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Author
Series
Better than the movies volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Liz Buxbaum's crush Michael never really saw her before he moved away. Now he is back in town, and Liz will do whatever it takes to get on his radar, and maybe snag him as a prom date. Attractive next-door neighbor Wes Bennet might seem like a prime candidate for romantic comedy fantasies, but he has only been a pain in Liz's butt since they were kids. Wes and Michael are hitting it off, which means Wes is Liz's in. -- adapted from jacket
Author
Series
Vanderbeekers volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
As they look forward to the New York City Marathon in which their friend Mr. B. will run, the Vanderbeeker children learn that one of their good friends is homeless.
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
Fright watch volume 2
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
After defeating the Oldies, Quinn and Mike thought that things would settle down on Goodie Lane. But then new neighbors move in. Maybe it’s because they all work at the interior design firm, but Abigail, Eleanor, Jade, Brea, and Cami seem to always be together, dressed in only white. After everything that happened last summer, Quinn’s a bit wary of the Ladies in White, but her friend Lex is thrilled that someone in town finally has some style....
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old aspiring detective Myrtle Hardcastle learns her neighor in quiet Swinburne, England, a breeder of rare flowers, has died she is certain it was murder and that she must find the killer.--
Author
Series
Mercy Watson volume 1
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
After Mercy the pig snuggles to sleep with the Watsons, all three awaken with the bed teetering on the edge of a big hole in the floor.
8) Hardscrabble
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1910, after losing their farm in Iowa, the Martin family moves to Mingo, Colorado, to start anew. The US government offers 320 acres of land free to homesteaders. All they have to do is live on the land for five years and farm it. So twelve-year-old Belle Martin, along with her mother and six siblings, moves west to join her father. But while the land is free, farming is difficult and it's a hardscrabble life. Natural disasters such as storms and...
Author
Series
Diary of a pug volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bub the pug has never seen snow before, and when Duchess the cat tells him it is frozen rain he is appalled and does not want to go out even to play with his human, Bella--but the week is about to get worse because a new family has moved in next door, and they apparently have a pet monster (at least if Nutz the squirrel can be believed) and Bella's mother has arranged a play date for Sunday.
Author
Series
Vanderbeekers volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When catastrophe strikes their beloved upstairs neighbors, the Vanderbeeker children set out to build the best, most magical healing garden in Harlem--in spite of a locked fence, thistles and trash, and the conflicting plans of a wealthy real estate developer. While Isa is off at sleepaway orchestra camp, Jessie, Oliver, Hyacinth, and Laney are stuck at home in the brownstone with nothing to do but get on one another's nerves. But when catastrophe...
11) The stitchers
Author
Series
Fright watch volume 1
Language
English
Description
Something strange is happening on Goodie Lane... Thirteen-year-old Quinn Parker knows that there's something off about her neighbors. She calls them the Oldies because they've lived on Goodie Lane for as long as anyone can remember, but they never seem to age. Are they vampires? Or aliens? Or getting secret experimental surgeries? Or is Quinn's imagination just running wild again? If her dad were still around, he'd believe her. When he was alive,...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Two girls who share a birthday and palindromic names struggle with respective parental challenges and loneliness while gradually overcoming their differences to become close friends.
13) Thank You, Omu!
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the aroma of Omu's homemade stew fills the air, her neighbors arrive, one by one, for a taste until all is gone except for her generous spirit.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Henri "Halti" Haltiwanger can charm just about anyone. But his easy smiles mask a burning ambition to attend his dream college, Columbia University. There is only one person who seems immune to Henri's charms: his "intense" classmate and neighbor Corinne Troy. When she uncovers Henri's less-than-honest dog-walking scheme, she blackmails him into helping her change her image at school. Henri agrees, seeing a potential upside for himself. Soon what...
16) Big tree down!
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"After a summer thunderstorm knocks down Big Tree, a young boy watches his neighborhood come together to clean up and plant Little Tree"--
Author
Series
Boys against girls volume 3
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
The Hatford brothers cannot imagine spending Thanksgiving dinner with the Malloy sisters as the practical jokes and rivalries between the two families continue.
19) The neighbors
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
As she climbs the seven stories to her own apartment, a little girl imagines what happens behind every door she passes.
20) Backlash
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When Christian, a boy she knows only through Facebook, posts a lot of nasty comments on her page, fifteen-year-old Lara tries to kill herself--but that is only the beginning of the backlash for her sister, Sydney; her former friend Bree; and her classmates.
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