Elana K. Arnold
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Alder has always lived in his cozy little house in Southern California. An old, reliable, comforting walnut tree has stood between his house and the one next door. When a new family--with a particularly annoying girl his age named Oak--moves into the neighboring house, they cut the tree down. As Oak and Alder start school together, they can't imagine ever becoming friends. But they soon discover a series of mysterious, possibly magical, connections...
Author
Series
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Have you ever walked a chicken on a leash? Well, chicken expert Starla Jean will let you know first hand, it's not easy. But that doesn't stop Starla from taking her pet chicken, Opal Egg, and her baby sister, Willa, out on a stroll through the neighborhood. On their walk, they stumble upon a mysterious bead. And then another! Before they know it, there's a conundrum on their hands, and it's up to Starla and her friends to figure out just who exactly...
Author
Series
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
It is Willa's first birthday, and between big sister Starla Jean, her pet chicken Opal Egg, and her new neighbor Nate's pet kitten, there is bound to be chaos--especially when it comes to baking a cake.
Author
Series
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Introducing Starla Jean! She's full of moxie, clever as a fox, and obsessed with catching a chicken she finds at the park. When Starla first sees the scrawny bird wandering around, she just knows they're destined for one another. Her dad says, 'If you can catch it, you can keep it, ' and Starla Jean is not one to back down from a challenge"--Macmillan.com
5) Pip and Zip
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"When a family brings home two abandoned duck eggs and waits for them to hatch, they read, learn and laugh until one day Pip and Zip are born!"--
7) Just Harriet
Author
Publisher
Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"There are a few things you should know about Harriet Wermer: She just finished third grade. She has a perfect cat named Matzo Ball. She doesn't always tell the truth. She is very happy to be spending summer vacation away from home and her mom and dad and all the wonderful things she had been planning all year. Okay, maybe that last one isn't entirely the truth. Of course, there's nothing Harriet doesn't like about Marble Island, the small island...
8) Red hood
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Elana K. Arnold, author of the Printz Honor book Damsel, returns with a dark, engrossing, blood-drenched tale of the familiar threats to female power--and one girl's journey to regain it. You are alone in the woods, seen only by the unblinking yellow moon. Your hands are empty. You are nearly naked. And the wolf is angry. Since her grandmother became her caretaker when she was four years old, Bisou Martel has lived a quiet life in a little house in...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Unhappy about moving from sunny California to rainy Corvallis, Oregon, and grieving over the death of her best friend, sixth-grader Iris looks for a miracle and may find one in new friend Boris.
10) Sacred
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Since her older brother died, Scarlett has felt emotionally cut off from everyone on Catalina Island except for her horse, and she has become anorexic--but when she meets a strange boy named Will Cohen she begins to rediscover herself.
11) Damsel
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"The rite has existed for as long as anyone can remember: When the king dies, his son the prince must venture out into the gray lands, slay a fierce dragon, and rescue a damsel to be his bride. This is the way things have always been. When Ama wakes in the arms of Prince Emory, she knows none of this. She has no memory of what came before she was captured by the dragon or what horrors she faced in its lair. She knows only this handsome young man,...
12) Infandous
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Lab
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Sephora, a surfer and artist who loves fairy tales and mythology, struggles with a secret so horrible she cannot speak it aloud, especially not to her beautiful, single mother, although they have always been unusually close.
13) Burning
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
In the scorching Nevada desert during the Burning Man art festival, a small town boy meets a Gypsy girl, when both are at crossroads in their lives.
14) Far from fair
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
As far as twelve-year-old Odette Zyskowski is concerned, her parents have ruined her life by selling the house she and her younger brother have grown up in, getting an RV, and giving her some little mutt instead of the Labrador Retriever she wanted--but as they travel north to see her grandmother, Odette becomes aware of an even more frightening problem: her parents may be on the verge of a divorce.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Once, there was a girl named Kiki, who found a fish on the asphalt. The fish was very hot and very dry. But when Kiki put it in the bathtub, it started swimming, and growing, and speaking. "I want to grant you a wish for saving me," it said. Alas, this fish was only a fish of small wishes, and Kiki's wish was too big. Unless there was a way for both their dreams to come true.