Claudia Mills
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Afraid he will always be an outsider like ex-planet Pluto, nine-year-old Oliver finally shows his extremely overprotective parents that he is capable of doing great things without their help while his class is studying the solar system.
Author
Series
Franklin School friends volume 3
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Hurt that her father routinely attends her half-brother's games and misses hers even though she is the star athlete of the third grade, Izzy receives her friends' support when she decides to tell her father how she feels
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventh-grader Alex Ryan enjoys attracting attention, though he never seems to impress his father, but when his antics cause problems with his would-be girlfriend on a school outing, he has second thoughts about his actions.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Writing down her experiences of being a reluctant fourth-grade aunt to her older sibling's newborn, Nora is challenged to write journals in the style of an Oregon Trail pioneer for the science fair while partnering with a science-hating classmate.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
When their mother's behavior changes and she starts to neglect her children, seventh-grader Cooper and his little sister take refuge in Inchland, an imaginary country inspired by deeds to one square inch of land that their grandfather gave them.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
While dealing with her parents' separation and her best friend's distance, Amanda is able to work out some of her anxiety through her fifth-grade project--writing a diary from the point of view of a ten-year-old girl whose brothers fight on opposite sides in the Civil War.
11) Losers, Inc
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Although he knows that his efforts to impress a beautiful student teacher and outdo his perfect older brother jeopardize his status in the losers' club that he and his best friend have started, twelve-year-old Ethan realizes that he no longer wants to be a loser.
12) Trading places
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
When fifth-grade twins, Amy and Todd, tackle a school project, they also have to cope with issues of friendship at school and problems at home, including their father's unemployment.
13) Gus and grandpa
Author
Series
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Gus and Grandpa have a loving, warm relationship.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nine-year-old Chelsea's experiences, which include a fight with her best friend, making mistakes in the handbell concert, and saying goodbye to the only church minister she has ever known, help her to accept that things change and that people, including herself, are not perfect.
Author
Series
Franklin School friends volume 1
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Kelsey is the best reader in her third grade class, and she is determined to lead her class to victory in the alll-school reading contest.
Author
Series
Franklin School friends volume 2
Publisher
Margaret Ferguson Books, Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Annika hopes to change her best friends' hatred of math by winning a Sudoku contest, but she does not realize how important their lack of mathematical ability is until they make a mistake at the school carnival.
20) Write this down
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Autumn wants more than anything to be a real author, but when she wins a contest by writing something too personal about her brother, she has to decide if her dreams are more important than their relationship"--