Kate Rudd
1) Pie
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
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.
2) Above World
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
In a future of high technology and genetic modification the Coral Kampii, like legendary mermaids, live isolated from the Above World, but when the devices that allows them to breathe underwater start to fail, thirteen-year-old Aluna and her friend Hoku go to that forbidden place to find help.
3) Paper things
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Ari's mother died four years ago, she had two final wishes: that Ari and her older brother, Gage, would stay together always, and that Ari would go to Carter, the middle school for gifted students. So when nineteen-year-old Gage decides he can no longer live with their bossy guardian, Janna, Ari knows she has to go with him. But it's been two months, and Gage still hasn't found them an apartment. He and Ari have been "couch surfing," staying...
4) Wonder
Author
Series
[Wonder volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan, which entails enduring the taunting and fear of his classmates as he struggles to be seen as just another student."--
5) Dear pen pal
Author
Series
Mother-Daughter Book Club volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
Four very different friends in Concord, Massachusetts, and their mothers continue their book club, reading Jean Webster's "Daddy Long-Legs," while getting to know their own pen pals from Wyoming.
Author
Series
Mother-Daughter Book Club volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
Entering seventh grade at Walden Middle School, four girls continue their mother-daughter book club, reading Lucy Maud Montgomery's "Anne of Green Gables," while dealing with a mean, trouble-making classmate.
Author
Series
Mother-Daughter Book Club volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
Four girls, and their mothers, continue their mother-daughter book club via videoconference between Massachusetts and England, reading Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice," and try to put friendship before romance.
Author
Series
Mother-Daughter Book Club volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the mothers of four sixth-grade girls with very different personalities pressure them into forming a book club, they find, as they read and discuss "Little Women," that they have much more in common than they could have imagined.
Author
Series
Mother-Daughter Book Club volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
As the Mother-Daughter Book Club reads Jane Eyre, the girls and some of their mothers are involved in some serious competitions, Becca finds romance when the Wyoming pen pals come for a visit, and a wedding brings the British Berkeley brothers and even Stinkerbelle to Concord.