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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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A year in the life of two young girls growing up on the Wisconsin frontier, as they help their mother with the daily chores, enjoy their father's stories and singing, and share special occasions when they get together with relatives or neighbors.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Twelve-year-old Mitch and his mother are spending the summer with his grandparents at Bird Lake after his parents separate, and ten-year-old Spencer and his family have returned to the lake where Spencer's little brother drowned long ago, and as the boys become friends and spend time together, each of them begins to heal.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Children's Awards: Newbery Honor for Distinguished Literature
Children's New Books: September 2021 e-Books
Children's Read Alikes: My Weird School
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Children's New Books: September 2021 e-Books
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Seven-year-old Billy Miller starts second grade with a bump on his head and a lot of worries, but by the end of the year he has developed good relationships with his teacher, his little sister, and his parents and learned many important lessons.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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"On his eighth birthday, Billy Miller wishes for something exciting to happen. None of his wishes are answered the way he expects, but he does have lots of surprises--and the final one is possibly the best one ever"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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In Wisconsin, fourth-grader Ida B spends happy hours being home-schooled and playing in her family's apple orchard, until her mother begins treatment for breast cancer and her parents must sell part of the orchard and send her to public school.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Children's Awards: Newbery Medal for Distinguished Literature
Children's Classics: for Middle School Students
Children's Classics: for Middle School Students
Description
Chronicles the adventures of eleven-year-old Caddie growing up with her six brothers and sisters on the Wisconsin frontier in the mid-nineteenth century. At age 11, Caddie Woodlawn is the despair of her mother and the pride of her father: a clock-fixing tomboy running wild in the woods of Wisconsin. In 1864, this is a bit much for her Boston-bred mother to bear, but Caddie and her brothers are happy with the status quo. Written in 1935 about Carol...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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In 1871 Wisconsin, thirteen-year-old Georgia sets out to find her sister Agatha, presumed dead when remains are found wearing the dress she was last seen in, and before the end of the year gains fame as a sharpshooter and foiler of counterfeiters.
10) The Storm Makers
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Twelve-year-olds Ruby and Simon have been growing apart since their parents moved them to a Wisconsin farm, but weird weather events that seem tied to Simon's emotions bring a stranger into their lives who introduces them to the Makers of Storms Society, strengthening the bond between the twins.
Author
Publisher
Editorial Noguer
Pub. Date
©2010
Language
Español
Description
"Laura tiene cinco años y vive con sus padres y sus hermanas en una casita de madera en el bosque. Acostumbrada a vivir entre robles, ciervos, osos y lobos inunca ha visto una ciudad! Mañana iremos, anuncia inseperadamente su padre una noche. Y al día siguiente cruzan el valle en carro en dirección a la ciudad más cercana."--
12) Front and center
Author
Series
Dairy queen trilogy volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Description
During her junior year basketball season, D.J. faces the dual challenges of college recruiting and romance.
13) The off season
Author
Series
Dairy queen trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
High school junior D.J. staggers under the weight of caring for her badly injured brother, her responsibilities on the dairy farm, a changing relationship with her friend Brian, and her own athletic aspirations.
Author
Series
Dairy queen trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
After spending her summer running the family farm and training the quarterback for her school's rival football team, sixteen-year-old D.J. decides to go out for the sport herself, not anticipating the reactions of those around her.
Author
Series
Dairy queen volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Fourteen-year-old Sarah keeps a journal of her pilgrimage to Rome with her eccentric grandmother, Z, her evolving relationship with best friend Curtis, and daily conversations with Curtis's sister and star athlete, D.J.
Author
Publisher
Sŭp'unbuk
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Korean
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Children's Awards: Newbery Honor for Distinguished Literature
Children's Read Alikes: My Weird School
Children's Recommended: 3rd Grade 2021
Children's Read Alikes: My Weird School
Children's Recommended: 3rd Grade 2021
Description
Seven-year-old Billy Miller starts second grade with a bump on his head and a lot of worries, but by the end of the year he has developed good relationships with his teacher, his little sister, and his parents and learned many important lessons.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Description
"When city kid Todd Coates moves from Queens, New York, to live on a Wisconsin farm for a year, he's in for a more than just hanging out with his cousins Mila and Skipper. Strange things begin to happen all around him. But Todd is the only one who sees them. Late at night. In the cornfields. Todd is convinced there is something of the undead variety out there. Will he be able to prove it to his classmates before school is dismissed ... permanently?"--Provided...
20) The island
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
©1988
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
Fifteen-year-old Wil discovers himself and the wonders of nature when he leaves home to live on an island in northern Wisconsin.
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