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Author
Series
Terrible two volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
When master prankster Miles Murphy moves to sleepy Yawnee Valley, he challenges the local mystery prankster in an epic battle of tricks but soon the two join forces to pull off the biggest prank ever seen.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixteen-year old Jessie, still grieving over her mother's death, must move from Chicago to "The Valley," with a new stepfamily but no new friends until an anonymous fellow student emails and offers to help her navigate the school's treacherous social waters.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When Louisiana Elefante's granny wakes her up in the middle of the night to tell her that the day of reckoning has arrived and they have to leave home immediately, Louisiana isn't overly worried. After all, Granny has many middle-of-the-night ideas. But this time, things are different. This time, Granny intends for them never to return. Separated from her best friends, Raymie and Beverly, Louisiana struggles to oppose the winds of fate (and Granny)...
5) The fixer
Author
Series
Fixer volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her grandfather develops dementia, sixteen-year-old Tess, who has been keeping his Montana ranch going, is whisked away to Washington, D.C., by a sister she barely knows and thrown into a world of politics, power, wealth, love triangles, and family secrets.
Author
Series
Timmy Failure volume 4
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Timmy is forced to take his investigation into stolen charity funds on the road when his mother forces him to help her boyfriend move to Chicago. They are on the road in a cross-country trip that includes Timmy's mom, Total the polar bear, Doorman Dave, and criminal mastermind Molly Moskins. It's a world gone mad, where good becomes bad, and Timmy Failure is a condemned man.
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
Mr. Terupt volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mr. Terupt is hiding something. Seven students whose lives the teacher changed get to spend one more year with him in this sequel to 'Because of Mr. Terupt.' Danielle is convinced her family's hiding something from her. Anna steels herself for the truth about the dad who isn't there. Peter's not about to go to private school. Plus, Jessica discovers something shocking while looking into Mr. Terupt's past.
Author
Series
Awesome Dog 5000 volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
After moving to a new town, fifth-grader Marty worries about fitting in and must go up against a scientist out for revenge when he discovers a robotic dog in his new house.
10) Betsy-Tacy
Author
Series
Betsy-Tacy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
After Tacy Kelly moves into the house across the street from Betsy Ray, the five-year-olds become inseparable friends.
11) Best family ever
Author
Series
Baxter family children volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Brooke is the perfect older sister. For that reason, Kari and Ashley work hard to make their parents just as proud of them as they are of Brooke. Each girl has her own talents. Brooke is an excellent student. Kari is a great soccer player. Ashley, a talented artist. And they are always there for each other. But when the news comes that Dr. Baxter is moving the family from Ann Arbor to Bloomington, Indiana, and the Baxters need to leave the only home...
Author
Series
Life of a cactus volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Aven Green loves to tell people that she lost her arms in an alligator wrestling match, or a wildfire in Tanzania, but the truth is that she was born without them. And when her parents take a job running Stagecoach Pass, a rundown western theme park in Arizona, Aven moves with them across the country knowing that she'll have to answer the question over and over again. Her new life takes an unexpected turn when she bonds with Connor, a classmate who...
Author
Series
Adventures in Odyssey. Young Whit volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Whit and his family (father, Harold; stepmother, Fiona; half-sister, Charlie) have just moved to Provenance, NC, in the middle of the Great Depression. Harold will be teaching at nearby Duke University. Not-quite-10-year-old Johnny soon makes a friend in Emmy, who lives across the street and joins him in his adventures. At his new school, he encounters a bully who makes his life miserable, and he makes a new friend in Huck, the custodian.
14) Right as Rain
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's been almost a year since Rain's brother Guthrie died, and her parents still don't know it was all Rain's fault. In fact, no one does--Rain buried her secret deep, no matter how heavy it weighs on her heart. So when her mom suggests moving the family from Vermont to New York City, Rain agrees. But life in the big city is different. She's never seen so many people in one place--or felt more like an outsider. With her parents fighting more than...
18) Quintessence
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Three months ago, twelve-year-old Alma moved to the town of Four Points. Her panic attacks started a week later, and they haven't stopped -- even though she's told her parents that they have. She's homesick and friendless and every day she feels less and less like herself. But one day she finds a telescope in the town's junk shop, and through its lens, she watches a star -- a star that looks like a child -- fall from the sky and into her backyard....
19) DJ's challenge
Author
Series
High hurdles volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
A new job for her mother and a possible move to another city threaten to part DJ from her horse.
20) Alone
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Seda, sixteen, feels her invisible childhood nemesis, Sawyer, growing stronger just as a group of stranded teens takes shelter from a blizzard in the dilapidated mansion Seda's mother inherited.
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