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1) Matilda
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Matilda applies her previously untapped mental powers to rid the school of the evil, child-hating headmistress, Miss Trunchbull, and restore her nice teacher, Miss Honey, to financial security. This beautiful deluxe edition contains the complete and unabridged text of Roald Dahl's beloved novel with brand new illustrations throughout by Sarah Walsh.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rescuing a squirrel after an accident involving a vacuum cleaner, comic-reading cynic Flora Belle Buckman is astonished when the squirrel, Ulysses, demonstrates astonishing powers of strength and flight after being revived.
Author
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Young readers ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
xxiii, 209 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Adapts for young readers Greg Mortenson's book in which he recounts the experiences he had while trying to help impoverished villages in Pakistan's Karakoram Himalaya build schools for their children.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
When four twelve-year-olds, including Logan, who has grown up never leaving his parents' Life Is Sweet candy factory, compete in the Confectionary Association's annual contest, they unexpectedly become friends and uncover secrets about themselves during the process.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Jane Austen's witty comedy of manners features splendidly civilized sparring between the proud Mr. Darcy and the prejudiced Elizabeth Bennet as they play out their spirited courtship in a series of 18th-century drawing-room intrigues.
Author
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Do you believe in unicorns? Phoebe does. She has no choice. One day she skipped a rock across a pond, and hit a unicorn in the face. Improbably, this resulted in a lasting friendship between Phoebe and the unicorn, one Marigold Heavenly Nostrils. Come along for the unicorn ride with Phoebe, as she deals with the usual burdens of childhood (cruel classmates, gym class, piano lessons) and also some unusual ones (magic hair, candy-breathing dragons,...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
It is 1911, and fourteen-year-old Lucia (Lucy) Morelli dreams of going to college, but for the present she lives with her large Italian family in a crowded apartment in New York City, and works as a sewing machine operator in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory bringing home money because her father can no longer work--but this is March twenty-fifth, and Lucy will soon be fighting for her life as fire sweeps through the locked down factory trapping the...
13) Ballet bullies
Author
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Marissa, who loves to dance, starts to feel a bit clumsy and overly tall when she dances, so she does not bother to try out for the Rose Fairy ballet until somebody else encourages her.
14) Back on the beam
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
63 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Nadia struggles to regain her self-confidence on the balance beam after going all summer without practice due to an ankle injury.
15) Eidi
Author
Series
The children of Crow Cove volume 2
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
Eidi leaves her mother and stepfather in Crow Cove to live in a nearby village, where she meets the much younger Tink and rescues him from the abusive man he has been living with.
Author
Publisher
Campfire/Kalyani Navyug Media
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
Graphic Novel. chiefly col. ill.
Language
English
Description
A graphic novel adaptation of Lewis Carroll's classic novel about about a girl who follows a rabbit down a hole to find herself in a fantastical place known as Wonderland.
17) Tennis trouble
Author
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
63 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Alexis is only 13, but she made the varsity tennis team. She's thrilled, but not everyone is happy for her--two of the older girls think Alexis ruined the season for their friend, who didn't make the team. The older girls are out to make Alexis's season terrible. Can she keep up her self-confidence and step up to the net, or will she let the girls get to her and lose everything?
18) Stolen bases
Author
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
63 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Every summer, Eva and Becca play softball. But this year, something strange is going on. One day at practice, the bag of equipment is missing. The next day, it's been returned. When the bag goes missing again, Eva and Becca decide to try to catch the crook. But the person they find is not at all what they expect!
19) Cheer captain
Author
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
63 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Julia wants to join her best friend Ava on the cheerleading squad in her new school--but if she is a better cheerleader than Ava, will it damage their friendship?
20) Storm surfer
Author
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
65 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jill never expected her week at surf camp to be interrupted by a hurricane, but one is heading for the North Carolina coast. Abby and Sara think surfing in a hurricane will be amazing. Then the waves get out of control. Time is running out, and the storm is coming.