Frank Cottrell Boyce
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Separated from his aging caregiver grandfather and placed in a foster home, Prez forges an unusual friendship with an alien who appears as a dog to everyone else and entreats Prez to help compile a list of Earth's redeeming qualities to prevent the planet from being destroyed.
2) Framed
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Dylan and his sisters have some ideas about how to make Snowdonia Oasis Auto Marvel into a more profitable business, but it is not until some strange men arrive in their small town of Manod, Wales with valuable paintings, and their father disappears, that they consider turning to crime.
3) Cosmic
Author
Publisher
Walden Pond Press
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
4) Millions
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
After their mother dies, two brothers find a huge amount of money which they must spend quickly before England switches to the new European currency, but they disagree on what to do with it.
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Down on their luck, the Tooting family buys an old camper van and begins repairing it, but after installing an engine that once belonged to an extraordinary car, they are off to find other original parts, pursued by a sinister man who wants Chitty for himself.
Author
Publisher
Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Rory Rooney likes to be prepared for anything, but when he inexplicably turns green and finds himself in an experimental hospital ward with his nemesis, school bully Tommy-Lee "Grim" Komissky, everyone is baffled but Rory believes he and Grim have become superheroes.
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Children's Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
When Alfie goes to Airport Lost Property, he finds more than he bargained for. A lot more. Because there's a giant robot called Eric hidden away on the shelves. Eric has lost one leg and half his memory. He's super strong, but super clumsy. He's convinced that he's the latest technology, when he's actually nearly one hundred year's old and ready for the scrap heap. Can Alfie find a way to save Eric from destruction - before Eric destroys everything...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
The Tootings plan to go home, but they accidentally send themselves back to the Jurassic Age, and after being chased by a T-rex they head to Prohibition-era New York where Chitty enters a race to the lost city of El Dorado and back again.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
When two Mongolian brothers inexplicably appear one morning in her sixth grade class, Julie, who lives in a town near Liverpool named Bootle, becomes their new friend and "Good Guide," navigating them through soccer, school uniforms, and British slang.
11) Watership down
Author
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Adapted from the scripts of the TV mini series by the BBC and Netflix, this book introduces a classic story to a new generation. Illustrated with a combination of stills from the TV and soft line artwork. Set in the English countryside, Watership Down tells the tale of a ragtag band of rabbits fleeing the destruction of their warren in search of safety and a new home.
12) Millions
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Damian and Anthony, young boys from Ireland, find a bag filled with money and learn a lesson in ethics.
Author
Publisher
Notting Hill Editions
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A delightful selection of articles by the ever-popular A. A. Milne, many of which haven't been in print for decades. Introduced by the prize-winning children's author Frank Cottrell Boyce, this volume brings Milne's brilliant non-fiction back to the spotlight. A. A. Milne was a successful writer long before the classic Winnie-the-Pooh stories made him famous. Milne had a talent for regularly turning out a thousand whimsical words on lost hats and...
14) The claim
Publisher
Distributed by MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
A tale of regret and greed in the Gold Rush-era American West. in 1867, Daniel Dillon, the wealthy 49er who runs Kingdom Come, a Sierra Nevada boomtown, is trying to bring the railroad through town when the past comes back to haunt him. Twenty years ago, he sold his wife and daughter to another goldminer for the claim to the gold mine that brought him his fortune.
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Thirteen years after their son's murder at the hands of a racist gang, Stephen Lawrence's parents continue their fight for justice. Meanwhile, DCI Clive Driscoll is convinced the case can still be solved, despite opposition from within the police.
16) God on trial
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Following the harrowing ritual of selection for death or hard labor, a group of new inmates unsure of their appointed fates begins asking how God could allow for so much suffering. Impulsively, the men decide to put God on trial for abandoning His chosen people. Amid the outside sounds of prisoners being marched to the gas chamber, the trial unfolds. They group address the question: How can there be evil in a universe ruled by an all-powerful, benevolent...