Sarah Weeks
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Ravi has just moved to the United States from India and has always been at the top of his class; Joe has lived in the same town his whole life and has learning problems--but when their lives intersect in the first week of fifth grade they are brought together by a common enemy (the biggest bully in their class) and the need to take control of their lives.
2) Honey
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Melody's mother died shortly after Melody was born, and compared to the remarkable person her mother was according to her father's stories, 10-year-old Melody feels completely unremarkable, so when Melody discovers she'll be getting a new stepmother soon, the one birthday wish she has, to have a talk with her mother, may just result in her receiving the most important birthday gift of all.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eleven-year-old Verbena Polter gets through a difficult summer of turbulent emotions and the revelation of a disturbing family secret with an odd new friend who believes she is the ghost of a girl who drowned many years before.
Author
Series
So B. it volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Living with her mentally disabled mother who only knows just over twenty words, young Heidi has learned to live in her special world until a new word is suddenly used and repeated by her mother; causing Heidi to think it might be a key to a secret past about which she knows so little.
6) Pie
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
After the death of Polly Portman, whose award-winning pies put the town of Ipswitch, Pennsylvania, on the map in the 1950s, her devoted niece Alice and Alice's friend Charlie investigate who is going to extremes to find Aunt Polly's secret pie crust recipe. Includes fourteen pie recipes.
7) Drip, drop
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Pip Squeak the mouse is kept awake all night by the drips from his leaky roof.
11) Baa-choo!
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Sam the lamb has trouble sneezing, the other animals try to help.
12) Glamourpuss
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A cat with style, charm, and a photo-savvy pose fears she has fallen out of fashion when a canine newcomer steals her spotlight.
13) If I were a lion
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A little girl pleads her innocence from her time-out chair by contrasting her behavior with that of wild and ferocious animals.
14) Oggie Cooder
Author
Series
Oggie Cooder series volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Quirky fourth-grader Oggie Cooder goes from being shunned to everyone's best friend when his uncanny ability to chew slices of cheese into the shapes of states wins him a slot on a popular television talent show, but he soon learns the perils of being a celebrity--and having a neighbor girl as his manager.
Author
Series
Oggie Cooder series volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Neither a long list of rules, nor the inability to find the perfect gift--Cheddar Jam--nor being locked in a bathroom with a juggling bear will keep quirky fourth-grader Oggie Cooder from attending neighbor Donnica Perfecto's birthday pool party.
17) Mac and Cheese
Author
Publisher
Laura Geringer Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Two cats that are as different as night and day are nevertheless best friends.
18) So B. It
Publisher
Cinedigm Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Heidi, a gifted twelve-year-old who lives with her mentally challenged mother, travels alone from Nevada to New York to learn more about her family's past.