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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
50 years of an iconic classic! The international bestseller and inspiration for a beloved movie-now with bonus content. This special edition of the groundbreaking novel contains: Never before seen photos and letters from the publisher's archives Original review clippings and media coverage Photos from the author's personal collection A gallery of covers around the world New material from the stars and director of the iconic film-including Francis...
Author
Series
Last kids on Earth volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Children's Read Alikes: Hunger Games
Children's Read Alikes: Percy Jackson
Children's Recommended: E-Audiobook Fiction for Middle Grades
Children's Read Alikes: Percy Jackson
Children's Recommended: E-Audiobook Fiction for Middle Grades
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It's been forty-two days since the monster apocalypse hit town and pretty much everyone ran away or got zombified. Average thirteen-year-old Jack Sullivan is holed up in his tree house, which he's armed to the teeth with catapults and a moat, not to mention video games and an endless supply of Oreos and Mountain Dew scavenged from abandoned stores. But Jack alone is no match for the hordes of Dozers and Winged Wretches and Zombies, and especially...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
It's almost summer vacation and the students in room 2B are having trouble concentrating on their butterfly project, until a frightening-looking new teacher comes to supervise the Suspension Room and Harry is sent there as punishment for unruly behavior.
6) Almost home
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Sixth-grader Sugar and her mother lose their beloved house and experience the harsh world of homelessness.
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Series
Horrible Harry volume 27
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When the origami pig that Song Lee made for her grandmother is seized by a substitute teacher, the usually well-behaved third-grader breaks a classroom rule to rescue it from the "June box."
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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When twelve-year-old Foster and her mother land in the tiny town of Culpepper, they don't know what to expect. But folks quickly warm to the woman with the great voice and the girl who can bake like nobody's business. Soon Foster -- who dreams of having her own cooking show one day -- lands herself a gig baking for the local coffee shop, and gets herself some much-needed help in overcoming her biggest challenge -- learning to read... just as Foster...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Description
During World War II, a Czechoslovakian Jewish boy is sent to northern Scotland to live in a castle that houses gifted children who are learning to harness their magical powers to support the Allies' cause.
Author
Series
Creature from the seventh grade volume 2
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"Shortly after spontaneously morphing into a giant mutant dinosaur, 12-year-old Charlie Drinkwater discovers he's not the only creature in town"--
Author
Series
Mapmakers trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
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Description
In 1891, in a world transformed by 1799's Great Disruption--when all of the continents were flung into different time periods--thirteen-year-old Sophia Tims and her friend Theo go in search of Sophia's uncle, Shadrack Elli, Boston's foremost cartologer, who has been kidnapped.
Author
Series
Time warp trio series volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
As they are about to go on stage, Joe, Fred, and Sam are transported back to the time of Zeus and the other gods in Greek mythology, who, strangely enough, behave much as the characters in the trio's class play.
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.
Author
Series
EllRay Jakes series volume 1
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Description
Eight-year-old EllRay's father has promised a family trip to Disneyland if EllRay can stay out of trouble for a week, but not defending himself against Jared, the class bully, proves to be a real challenge.
Author
Series
Time warp trio series volume 3
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The Time Warp Trio find themselves in the Wild West of yesteryear, rubbing elbows with cowboys and Indians.
Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Children's Recommended: 7th and 8th Grade 2021
Children's Recommended: 8th Grade 2023
Summer 2023 Must Reads — Middle School
Children's Recommended: 8th Grade 2023
Summer 2023 Must Reads — Middle School
Description
Warsaw, Poland. The year is 1940 and Lillia is 15 when her mother, Alenka, disappears and her father flees with Lillia and her younger sister, Naomi, to Shanghai, one of the few places that will accept Jews without visas. There they struggle to make a life; they have no money, there is little work, no decent place to live, a culture that doesn't understand them. And always the worry about Alenka. How will she find them? Is she still alive? Meanwhile...
Author
Series
EllRay Jakes series volume 3
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
©2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Third-grader EllRay is becoming famous for messing up, and when his little sister accidentally kills EllRay's class goldfish, and then he forgets his teacher's read-aloud book at home, it only makes matters worse.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
The Grapes of Wrath is a landmark of American literature. A portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, of one man's fierce reaction to injustice, and of one woman's stoical strength, the novel captures the horrors of the Great Depression and probes into the very nature of equality and justice in America. Although it follows the movement of thousands of men and women and the transformation of an entire nation, The Grapes of Wrath...
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