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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
1190L
Language
English
Description
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm Eleven-year-old Rebecca is leaving Sunnybrook Farm to live with her spinster aunts and become the educated daughter her family needs. Her aunts resent her father, who left behind nothing for his wife and seven children but a forty-eight-dollar mortgage. When Rebecca climbs out of the stagecoach with her pink parasol, wide-eyed and nervous about her new life, she is quickly met with the strict rules of Aunt Miranda, who has...
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Geronimo Stilton. Original series volume 69
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
"Geronimo decides to buy his aunt's old farm where he used to spend the holidays. It's filled with memories from his childhood! There is a large oak tree in the yard that holds legendary secrets to unlock."--
3) Vindication
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Matt Royal, the retired lawyer-turned-beach-bum is called back into the courtroom to defend his girlfriend J. D. Duncan's Aunt Esther, who lives in the sprawling North Central Florida retirement community of The Villages. A best-selling author has been murdered after a book signing, and Aunt Esther has been arrested. Matt has a history with the local sheriff - one which may not bode well for his client. Matt reluctantly suits up for the courtroom,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
This prequel to the Old Kingdom series tells the story of how Sabriel's parents, Terciel and Elinor, met.
In the Old Kingdom, a land of ancient and often terrible magics, orphan Terciel learns the art of necromancy from his great-aunt Tizanael. He is the Abhorsen-in-Waiting, and Tizanael is the Abhorsen, the latest in a long line of people whose task it is to make sure the Dead do not return to Life. Across the Wall in Ancelstierre, Elinor's only...
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880L
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English
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Aunt Augusta, in her late 70's embroils her bachelor nephew, an utterly respectable, dahlia-growing, retired bank manager, in a series of wild escapades. The action moves from London, across the European continent to Istanbul, and ends in Paraguay. Most of the characters are from Aunt Augusta's somewhat murky past, although there are contemporary figures as a CIA agent and his hippie daughter, and Wordsworth from Sierra Leone, who lives with Aunt...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
Aileen was supposed to grow up magical just like the other women in her family. Unfortunately, she's just found out that the magic seems to have skipped a generation. But that's not her biggest problem right now. In her world, there are four Islands of Chaldea. The largest and most magical island has been cut off from the other three for decades and is slowly draining the magic from them. But now a prophecy has come to light. Someone from Aileen's...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"When Great Aunt Beauregard announces her intentions to bring budding engineer John into the family business of coffin manufacturing for the rest of his natural life--and, worse, to teach his sister Page to embalm--John decides enough is enough, and the two of them head out on the lam, maybe joining the circus"--
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"In 1755, Abel Cloudesley, a London watchmaker and creator of remarkable mechanical automata, is mourning his wife, Alice, who died giving birth to their son, Zachary. Six years later, Abel is further devastated when a freak workshop accident takes Zachary's eye. With his new eye made of gold and lapis by Abel's soft-spoken apprentice Tom, Zachary, now with an astonishing gift of second sight, is sent to live with his eccentric Aunt Franny in the...
11) Button Hill
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Description
When Dekker and his little sister Riley are shipped off for the summer to their strange Aunt Primose in Button Hill, they think they are in for a long, boring summer. But when they find an old grandfather clock with a skull face, they are transported to another place, where children have special powers and the dead come to life!
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Nathaniel Fludd, beastologist volume 4
Nathaniel Fludd beastologist volume 04
Nathaniel Fludd beastologist volume 4
Nathaniel Fludd beastologist volume 04
Nathaniel Fludd beastologist volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
Beastologist-in-training Nathaniel Fludd and his Aunt Phil nurse a mysteriously ill unicorn, try to stop Obediah from taking the unicorn's horn, and finally get a solid lead on the whereabouts of Nathaniel's parents.
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Nathaniel Fludd, beastologist volume 2
Nathaniel Fludd beastologist volume 02
Nathaniel Fludd beastologist volume 2
Nathaniel Fludd beastologist volume 02
Nathaniel Fludd beastologist volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
The continuing adventures of beastologist-in-training, Nathaniel Fludd, as he accompanies his intrepid Aunt Phil on a dangerous mission across West Africa to find a deadly basilisk that is missing and begins to find clues relating to the mysterious disappearance of his parents.
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Six crowns volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
Hedgehogs Trundle and Esmeralda, along with their new friend Jack Nimble, sail out into the Sundered Lands to find Esmeralda's aunt, who they hope will help them unravel the clues to find the next of the six crowns.
16) The vacation
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
1040L
Language
English
Description
When his parents go to Africa to work as missionaries, twelve-year-old Henry's eccentric aunts, Pigg and Mag, take him on a cross-country car trip, allowing him to gain insight into his family and himself.
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Lexile measure
700L
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English
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Fifth-grader Mabel (code name Sunflower) wrote the Rules for a Successful Life as an Undercover Secret Agent, so when her parents leave town abruptly she is not too worried--but when her beloved Aunt Gertie is arrested, and her objectionable Uncle Frank and Aunt Stella (Frankenstella) and her annoying (but clever) cousin Victoria take over her house and the family's private museum, Mabel begins to smell a rat and she is determined to find out what...
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HL 590L
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English
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On his deathbed King Tyran divides his land between his twin children, first-born Ursula, a werebear, and Albrecht; but Albrecht wants it all and makes war on his sister, killing her people and the werebeasts, becoming a tyrant to his own kingdom--but their family history is far more complicated and mysterious than he knows, and Ursula has powerful allies in the living forest that surrounds their lands, including her aunt Esme who has been in hiding...
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