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Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Original series volume 22
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Geronimo is invited to Creepella von Cacklefur's spooky castle, he is surrounded by the gloom of the castle as well as by Creepella's creepy family!
Author
Series
Wings of fire. Original series volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Description
The five dragonets of the prophecy are hoping to hide in safety in the RainWing kingdom, and Glory is hoping to learn more about her own identity, but when tribe members start disappearing and the old queen does nothing, it is up to Glory and her friends to uncover the lurking evil.
4) Legacy
Author
Series
Keeper of the lost cities volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 32
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Illusions shatter--and Sophie and her friends face impossible choices--in this astonishing eighth book in the New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling Keeper of the Lost Cities series. Sophie Foster wants answers. But after a lifetime of lies, sometimes the truth is the most dangerous discovery. Even the smallest secret comes with terrifying new responsibilities. And Sophie's not the only one with blank spots in her past, or mysteries surrounding...
Author
Series
Fourteenth goldfish volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Description
Eleven-year-old Ellie has never liked change. She misses fifth grade. She misses her old best friend. She even misses her dearly departed goldfish. Then one day a strange boy shows up. He's bossy. He's cranky. And weirdly enough ... he looks a lot like Ellie's grandfather, a scientist who's always been slightly obsessed with immortality. Could this pimply boy really be Grandpa Melvin? Has he finally found the secret to eternal youth?
Author
Series
Keeper of the lost cities volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Children's Awards: California Young Reader Medal (Middle School)
Children's Book Battles: 5th Grade
Children's Genre: Adventure Books for Middle Schoolers
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Children's Book Battles: 5th Grade
Children's Genre: Adventure Books for Middle Schoolers
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Description
At age twelve, Sophie learns that the remarkable abilities that have always caused her to stand out identify her as an elf, and after being brought to Eternalia to hone her skills, discovers that she has secrets buried in her memory for which some would kill.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
This work is a fantasy children's novel that explores the concept of immortality and the reasons why it might not be as desirable as it appears to be. Doomed to -- or blessed with -- eternal life after drinking from a magic spring, the Tuck family wanders about trying to live as inconspicuously and comfortably as they can. When ten-year-old Winnie Foster stumbles on their secret, the Tucks take her home and explain why living forever at one age is...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
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
It was a dark and stormy night Meg Murry, her small brother Charles Wallace, and her mother had come down to the kitchen for a midnight snack when they were upset by the arrival of a most disturbing stranger. "Wild nights are my glory," the unearthly stranger told them. "I just got caught in a downdraft and blown off course. Let me sit down for a moment, and then I'll be on my way. Speaking of ways, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract."...
Author
Publisher
Kathy Dawson Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old Lyndie and her parents must move to her grandparents' home in small-town Tennessee in 1985, having to keep all family problems private only adds to their problems.--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Description
Thirteen-year-old Ellsworth leaves his father to visit the relatives he has never met and eventually joins forces with Jess, his distant cousin, to uncover family secrets and search for their ancestor's hidden treasure.
11) One small step
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
©2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In 1969 Houston, Texas, thirteen-year-old Scott learns to fly from his father, an Air Force flight instructor, but when NASA needs him for a secret space mission, Scott's elation is tempered by concern that his mother, who has moved to Florida, will find out.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In the Bronx, New York, during the McCarthy era, twelve-year-old Jamie keeps a terrible secret about her family, but when the truth is exposed, her parents lose their jobs and she is fired from the school newspaper.
13) Winterhouse
Author
Series
Winterhouse volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Children's Book Battles: 2021_22 Middle Schools
Children's Special Topics: Middle School Book Battles - Past & Present
Children's Special Topics: Middle School Book Battles - Past & Present
Description
Orphan Elizabeth Somers's malevolent aunt and uncle ship her off to the ominous Winterhouse Hotel, owned by the peculiar Norbridge Falls. Upon arrival, Elizabeth quickly discovers that Winterhouse has many charms-most notably its massive library. It's not long before she locates a magical book of puzzles that will unlock a mystery involving Norbridge and his sinister family. But the deeper she delves into the hotel's secrets, the more Elizabeth starts...
14) Seeing red
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old Frederick "Red" Porter's father dies in 1972, his mother wants to sell their automobile repair shop and move her two sons back to Ohio, but Red is desperate to stop the sale even if it means unearthing some dark family secrets in a Virginia rife with racial tensions.
Author
Series
Starring Jules volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Second grade is over and Jules is on her way to Quebec to film a spy movie, but she misses all her friends, and with only a hockey player and a diva starlet as cast mates in a place where nobody speaks English, she is feeling lonely--and her mother will not even let her go bungee-jumping.
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Description
"Dust Bowl refugee Gloria Mae Willard finds herself uprooted and working on a California peach orchard, where she tries to join the secret, all-boys baseball team that she's desperate to play on"--
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Description
When fourteen-year-old Norvia moves from Beaver Island to Boyne City in 1914, she has to contend with a new school, a first crush, and a blended family, but she also must keep secret her parents' divorce and her Ojibwe heritage. Includes author's note.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Catholic Stefania Podgórska has worked in the Diamant family's grocery store in for four years, even falling in love with one of their sons, Izio; but when the Nazis came to Przemsyl, Poland, the Jewish Diamants are forced into the ghetto (and worse) and only Izio's brother Max manages to escape, and Stefania embarks on a dangerous course--protecting thirteen Jews in her attic, caring for her younger sister, Helena, and keeping everything...
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Isaiah Wilson is, on the surface, a town troublemaker, but is hiding that he is an avid reader and secret poet, never leaving home without his journal. A passionate follower of W.E.B. Du Bois, he believes that black people should rise up to claim their place as equals.Sixteen-year-old Angel Hill is a loner, mostly disregarded by her peers as a goody-goody. Her father is dying, and her family's financial situation is in turmoil....
Author
Series
Shiloh quartet volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
Christmas is coming and Marty and his rescued pup Shiloh are sure glad about that, for their town is running low on love and understanding and they hope that the joy of the holiday will bring with it the generosity of spirit that's so lacking.
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