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21) Ghost girl
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"Zee Puckett loves ghost stories. She just never expected to be living one. It all starts with a dark and stormy night. When the skies clear, everything is different. People are missing. And Zee is seeing frightening things: large, scary dogs that talk and maybe even . . . a ghost. When she tells her classmates, only her best friend Elijah believes her. Worse, mean girl Nellie gives Zee a cruel nickname: Ghost Girl. But whatever the storm washed up...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"This sequel to The Adventures of Beanboy combines comic illustrations, a small-town bully facing off against a budding artist, and a rousing, decisive game of dodge ball"--
24) Best friends
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When she becomes part of the in-crowd, Shannon begins to question whether she wants to remain there, in a story about popularity, first boyfriends, and finding a path in life.
25) Masterpiece
Author
Series
Publisher
Henry Holt & Company
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
After Marvin, a beetle, makes a miniature drawing as an eleventh birthday gift for James, a human with whom he shares a house, the two new friends work together to help recover a Durer drawing stolen from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In 1935, when her mother gets a job housekeeping for a woman who does not like children, eleven-year-old Turtle is sent to stay with relatives she has never met in far away Key West, Florida.
27) The Clackity
Author
Series
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
To rescue her aunt from the ghost of a serial killer, twelve-year-old Evie Von Rathe embarks on a journey into a strange world filled with hungry witches, ghosts, and a story thief, all while trying to fulfill her deal with the Clackity.
28) The extra yard
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"Teddy has been training all summer with his new friends Jack and Gus to make the new travel football team in Walton, but when his long-absent dad comes back to town and into his life he is faced with a much bigger challenge"--
29) Positively Izzy
Author
Series
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
On the day of the school talent show, the lives of shy Bri and dreamer Izzy converge to create an event even more dramatic than either could even imagine.
Author
Series
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Relates the surprising gifts bestowed on twelve-year-old Bob Barnhart and his family, who have recently moved to a small Illinois town in 1958, by their larger-than-life neighbor, Mrs. Dowdel.
Author
Series
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion, an imprint of Disney Book Group
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Mal, Evie, Carlos, and Jay have received threatening messages demanding they return home. They have a sneaking suspicion that their villainous parents are behind the messages, and something Evie sees in her Magic Mirror confirms their fears. Although Maleficent's just a tiny lizard after her confrontation with Mal, could she have found a way to escape? Mal and her friends determine to sneak back to the Isle to get to the bottom of the mystery.
33) The Mouse Watch
Author
Publisher
Disney, Hyperion
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Living in the shadows under the direction of a famed mouse inventor, two recruits-a mouse with a score to settle and a sensitive rat with elite puzzle-solving skills-land at the center of an evil plot by a rogue animal society.
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of Julian's Grandm�ere's childhood as she, a Jewish girl, was hidden by a family in a Nazi-occupied French village during World War II and how the boy she once shunned became her savior and best friend.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When a dam fails and rushing waters sweep away their adult supervisors, five middle schoolers on a white-water rafting adventure are left alone with few supplies and the opportunity to forge powerful bonds as well as develop dangerous disagreements.
37) Efren divided
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
While his father works two jobs, seventh-grader Efr�en Nava must take care of his twin siblings, kindergartners Max and Mia, after their mother is deported to Mexico. Includes glossary of Spanish words.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
A novel in verse inspired by the author's experience follows Hà and her family, refugees from the Vietnam War, as they move to Texas for a new job, and despite not wanting to start over again, Hà discovers unwanted change can bring a good opportunity.
Author
Series
Baby-sitters Club) volume 4
Publisher
Graphix, An Imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2016].
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Claudia and her sister, Janine, may as well be from two different planets. Claudia, who pays more attention to her artwork and The Baby-sitters Club than her homework, feels like she can't compete with her perfect sister. Janine studies nonstop, gets straight As, and even takes college-level courses! But when something unexpected happens to the most beloved person in their family, will the sisters be able to put aside their differences?"--Publisher....
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
ZJ's friends Ollie, Darry and Daniel help him cope when his father, a beloved professional football player, suffers severe headaches and memory loss that spell the end of his career.