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Students can access the full-text encyclopedia, The New Book of Knowledge, as well as the Lands and People series - an excellent source of information for country reports, and the America the Beautiful series - a great resource for state reports.
1) Farmer boy
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
At the end of the nineteenth century, nine-year-old Almanzo lives with his family on a big farm in New York State where he raises his own two calves, helps cut ice and shear sheep, and longs for the day he can have his own colt.
Author
Series
Pacy Lin books volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Formats
Description
In the Chinese Year of the Rat, a young Taiwanese American girl faces many challenges: her best friend moves to California and a new boy comes to her school, she must find the courage to forge ahead with her dream of becoming a writer and illustrator, and she must learn to find the beauty in change.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
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 Genre: Contemporary Realistic Fiction for Middle Grades
Description
A troublesome twelve-year-old orphan, staying with an elderly artist who needs her, remembers the only other time she was happy in a foster home, with a family that truly seemed to care about her.
Author
Series
All four stars volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Just as Gladys Gatsby prepares to enter the complicated world of middle school, her secret gig as the New York Standard's youngest restaurant critic won't be a secret much longer--and Gladys must enlist the help of her Parisian aunt to be true to herself, and honest with her friends and family"--
6) Eleven
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Sam discovers an old newspaper clipping just before his eleventh birthday, it brings forth memories from his past, and, with the help of a new friend and the castle they are building, his questions are eventually answered.
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Frannie goes to dinner at a brand new French restaurant and tries her hand at being a food critic, even as she starts a campaign to warn other diners that there are insects on the menu.
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"Ten-year-old Prairie is happy being home-schooled and raising her flock of chickens, so transferring to regular school is a big change, but fortunately she meets a wonderful friend"--
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Eve gave up her belief in stories and magic after her mother's death, but a mysterious seed given her as an eleventh-birthday gift by someone she has never met takes her and a boy who claims to be a ghost on a strange journey, to where their supposedly cursed town of Beaumont, New York, flourishes.
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl Publishing
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
In 1812, Caroline receives a letter asking her to come and help on Uncle Aaron's new farm and she is happy to do so but when a thief starts sneaking around the farm, she learns that some things are not as simple as they seem.
12) Life with Lily
Author
Series
Adventures of Lily Lapp volume 1
Publisher
Revell
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Introduces Lily Lapp who, beginning at age five, finds opportunities for blessings, laughter, learning, and mischief as she explores her Amish community, welcomes a new baby brother, begins school, and spends time with family and friends.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Children's Book Battles: 5th Grade
Children's Special Topics: Middle School Book Battles - Past & Present
Children's Special Topics: Middle School Book Battles - Past & Present
Formats
Description
"Destiny leads 11-year-old Cady to a peanut butter factory, a family of children searching for their own Talents, and a Talent Thief who will alter her life forever"--Provided by publisher. Includes cake recipes.
14) This wicked fate
Author
Series
This poison heart volume 2
Pub. Date
2022
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Briseis races to save her family even as she discovers more about their ties to ancient goddesses and deadly curses"--
Author
Publisher
Little A
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Every morning, seventeen-year-old Maria Anís Rosario takes the subway an hour from her boisterous and close-knit family in Queens to her private high school on the Upper East Side, where she struggles to fit in as one of the only Latina students--until Rocky welcomes her into this new life. White, rebellious, and ignored by her wealthy parents, Rocky uses her money toward one goal: to get away with anything. To Maria, it's a dazzling privilege....
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"Eleven-year-old Carolina's summer -- and life as she knows it -- is upended when Papi loses his job, and she and her family must move from Puerto Rico to her Tía Cuca and Uncle Porter's house in upstate New York. Now Carolina must attend Silver Meadows camp, where her bossy older cousin Gabriela rules the social scene. Just as Carolina worries she'll have to spend the entire summer in Gabriela's shadow, she makes a friend of her own in Jennifer,...
17) Skeleton Man
Author
Series
Skeleton Man (Joseph Bruchac) volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
After her parents disappear and she is turned over to the care of a strange "great-uncle," Molly must rely on her dreams about an old Mohawk story for her safety and maybe even for her life.
19) Heist society
Author
Series
Heist society novels volume 1
Publisher
Disney/Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
A group of teenagers uses their combined talents to re-steal several priceless paintings and save fifteen-year-old Kat Bishop's father, himself an international art thief, from a vengeful collector.
20) Fashion frenzy
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
When Frannie "practices being a fashion designer" at the mother- daughter fashion show, everyone is surprised by the consequences.
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