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Author
Series
All the wrong questions volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Lemony Snicket begins his apprenticeship with S. Theodora Markson of the secretive V.F.D. in the tiny dot of a town called Stain'd By The Sea, where he helps investigate the theft of a statue.
2) Winterhouse
Author
Series
Winterhouse volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Children's Book Battles: 2021_22 Middle Schools
Children's Special Topics: Middle School Book Battles - Past & Present
Children's Special Topics: Middle School Book Battles - Past & Present
Description
Orphan Elizabeth Somers's malevolent aunt and uncle ship her off to the ominous Winterhouse Hotel, owned by the peculiar Norbridge Falls. Upon arrival, Elizabeth quickly discovers that Winterhouse has many charms-most notably its massive library. It's not long before she locates a magical book of puzzles that will unlock a mystery involving Norbridge and his sinister family. But the deeper she delves into the hotel's secrets, the more Elizabeth starts...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Description
My name is Failure, Timmy Failure. I am the founder, president, and CEO of the best detective agency in town, probably the nation. The book you are holding is a historical record of my life as a detective. It has been rigorously fact-checked. All the drawings in here are by me. I tried to get my business partner to do the illustrations, but they were not good.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Children's Awards: C. S. King Honor for Afr. Amer. Author/Illustrator
Children's Recommended: 5th Grade
Children's Recommended: E-Books Fiction for Middle Grades
Children's Special Topics: Black History Month 2024
Children's Recommended: 5th Grade
Children's Recommended: E-Books Fiction for Middle Grades
Children's Special Topics: Black History Month 2024
Description
Twelve-year-old Candice Miller is spending the summer in Lambert, South Carolina, in the old house that belonged to her grandmother, who died after being dismissed as city manager for having the city tennis courts dug up looking for buried treasure--but when she finds the letter that sent her grandmother on the treasure hunt, she finds herself caught up in the mystery and, with the help of her new friend and fellow book-worm, Brandon, she sets out...
Author
Series
Judy Moody volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
When a puppy who is being trained as a police dog goes missing, third-grader Judy forms a detective agency to solve the mystery, imitating her literary heroine, Nancy Drew.
6) Holes
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Children's Awards: National Book Award for Young People's Literature
Children's Awards: Newbery Medal for Distinguished Literature
Children's Awards: Newbery Medal for Distinguished Literature
Description
As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.
Author
Series
Mr. Lemoncello's library volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Children's Awards: California Young Reader Medal (Intermediate Grades 3-5)
Children's Book Battles: 4th Grade
Children's Read Alikes: Series of Unfortunate Events
Children's Book Battles: 4th Grade
Children's Read Alikes: Series of Unfortunate Events
Description
Kyle Keeley is the class clown, popular with most kids (if not the teachers), and an ardent fan of all games: board games, word games, and particularly video games. His hero, Luigi Lemoncello, the most notorious and creative gamemaker in the world, just so happens to be the genius behind the building of the new town library. Lucky Kyle wins a coveted spot to be one of the first 12 kids in the library for an overnight of fun, food, and lots and lots...
8) Hoot
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Children's Awards: Newbery Honor for Distinguished Literature
Children's Genre: Contemporary Realistic Fiction for Middle Grades
Children's Special Topics: Bullying (Chapter Books)
Children's Genre: Contemporary Realistic Fiction for Middle Grades
Children's Special Topics: Bullying (Chapter Books)
Description
Everybody loves Mother Paula's pancakes. Everybody, that is, except the colony of cute but endangered owls that live on the building site of the new restaurant. Can the awkward new kid, Roy, and his feral friend prank the pancake people out of town? Or is the owls' fate cemented in pancake batter?
Publisher
AIMS Multimedia
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Turtle Wexler's family just moved to a new neighbourhood ... right next to the haunted Westing Mansion. On a dare from her new friends, Turtle sneaks into the mansion only to find the scene of a crime. It's the biggest mystery in the city's history. With a handful of clues and a house full of suspects, Turtle gathers the evidence with her brainy partner Chris to cash in on a 20 million dollar reward.
10) Son
Author
Series
Giver quartet volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Unlike the other Birthmothers in her utopian community, teenaged Claire forms an attachment to her baby, feeling a great loss when he is taken to the Nurturing Center to be adopted by a family unit.
