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1) Hard Luck
Author
Series
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"Greg Heffley's on a losing streak. His best friend, Rowley Jefferson, has ditched him, and finding new friends in middle school is proving to be a tough task. To change his fortunes, Greg decides to take a leap of faith and turn his decisions over to chance. Will a roll of the dice turn things around, or is Greg's life destined to be just another hard-luck story?"--
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c1938
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The unexpected delivery of a large crate containing an Antarctic penguin changes the life and fortunes of Mr. Popper, a house painter obsessed by dreams of the Polar regions.
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
In his first journal, middle schooler Rowley Jefferson, Greg Heffley's sidekick, records his experiences and misguided decision to write a biography of Greg, who, in his own mind, is destined to become rich and famous.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it's the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality. Except for one: Calvin Evans; the lonely, brilliant, Nobel-prize nominated grudge-holder who falls in love with--of all things--her mind. True chemistry results. Like science,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Horrid Henry and Moody Margaret are a perfect pair. Henry has a secret club that doesn't allow girls in. Margaret has a secret club just for girls. And both Henry and Margaret love to play pranks. But with Perfect Peter and Sour Susan acting as spies, which secret club will win?"--P. [4] of cover.
Author
Series
Stink volume 2
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2007, c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Seven-year-old Stink Moody discovers that he can get free samples by writing letters to candy companies and plans a surprise for his best friend's birthday.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
"Sophie Honeywell always wondered if Thomas Gordon was the one she let get away. He was the perfect boyfriend, but on the day he was to propose, she broke his heart. A year later he married his travel agent, while Sophie has been mortifyingly single ever since. Now Thomas is back in her life because Sophie has unexpectedly inherited his aunt Connie's house on Scribbly Gum Island -- home of the famously unsolved Munro Baby mystery" -- publisher website...
9) The Bad Guys
Author
Series
Bad guys volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Mr Wolf. Mr Shark. Mr Snake. Mr Piranha. They're Bad Guys, everybody knows that. They're scary and dangerous an dwell ... just Bad. But these guys wan to be Heroes. And they're going to prove it by doing good deeds ... whether you want them to or not. Buckle up for the funniest, naughtiest and coolest book you'll ever read - it's time to meet the Bad Guys.
10) Dog Man
Author
Series
Dog Man volume 1
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
George and Harold create a new comic book hero in Dog Man, a crimefighter with the head of a police dog and the body of a policeman, who faces off against his archnemesis Petey the cat.
Author
Series
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
This is Mark Twain's first novel about Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer, and it has become one of the world's best-loved books. It is a fond reminiscence of life in Hannibal, Missouri, an evocation of Mark Twain's own boyhood along the banks of the Mississippi during the 1840s. "Most of the adventures recorded in this book really occurred," he tells us. This is a book one never forgets: Tom whitewashing Aunt Polly's fence, Tom and Huck's dreadful oath, their...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperTCollins
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A skateboarding principal offers unusual incentives to his students to motivate them to learn more. Principal Klutz was hanging upside down from the school flagpole! He kissed a pig on the lips! He painted his bald head orange! And now he wants to bungee-jump off the roof of the school, dressed like Santa Claus! In fact, all the grown-ups at A.J.'s school seem to have something wrong with them. What's going on here? What are A.J. and the kids in his...
Author
Series
Last kids on earth volume 1
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"After a monster apocalypse hits town, average thirteen-year-old Jack Sullivan builds a team of friends to help slay the eerily intelligent monster known as Blarg"--
14) Henry Huggins
Author
Series
Henry Huggins volume 1
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
1950
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When Henry adopts Ribsy, a dog of no particular breed, humorous adventures follow.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Experience the sultry Southern atmosphere of Atlanta and the magic of the Carolina Lowcountry in this funny and poignant tale of one audacious womans quest to find the love she deserves, from New York Times bestselling author Dorothea Benton Frank.Leslie Anne Greene Carter is The Last Original Wife among her husband Wesleys wildly successful Atlanta social set. His cronies have all traded in the mothers of their children they promised to love and...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperTrophy, HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Mr. Docker, a new science teacher, is a crazy inventor who blows things up, uses potatoes for power, and has A.J. and his friends wondering whether science is for nerds or is the coolest subject ever.
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A.J. fears his plans for a fun summer vacation will be ruined when Andrea Young, the most annoying girl in his class, winds up staying in the beach house next to his family's.