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Series
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
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: 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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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
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.
7) Wisconsin
Author
Publisher
Bellwether Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Get ready for a taste of America's Dairyland! In this fact-filled title, readers can discover what makes Wisconsin great, from its booming dairy industry to its beautiful natural areas. Features map of the state's important cities and landforms, examines historical events, highlights inventions from the state, and introduces a native animal. Take a trip to Wisconsin with this fact-filled title!"--
9) Wisconsin
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
11) Caddie Woodlawn
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: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 31
Language
English
Description
A tale reminiscent of "Hamlet" that also celebrates the alliance between humans and dogs. It follows speech-disabled Wisconsin youth Edgar, who bonds with three yearling canines and struggles to prove that his sinister uncle is responsible for his father's death.
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A recklessly idealistic girl tests the limits of her oppressively controlled, dystopian world and is punished by being sent back in time to Wainscotia, Wisconsin, eighty years in the past, only to fall fatefully in love with a fellow exile.
Author
Publisher
Jove
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Jobless and forced home to Wisconsin, journalist Sabrina Monroe can tolerate reunions with frenemies and kisses from old boyfriends but not the literal ghosts that greet her... For Sabrina Monroe, moving back home to the Wisconsin Dells--the self-described Water Park Capital of the World--means returning to the Monroe family curse: the women in her family can see spirits who come to them for help with unfinished business. But Sabrina has always redirected...
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.
17) Send for me
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the author of the highly praised Days of Awe: a sweeping, achingly beautiful new novel that moves between Germany on the eve of World War II and present day Wisconsin, unspooling a story of love, longing, and the ceaseless push and pull of motherhood"--
Author
Series
Bad Axe County novels volume 2
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Investigating the savage beating of a migrant worker who refuses to reveal his attacker, Sheriff Heidi Kick is catapulted into a murder case in the underground world of illicit cage fighting, before her husband suddenly disappears.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
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
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.
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