11) Swindle
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Children's Genre: Adventure Books for Grades 3-5
Children's Recommended: 5th Grade
Children's Recommended: E-Audiobook Fiction for Middle Grades
Children's Recommended: E-Books Fiction for Middle Grades
Children's Recommended: 5th Grade
Children's Recommended: E-Audiobook Fiction for Middle Grades
Children's Recommended: E-Books Fiction for Middle Grades
Description
After unscrupulous collector S. Wendell Palomino cons him out of a valuable baseball card, sixth-grader Griffin Bing puts together a band of misfits to break into Palomino's heavily guarded store and steal the card back, planning to use the money to finance his father's failing invention, the SmartPick fruit picker.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Join Hanna-Barbera's best known creations for plenty of cartoon fun and trivia, songs and recipes. Scooby, Shaggy and the rest of the gang race to unmask an armor-clad art swindler, follow a ghost ship's missing crew to a phantom-infested isle, pursue a soggy sea-spook, unearth a kooky counterfeiting caper, and snare the culprit who pilfered a pack of prize-winning pooches.
Author
Series
Charlie Thorne volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Children's New Books: September 2020 eBooks and eAudiobooks
Children's Recommended: 6th Grade 2021
Children's Recommended: E-Audiobook Fiction for Middle Grades
Children's Recommended: Summer Reads for Middle Schoolers
Children's Recommended: 6th Grade 2021
Children's Recommended: E-Audiobook Fiction for Middle Grades
Children's Recommended: Summer Reads for Middle Schoolers
Description
Decades ago, Albert Einstein devised an equation that could benefit all life on earth or destroy it. Fearing what would happen if the equation fell into the wrong hands, he hid it. But now, a diabolical group known as the Furies are closing in on its location. In desperation, a team of CIA agents drags Charlie into the hunt, needing her brilliance to find it first even though this means placing her life in grave danger.
Author
Series
Theodore Boone volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the small city of Strattenburg there are many lawyers, and thirteen-year-old Theo Boone thinks he is one of them, but his inside knowledge of the justice system means trouble when a cold-blooded killer is about to go free and only Theo can stop him.
15) Masterpiece
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
After Marvin, a beetle, makes a miniature drawing as an eleventh birthday gift for James, a human with whom he shares a house, the two new friends work together to help recover a Durer drawing stolen from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Author
Language
English
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Children's Awards: Caldecott Medal for Quality Illustrations
Children's Awards: National Book Award for Young People's Literature Finalist
Children's Awards: National Book Award for Young People's Literature Finalist
Description
Don't miss Selznick's other novels in words and pictures, Wonderstruck and The Marvels, which together with The Invention of Hugo Cabret, form an extraordinary thematic trilogy!2008 Caldecott Medal winnerThe groundbreaking debut novel from bookmaking pioneer, Brian Selznick!Orphan, clock keeper, and thief, Hugo lives in the walls of a busy Paris train station, where his survival depends on secrets and anonymity....
Author
Series
Superstition Mountain mysteries volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Formats
Description
The Barker Brothers are determined to uncover the mystery surrounding Superstition Mountain.
Author
Series
Moon Base Alpha volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Children's Recommended: 6th Grade
Children's Recommended: E-Audiobook Fiction for Middle Grades
Children's Recommended: Summer Reads for Middle Schoolers
Summer 2023 Must Reads — Middle School
Children's Recommended: E-Audiobook Fiction for Middle Grades
Children's Recommended: Summer Reads for Middle Schoolers
Summer 2023 Must Reads — Middle School
Formats
Description
"Dashiell Gibson, who lives on Moon Base Alpha, has to solve a murder of one of the moon's most prominent doctors"--
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
First, the gang goes snowboarding with Chris Klug, then they hang-out with scientists at a NASA-like facility, next they jet off to a museum in Costa Rica, and finally end up at Mardi Gras in New Orleans. Along the way they encounter a snow monster, alien baby, "gigantisaurus," and the feuding Leland brothers, carrying their Civil War grudge beyond the grave. Cracking each case goes high-tech with a slew of internet-age gadgets in exciting new locales...
Series
Publisher
New Line Home Enertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
A young girl enlists the help of her friends to solve a robbery in her home that threatens to put her family's house into foreclosure, after her father leaves town to look for work and her mother takes in borders to make ends meet.
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