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Author
Series
Mysterious Benedict Society volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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Description
After passing a series of mind-bending tests, four children are selected for a secret mission that requires them to go undercover at the Learning Institute for the Very Enlightened, where the only rule is that there are no rules.
Author
Series
Boy called BAT volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
When his veterinarian mom brings home a stray baby skunk that needs rehabilitation before it can be placed in a wild animal shelter, Bat, who has austim, resolves to prove that he is up to the challenge of caring for the skunk permanently.
4) Rules
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Frustrated at life with an autistic brother, twelve-year-old Catherine longs for a normal existence but her world is further complicated by a friendship with a young paraplegic.
Author
Series
100 cupboards volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
After his parents are kidnapped, timid twelve-year-old Henry York leaves his sheltered Boston life and moves to small-town Kansas, where he and his cousin Henrietta discover and explore hidden doors in his attic room that seem to open onto other worlds.
7) Eleven
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When Sam, who can barely read, discovers an old newspaper clipping just before his eleventh birthday, it brings forth memories from his past, and, with the help of a new friend at school and the castle they are building for a school project, his questions are eventually answered.
Author
Series
Baseball great novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
All twelve-year-old Josh wants to do is play baseball but when his father, a minor league pitcher, signs him up for a youth championship team, Josh finds himself embroiled in a situation with potentially illegal consequences.
10) Soar
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Moving to Hillcrest, Ohio, when his adoptive father accepts a temporary job, twelve-year-old Jeremiah, a heart transplant recipient, has sixty days to find a baseball team to coach.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Eighth-grade star quarterback Nate Brodie's family is feeling the stress of the troubled economy, and Nate is frantic because his best friend Abby is going blind, so when he gets a chance to win a million dollars if he can complete a pass during the halftime of a New England Patriot's game, he is nearly overwhelmed by the pressure to succeed.
12) Hate that cat
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jack is studying poetry again in school, and he continues to write poems reflecting his understanding of famous poems and how they relate to his life.
13) Mockingbird
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Caitlin, who has Asperger's Syndrome, struggles to understand emotions, show empathy, and make friends at school, while at home she seeks closure by working on a project with her father.
14) The wild robot
Author
Series
Wild robot volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
Roz the robot discovers that she is alone on a remote, wild island with no memory of where she is from or why she is there, and her only hope of survival is to try to learn about her new environment from the island's hostile inhabitants.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Zoe Elias, who longs to play the piano but must resign herself to learning the organ, instead, finds that her musicianship has a positive impact on her workaholic mother, her jittery father, and her school social life.
16) Schooled
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Homeschooled by his hippie grandmother, Capricorn (Cap) Anderson has never watched television, tasted a pizza, or even heard of a wedgie, but when his grandmother lands in the hospital, Cap is forced to move in with a guidance counselor and attend the local middle school. While Cap knows a lot about tie-dyeing and Zen Buddhism, no education could prepare him for the politics of public school.
17) Swindle
Author
Series
Swindle mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Formats
Description
After unscrupulous collector S. Wendell Palamino cons him out of a valuable baseball card, sixth-grader Griffin Bing puts together a band of misfits to break into Palomino's heavily guarded store and steal the card back, planning to use the money to finance his father's failing invention, the SmartPick fruit picker.
18) Lost and found
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old identical twins Jay and Ray have long resented that everyone treats them as one person, and so they hatch a plot to take advantage of a clerical error at their new school and pretend they are just one.
Author
Series
Piper McCloud volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
When homeschooled farm girl Piper McCloud reveals her ability to fly, she is quickly taken to a secret government facility to be trained with other exceptional children, but she soon realizes that something is very wrong and begins working with brilliant and wealthy Conrad to escape.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eve gave up her belief in stories and magic after her mother's death, but a mysterious seed given her as an eleventh-birthday gift by someone she has never met takes her and a boy who claims to be a ghost on a strange journey, to where their supposedly cursed town of Beaumont, New York, flourishes.
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