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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
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...
2) Zombiekins
Author
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Group
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Stanley Nudelman buys a weird stuffed animal at the yard sale of a woman rumored to be a witch, and soon he and his friend Miranda are trying to save their schoolmates from becoming zombies.
3) Mudshark
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Principal Wagner confidently deals with a faculty washroom crisis, a psychic parrot, and a terrorizing gerbil, but when sixty-five erasers go missing, he enlists the help of the school's best problem solver and locator of lost items, twelve-year-old Lyle Williams, aka Mudshark.
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In rural Indiana in 1904, fifteen-year-old Russell's dreams of quitting school and joining a wheat threshing crew are disrupted when his older sister takes over the teaching at his one-room schoolhouse after mean old Myrt Arbuckle "hauls off and dies."
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Group
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Failing fifth grade math, Hank must depend on Heather, the class brain, to help him get a "B" on the next test in order for him to be eligible to play the lead in the school play, "The King and I."
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
The six horrible Herdman children create mayhem during Halloween. Annotation. The Herdmans plus Halloween have always spelled disaster. Every year these six kids -- the worst in the history of Woodrow Wilson School, and possibly even the world -- wreak havoc on the whole town. Now the mayor has had it. He's decided to cancel Halloween. And what's Halloween without candy? And without trick-or-treating? The Herdmans manage to turn the worst Halloween...