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1) The getaway
Author
Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 12
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Greg Heffley and his family escape to a tropical island resort for some much-needed rest and relaxation, but sun poisoning, stomach troubles, and venomous creatures all threaten their vacation.
2) The deep end
Author
Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 15
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
On their a cross-country camping trip, Greg Heffley and his family find themselves stranded at an RV park that's not exactly a summertime paradise and when the skies open up and the water starts to rise, the Heffleys wonder if they can save their vacation--or if they're already in too deep.
Author
Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The Heffley family road trip starts off full of promise, then quickly takes several wrong turns--with everything from a fender bender to crazed seagulls--but even the worst road trip can turn into an adventure, and this is one the Heffleys will not soon forget.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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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: E-Audiobook Fiction for Middle Grades
Children's Recommended: E-Books Fiction for Middle Grades
Description
"Alix and her older sister, Jools, have never been to the ocean. When their parents take them to spend a week by the shore, Alix is nervous about leaving home--but excited, too. At the beach, the sisters make friends, go exploring, and have adventures big and small"--
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Original series volume 45
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
I invited my friend Petunia Pretty Paws to visit the Bay of Whales with me. But our trip got off on the wrong paw, and my relaxing vacation turned into a real nightmare. That is, until Petunia and I came across a great white whale that needed our help.
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
Series
The Penderwicks volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Children's Awards: National Book Award for Young People's Literature
Children's Genre: Contemporary Realistic Fiction for Middle Grades
Children's Recommended: High Lexile Fiction for Younger Children
Children's Special Topics: Family & Friends Chapter Books
Children's Genre: Contemporary Realistic Fiction for Middle Grades
Children's Recommended: High Lexile Fiction for Younger Children
Children's Special Topics: Family & Friends Chapter Books
Description
While vacationing with their widowed father in the Berkshire Mountains, four lovable sisters, ages four through twelve, share adventures with a local boy, much to the dismay of his snobbish mother.
8) Dog days
Author
Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
In the latest diary of middle-schooler Greg Heffley, he records his attempts to spend his summer vacation sensibly indoors playing video games and watching television, despite his mother's other ideas.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Company
Pub. Date
c1988
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
While spending the summer at Grandmary's summer home on Goose Lake, Samantha and her twin cousins decide to visit the island where Samantha's parents were drowned during a storm.
Author
Series
Seagate summers series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Remy loves the traditions of Sea Gate, the island where her family spends every summer vacation, but after her grandmother and a special dog die, and her relationship with best friends Bennett and Micayla changes, Remy takes comfort in the company of the island's Dog Beach--where she hatches a plan to bring her friends closer and recapture the Sea Gate magic.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Portia and her family return with cousin Julian to the site they visited the previous summer, this time to take possession of a large Victorian house, unoccupied for fifty years and full of treasures and secrets.
Author
Series
Fudge books volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sheila Tubman is not quite sure who she is. Just when she's convinced that she really is confident, witty Sheila the Great, she is confronted with her worst fears. Faced with long-eared dogs, swimming lessons, and spiders, Sheila may be forced to admit that she's not a supergirl after all.
13) Gone-Away Lake
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Portia and her cousin Julian discover adventure in a hidden colony of forgotten summer houses on the shores of a swampy lake.
Author
Series
Alice-Miranda books volume 2
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When Alice-Miranda goes home to her family's lavish estate for the school holidays, along with her best friend Jacinta, their break is not exactly what they expected because of a cranky boy causing mischief, a visiting movie star, a snooping stranger, and a grandmother with a family secret.
Author
Series
Creeper diaries volume 5
Publisher
Sky Pony Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"The Creeper family is planning a month-long summer vacation! But where will they go?"--
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Nell is a city girl forced to spend her summer in Roanoke, North Carolina, but when she meets historical reenactor Ambrose, they explore for clues as to what really happened to the lost colonists, turning her once boring vacation into an adventure.
Author
Series
Nicholas series volume 3
Publisher
Phaidon
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Nicholas, a young French schoolboy, heads for the beach with his parents and then to overnight camp with a new set of friends. Whether he's playing miniature golf, going on a fishing trip, or heading out to a treasure hunt in the middle of the night, he always seems to get into mischief.
18) Artsy-fartsy
Author
Series
Aldo Zelnick comic novels volume 1
Publisher
Bailiwick Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When Aldo Zelnick's painter grandmother gives him a sketchbook to use during summer vacation, he starts to fill it in with pictures and text, even though he thinks that being artsy is uncool at first, in a book featuring vocabulary starting with A.
19) Cahoots
Author
Series
Aldo Zelnick comic novels volume 3
Publisher
Bailiwick Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
When they spend a week at their aunt and uncle's farm without any electronic entertainment, Aldo and his brother try to find other ways to occupy themselves while dealing with their twin cousins, in a book featuring vocabulary starting with C.
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Original series volume 78
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"My sister Thea and my cousin Trap were not getting along! When Grandfather found them arguing over who would get to join me on a trip to Brazil, he forced us all to go together. My friend Isabela needed my help finding a mysterious emerald. Could Trap and Thea stop shouting their snouts off long enough to help find the stone?" -- Back cover.
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