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Author
Series
Mr. Lemoncello volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Kyle gets to stay overnight in the new town library, designed by his hero (the famous gamemaker Luigi Lemoncello), with other students but finds that come morning he must work with friends to solve puzzles in order to escape"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Alec, a sixth-grade bookworm always in trouble for reading instead of listening and participating in class, starts a book club, solely to have a place to read, and discovers that real life, although messy, can be as exciting as the stories in his favorite books.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
A twelve-year-old boy, worried that his parents may divorce, discovers that an island in the middle of the lake where he is spending the summer is the testing grounds of the mysterious Dr. Libris, who may have invented a way to make the characters in books come alive.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When fifth-grader Trip Kindleman, who does not like to read very much, is hit on the head by a heavy box and becomes a character in a series of different books--from a sports story to a science fiction novel to an adventure tale--his view of reading is changed forever.
8) Story's end
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A deadly Enemy has threatened the future of Story--and twelve-year-old Una Fairchild is the only one who can stop his plans and save the character world from destruction"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
The books of beginning volume 1
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kate, Michael, and Emma have passed from one orphanage to another in the ten years since their parents disappeared to protect them, but now they learn that they have special powers, a prophesied quest to find a magical book, and a fearsome enemy.
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Reluctant reader Kit discovers her wizarding powers and the magic she can wield through books to help save the local library, and its resident dragon, from a power-hungry tycoon.
13) Bliss
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Rose Bliss wants to work magic in her family's bakery as her parents do, but when they are called away and Rose and her siblings are left in charge, the magic goes awry and a beautiful stranger tries to talk Rose into giving her the Bliss Cookery Booke.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2022
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
When sixth-grader Mac discovers several words of his classroom copy of Jane Yolen's The Devil's Arithmetic are blacked out he is outraged, so he, his friends, and his eccentric family set out to do something about the censorship imposed by one teacher and the school board.
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Book-loving Kenny the rabbit has few friends in his farming community, so when one, bookstore owner George, is sent to kill another, gentle dragon Grahame, Kenny must find a way to prevent their battle while satisfying the dragon-crazed townspeople.
16) Inkspell
Author
Publisher
Scholastic/Chicken House
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 29
Language
English
Description
When Dustfinger finds a crooked storyteller who can read him back to Inkscape, he leaves his apprentice Farid behind. Farid seeks out Meggie and the two follow him back into the enchanted book.
17) Story thieves
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Except for reading the Kiel Gnomenfoot magic adventure series, Owen's life is boring until he sees his classmate Bethany climb out of a book in the school library and he learns that Bethany is half-fictional and has been searching every book she can findfor her missing father, a fictional character.
Author
Series
Books of beginning volume 3
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the final book of the Books of Beginning trilogy, Kate and Michael must help the magical world prepare for the final war against the Dire Magnus, while Emma must travel to find the final book--the Book of the Dead"--
Author
Series
A tale of magic volume 3
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
The Southern Kingdom is in the grip of Emperor Seven and his war on both magic, books, and learning; even worse, a malignant darkness is rising and threatening everybody, including Brystal Evergreen, who has gathered allies among the fairies and other magical creatures to confront the threat, but she is also aware that the days of her life are slipping away, and if she does not find the Book of Sorcery in a few weeks she will die.
20) Finding Langston
Author
Publisher
Dreamscape Media
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Description
Discovering a book of Langston Hughes' poetry in the library helps Langston cope with the loss of his mother, relocating from Alabama to Chicago as part of the Great Migration, and being bullied.