LLC Recorded Books
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Albie has never been the smartest, tallest, best at gym, greatest artist, or most musical in his class, as his parents keep reminding him, but new nanny Calista helps him uncover his strengths and take pride in himself.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
1190L
Language
English
Description
The true story of the victims, accused witches, crooked officials, and mass hysteria that turned a mysterious illness affecting two children into a witch hunt that took over a dozen people's lives and ruined hundreds more.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
When Clara vanishes after the puppeteer Grisini and two orphaned assistants were at her twelfth birthday party, suspicion of kidnapping chases the trio away from London and soon the two orphans are caught in a trap set by Grisini's ancient rival, a witch with a deadly inheritance to shed before it is too late.
4) Torn
Author
Series
The missing volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
Time travelers Jonah and Katherine arrive in 1611 to rescue missing child John Hudson, son of the explorer Henry Hudson, but just as the mutiny on the Discovery is supposed to start, Jonah and Katherine's knowledge of history is tested once again, and they fear that more is at stake than just one boy's life. Author's note includes facts about Henry Hudson's explorations.
5) Sabotaged
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
Time-travelers Jonah and Katherine are summoned to help another missing child from history, this time Virginia Dare from the Roanoke Colony, but their journey is sabotaged and goes dangerously awry, leaving them in the wrong time period. Includes author's note about the history of Roanoke Colony and Virginia Dare.
6) Caught
Author
Series
The missing volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
When Jonah and Katherine travel to early 1900s Switzerland and Serbia to return Albert Einstein's daughter, Lieserl, to history, her mother Mileva grasps entirely too much about time travel and has no intention of letting her daughter go.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
570L
Language
English
Description
In 1893 New York, thirteen-year-old Maks, a newsboy, teams up with Willa, a homeless girl, to clear his older sister, Emma, from charges that she stole from the brand new Waldorf Hotel, where she works. Includes historical notes.
8) Touch blue
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
When the state of Maine threatens to shut down their island's one-room schoolhouse because of dwindling enrollment, eleven-year-old Tess, a strong believer in luck, and her family take in a trumpet-playing foster child, to increase the school's population.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
Gabby daydreams to tune out her parents' arguments, but when her parents divorce and she begins a new school, daydreaming gets her into trouble. Her mother scolds her for it, her teacher keeps telling her to pay attention, and the other kids tease her...until she finds a friend who also daydreams and her teacher decides to work a daydreaming-writing session into every school day. With a notebook "thick with daydreams," Gabby grows more confident about...
Author
Series
Castle Glower volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Princess Celie lives with her parents, the king and queen, and her brothers and sister at Castle Glower, which adds rooms or stairways or secret passageways most every Tuesday, and when the king and queen are ambushed while travelling, it is up to Celie--the castle's favorite--with her secret knowledge of its never-ending twists and turns, to protect their home and save their kingdom.
Author
Series
NERDS volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
Led by Duncan "Gluestick" Dewey, the NERDS team uses brain power and courage rather than gadgets when they face off against supervillian Simon, his band of savage squirrels, and Albert, a middle-aged computer genius who lives with his mother.
12) Out of my mind
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Appears on these lists
NYT - Children’s Middle Grade
NYT - Children’s Middle Grade Paperback
NYT - Children’s Paperback Books
NYT - Middle Grade Paperback
NYT - Children’s Middle Grade Paperback
NYT - Children’s Paperback Books
NYT - Middle Grade Paperback
Description
A brilliant, impatient fifth-grader with cerebral palsy, considered by many to be mentally retarded, discovers a technological device that will allow her to speak for the first time.
14) Risked
Author
Series
The missing volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
Jonah, thirteen, and Katherine, eleven, travel through time to 1918 Russia just as Alexei, Anastasia, and the rest of Tsar Nicholas II's family is about to be executed. Author's note (pages [291]-305) includes facts about the Romanov's and the mystery surrounding their deaths.
15) Half a chance
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
Lucy, with her mother and her photographer father, has just moved to a small rural community in New Hampshire, and with her new friend Nate she plans to spend the summer taking photos for a contest, but pictures sometimes reveal more than people are willing to see.
Author
Series
Nate volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
Description
An eighth-grader who dreams of performing in a Broadway musical concocts a plan to run away to New York and audition for the role of Elliot in the musical version of "E.T."
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
Combines retellings of classic Greek tales with detailed illustrations in an introduction to mythology that is complemented by informative sidebars containing character profiles, historical insights, and cultural facts.
18) Unleashed
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
Luthor the Doberman, a former attack dog, has a good home with Savannah Drysdale, but every time a certain truck passes he goes into a frenzy, while Griffin Bing is caught up in trying to beat his rival, Darren Vader, at an invention contest.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
For sixteen years, Nalia has been raised as the princess of Thorvaldor, but one day she learns that her real name is Sinda and that she is part of a complicated plot that would change the future of her country forever.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
After Owen Jester captures an enormous bullfrog, Tooley, and then has to release it, he and two friends try to use a small submarine that fell from a passing train to search for Tooley in the Carter, Georgia, pond he came from, while avoiding Viola, the nosy girl next door