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Author
Series
The candymakers volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Description
When four twelve-year-olds, including Logan, who has grown up never leaving his parents' Life Is Sweet candy factory, compete in the Confectionary Association's annual contest, they unexpectedly become friends and uncover secrets about themselves during the process.
Author
Series
Ascendance trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Children's Genre: Adventure Books for Middle Schoolers
Children's Read Alikes: Cinder
Children's Read Alikes: Harry Potter
Children's Recommended: E-Audiobook Fiction for Middle Grades
Children's Read Alikes: Cinder
Children's Read Alikes: Harry Potter
Children's Recommended: E-Audiobook Fiction for Middle Grades
Description
In a discontented kingdom, civil war is brewing. To unify the divided people, Conner, a nobleman of the court, devises a cunning plan to find an impersonator of the king's long-lost son and install him as a puppet prince. Four orphans are recruited to compete for the role, including a defiant boy named Sage. Sage knows that Conner's motives are more than questionable, yet his life balances on a sword's point -- he must be chosen to play the prince...
Author
Series
The candymakers volume 2
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Logan, Miles, Philip, and Daisy embark on a tour to promote the winning candy bar and experience an adventurous journey full of hidden treasures, secret worlds, and candy.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
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Description
A New York Times Bestseller! By the author of The Mysterious Benedict Society, this heart-pounding mystery adventure is laced with magic and humor. When Reuben discovers an extraordinary antique watch with a secret power, his life takes an intriguing turn. As one secret leads to another, Reuben finds himself torn between his honest nature and the lure to be a hero. Now he is on a dangerous adventure - full of curious characters, treacherous traps,...
Author
Series
Greenglass House volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nothing is what it seems and there's always more than one side to the story as a group of strangers trapped in an inn slowly reveal their secrets in this new standalone mystery set in the world of the best-selling Greenglass House.
6) Float
Author
Series
Float (Laura Martin) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Formats
Description
"Emerson can float... he just can't do it very well. His uncontrollable floating is his RISK factor, which means that he deals with Reoccurring Incidents of the Strange Kind. The last place Emerson wants to be is at a government-mandated summer camp for RISK kids like him, so he's shocked when he actually starts having fun at camp--and he even makes some new friends. But it's not all canoeing and capture the flag at Camp Outlier. The summer of fun...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Children's New Books: Featured New Books for January 2022
Children's New Books: November 2021 Middle Grade Fiction
Children's Recommended: Best of 2021 School Library Journal
Children's Special Topics: New e-Books November 2021
Children's New Books: November 2021 Middle Grade Fiction
Children's Recommended: Best of 2021 School Library Journal
Children's Special Topics: New e-Books November 2021
Description
"We shall all, in the end, be led to where we belong. We shall all, in the end, find our way home. In a time of war, a mysterious child appears at the monastery of the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowing. Gentle Brother Edik finds the girl, Beatryce, curled in a stall, wracked with fever, coated in dirt and blood, and holding fast to the ear of Answelica the goat. As the monk nurses Beatryce to health, he uncovers her dangerous secret, one that imperils...
8) The fort
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Five middle schoolers find a fully stocked bomb shelter constructed decades ago in the local woods by an eccentric tycoon and lost until a hurricane exposes the entrance. So, how to keep the hideout secret from interfering grown-ups--and, more particularly, from scary teen psychopath, Jaeger Devlin.
Author
Series
Magisterium volume 2
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Children's Recommended: E-Audiobook Fiction for Middle Grades
Children's Recommended: Summer Reads for Middle Schoolers
Children's Recommended: Summer Reads for Middle Schoolers
Formats
Description
Callum Hunt's life has been difficult ever since he was admitted to the Magisterium, since his father suspects him of being evil, and his closest companion is a Chaos-ridden wolf--but when he discovers that his father may be trying to destroy both him and Havoc, he escapes back to the magical world and he and his friends Aaron and Tamara, become involved in the search for the stolen Alkahest, a copper gauntlet with dangerous powers.
