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Author
Series
Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
After a family tragedy, Jacob feels compelled to explore an abandoned orphanage on an island off the coast of Wales, discovering disturbing facts about the children who were kept there.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fifth grader Robbie is determined to stay out of trouble so that she does not worry her grandfather whose memory is failing and to make sure that she and her grandfather stay together as he is the only family she has left.
Author
Series
Fourteenth Goldfish volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When thirteen-year-old Ellie's Grandpa Melvin, a world-renowned scientist in the body of a fourteen-year-old boy, comes for an extended visit, he teaches her that experimenting--and failing--is part of life.--
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
In Frances Hodgson Burnett's first children's novel, Little Lord Fauntleroy Cedric Errol, the orphaned son of a sea captain and his mother are surprised to learn that by a strange twist of fate, he is the heir to a large English estate. Going to live with his stern and miserly grandfather, Cedric impresses the old man with his innocence and good nature. Will Cedric have a positive influence on his aristocratic and ill-tempered grandfather? A description...
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Told from two viewpoints, sixth-graders Karina and Chris use social media to stand up to racism in Houston, Texas, after an attack puts Karina's Indian American grandfather in the hospital.
8) Lost
Author
Publisher
Templar Books, an imprint of Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A boy and his granddad set off with their homemade sled to find a lost dog on a snowy afternoon. And so begins and exhilarating adventure ..."--
9) The turnover
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"When a young basketball star decides to research his grandfather--and coach--for a school project, he uncovers a decades-old scandal that changes everything he thought he knew about his grandfather"--
10) War stories
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Trevor Firestone loves playing war-based video games and he idolizes his great-grandfather Jacob who came home from World War II a celebrated hero; now ninety-three Jacob wants to retrace his journey in memory and reality and return to the small French village that his unit liberated, and Trevor is going with him--but not everyone in the town want Jacob to come, and Trevor is going to learn an important lesson: real war is not a video...
11) Lemons
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
After her mother dies in 1975, ten-year-old Lemonade must live with her grandfather in a small town famous for Bigfoot sightings and soon becomes friends with Tobin, a quirky Bigfoot investigator.
12) Hidden treasure
Author
Publisher
RP Kids
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
When a young treasure hunter goes to the beach for a day of playing in the surf, she dives deep under the waves to find treasures of all kinds. Some treasures have stories to tell and others are too precious to keep. It seems treasure is everywhere, but nothing could make her feel more like a queen than a perfect day at the beach with her grandfather and furry best friend.
Author
Series
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"The Supa Buddies bamboozled the baddies, but all's not right in the world. Dog Man has a new problem to pound, and he's going to need his entire pack to help him. Will he go barking up the wrong tree?" --
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Merci Suárez knew that sixth grade would be different, but she had no idea just how different. For starters, Merci has never been like the other kids at her private school in Florida, because she and her older brother, Roli, are scholarship students. They don't have a big house or a fancy boat, and they have to do extra community service to make up for their free tuition. So when bossy Edna Santos sets her sights on the new boy who happens to be...
15) The Land of Roar
Author
Series
Land of Roar volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Arthur and Rose were little, they were the heroes of Roar, a magical world they invented where the wildest creations of their imaginations roamed. Now that they're eleven, Roar is just a distant memory. But it hasn't forgotten them. When their grandfather is spirited away into Roar by the villain who still haunts their nightmares, Arthur and Rose must go back to the world they'd almost left behind. And when they get there, they discover that...
16) Home sweet motel
Author
Series
Welcome to Wonderland volume 1
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
"P.T. and his friend Gloria must solve a mystery at the world's wackiest motel: The Wonderland"--
17) And we're off
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Nora Holmes is an artist, a painter from the moment she could hold a brush. She inherited the skill from her grandfather, Robert, who's always nurtured Nora's talent and encouraged her to follow her passion. Still, Nora is shocked and elated when Robert offers her a gift: an all-expenses-paid summer trip to Europe to immerse herself in the craft and to study history's most famous artists. The only catch? Nora has to create an original...
18) Heidi
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The beloved story of Heidi, the little girl who scrambles through mountain meadows with the goats, brings joy to a blind grandmother, helps a friend learn to walk again, and restores hope and love to a grandfather. Adapted for young children Heidi's age.