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Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
THE LANDMARK NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An enormously engaging portrait of a most beguiling Southern city: “Elegant and wicked.... [This] might be the first true-crime book that makes the reader want to book a bed and breakfast for an extended weekend at the scene of the crime." —The New York Times Book Review • 30th Anniversary Edition with a New Afterword by the Author.
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Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Newbery Honor Book: 2003.
Jake, a budding juvenile delinquent, is sent for home schooling to the arty and eccentric Applewhite family's Creative Academy, where he discovers talents and interests he never knew he had.
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
In The Wandering Hill, Larry McMurtry continues the story of Tasmin Berrybender and her family in the unexplored Wild West of the 1830s, at that point in time when Lewis and Clark are still a living memory, and when the clash between the powerful Indian tribes of the Missouri and the encroaching white Americans is about to turn into full-blown tragedy. Amidst all this, the Berrybender family -- English, eccentric, wealthy, and fiercely out of place...
Author
Series
Origami Yoda book volume 1
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Sixth-grader Tommy and his friends describe their interactions with a paper finger puppet of Yoda, worn by their weird classmate Dwight, as they try to figure out whether or not the puppet can really predict the future. Includes instructions for making Origami Yoda.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt/Square Fish Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In central Texas in 1899, eleven-year-old Callie Vee Tate is instructed to be a lady by her mother, learns about love from the older three of her six brothers, and studies the natural world with her grandfather, the latter of which leads to an important discovery.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
At the end of World War II, Jack Baker, a landlocked Kansas boy, is suddenly uprooted after his mother's death and placed in a boy's boarding school in Maine. There, Jack encounters Early Auden, the strangest of boys, who reads the number pi as a story and collects clippings about the sightings of a great black bear in the nearby mountains. Newcomer Jack feels lost yet can't help being drawn to Early, who won't believe what everyone accepts to be...
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old genius and outsider Willow Chance must figure out how to connect with other people and find a surrogate family for herself after her parents are killed in a car accident.
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.
11) Eggs
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Mourning the loss of his mother, nine-year-old David forms an unlikely friendship with independent, quirky thirteen-year-old Primrose, as the two help each other deal with what is missing in their lives.
Author
Series
Origami Yoda book volume 4
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"Dark times have fallen on McQuarrie Middle School. Dwight is back--and not a moment too soon--as Kellen, Sara, and the gang face a new Menace: the FunTime Educational Program. FunTime is supposed to raise students' standardized test scores. Instead, it's driving everyone crazy. The students turn to Origami Yoda for help"--
Author
Series
Origami Yoda book volume 3
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
McQuarrie Middle School's students miss Origami Yoda when Dwight leaves for Tippett Academy, but he sends Sara a paper Fortune Wookiee that seems to give advice just as good as Yoda's--even if, in the hands of girls, it seems preoccupied with romance.
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
At the heart of this third volume of his Western saga remains the beautiful and determined Tasmin Berrybender, now married to the "Sin Killer" and mother to their young son, Monty. Although Tasmin intends Monty to become an English gentleman like his grandfather, he lives the childhood of a savage. By Sorrow's River continues the Berrybender party's trail across the endless Great Plains of the West toward Santa Fe, where those lucky enough to survive...
Author
Series
Origami Yoda book volume 2
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Harvey, upset when his Darth Paper finger puppet brings humiliation, gets Dwight suspended, but Origami Yoda asks Tommy and Kellan, now in seventh grade, to make a new casefile to persuade the School Board to reinstate Dwight.
16) Oggie Cooder
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Quirky fourth-grader Oggie Cooder goes from being shunned to everyone's best friend when his uncanny ability to chew slices of cheese into the shapes of states wins him a slot on a popular television talent show, but he soon learns the perils of being a celebrity--and having a neighbor girl as his manager.
17) I, Emma Freke
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Growing up near Boston with her free-spirited mother and old-world grandfather, twelve-year-old Emma has always felt out of place but when she attends the family reunion her father's family holds annually in Wisconsin, she is in for some surprises.
Author
Series
Origami Yoda book volume 5
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
One month before the state standards test are to take place, the Origami Rebel Alliance has found powerful allies in unexpected places in their fight against the FunTime test preparation program, but Principal Rabbski has not yet declared her allegiance.
19) My name is Mina
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Creative, intelligent, nine-year-old Mina keeps a journal in her own disorderly way that reveals how her mind is growing into something extraordinary, especially after she begins homeschooling under the direction of her widowed mother.
Publisher
Studio Distribution Services
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In this all-new movie, we find Morticia and Gomez distraught that their children are growing up, skipping family dinners, and totally consumed with "scream time." To reclaim their bond they decide to cram Wednesday, Pugsley, Uncle Fester, and the crew into their haunted camper and hit the road for one last miserable family vacation. Their adventure across America takes them out of their element and into hilarious run-ins with their iconic cousin,...