10) Bluefish
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Everything changes for thirteen-year-old Travis, a new student who is trying to hide a learning disability, when he meets a remarkable teacher and a sassy classmate with her own secrets.
Author
Series
Princess in Black volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Children's Read Alikes: Captain Underpants
Children's Recommended: 3rd Grade 2021
Children's Recommended: 3rd Grade 2023
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Children's Recommended: 3rd Grade 2021
Children's Recommended: 3rd Grade 2023
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Description
Princess Magnolia is having hot chocolate and scones with Duchess Wigtower when ... Brring! Brring! The monster alarm! A big blue monster is threatening the goats! Stopping monsters is no job for dainty Princess Magnolia. But luckily Princess Magnolia has a secret -- she's also the Princess in Black, and stopping monsters is the perfect job for her! Can the princess sneak away, transform into her alter ego, and defeat the monster before the nosy duchess...
12) The bronze key
Author
Series
Magisterium volume 3
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Children's Recommended: E-Audiobook Fiction for Middle Grades
Children's Recommended: Summer Reads for Middle Schoolers
Children's Recommended: Summer Reads for Middle Schoolers
Formats
Description
Things have been better for Callum Hunt since the evil Constantine Madden was "officially" destroyed, even his relations with his father have improved, so he is happy to get back to the Magisterium for his Bronze Year to continue his magical studies--but when one of the students is murdered, Call and his friends, Tamara and Aaron, must track down the killer, without revealing the fact that Call is Madden reborn.
Author
Series
The keepers trilogy (Lian Tanner) volume 1
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
©2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Goldie, an impulsive and bold twelve-year-old, escapes the oppressive city of Jewel, where children are required to wear guardchains for their protection, and finds refuge in the extraordinary Museum of Dunt, an ever-shifting world where she discovers a useful talent for thievery and mysterious secrets that threaten her city and everyone she loves.
Author
Series
Tales from the sinister city volume 1
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When Ludlow Fitch runs away from his thieving parents in the City, he meets up with the mysterious Joe Zabbidou, who calls himself a secret pawnbroker, and who takes Ludlow as an apprentice to record the confessions of the townspeople of Pagus Parvus, where resentments are many and trust is scarce.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Every school has its secrets, but in Ms. Snickle's classroom the secrets are extraordinary, and when Lacey sets out to learn and tell them all, she puts Ms. Snickle's job in jeopardy.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Before: Ethan was always up for a laugh, always willing to accept a dare, always ready for a baseball game with his big brother, Roddie, or an adventure with his best friend, Kacey. Now: Ethan's family is escaping Boston for the small town of Palm Knot, Georgia. But Ethan's not sure he'll ever escape the memories of the accident that cost him everything. When Ethan meets Coralee, a girl with a big personality and even bigger stories, he starts to...
Author
Series
Flat Stanley's worldwide adventures volume 5
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Confident that Stanley can succeed where international spies and thieves have failed, Stanley's mom who loves to cook mails him to Mexico to get a secret herbal ingredient that she must have.
18) The Twelve
Author
Series
Twelve (Lin) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Usagi can hear a squirrel's heartbeat from a mile away, and soar over treetops in one giant leap. She was born in the year of the wood rabbit, and it's given her extraordinary zodiac gifts. But she can never use them, not while the mysterious, vicious Dragonlord hunts down all those in her land with zodiac powers. Instead, she must keep her abilities--and those of her rambunctious sister Uma--a secret. After Uma is captured by the Dragonguard, Usagi...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Finley Hart is sent to her grandparents' house for the summer, but her anxiety and overwhelmingly sad days continue until she escapes into her writings which soon turn mysteriously real and she realizes she must save this magical world in order to save herself.
20) Trolled
Author
Series
Enchanted files volume 3
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Ned Thump is a seven-foot troll who is made fun of for his love of words so he escapes from the Enchanted Realm to the human world and secretly becomes a night watchman at Grand Central Terminal.
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