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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Eleven-year-old aspiring basketball star and interior designer Lucy Wu is excited about finally having her own bedroom, until she learns that her great-aunt is coming to visit and Lucy will have to share a room with her for several months, shattering her plans for a perfect sixth-grade year.
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Series
Family tree (Ann M. Martin) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Dana is Abby and Zander's daughter, but growing up in New York City in the late nineteen fifties is not always easy, especially when you would like your own room separate from your twin sister--and when your beloved father dies and you are forced to move things just get worse.
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Series
Rosewood chronicles volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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When fairy tale obsessed Lottie Pumpkin starts at the infamous Rosewood Hall, she is not expecting to share a room with the Crown Princess of Maradova, Ellie Wolf. Due to a series of lies and coincidences, 14-year-old Lottie finds herself pretending to be the princess so that Ellie can live a more normal teenage life. Lottie is thrust into the real world of royalty - a world filled with secrets, intrigue and betrayal. She must do everything she can...
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Series
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Andy and Terry live in a 117-story treehouse. (It used to be a 104-story treehouse, but it just keeps growing!) It now has a pajama-party room, a water-ski park filled with flesh-eating piranhas, an Underpants Museum, a giant-fighting-robot arena, and the Door of Doom (don't open it or you'll be COMPLETELY and UTTERLY DOOMED!). For as long as Andy and Terry have been writing books together, Andy has always been the narrator and Terry has always been...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Missing her mother who has returned to Turkey to resolve an immigration problem, sixth-grader Sila welcomes a very large distraction in her life when she helps a surprising new friend rescue a circus elephant.
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Series
Lock and key (Ridley Pearson) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Before James grew up to be a ruthless, remorseless villain, he was a curious boy from Boston, with a penchant for trouble and an acid tongue. Thrown into a boarding school against his wishes, James winds up rooming with a most unlikely companion: a lanky British know-it-all named Sherlock Holmes ("Lock" to his friends). An heirloom Bible, donated by the Moriarty family more than a hundred years ago, has gone missing, and it doesn't take long for the...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
On April 15, 1912, the magnificent ocean liner the RMS Titanic struck an iceberg and sank beneath the icy North Atlantic seas. Hopkinson weaves together archival photographs and the voices of real Titanic survivors and witnesses to the disaster to bring the horrors of that terrible night to life. There's nine-year-old Frankie Goldsmith; Violet Jessop, a young stewardess; Archibald Gracie, a well-to-do gentleman; Charlotte Collyer, a young mother on...
10) As brave as you
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Eleven-year-old Genie develops a special bond with his grandfather when he and his brother travel from Brooklyn for a month-long stay with their grandparents in rural Virginia.
"Scooping poop at his grandparent's house - that sure as heck wasn't the way eleven-year-old Genie expected to be spending his summer. But when his parents send him and his big brother, Ernie, to Virginia to experience the great (not!) outdoors, they're in for some big surprises....
11) Northanger Abbey
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 10.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
"Decrepit castles, locked rooms, mysterious chests, cryptic notes, and tyrannical fathers give the story an uncanny air, but one with a decidedly satirical twist. The story's unlikely heroine is Catherine Morland, a remarkably innocent seventeen-year-old woman from a country parsonage. While spending a few weeks in Bath with a family friend, Catherine meets and falls in love with Henry Tilney, who invites her to visit his family estate, Northanger...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Philippa Fisher is trying to have a good time on vacation with her parents, but she's feeling lonely. When she meets Robyn, a girl with sad eyes and a strict father, she enjoys the company, but can't help wondering what Robyn and her dad might be hiding. Meanwhile, Daisy, Philippa's best friend (and fairy godsister), sneaks into her former charge's room for a visit, but now has a furtive new mission and must dash away. Philippa longs to uncover the...
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Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
To help her family make ends meet, Kit takes a job helping an elderly lady at a rundown mansion called Rivermead Manor. When she discovers a hidden room in the old house, she is sure its secrets will make a great newspaper article. But then Jessamine, Kit's long-lost friend, appears and seems to be in trouble, yet she won't confide in Kit. Determined to help, Kit follows clues, but will both of these mysteries lead to a story that's bigger than she...
15) Eight keys
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Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old Elise, orphaned since age three, becomes disheartened by middle school, with its bullies, changing relationships, and higher expectations, keys to long-locked rooms and messages from her late father help her cope.
16) Desert racers
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Series
Publisher
Rourke Publishing
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Discusses the history and current popularity of four-wheel drive vehicles, as well as how they are used in desert racing around the world.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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"When orphaned Mary Lennox comes to live at her uncle's great house with nearly one hundred rooms, she finds it full of secrets. Her uncle keeps himself locked up, and at night Mary hears the sound of crying echoing down one of the long corridors. The gardens surrounding the large property are her only escape. Then one day Mary discovers a secret garden, surrounded by walls and a locked gate. With the help of two unexpected companions, Mary discovers...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
An introspective boy and an adventurous girl uncover a poignant family mystery during a summer on the shores of Three Bird Lake. For as long as he can remember, Adam and his parents have spent their summers at his grandmother's rustic cabin on Three Bird Lake. But this year will be different. There will be no rowdy cousins running around tormenting Adam. There will be no Uncle John or Aunt Jean. And there will be no Dad to fight with Mom. This...
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Series
Publisher
Harcourt
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Although a paid assassin is stalking Wally while his twin sister Cheyenne is under the power of the queen ont, it is up to them, their vampire Dad, and their friends to save the human race from the giant onts.