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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
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Steel Magnolias meets The Help in this Southern debut novel sparkling with humor, heart, and feminine wisdom
Twelve-year-old CeeCee Honeycutt is in trouble. For years, she has been the caretaker of her psychotic mother, Camille-the tiara-toting, lipstick-smeared laughingstock of an entire town-a woman trapped in her long-ago moment of
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Series
Mr. Lemoncello's library volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"Mr. Lemoncello has invited teams from all across America to compete in the first ever LIBRARY OLYMPICS...but someone is trying to censor what the kids are reading"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Mr. Lemoncello's library volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Mr. Lemoncello holds a contest for his young friends where they must race to bring interesting facts back to his library.
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Mike, whose father is a brilliant mathematician but who has no math aptitude himself, spends the summer in rural Pennsylvania with his elderly and eccentric relatives Moo and Poppy, helping the townspeople raise money to adopt a Romanian orphan.
7) The Doldrums
Author
Series
Doldrums volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
An eccentric like all Helmsleys, eleven-year-old Archer escapes his overprotective mother and recruits two friends, Oliver and Adelaide, to help him plan a rescue of his long-lost grandparents, world-famous explorers who disappeared atop an iceberg in the Antarctic.
Author
Series
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.
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Series
Origami Yoda books volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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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
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Rose, nearly sixteen, is used to traveling around with her alcoholic father but connects with the people of a small, coastal Australian town, especially classmate Pearl and reclusive Edie, who teaches her to sew a magical dress for the Harvest Festival while a mystery unfolds around them.
Author
Series
Origami Yoda books volume 5
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.
Author
Series
Origami Yoda books volume 4
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
Mr. Lemoncello's library volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"Four lucky kids go on a scavenger hunt inside Mr. Lemoncello's Gameworks factory, where they compete for a chance to win a titanium ticket"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Ruby Small's embarrassingly eccentric parents take her on a vacation to Norway where she acquires an unwanted pet, a glacier named Cecil, who finds a way to melt Ruby's heart.
17) Caddy's world
Author
Series
Casson family volume Prequel
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Caddy's world turns upside down when her father, Bill, temporarily becomes a stay at home "mom" and her best friends since kindergarten, Ali, Beth, and Ruby, begin to move in different directions.
18) Finding Orion
Author
Publisher
Walden Pond Press
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
A boy from an unconventional family attends the funeral of his motorcycle-riding, crossbow-hunting grandfather and tries to uncover the truth about his grandfather's complicated relationship with the boy's jelly-bean designer father.
Author
Series
Zombie problems volume 1
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When August DuPont, eleven, leaves his eccentric Aunt Hydrangea's crumbling mansion for the first time ever, he meets family, makes a friend, and attracts a zombie.
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