Elizabeth Cody Kimmel
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
940L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Recounts how the sled dog Balto saved Nome, Alaska, in 1925 from a diphtheria epidemic by delivering medicine through a raging snowstorm. Balto lives a quiet existence as a sled dog--until tragedy strikes. Dozens of children in the remote town of Nome become sick with diphtheria. Without an antitoxin serum, they will perish--and the closest supply is 650 miles away! No roads exist in the icy wilderness. The only way to get the serum to Nome is by...
Author
Series
Suddenly supernatural volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Like her mother, a professional medium, Kat has been able to see dead people since turning thirteen, and although they would prefer to be normal, Kat and her best friend come to terms with their own talents while helping free the spirit of a girl trapped at their middle school.
4) Scaredy Kat
Author
Series
Suddenly supernatural volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thirteen-year-old Kat, still not comfortable in her role as a medium, and her friend Jac, undergoing a serious crisis about the role of music in her life, try to find a way to help the unhappy spirit of a young boy in the abandoned house next door.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Formats
Description
With her beagle Henry and her new friend Quin, twelve-year-old Tee is determined to solve the mystery of "the Shadow", the ghostly animal that is believed to haunt the Alaskan wilderness near her new home in Nome.
Author
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a quaint New England town with a history of witches and pilgrims, misunderstood eleven-year-old Norman Babcock (who can see and talk to ghosts) must save his town from pilgrim zombies, take on an angry witch, an annoying sidekick, and his boy-crazy teenage sister, as well as dozens of moronic grown-ups who get in his way!
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Formats
Description
An adventure-hungry girl and an enormous Tibetan mastiff share a journey in the Catskill Mountains, where a boy and his teacher seek to reopen an abandoned monastery to find a mysterious statue.
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
Before Kit can write a news story about an upcoming sold-out jazz concert, sinister pranks threaten to cancel the show and Kit is falsely accused of stealing a valuable trumpet. Includes an "Inside Kit's World" essay about the popularity of jazz and swing music during the Depression.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
1170L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ladies First introduces young readers to 40 American women of achievement who were first in their field. A full-page portrait begins each informative three-page profile. The life stories of these women are as inspiring as they are diverse. The book provides a vital starting point for report writers and researchers, and a rich source of information for fact lovers of all ages. Who was the first woman to row across the Atlantic? Or to swim the English...
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Osbert the penguin shows up on his doorstep with several friends along with an invitation to Aurora Australis' party at the South Pole, the boy decides to transport them there in the helicopter he received this year for Christmas.
12) Glamsters
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Harriet the hamster is desperate to be adopted, so she gives her sister Patricia and herself glamorous makeovers in hopes they will get more attention when Hamster World has its huge annual sale.
13) The boxtrolls
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When the Boxtrolls are targeted by Archibald Snatcher, who is bent on eradicating them, the kindhearted band of trolls must turn to their adopted charge Eggs and rich girl Winnie to bridge two worlds.
Author
Series
Lily B. series volume 3
Language
English
Description
Mulgrew Middle School Summer Trip to ParisMadame Chavotte: French Teacher and Chaperone. Built like a tank, with only one eyebrow. Charlotte McGrath: Vault of European Information. In Command of All Details. Bonnie Roberts: Astral Traveler and Channeler of Messages from the Universe. Janet Graham: Obsessed with All That Is French. Insists on pronouncing own name Jah-nay. Lewis Pilsky: Computer God. Walking Pillar of Geekdom. Bud and Chaz: The Football...
Author
Series
Lily B. series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Description
"The eventually internationally recognized writer Lily Blennerhassett" spends her thirteenth summer missing her best friend and keeping a journal of her boring life at home and exciting newly-discovered relatives.
Author
Series
Lily B. series volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
Aspiring author and eight-grader Lily Blennerhassett hones her writing skills as her school newspaper's advice columnist while also trying to get her first crush, The Boy, to notice her.
18) The top job
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
On Career Day, a young girl entertains the class with a description of her father's exciting job as light bulb changer at the top of the Empire State Building.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
In 1881, sixteen-year-old Mary Ingalls becomes a student at the Iowa College for the Blind, where she studies academic subjects and learns skills that will allow her to be independent and to earn a living.
20) Unhappy medium
Author
Series
Suddenly supernatural volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kat accompanies her best friend, Jac, to a musicians' conference at the Whispering Pines Mountain House, where she works to free the spirit of a dead medium and helps Jac resolve a serious conflict.