicted of the worst of all crimes: witchcraft. Years later, Kara and her little brother, Taff, are still shunned by the people of their village, who believe that nothing is more evil than magic ... except, the mysterious forest that covers nearly the entire island. It has many names, this place. Sometimes it is called the Dark Wood, or Sordyr's Realm. But mostly it's called the Thickety. The...
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
In love with the girl he sneezed on on the first day of school and best pals with Marshall, the "One Eyed Jack" of friends, seventh-grader Milo Cruikshank misses his mother whose death has changed everything at home.
Author
Publisher
Yellow Jacket
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
Eleven-year-old Beulah "Blue" Warren, a fearless girl surrounded by boys, is beginning to forget her deceased mother but a new revelation gives her the strength to grieve for her mother once and for all.
6) Verify
Author
Series
Verify volume 1
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
When Meri Beckley looks at the peaceful Chicago streets, she feels pride in the era of unprecedented hope and prosperity over which the governor presides. But when her mother is killed, Meri suddenly has questions that no one else seems to be asking. And when she tries to uncover her mother's state of mind in her last weeks, she finds herself drawn into a secret world with a history she didn't know existed. Faced with a choice between accepting the...
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"Amelia Albright dreams about going to Florida for spring break like everyone else in her class, but her father--a cranky and stubborn English professor--has decided Florida is too much adventure. Now Amelia is stuck at home with him and her babysitter, the beloved Mrs. O'Brien. The week ahead promises to be boring, until Amelia meets Casey at her neighborhood art studio. Amelia has never been friends with a boy before, and the experience is both...
Author
Publisher
Wednesday Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
Since her mother's death, Madeline "Gwen" Hathaway has been determined that nothing in her life will change ever again. She keeps extensive lists in journals, has had only one friend since childhood, and looks forward to the monotony of working the ren faire circuit with her father. They arrive at the end-of-tour stop to find the faire is under new management and completely changed. Arthur, the son of the new owners and an actual lute-playing bard,...
Author
Publisher
Annick Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"Ghosts aren't meant to stick around forever . . . Ghosts are everywhere in Shelly's life. Recently passed people, pets, and a boy who lives in the local graveyard and lends her Smiths tapes are all part of spirit world she and her grandmother are privy to. In the tradition of their Cree ancestors, Shelly and her grandmother help these lost souls transition to the next world by catching them in their hair. But when Shelly's mom dies, her relationship...
10) The portal
Author
Series
Tangled in time volume 1
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Life used to be great for Rose: full of friends, a loving mom, and a growing fashion blog. But when her mother dies in a car crash, Rose is sent away to live with a strange grandmother she hardly knows and forced to attend a new school where mean girls ridicule her at every turn. The one place Rose finds refuge is in her grandmother's Tudor-style greenhouse. But one night, she sees a strange light glowing from within it. She climbs a ladder to investigate......
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